dont be jealous u dont have anything to be passionate about at 41 cope2 tha shit

Cope2? Does "Cope" ever log into his account or his he just squatting on the good usernames?

I never see any graffiti on the subways. I wonder why didthis. He will most likley have to do community service like cleaning a park on the weekend. Sounds like a fun life. Traveling abroad and doing your art.

Free Cope! Free Cope! Free Cope!

and contrary to what these commentes esp the DN say, if you met cope in person you wouldnt be tagging on him or chopping off his hands, hes a big diesel guy who has knocked around many people for very petty reasons,

comparing him to banksy is like comparing peewee herman to hulk hogan, banksy has no street cred and never painted trains or lived in strife and stress.

let me try to explain, during the early to mid 80's up until the early and mid 90's nyc was still a sheethole.

graffiti is part of hiphop, breakdancing, djaying, rapping and scribbling. except that scribbling your name didnt require you to dance, boogie or rhyme, and you could be good at boogieing, poplocking and spinning on your head but in the crack crazed 80's south bronx, spinning on your head isnt going to get you out of a mugging or beatdown. now representing your name on trains, subway stations and every available surface will get you a rep and street cred, esp if you include a crew, like his KD which is not the same as a "gang" in police lingo or scaredy cat homeowner fears. you run into a guy at 3am in a train station or alley, he says my name is cope kd, you dont go so what, you say oh crap this guy is a street warrior going all city in junkie zombie crackhead land, if this guy can get his name up everywhere well im just about certain that he knows how to handle his business and im not going to mess with him...flash forward to 2010, companies need street cred for an advertising campaign, sneaker companies need street cred for a new shoe, record companies need new artwork for urban albums, etc etc.

cope is a king and nobody can touch him on the graffiti level. he used to have beef with JA and now they are all good freinds in adulthood,

you read gothamist and see vandal, i see urban ghetto survivor and i repsect cope and give him props all day.

gothamist readers think an uneducated PR from poverty ridden bronx should just stay home and get a job as a dishwasher and keep his nose clean, he said screw the system and kept at it for decades!

people look up to cope, because tyhey have nobody else to look up to, surrounded by junkies, crackheads, cops who mess with you, teachers who ignore you, parents who neglect you, etc etc,,

cope is king.

I just don't understand what the purpose of this is. So you scribbled your 'street name' on something that doesn't belong to you. Now what?

41 years old and still doing this stuff? Why do I get the feeling he also wears a silly baseball hat at a jaunty angle?

Ms. Chung, the 207th Street yard is in Upper Manhattan, not The Bronx. I have no comment on Cope. Just wanted make this correction.

Cope is the man, at 41, he still has the passion, and lives for the thrill, I have nothing but respect for that. If the MTA are going to go ahead and leave gates open, more fool them. If I get to see more throw-ups on cars, more smiles for me. NYC is the birthplace of so many different styles of Graff, it lives in these streets and on these walls, people who complain about it appreciate not the art, nor the passion, its a lifestyle, NYC has more heads that love the movement.

Even Vallonne has the love, I bet he owns a Banksy book for his coffee table, or maybe the latest copy of Graphotism.

Big ups Cope!

I agree with you that it's a lifestyle.

But what's Cope going to do when he's 65? When he tries to tag a subway car, he's gonna fall off and crack his skull open.

(And--it's a mockery to compare Banksy to the likes of someone like Cope2.)

street artists look to COPE for collaborations in an effort to gain street credibility.

this is why fake phony "graffiti" street artists get crossed out, obey fairy, banksy, and all the other fake art stars have no real graffiti subway credibility.

cope is old school and painted trains back in the day, he has street credit while sheppard has photoshop on a mac credit appropriating imagery and claiming copyright.

to suggest that cope should look at "street art" books is a joke.

if you want to deface a train, at least do a better job. this kind of simple graffiti tag is from the 70s (a glance at the popular book "street art" will tell you that.) in the beginning days of the form.

I used to do graffiti, to do what he did on a train without getting caught aint easy. Try it sometime then repost a comment.

That's the real reason, isn't it? You just like the thrill of doing something illegal without getting caught. In adult circles, that's called, "being an ass."

So you traded Graffiti for Starbucks and a bunch of dick head bankers, no wonder everyone hates NYC.

This is NYC, you stupid dicks. Graffiti lives here and if it's not on public property, it's not graffiti. If you don't like it, move back to Ohio.

what hs did you go to?

with a name like 'matthew', you're probably some lilly white kid from jersey or god forbid manhattan, who thinks he's a 'local'.

mindless tagging is retard. I did it as child, then I grew up and discovered girls...I suggest you do the same.

I've lived here all my life, you retard. I'm a fucking NY'er. Go back to Africa, Nakba and leave the discussions about NYC to the people that come from here.