MIKE IRAK: Racking for a living.

Segment from the MIKE IRAK episode, full episode available on our patreon:
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MIKE IRAK / REHAB is a Multimedia artist and designer. He is best known as being one of the founding members of the legendary IRAK CREW a group that shaped the graffiti, art and fashion scenes of New York City from the late 90’s. In this insightful episode we speak about 90’s graffiti, Boosting, Fashion, Jiu-Jitsu, Japan and the future of NFT’s & VR.

[@sourmouse4199]

"I'm racking a lot of silver markers right now. It's kinda my security blanket" -Nemel Irak. RIP 🙌❤🙌❤

[@tysonmardentv1804]

Damn the vid with him and earsnot and he’s talkin bout how he gets the problem from his pops I watch tha vid often rip him and Kent✌🏼✌🏼

[@lMoustache1880]

Why does so many ppl from the streets die in NY? I guess drugs and living in constant risk but is there something more?

[@User61918]

@@lMoustache1880 Guessing it's similar to ATL which is where I live. Our cultures embrace being violent and even a killer in many instances and it's associated with masculinity. Lotta ppl here without fathers to show them what a man is gotta learn from street niggas cus they the closest thing we got to father figures here and they guide us on the same path. I was fortunate enough to have read the right book at the right time and pursue a different lifestyle but I lost a lot of ppl not just to death but to the prison system cus they felt like they had to prove they manhood by shooting.

[@bobsanderz3005]

I still have a Nike pullover Jesse racked for me when I first met him in SF. RIP to a real one

[@sourmouse4199]

@@bobsanderz3005 he definitely was ❤❤

[@rael6]

just a reminder, try not to showboat ur racking lifestyle, keep it to yo self

[@abelmartinez9732]

Ijholes 🫠

[@pkerfire7215]

Normally I agree but the word is litterly their group name lmfao it's a big part of what they do I think it's corny.

[@youngbori99]

RIP SaceR, Area, Semz, Kent and Nemel 🙏🏾🤍🕊

[@zepolcin2412]

Bless

[@pervecbs]

Stacker 2 ,hydroxycut , crest white strips use to rack all that shit the bumpy on 61st on the Eastside was a blessing lmaoo

[@Manifesto7777]

Racking is in the culture if you're a real street artist

[@TonyPlease]

Definitely rich kids won't understand

[@crumbdelacrumb5942]

@@TonyPlease 💯

[@rael6]

@@TonyPlease on god

[@trollpolice]

@@TonyPlease rich kids driving benz', smoking high grade weed, kicking it with fine hoes to be graffing lol tf.

[@Thefonz94]

Unless you over 30 then you would look stupid for stealing a 4$ can from home Depot

[@Bridgeburnerrrrr]

Real street graff niggas felt this. Rack culture still alive and well 💯

[@acidandy3266]

Rak memories are always good

[@bingeeatingaddict6514]

That genovese was in college point where I grew up hahahaha memories

[@josehasing1495]

So easy to U literally walk out the back exit

[@ShadySKWASHA]

Well I racked this Rusto flat podcast

[@chrisoliva2577]

Ain't spraycans free?🤔🤣 I thought it was 💀🤣🤣🤣

[@xskeaton1729]

lemme smoke what ur smoking

[@youngudai9023]

He blowing that Dummy strain..

[@user-uq9yo4qu7l]

How does one rack this podcast

[@hufass]

Someone with the patreon needs to screen record some episodes lmao

[@felonstomillionaires]

@@hufass 😆

[@NeurosInTexas]

order fake money off the dark web switch it for real money then deposit and use it to pay for a patreon i don't recommend any of this or racking ... shit is stupid

[@73DIAS]

I used to luv it🤣 trained good eye always watching

[@Rohzroyceink]

Yes yes , In the UK we call it aptamil big up we was on that too in Hull, UK big Graff scene here

[@STANLEY2BRICKS]

Lmao. Name a crew that lives up to their name more than IRAK

[@jceez7858]

Boost that merch !

[@ToturnTTommy]

A lot

[@slapsondeck28]

coming from l.a. and writing always wanted to write for IRAK crew...💯💯💯🏁

[@trains2057]

Bruh I wish i was impressed but I grew up when I got my life in order

[@pkerfire7215]

Yeah I'm not impressed at all stealing is corny

[@PlutoTheGod]

@@pkerfire7215 especially when you’re not a 15 year old kid. It’s even worse when he’s claiming they’re stealing upwards of 25k a month in shit yet they’re all somehow not wealthy? I mean earsnot has literally been homeless almost his whole life

[@trains2057]

@@pkerfire7215 It really is...Especially where i am in midwest..Well traveled individuals moved here cause they thought they found the new Detroit..I said fuck that in my own private world and so they would hit every walmart for 50 miles racking everything paint and i bitched up a storm about all of it.The bombing indiscriminately .....I told dudes dude that now we will have a legit buff squad and glass doors hiding the rusto at the suburban walmarts..(dollar can trick still worked @different walmarts .... but never twice in a month and inconsistent) Muh fucka a year 6 months they got a buff squad with boom lifts now and walmart locked down every single shelf of paint an hour in each direction.So now u cant even find someone to open the paint up and why bother when the buff squad is on duty 7 days a week!

[@jceez7858]

I don't think you truly understand it's not bragging in that sense graffiti as a street kid lifestyle is beyond crazy specially the city

[@planetarytiger]

never have i not been a booster,..gotta support the habits!!!!!!!

[@alejandroortega404]

HipHop dont stop for no one!"

[@jayare6592]

RIP Semz Shout out to Jest TvT and Ment.

[@MREWOKONE]

Hell yea Mike...

[@JeremyHyatt-tx4vd]

The best graffiti writers are wealthy trust fund kids don't front.

[@MrJustinquirk]

100% some of the worlds favorite writers.

[@savedbyhismercyandlove]

if you lived it you know

[@benayers8622]

😎

[@iamlaia]

Yessssssss👏🏻

[@SkepticalMantisCHANNEL10]

🤘🏼🤘🏼

[@Biggavellz4]

Yo i use to rack alllll day Every day , he ain’t lying queens is the spot then go over the bridge and bump , ahhhhh memoriessss

[@MoneyMagnetManagemet]

He definitely was into racking waaayyyy more , this Dent one kas btb dfa tbk kgb brt

[@maksitaxi]

dope story man

[@eastsideofthetracks8311]

Living off racking basically just living as a bum 😂💯

[@TonyPlease]

Lot of writers don't come from successful families what's your point homie

[@eastsideofthetracks8311]

@@TonyPlease point is WORK! Lol just racking to get bye that’s just settling for less I’m all about racking paint and other shut here n there but to literally live off of it that’s something else

[@DesperadoDufel]

I kno people with big money from the streets and they still rack all kinda shit....

[@timothygu3]

@@eastsideofthetracks8311 go back to work buddy. Nobody in NYC is hearing you. Boosting and racking got a lot of people by and gave people better lives.

[@jonathancoleman7471]

$200 a day is bum shit to you?? 😂😂😂 he just said earsnot was making $2500 a day sometimes bro. Get real. You’ll never make that type of money

[@FailosHD]

you should try to get OpTic HECZ on the show. he used to be a graffiti writer but hasn't spoken that much about it publicly. Would be a dope sort cross over episode!

[@ishred757]

wow i never knew that

[@CTRCxNYC]

🔥🔥🔥

[@TonyPlease]

Fax

[@ld2553]

Wat is infamo im french

[@rehiza]

Enfamil “powdered baby formula”

[@immortancashb3676]

Golden

[@INFAmadeOFF]

🔥🔥

[@gboogie360]

Whtz the mask for??

[@NittyGritty420]

What?

[@gboogie360]

@@NittyGritty420 yes what lol

[@OdDoleDoGore86]

Wait what?

[@gboogie360]

@@OdDoleDoGore86 u mean what?? Or you're correcting my whtz??

[@OdDoleDoGore86]

@@gboogie360 you really ask why the mask? Ahhahahah

[@coolinjacobo]

🔋🔋💸💸

[@greymatter33]

1. It's called 'baby formula' or just 'formula'. 2. Racking is for graff supplies, you're a professional shoplifter when you're just stealing random shit.

[@louKushh]

💯💯💯

[@youngudai9023]

It's not Racking if it's not paint or materials for Graff, it's literally stealing anyway you slice it, it's just a word thing...

[@jeromegarcia1669]

In NYC where the term racking originally came from racking means stealing anything from a store.. growing up we stole our clothes, CDs,Paint, anything that could be sold for money.

[@MizTheDonGargon]

Steinway IS Astoria lol wtf

[@saltknife7174]

how do u guys make money of racking lmfao i just rack to use the paint

[@vanessauosukainen7631]

He just told you. Rack something valuable like baby formula or gilette razors or meat and flip that. I used to rack long drinks and meat and sell it to buy drugs 🤣

[@davidsteelman9959]

I survived on the enfamil hustle for years. They buy from us $10 a can, then flip em for $20 in WIC. My connect would literally get pissed when we came with under a hundred cans. The trick is never rack over $500 worth in one lick…keep it misdemeanor always!

[@davidsteelman9959]

^^^ free game. Just find the right buyers. We had 4 different Sams (Arabs).

[@davidsteelman9959]

Any hood corner store, or bodega with any good sense will buy em up! Just get a system for racking them, that part I’m not giving up

[@saltknife7174]

@@davidsteelman9959 thats crazy! thanks man

[@nicolabergman-kankaala5947]

Ive only been racking from my highschool our cameras aren’t real plus i have a copied key bc our school had a extra master key in the princables office so i stole that shit and copied it in home depot and stole from our art class we had a shit ton of paint glue sticks i made like 15mops and i stole like 10spraypaint bottles (sorry for typos im not that good at English)

[@benayers8622]

Sik stay up yo

[@Yassin.ibn.farouk]

Being a degenerate for a living