Juice Crew all-stars Biz Markie, Roxanne Shante and Cool V get down live at Scratch in Glasgow back in '06. After some technical difficulties, Biz kicks off the show with his classics and toward the end gets on the turntables. Below, Fat Joe and his Tats Cru pay tribute to The Biz with a fat mural. 

New York has given birth to many street artists but in my personal opinion none more prolific or artistically talented in decorating the 5 boroughs than the TATS Cru. As a student of Central Park East Secondary School which is otherwise known as The Graffiti Hall Of Fame Of New York, I was fortunate to witness many of their beautiful murals in the school yard on a daily basis.

The general Hip Hop public may know of TATS's work from their famous murals displayed on the inside and back cover of Fat Joe's albums, the official Big Pun mural in The Bronx and a number of commercial works commissioned by various corporations. As a form of visual expression in Hip Hop, TATS bring a new dimension to the streets of New York with graffiti which not only makes a statement of fame and getting up, but draws upon the depths of the viewer's imagination.

Download and listen to a 2012 radio interview with Bio of TATS Cru here, aired on 98.1 FM Radio Elements of Hip Hop.

Enjoy two Flickr slideshow galleries of TATS Cru work, the one above represents their street murals and below is their work commissioned by companies for commercial use. Visit the rest of their work in more gallery sets here at the official Flickr account of TATS Cru.