LA Times Mistakenly Identifies Rapper As Infamous Graf Artist
by FuKdAtShHh on May.30, 2008, under Hip Hop News
Evidence of Dilated Peoples is speaking out against The Los Angeles Times,
who recently ran a cover story about the arrest of a notorious Los
Angeles graffiti artist, but mistakenly ran pictures of the
rapper/producer on the front page. Police arrested Cyrus “Buketâ€
Yazdani on felony vandalism charges for his daring works of graffiti,
including one highly publicized videotaped incident, in which Yazdani
is seen spray painting on a Hollywood Freeway overpass. The mishap
occurred after Evidence, born Michael Perretta, who was approached by
Yazdani to do a drop [a short promotional word on film] for a clip
titled “War 4.†The promotional words were edited and then featured as
the intro of Yazdani’s infamous hair raising YouTube clip. Since
Yazdani’s arrest and the article, Evidence’s image has been featured
regularly on CBS 9, ABC 7, KTLA 5, NBC 4 and other news outlets. “I
only met Buket once when I was asked to do a promo for an internet
show, however I’m obviously not him and find it humorous how the media
didn’t take the time to figure this out before running such an
extensive story,” Evidence told AllHipHop.com in a statement.
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