Last character of the extensive series of drawings I did for the I Just Murdered The Alphabet art project.

◀ check the complete solo art exhibition.

Medium used: Hand-drawn with silver ink pens on 160g acid free art paper.

Hip-hop punchlines inspiration:
My hunger is like the crocodile that attacks the hunter – TALIB KWELI – Good To You
I love it, learn to live it, then give you my exhibit – ACEYALONE – The Guidelines
Don’t pull the thang out unless you plan to bang – OUTKAST – B.O.B. (Bombs Over Bagdad)
Disillusion is the word – RUN DMC – It’s Like That
Yadameen – KEAK DA SNEAK – Yadameen
And you don’t stop – SUGARHILL GANG – Rapper’s Delight

Character 22 | Original handmade drawing for my solo art exhibition I Just Murdered The Alphabet

Crocodile that attacks the hunter
TALIB KWELI

I’m hungry for more.
I will keep doing art everyday until I reach the top of the world.
I’ll sleep after I die.
And I have sharp teeth.

Hip-hop punchline inspiration:
My hunger is like the crocodile that attacks the hunter – TALIB KWELI – Good To You

Give you my exhibit
ACEYALONE

I love it and I learn to live it.
This statement describe what I do with my art in general, and this project in particular.

Hip-hop punchline inspiration:
I love it, learn to live it, then give you my exhibit – ACEYALONE – The Guidelines

Dont pull the thang out unless you plan to bang
OUTKAST

Don’t make a fool of yourself by pulling the “thang” out for no reason.
If you do it, do it right.

Hip-hop punchline inspiration:
Don’t pull the thang out unless you plan to bang – OUTKAST – B.O.B. (Bombs Over Bagdad)

Disillusion is the word
RUN DMC

This series of artworks is part of a larger saga.
I’ll the sage develop through several exhibitions.
It is a story about disillusion leading to new illusions.
The characters I called La Société Des Griffeurs left a world they didn’t fit in, and created their own utopia.
Whatever you think is missing in your life, don’t complain but do it yourself.

Hip-hop punchline inspiration:
Disillusion is the word – RUN DMC – It’s Like That

Yadameen
KEAK DA SNEAK

You know what I mean…
My drawings are just sick.You know what I am trying to stress here?
I mean that my artworks are an expression to my addiction to work.
Every day of my life I just create new artworks.
From the moment I wake up, until I go to bed.
This is sometimes exhausting but there is nothing I can do about it.
This is why we call it an addiction.

Hip-hop punchline inspiration:
Yadameen – KEAK DA SNEAK – Yadameen

And you don’t stop
SUGARHILL GANG

I guess I can’t stop
This handmade drawing is inspired by the famous punchline from Sugarhill Gang.

Hip-hop punchline inspiration:
And you don’t stop – SUGARHILL GANG – Rapper’s Delight

I guess I can not stop to draw

Twenty-first character I drew for the art series called I Just Murdered The Alphabet

This is almost the last character of an extensive series of drawings for my new art project.
◀ check the complete solo art exhibition.

Medium used: Hand-drawn with silver ink pens on 160g acid free art paper.

Hip-hop punchlines inspiration:
Si je traîne en bas de chez toi j’fais chuter le prix de l’immobilier – BOOBA – Boulbi
Like an escape tunnel in prison I started from scratch – IMMORTAL TECHNIQUE – Industrial Revolution
20000 lieues sous la merde – LA CAUTION – 20000 Lieues Sous La Merde
My identity by itself causes violence – N.W.A. – Fuck Tha Police

Character 21 | Original handmade drawing for my solo art exhibition I Just Murdered The Alphabet

Si je traine en bas de chez toi
BOOBA

This French hip-hop quote means: “if I hang around your hood the real estate price crash”.
As a matter of fact, I don’t hang around your hood.

Hip-hop punchline inspiration:
Si je traine en bas de chez toi j’fais chuter le prix de l’immobilier – BOOBA – Fuck Tha Police

I started from scratch
IMMORTAL TECHNIQUE

When I say that “I started from scratch” I mean it.
With no money I used to sell burgers, collect trashes, clean toilets, and all other kind of really bad jobs so I could put food on the table.
I never stopped believing in my passion for art anyway, and keep creating stuffs despite the tough life.

Hip-hop punchline inspiration:
Like an escape tunnel in prison I started from scratch – IMMORTAL TECHNIQUE – Industrial Revolution

20000 Lieues Sous La Merde
LA CAUTION

This punchline play with the title 20000 Leagues Under the Sea.
La Caution changed Sea with Shit, a word phonetically close is french.
This crappy image describe the situation where the characters I draw were living before moving to the jungle.

Hip-hop punchline inspiration:
20000 Lieues Sous La Merde – LA CAUTION – 20000 Lieues Sous La Merde

My identity by itself causes violence
NWA

Welcome to a world of violence where my characters try to create a new identity for themselves.
They struggle to find what the meaning of life is, and look into hip hop punchlines to build the basis of a new philosophy.

Hip-hop punchline inspiration:
My identity by itself causes violence – N.W.A. – Fuck Tha Police

Character number 20 from the art series I Just Murdered The Alphabet

Another character I have done for my huge series of drawings.
◀ check the complete solo art exhibition.

Medium used: Hand-drawn with silver ink pens on 160g acid free art paper.

Hip-hop punchlines inspiration:
There’s a war going on outside – MOBB DEEP – Survival Of The Fittest
Moi j’veux dev’nir c’que j’aurais dû être – BOOBA – Au Bout Des Rêves
Ice ice baby, da da da da da da da – VANILLA ICE – Ice Ice Baby
I’m a big fish you just tiger shrimp – WIZ KHALIFA – Knock U Down

Character 20 | Original handmade drawing for my solo art exhibition I Just Murdered The Alphabet

There’s a war going on outside
MOBB DEEP

No man is safe from war, but you can fight for what you want.
What weapons do you need to be free?
I would say that first, you need your brain.
Learn everyday and you should be able to win all the problems you will face during your life.

Hip-hop punchline inspiration:
There’s a war going on outside – MOBB DEEP – Survival Of The Fittest

Dev’nir c’que j’aurais du etre
BOOBA

I want to become what I was supposed to be.
What was I supposed to be?
This is actually for me to decide.
Let’s say that I was supposed to enter the top 10 of the coolest artists in the world.
Well, I will try.

Hip-hop punchline inspiration:
Moi j’veux dev’nir c’que j’aurais dû être – BOOBA – Au Bout Des Rêves

Ice Ice baby
VANILLA ICE

This punchline is a joke.
But when I think “Ice” I think Iceberg Slim.
Who think Vanilla Ice?
According to me, Iceberg Slim is one of the best contemporary american novelist.
Did you know that people like Ice T or Ice Cube chose their name after him?

Hip-hop punchline inspiration:
Ice ice baby, da da da da da da da – VANILLA ICE – Ice Ice Baby

I’m a big fish you just tiger shrimp
WIZ KHAFILA

Don’t worry, I love to eat tiger shrimps.
With a lot of spices please, and cooked with coconut wood.
But it’s not so easy to find prawns and shrimps inside the jungle.

Hip-hop punchline inspiration:
I’m a big fish you just tiger shrimp – WIZ KHALIFA – Knock U Down

This artwork is originally from I Just Murdered The Alphabet, the art series for my 2012 solo exhibition

Character for the new artwork series about hand drawings of hip-hop punchlines and inspiring illustration.
◀ check the complete solo art exhibition.

Medium used: Hand-drawn with silver ink pens on 160g acid free art paper.

Hip-hop punchlines inspiration:
Cause the boys in the hood are always hard – EASY E – Boyz-N-The Hood
Toujours devant quand y’a embrouille – MAFIA K’1 FRY – Pour Ceux
Don’t swear he’s nice he knows he’s nice – PUBLIC ENEMY – Public Enemy No. 1
How to survive in a recession – SLIM THUG – I Run

Character 19 | Original handmade drawing for my solo art exhibition I Just Murdered The Alphabet

Cause the boys in the hood are always hard
EAZY E

This artwork is inspired by Easy E rap lyrics.
I am hard too.
Even in the jungle.
You don’t believe me?
You should ask my girls.
They will give you more informations that you even need.

Hip-hop punchline inspiration:
Cause the boyz in the hood are always hard – EAZY E – Boyz-N-The Hood

Toujours devant quand ya embrouille
MAFIA K1FRY

Mafia K1Fry is a famous French hip-hop band.
The punchline means always in front when come the problems.
I would be glad to stay in the back sometimes. Just have a sit and watch the situation.
But I live on the frontline. So I take my weapons and fight for what I believe in.

Hip-hop punchline inspiration:
Toujours devant quand ya embrouille – MAFIA K’1 FRY – Pour Ceux

Don’t swear he’s nice
PUBLIC ENEMY

Actually swear whatever you want.
I don’t really care.
But you can not deny that he’s nice.
Who’s he? I mean this hand-drawn character of course.
Ok, the other artworks are quite cool too indeed.

Hip-hop punchline inspiration:
Don’t swear he’s nice he knows he’s nice – PUBLIC ENEMY – Rapper’s Delight

How to survive in a recession
SLIM THUG

You don’t know how to deal with the crisis?
Work for what you love. Stop buying useless stuffs.
Inspiration is free, all you have to do is to come back to check this awesome blog every day.

Hip-hop punchline inspiration:
How to survive in a recession – SLIM THUG – I Run

Another handmade artwork for my new art series mixing hip-hop punchlines and slick illustration called I Just Murdered The Alphabet

I live near the jungle in Indonesia myself. Those characters doesn’t exist in the real world, but are part of a fictional saga I intend to develop through several art projects.
◀ check the complete solo art exhibition.

Medium used: Hand-drawn with silver ink pens on 160g acid free art paper.

Hip-hop punchlines inspiration:
What starts in clouded minds finishes in the rain – LUPE FIASCO – Glory
Everyday I’m hustlin’ – RICK ROSS – Hustlin’
I fuck her in her dreams and make her come true – LIL WAYNE – Hold Up
I got more paper than the New York Post – BIG L – Dangerzone
Turn your tux red – BIG L – 98 Freestyle
You love my doggy style – SNOOP DOGG – Doggystyle

Character 18 | Original handmade drawing for my solo art exhibition I Just Murdered The Alphabet

You love my doggy style
SNOOP DOGG

Why did I chose this punchline?
Ask my girlfriend…
On another hand, “dog” is the worst insult in Indonesia (the country where I am currently based).
But I didn’t really mean it that way.

Hip-hop punchline inspiration:
You love my doggy style – SNOOP DOGG – Doggystyle

Turn your tux red
BIG L

Big L rest in peace.
I can even turn you t-shirt green. All you have to do is to follow me and my characters into the jungle.
Welcome to the jungle where the t-shirts are green, the souls gold, and the tuxedos red.

Hip-hop punchline inspiration:
Turn your tux red – BIG L – 98 Freestyle

I got more paper than the New York Post
BIG L

And I make paper planes with my newspapers.
Or sometimes I just use the paper for my artworks and draw more illustrations on it.
Actually I do that most of the time.

Hip-hop punchline inspiration:
I got more paper than the New York Post – BIG L – Dangerzone

Make her come true
LIL WAYNE

Right after I fuck her in her dreams.
And I make her dream in the first place.
Wait a second. I think I might be making you dream too.
Ain’t I?

Hip-hop punchline inspiration:
I fuck her in her dreams and make her come true – LIL WAYNE – Hold Up

Everyday I’m hustlin
RICK ROSS

Everyday I am baby.
I never stop.
I struggle in order to produce more artworks avery day of my life.
From the moment I wake up until I sleep late at night, I’m hustling hard.
Sometimes my girlfriend complains. Most of the time she likes it.

Hip-hop punchline inspiration:
Everyday I’m hustlin’ – RICK ROSS – Hustlin’

What starts in clouded minds finishes in the rain
LUPE FIASCO

I have to say that it finishes in a tropical rain.
Especially if you are living in the middle of the jungle like the characters of this art series.

Hip-hop punchline inspiration:
What starts in clouded minds finishes in the rain – LUPE FIASCO – Glory

Another character mixed with inspiring punchlines for the I Just Murdered The Alphabet series

This artwork portrays one of the masked character from La Société Des Griffeurs for my new series of hand-made artworks.
The illustration combine slick character and typography experiments.
◀ check the complete solo art exhibition.

Medium used: Hand-drawn with silver ink pens on 160g acid free art paper.

Hip-hop punchlines inspiration:
Did a fine job saving the mankind from hell – MURS – The Two
Just watch what you say – ICE-T – Freedom Of Speech
I’m fresh, brand new – BUN B – I’m Fresh
Trying to start the revolution – UNCLE MURDA – Respect The Shooter

Character 17 | Original handmade drawing for my solo art exhibition I Just Murdered The Alphabet

Trying to start the revolution
UNCLE MURDA

I’m trying my best to start the revolution.
Actually I’m not trying, I doing it… I do it my own life.
What goes up must go down. You know how it is…

Hip-hop punchline inspiration:
Trying to start the revolution – UNCLE MURDA – Respect The Shooter

I’m fresh, brand new
BUN B

Do you want to know more about my inspirations?
For this series, I found inspirations in sign paintings, traditional typography, fileteado from Argentina (where I used to live), and more.
What more? Psychedelic fonts, graffiti, hand designed typography, and more.
Basically everything related to font design.

Hip-hop punchline inspiration:
I’m fresh, brand new – BUN B – I’m Fresh

Just watch what you say
ICE-T

Too many people talk for nothing.
I don’t talk much. I draw.
Ok, my girlfriend would disagree with this.
I talk a lot, but I draw even more.
Unless you consider that I also speak through my artworks.
What was I saying again?

Hip-hop punchline inspiration:
Just watch what you say – ICE-T – Freedom Of Speech

Saving the mankind from hell
MURS

I do a fine job.
I’m not a fine artist.
I’m an artist who don’t believe in hell, but I believe in mankind.
Actually hell might exist.
Some actually call it mankind.

Hip-hop punchline inspiration:
Did a fine job saving the mankind from hell – MURS – The Two

Sixteenth character from the art series called I Just Murdered The Alphabet

Last character of an extensive series of drawings for my new artwork project.
◀ check the complete solo art exhibition.

Medium used: Hand-drawn with silver ink pens on 160g acid free art paper.

Hip-hop punchlines inspiration:
You lookin’ at me but I’m lookin’ through you – LIL WAYNE – Mirror
I’m number one two three four and five – KRS-ONE – Step Into A World
Get more butt than ashtrays – THE NOTORIOUS B.I.G. – Flava In Ya Ear
Food on the plate for the wolves – LLOYD BANKS – The Cake

Character 16 | Original handmade drawing for my solo art exhibition I Just Murdered The Alphabet

You lookin at me but I’m looking through you
LIL WAYNE

Are you looking at me?
You should look at my art.
Besides I don’t really want to see you.
Unless you have something really interesting to say.
By interesting, I don’t mean TV gossips and bad stuffs about your neighbor I don’t even know.

Hip-hop punchline inspiration:
You lookin’ at me but I’m lookin’ through you – LIL WAYNE – Mirror

Food on the plate for the wolves
LLOYD BANKS

Where I live we don’t worry about wolves.
We do worry about tiger attacks.
Food on the plate for the tigers baby.

Hip-hop punchline inspiration:
Food on the plate for the wolves – LLOYD BANKS – The Cake

Get more butt than ashtrays
NOTORIOUS BIG

I smoke a lot…
This is a bad habit, and I guess I should try to quit.
But I like it too much, I am addicted.
I need it every day of my life.
Give me butts.

Hip-hop punchline inspiration:
Get more butt than ashtrays – NOTORIOUS B.I.G. – Flava In Ya Ear

I’m number one two three four and five
KRS-ONE

Sometimes I’m number six too.
That’s what is good when you live in your own dreams.
You can be any number you want to.
You just have to believe it hard enough.
6-6-6

Hip-hop punchline inspiration:
I’m number one two three four and five – KRS-ONE – Step Into A World

I Just Murdered The Alphabet is an art series mixing rap lyrics and hand-made typography.

It took me 6 months (8 hours a day), and about 45 silver pens to complete this series.
◀ check the complete solo art exhibition.

UPDATE: You can now buy this original artwork here.

Medium used: Hand-drawn with silver ink pens on 160g acid free art paper.

Hip-hop punchlines inspiration:
Même avec les ongles noirs ils doigtent le va-ing – SETH GUEKO – Gremlins
Knock down your door like Jehovah’s witness – CASSIDY – Freestyle
Ma lumière met en valeur leurs zones d’ombre – DISIZ LA PESTE – La Fin Du Début
I got a problem solver and his name is revolver – JEDI MIND TRICKS – The Sacrilege Of Fatal Arms

Character 15 | Original handmade drawing for my solo art exhibition I Just Murdered The Alphabet

Avec les ongles noirs
SETH GUEKO

Even with dirty nails they finger pussies…
This is quite disgusting but we all know that your wife enjoys it.
If you don’t you should because that’s what she told me.

Hip-hop punchline inspiration:
Même avec les ongles noirs ils doigtent le va-ing – SETH GUEKO – Gremlins

Knock down your door
CASSIDY

Want me or not I’m here at your door.
Close me doors I’ll enter from the windows.
Close the windows I come from the roof.
Protect the roof I ask your wife for the keys.

Hip-hop punchline inspiration:
Knock down your door like Jehovah’s witness – CASSIDY – Freestyle

Ma lumière met en valeur leurs zones d’ombre
DISIZ LA PESTE

This line literally means that “My light enhances their shadows”.
And I know that whoever they are, they have a lot of shadows.
It prevent them to look too flat.
I like shadows a lot.

Hip-hop punchline inspiration:
Ma lumière met en valeur leurs zones d’ombre – DISIZ LA PESTE – La Fin Du Début

I got a problem solver
JEDI MIND TRICKS

You got a problem?
Tell me what it is and I will see if I can solve it.
Sometimes not saying anything can actually avoid you from getting a problem.

Hip-hop punchline inspiration:
I got a problem solver and his name is revolver – JEDI MIND TRICKS – The Sacrilege Of Fatal Arms

This drawing is one of the 22 characters I drew for the art series called I Just Murdered The Alphabet.

◀ check the complete solo art exhibition.

Medium used: Hand-drawn with silver ink pens on 160g acid free art paper.

Hip-hop punchlines inspiration:
Pop all the balloons and spit in the punch – LIL WAYNE – I am Not A Human Being
Ride with no ceiling – SLIM THUG – Ride With No Ceiling
Drop it like it’s hot – LIL WAYNE – Back That Azz Up
Everything is a Ha Ha for me – J. COLE – World Is Empty
This is my desire, want & need – BIG SEAN – Desire, Want & Need
I just murdered the alphabet – EMINEM – Still Don’t Give a Fuck

Character 14 | Original handmade drawing for my solo art exhibition I Just Murdered The Alphabet

Pop all the balloons and spit in the punch
LIL WAYNE

If you invite me, I will ruin your party.
If you don’t invite me, I will come anyway.
But don’t worry, I will take you and all of your guests to a better party.
Free drinks, sexy girls, good music, and inspiring artworks.

Hip-hop punchline inspiration:
Pop all the balloons and spit in the punch – LIL WAYNE – I am Not A Human Being

Ride with no ceiling
SLIM THUG

I ride without ceiling so I can reach the sky faster when I drive.
The sky is my playground, I live with stars and shine like a moon during a really dark night.
You didn’t know?
You see the stars way better when you are deep in the darkness.

Hip-hop punchline inspiration:
Ride with no ceiling – SLIM THUG – Ride with no ceiling

Drop it like its hot
LIL WAYNE

Please note that the famous hip-hop punchline originally from the US rapper Lil Wayne.
Yes you read it right.
Drop it like it’s hot was a rap line originally brought to you by Lil Wayne.

Hip-hop punchline inspiration:
Drop it like its hot – LIL WAYNE – Back That Azz Up

Everything is a Ha Ha for me
J COLE

I like to laugh every day.
I try not to take life too seriously.
I do my artworks with passion and I am really serious about that.
But when it comes to certain aspects such as fame and money, I keep in minds that it is not so important.
Money is over-rated.

Hip-hop punchline inspiration:
Everything is a Ha Ha for me – J. COLE – World Is Empty

My desire want and need
BIG SEAN

This art project was prepared with my soul.
It’s all I want, all I can do.
I wake up every day of my life just to prepare more inspiring artworks.
This is my life.

Hip-hop punchline inspiration:
This is my desire want and need – BIG SEAN – Desire, Want & Need

I just murdered the alphabet
EMINEM

Thank you Eminem for inspiring me the title of this art project.
I don’t mean I want to kill the fonts.
I love fonts.
I just want to explore avery aspect and limitations of typography and font design.
In this series I was inspired by everything from sign painting to graffiti to traditional computer fonts.

Hip-hop punchline inspiration:
I just murdered the alphabet – EMINEM – Still Don’t Give a Fuck