POP 2

There’s a whole lot going on within this tiny little shop located upstairs in the Arts Factory’s, POP2 Hip hop shop. From your Montana cans, tips to Prisma markers you can fulfill all your graffiti needs here. He also has a handful of hip hop, b-​boy, graf related DVDs, books, magazines and clothing. Sadly, last time I visited for First Friday though he had replaced what were once various funk, soul, hip hop vinyl lps for chairs. Maybe it was gettin’ a lil crowded.
No matter, he’s one of the very few shops that sell and specialize graffiti supplies in the area and works endlessly with the community, throwin’ local events such as Pitch Control, repainting tagged walls every week to his bi-​annual food/​clothing drives which combines charity work with hip hop to name few. The last benefit had an actual roasted pig on a spit outside the Arts Factory which I never got to try but to any Filipino such as myself anytime there’s music, dope company and lechon is around good things are abound.
I’ve only lived in Las Vegas for a little over a year now, finding out about Ras & POP2 shortly thereafter and I can tell from the looks of it this dude works hard constantly dispite fighting an extremely uphill battle with not only with the city’s officials but also society as a whole to reverse the negative stigma of hip hop culture in general faces as well as getting graffiti art recognized by the public as an authentic artform. A ton of peace & respect goes out to Ras his crew for tirelessly doin’ his thing.