“VE foreVEr Bowery 95” (2025)

BOWERY, NYC 1995

Real graffiti history. 

This is VE ‘Vandalize Everything’…. James Anthony Conte

30 year anniversary drop.

Made 100% for the benefit of VE’s daughter…the one he never got to meet after gun violence took his life in an UNSOLVED murder.

Mid 90’s All City run. VE • GIZ • SN Triple fire escapes on the Bowery. High up. Wide open. Super visible.

Back then bombing was different. Risk was real. Stakes were higher…jail, violence, life on the line…as his murder reflects.  That was a spot that couldn’t be missed. Anyone heading downtown to the clubs saw it.

The Bowery wasn’t what it is now. No hotels. No fancy food. Just Chinese restaurant supply warehouses and empty blocks. Still rough. Still raw. Still the old Bowery.

That building’s gone now, but part of VE’s fill ran over 30 years.

Bottom right corner of the fire escape VE leans out and drops one last fill on the next building because he couldn’t resist.

That final move that night is stamped on the back of this shirt.

foreVEr.

June 8, 1997. Bushwick.VE gets shot while writing graffiti. One bullet. Case never solved.

He left behind a daughter he never met. She’s 28 now. Two kids of her own. They look just like him.

EVERY DOLLAR FROM THIS SHIRT GOES TO HER.

This release is about VE, but it’s also about that era. The risks writers took. The city we lived in. How unforgiving NYC really was. You could just be walking down the street and somebody looks at you and says what are you looking at? And then boom violence. I’ve been stabbed five times over such occasions.

Nas just shouted VE on “Writers”, a song Produced by DJ Premier on the new album Light Years.

It brings so much joy to my heart that his name is still ringing. Never would we have thought that we would be in a song by Nas and DJ Premier.

This project only happened because people stepped up. Writers. Friends. Supporters. Made possible by:

Most Talked About • 12ozProphet • All The Right

ALL PROCEEDS GO TO VE’S DAUGHTER

Support something real. Own a piece of history.

VE ONE … JAMES ANTHONY CONTE

NO COMP … MOST TALKED ABOUT … FOR THE REP

Product Details

• Custom limited-edition VE T-shirt

• Heavyweight Shakawear 7.5 oz, standard fit

• Multi-hit silk screens, all sides

• Bold and low-key hits, including 3M reflective

• Double-sided collectible art bag 12” x 18”

• Grip-tape lock

• Frame bag on either side

• 6-piece die-cut vinyl sticker pack inside (3x4” stickers)

• Spot-gloss emboss on stickers and bag