Just to start off, by no way are we promoting gang activity or violence.

we don’t want you to lead a hard life and end up as a brilliant prison inventor.

I do think that we’ve all had our stages of “I’m actually cooler then you think I am” during school, and we learn a lot of useless things that only give us “street cred”. Girls are lying when they say they don’t like the bad boys, because the reality is, who doesn’t like a little action in their day to day routine?

One of the many things I picked up during my years of growing up was the tag alphabet. Now Let me throw out this disclaimer, this set of alphabet serves no other purpose other then “to look cool”. It’s more like a fancy font of letters that is, unless you can read it, undecipherable. By no means should you use these letters to tag up bathroom walls with messages like let’s meet at someone’s house, or, it’s time to jump soandso under the flag pole after school, the stash is hidden in locker 420… Stacey’s mom is hot…. etc. If you’re going to use it for that stuff… well anyway. So browsing through the web I’ve found numerous pages on how to draw graffiti bubble letters, and personally, I think those bubble letters are “neat”, but sometimes you just need something practical to get your message through. and especially when you’re trying to get your message down and get out of dodge before whoever the authority is is coming after you. Plus, I’m one of those people whose artistic side never cooperates. I can draw fine when it comes to doodling, 3 am insomniac attacks, but never when I want to convey something, and especially not when I’m ducking teachers in the bathroom. So I thought it’s time to pass on to the next generation of hoodlums just how to convey messages in plain English (maybe a few slang) in an artistic yet practical way.

I’ve included two messages and the alphabet itself. The first message says mashingkeys.com and the second is the phrase “The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog” to show you all the alphabets.

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