Our Twitter timeline blew up yesterday when local artist Najeeb Sheikh (Instagram user @dasheikee) came across "an ignorant piece of shit" painting over the commissioned mural for Kurt Vile‘s Wakin on a Pretty Daze album cover by world-renowned street artist Steve "ESPO" Powers. As reported by street art blogger Conrad Benner (who goes by the Twitter and Instagram handles @streetsdepts), "According to @dasheikee, the man said he was not connected to the city or the building’s owner and that he was buffing the mural because it was attracting graffiti to the neighborhood." This is outrageous! What narrow-minded asshole has the nerve and audacity to illegally do such a thing? You can check out photos of the culprit at work above and below by Sheikh. Please help track down this jerkoff, and send plenty of bad karma his way.
Update: Philly.com‘s Leah Kauffman scored an interview with the culprit, DJ Lee Mayjahs, who talked about being mentally "not well" and his remorse for his actions. He has also offered to pay Powers for his time to repaint the mural. You can read the rest of what Mayjahs had to say HERE.
