COPE2 x TLOKS x THERD 'Multi-Tags' (2024) Skateboard Deck

The rattle of a can chased by the sweet sound of vandalism manufactured by the infamous "Toomer" (AKA "Tloko," "Tloks") has proven to be enough to commission an anti-graffiti task force in every major city where he's touched down. The man's hands are so large that they encompass the entire can, giving the appearance that he's spewing paint from his own flesh like some twisted graffiti super-hero bombing tall buildings, outrunning authorities and avoiding prosecution, all while taking over the entire city, locking down yards and taking flight only to devastate the rest of the world one major city at a time.

Rising from the guts of Los Angeles, California, in the late '80s, Toomer caught the junkie itch for graffiti after one tag in his hometown of South L.A. and then continued to go "all city," mapped out only by his bus route to each new school that he attended. When it came time to step up to the status of king, he fused the 1980s art of graffiti with the decades old tradition of Dia de los Muertos to birth an unmistakable style that had the masses of graffiti artists falling to their knees. Strapped with a rack of cans and bent on a one-night takeover to crush your city in a blind fury came to be the trademark of TKO, a relentless band of vandals who watched out for each other and thrived to get up whenever, wherever and however possible on every venture. They soon became Toomer's new brotherhood.

Toomer has rightfully taken his place among the greats of graffiti, taking stock as a purest to the art. He gives credit to those who produce amazing art with spray cans, but retains the difference between those who can't or won't bomb a city and those who are risking it every night as they grip that can and decide to make their mark on the city-believing that without the throw-ups, tags and everything else that makes up a true graffiti artist, you don't deserve the right to be considered a graffiti writer. With all else said and Vandals Ink on the rise, Toomer welcomes you to plant TKO where he reigns free and graffiti is the national pastime.

ARTIST BIO (THERD)