{"id":7798,"date":"2016-09-23T16:43:45","date_gmt":"2016-09-23T23:43:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=7798"},"modified":"2016-09-25T16:47:20","modified_gmt":"2016-09-25T23:47:20","slug":"massive-banksy-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2016\/09\/23\/massive-banksy-attack\/","title":{"rendered":"Massive Banksy Attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.artnet.com\/art-world\/massive-attack-founder-real-banksy-632879\" target=\"_blank\"><em>from artnews<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<h1>Is Massive Attack Founder Robert Del Naja the Real Banksy?<\/h1>\n<p><strong>Would that blow your mind?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>by Brian Boucher<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Robert \" src=\"https:\/\/news.artnet.com\/app\/news-upload\/2016\/09\/massive-attack-lebanon-1024x691.jpg\" alt=\"Robert \" width=\"480\" \/><em>Robert &#8220;3D&#8221; del Naja, right, and Grantley &#8220;Daddy G&#8221; Marshall of British trip-hop band Massive Attack during a visit to the Burj al-Barajneh camp for Palestinian refugees, south of the Lebanese capital Beirut, on July 28, 2014. Photo Maya Hautefeuille\/AFP\/Getty Images.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>What if one of the biggest stars of the trip hop genre were also the most famous street artist of our day?<\/p>\n<p>Journalist Craig Williams says he\u2019s got compelling evidence that Robert \u201c3D\u201d Del Naja is also the anonymous street artist\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.artnet.com\/artists\/banksy\/\" target=\"_blank\">Banksy<\/a>, known for his cheeky stencil work and other street art projects worldwide, reports the\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-3769115\/Is-real-face-Banksy-Massive-Attack-member-named-shadowy-graffiti-artist-investigator.html\" target=\"_blank\">Daily Mail<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/news.artnet.com\/art-world\/banksy-mural-destroyed-melbourne-550067\" target=\"_blank\">Related: Yet Another Banksy Mural Destroyed by Clueless Construction Workers<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Again and again, Williams claims, murals pop up in cities where Massive Attack has staged concerts, shortly after the performances take place. Not only that, but Del Naja was a graffiti artist in the 1980s and professes to be friendly with Banksy.<\/p>\n<p>Massive Attack, which Del Naja co-founded in Bristol along with Grant \u201cDaddy G\u201d Marshall, debuted with the album\u00a0<em>Blue Lines<\/em>\u00a0in 1991; that LP and 1998\u2019s\u00a0<em>Mezzanine\u00a0<\/em>are cited in Rolling Stone\u2019s list of the 500 greatest albums of all time. The band has sold more than 11 million records.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/news.artnet.com\/art-world\/banksy-spy-booth-lost-forever-615812\" target=\"_blank\">Related: Is Banksy\u2019s Iconic \u2018Spy Booth\u2019 Mural Lost Forever?<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>To support his theory, Williams offers the following: Massive Attack appeared in San Francisco in late April 2010; a half-dozen Banksy murals appeared May 1. Just days later, the band played in Toronto and\u00a0Banksy murals popped up in that city. The band took to the stage at the Hollywood Bowl in 2006; Banksy\u2019s \u201cBarely Legal\u201d exhibition took place a week later.<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/news.artnet.com\/art-world\/massive-attack-founder-real-banksy-632879\" target=\"_blank\">click to continue reading at artnet<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from artnews Is Massive Attack Founder Robert Del Naja the Real Banksy? Would that blow your mind? by Brian Boucher Robert &#8220;3D&#8221; del Naja, right, and Grantley &#8220;Daddy G&#8221; Marshall of British trip-hop band Massive Attack during a visit to the Burj al-Barajneh camp for Palestinian refugees, south of the Lebanese capital Beirut, on July [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art","category-mirth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7798\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}