Elliot O'Donnell is a Grey Lynn boy from the world of graffiti - he was caught tagging a entire train in 1988 with a group of New Zealand and Australian artists.

"We pretty much just promote young... street artists, graffiti artists and we're putting their work on canvas... selling them and getting decent prices," he says.

"Some people get ten or twenty grand for, or $100,000 of government money to do... public spaces, and I compare it to what some of my friends are doing on a zero budget, it's quite a strange comparison."

"We've got Disrupt Gallery... there's Uptown Tattoos, which is our tattoo studio... so there's just so much, and it's growing all the time,"

"The hip hop summit basically gives the hip hop scene a chance to elevate and showcase what they are doing at the current time, and look at pushing on new directions for the future."

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