A New Eminem Mural in Detroit is Vandalized a day after its completion.
Chris Devins, an artist known for his incredible art, decided to honor the legendary Eminem through a mural in his hometown. Chris Devins painted a mural of young Eminem onto a wall in the Cass Corridor neighborhood of Midtown Detroit, which took him around six hours to complete the work. When he was painting the mural on September 4, passersby took photos and honked their horns to pay their respects. But, Chris Devins was expecting someone to be offended by the mural, as it was vandalized just a day after its completion.
Devins didn’t get a contract from Eminem to create the painting, but he believed it might use “some beautifying” when in Detroit during Labor Day Weekend with his family. Photographer Nitin Vadukul’s image of Eminem served as the inspiration for the artwork.
The six-foot-tall art was defaced with 18 small bird head sketches drawn all over with a sharpie. “I felt terrible,” Devins told The Detroit News. “I was devastated. Who would do that? That’s against the rules of street art.” By the time Chris learned about the incident, he was already back home in Chicago and now plans to return to Detroit and fix the portrait by the next week. “I want to restore it to its original value,” said Devins. “I would like to re-present it to the community in its unblemished form.”
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He continues, “It was a great wall. It looked like it was going to sit there for a second, so I thought it could use some beautification. It really enhances that wall. To me, it’s totally appropriate. I wanted to do him looking young and fresh. I didn’t put up anything ugly.”
Chris Devins took to his IG to share the defaced mural of the Detroit Rapper and wrote, “Only one day after it’s completion, some idiot in Detroit already defaced the new M mural. You can’t give some people anything good. Dumb. I can probably fix it but damn…”
Previously, the Chicago artists have done several murals, including the late rapper Juice WRLD and King Von.
“Their complaints were that the mural would promote gang retaliation: people coming to shoot up the mural,” Delilah Martinez, who commissioned the Von artwork, told in August. “And they were worried about people in that area. After they said all that, they were like, ‘This has been going on for years.’ And I’m like yes! That has nothing to do with the mural!”
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