Mear One began his career in 1986 as a graffiti artist living in Los Angeles and he has since been labeled as "the Michelangelo of Graffiti and the Salvador Dali of Hip-Hop" and is considered by many to be Los Angeles' most prolific graffiti artist because of the way he revolutionized graffiti with his fine-art realism, by breaking out of traditional 2D letter forms, and using perspective to develop complex characters with dynamic backgrounds in epic scale.