Daniel Ramos (born August 27, 1972) who went by the moniker "Chaka" was one of the most prolific graffiti vandals of the late 20th century. Chaka IFK was so popular that his tag was used to decorate the bass drum of Dave Grohl, when his band Nirvana did the video for the song, "Smells Like Teen Spirit." The bass drum is the location where a band's name usually appears. August 27 is the 239th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (240th in leap years), with 126 days remaining. ... 1972 (MCMLXXII) was a leap year starting on Saturday. ... Graffiti is the application of media on publicly viewable surfaces. ... A caricature of Gustave Courbet taking down a Morris column, published by Le Père Duchêne illustré magazine Vandalism is the conspicuous defacement destruction of a structure or symbol against the will of the owner/governing body. ... David Eric Grohl (born January 14, 1969, in Warren, Ohio) is an American rock musician. ... Nirvana was a popular rock band from Aberdeen, Washington, United States. ...

Authorities in Los Angeles County, California and surrounding areas throughout the West Coast ascribed to Chaka between ten and fifty thousand unique incidents of him "tagging" the word "CHAKA" on various vertical surfaces of private and state property, using equipment ranging from permanent markers to spray paint and incurring up to half a million dollars in monetary damage. Chaka was eventually caught, tried, and convicted in 1991 on these charges. Urban legend holds that Ramos tagged the interior of a civic-center elevator as he left a courtroom, only to be arrested and charged yet again. The truth is that CHAKA did not tag inside the elevator as the Sheriffs and News portrayed he did. In actuality, the professional hand-writing experts were incorrect in their findings. To this day, the real person that tagged inside the elevator remains a secret within his crew LOD. Los Angeles County is a county in California, and the most populous county in the United States, with 10,179,716 residents (as of July 2004)[1]. The county seat is the city of Los Angeles. ... Urban legends are a kind of modern folklore consisting of stories often thought to be factual by those circulating them (see rumor). ...

Upon his release from jail two years later, Chaka was offered to go to California State University, Northridge. California State University, Northridge (also known as CSUN, Cal State Northridge, or C-Sun) is a public university in the San Fernando Valley, within the city limits of Los Angeles, California, USA. Part of the California State University system, CSUN was founded in 1958 as San Fernando Valley State College...

Further reading

• Heckman, Davin. "Being in the Shadow of Hollywood: Celebrity, Banality, and the Infamous Chaka." M/C Journal 7.5 (2004), read 06 Sep. 2006