At least, that's what we thought after reading this exchange between the Razor Apple people and the purported masterminds behind that tagging of 10 subway cars we linked to the other day. Seems as though the whole thing may have been an elaborate stunt—with some nefarious (for the graffiti artists, at least) ends.

Razor Apple's gone all Internet-detective on us (quite frankly, we have no idea what they're talking about but we'll take their word for it) and discovered that it's almost definitely the NYPD who's behind the original website that put up the tagged subway car pics. So RA decided to try to get to the bottom of it, leading to this email exchange:

Razor Apple: From the photos it appears you only wrote "MUL" on the end of the subway car, which you indicated is not your group. If your name is "MULNYC", why didn't you write that on the subway instead of another group's name?

MadeULookNYC.com: I was asked to reply on behalf of the individual you have been chatting with. First, I'd like to personally thank you for extending yourself and assisting in the promotion of this incredible feat. Your Internet coverage has been impressive.

I will be more than happy to answer the questions below without revealing any of my associates identities.

For starters MUL, regardless of a crew name stands for made you look. One of the fine gentleman of our elite team, who's name and tag I will not personally reveal, had an altercation with MUL back in Chicago during this past summer. This idea of doing a whole train had been looming and planned several months ago. With the assistance of people, who we cannot acknowledge, we were able to gain access and have plenty of time to create this magnificent art peace. It was well funded and many parties were involved. The guys wanted to stick it to MUL by creating the controversy they have done.

Seems the NYPD might want to work a little bit more on their undercover graffiti emailing skillz.

NYPD Going Undercover as Graffiti Writers—Online? [Razor Apple]