ahhh drew, i love how you associate grafitti with a "ghetto, thug appearance" and that it cant be done by anyone else.
of course it is toy as fuck, what should he expect. its his first piece.  im not loop_digga, (who you are proll expecting to bash him) but dude, writing isnt limited to the streets of brooklyn man.
and for the thread creator.  start out doing simples and using bars.  if you dont know what that is, go check out bombingscience.com and go into the toys forum and click the thread, "getting started".  its basically separating every letter into a combination of bars, and bending/changign the shapes of the bars and combining them together to change the look of the letter and give it an original style. stick to those right now, and lose the cards, character attempst that you put in until you start getting decent.
and please dont criticize me everybody, because i know im toy as well, but ive been doing this like a year and know just a liiiiiittle bit about what im talking about.