Stay Noided

This is a picture of some graffiti in New Orleans take with my D7200 and Nikon 35mm f/1.8 lens on February 7, 2017 (1/640, f9, ISO400). I was trying to catch the grittiness of the Stay Noided statement. Thus the reason for making this black and white (high contrast). My primary self criticism here is that there is too much going on in the background of the picture. As a result, the "stay nodded" message is not coming out strong enough. I tried cropping but was not happy with the result. This is a case where it would have been beneficial to take this picture from a multitude of different angles to see what might work best in post processing.