sixcentz:
what do you write?
gato: #1) I WAS BORN IN THE BRONX UP ON UNIVERSITY AVE ONE BLOCK AWAY FROM THE RESERVOIR THAT HAD SO MANY DEAD BODIES IN IT YOU THOUGHT IT WAS AN UNDERWATER CEMETARY. AROUND 1978 I MOVED TO FLUSHING QUEENS, IT WAS LIKE MOVING TO HOLLYWOOD. #2) I'M DOWN WITH RIS, MPC, BYI, CAC, UA. #3) I WOULD CONSIDER MYSELF AS FAR AS RIGHT NOW GOES, A PERSON INTERESTED IN DRAWING AND PIECING. BACK IN THE DAYS I WAS MORE A BOMBER. I WAS GREEDY, WANTED TO SEE NEO ALL OVER THROUGHOUT THE TRANSIT SYSTEM< ON EVERY LINE, AS WELL AS ABOVE GROUND. #4) GHOST GOT ME INTO WRITING BACK IN 1979. HE WAS WRITING LOGAN AND WAS ALWAYS BUGGIN ON ME THAT I COULDN'T WRITE NEO STRAIGHT, I WAS WRITING NEO LIKE IT WAS FLYING UP IN THE AIR. I STARTED WRITING WITH GHOST AROUND THE NEIGHBORHOOD ALONG WITH REC127 AND SUR167(AKA LIME). THESE ARE THE PEOPLE WHO INTRODUCED ME THE MOST AS FAR AS THE LEVELS OF GRAFF WENT, FROM WRITING TO PIECING. #5) MY FAVORITE THING TO PAINT WAS TRAINS AND ALWAYS WILL BE. OF COURSE I ALSO HIT TRUCKS, BUSES, VANS, AND ANYTHING ELSE THAT MOVED. #6) THE PEOPLE WHO INFLUENCED ME THE MOST WERE GHOST,REC 127, SUR 167. LATER ON PURE GAVE ME AN OUTLINE OR TWO, AS A GESTURE FOR GETTING HIM AND JON 1 EMPLOYMENT AT THE PALLADIUM. #7) MY FAVORITE PAINT WAS RUSTOLEUM. THEY HAD ALL THOSE COLORS AND SPRAYED THICK WITH THOSE FURNITURE CAPS, NOT LIKE KRYLON AND THOSE JIFF CAPS THAT SPAYED LIKE HAIRSPRAY AND SEEMED LIKE IT TOOK A DAY TO DO A FILL IN. RUSTO AND I HAD A GREAT TIME GOING OVER MANY PEOPLE WHO DESERVED IT!! FAVORITE COLOR BACK THEN WAS BURGUNDY. #8) FAVORITE BOUROUGH? LIKE A MAGNET FROM BIRTH, WAS THE BRONX. IT WAS AN ADVENTURE JUST GETTING OUT THERE< BUT IT HAD THE BIGGEST YARDS< LIKE THE D YARD< AND 241ST. #9) MOST UNDERATED WRITER WAS PRAY. SUPPOSEDLY SOME OLD LADY WHO WAS UP MORE THAN ANYONE. TOO BAD SHE DIDN'T HAVE PAINT. I GIVE MORE PROPS TO HER THAN KEITH HERRING WITH THOSE STUPID FLOATING BUBBLE BABIES, I HATED THAT SHIT, IT WAS LIKE RU PAUL TRYING TO WRITE GRAFF!!! #10) GRAFFITI IS THE SAME AS BEFORE EXCEPT WITHOUT TRAINS. SOME PEOPLE SUCK, SOME ARE GREAT, SOME ARE FOR MONEY, SOME FOR FAME. SOME PEOPLE WHO SUCKED BACK IN THE DAY ARE GOOD NOW. BUT NONE THE LESS ANYONE WHO TRIES TO GET UP DESERVES PROPS!! #11) ALL TIME KING, AS FAR AS LONGEVITY GOES WOULD BE A PERSON I DOGGED ALOT IN THE DAYS< COPE2. OF COURSE THERE IS JA WHO IS UP ALL OVER NOW. BUT HEY THIS IS ONLY MY OPINION< THERE ARE LOTS OF TRUE KINGS OUT THERE. #12) GOOD STORIES: THIS COMES FROM EXPERIENCE AND LISTEN UP!! ANYONE WHO IS GOING TO WRITE WITH A PERSON WHO HAS A BAD STOMACH BETTER BRING A GAS MASK. IT WAS CRO, SAINT, MYSELF, GATO, AND A FEW OTHERS DOGGING THE ASTORIA LAYUPS. WE WERE DOING INSIDES WHEN ALL OF A SUDDEN WE ALL STARTED WRITING FASTER THAN ONE ANOTHER TO MOVE TO THE NEXT CAR. IT'S THE FASTEST I EVER DOGGED INSIDES AND ITS ALL THANKS TO WHOEVER SHIT THEIR PANTS THAT NIGHT, YO THAT FUCKING SMELL WOULDN'T LEAVE, IT WAS LIKE A DEAD CORPSE. IT GOT SO BAD I JUMPED OUT AND STARTED DOING OUTSIDES. STILL DON'T KNOW WHO THAT STINKASS FUCK WAS BUT AT LEAST MY SHIT WAS RUNNING THE NEXT DAY. #12B) IN 1982 I WAS PLANNING ON GOING TO WORK MY WAY INTO THE 7 YARD(BOLT CUTTERS NEEDED) THROUGH THE BACK WHERE THE LONG ISLAND RAILROAD TRACKS LED YOU TO THIS JUNGLE OF WEEDS AROUND 8 FEET TALL, AND A WHOLE LOT OF TOXIC WATER YOU DIDN'T WANT TO FALL IN!! RUMORS WERE GOING AROUND THAT FERRARI AND CURLY WERE WAITING IN THOSE WEEDS WAITING TO GRAB PEOPLE. I MAINLY BOMBED BY MYSELF, SO I BROUGHT ALONG SOME STEAK FOR THE DOGS AND MACE ALSO. THERE WERE TWO DOGS, ONE DOG WAS MAD COOL< TOOK THE STEAK AND STEPPED. THE OTHER WAS A BITCH, STARTED SNARLING AND IT EARNED A MACING OF A LIFETIME, LIKE SPRAYING MOSQUITOS FOR WEST NILE. I MADE IT IN AND STAYED FOR 45 MINUTES JUST LONG ENOUGH TO FINISH A NEO PIECE THAT RAN ON THE WHITE 7 LINE. THAT RUMOR STARTED GETTING AT ME. I STARTED TO FEEL THOSE COPS EYES PIERCING MY BACK, SO I STEPPED OUT THROUGH THE FRONT, AND KEPT TO THE 7LAYUPS AFTER THAT NIGHT. #13) SHOUT OUTS TO RIS, MPC, BYI, TMR CREWS. BUT ESPECIALLY GHOST, SUR167, REC127,CAP, GATO, CRO, SAINT, LOST, VEN, LOOK, SLOAN, STANE, INGY, CHINO, AND THE REST.
sixcentz:
THANKS ALOT .......