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Interview:
Rival WCA COD (edited)
Interview by: WiskOne
Q- What do you write?
Rival
Q- What crew(s) do you run
with?
COD, West Coast Artists
Q- What year did you start?
Probably 83'
Q- Who was writing?
Alski, Czar, mostly gang shit...
Q- Who were you influenced
by back then and how did you get involved with graffiti?
D-Rock moved out here from Brooklyn and I ended up going to Jr. High school
with him, with him and Rak. It was when we were still doing gangster graffiti,
and D-Rock his shit was fuckin' bad, it was like damn what was up with
that shit and I think it was RobOne (rip) that was taking pictures of
shit they were doing out there. I was like man that's bad, I had to get
down with that.
Q-Who do you think the West
Coast was influenced by?
Mostly about any fuckin' writer that came out here from the east coast,
Dante, Brisk, Key...just certain pictures being sent over. See we used
to go to New York all the time, had friends and photographs would be sent
back and forth. And plus L.A. writers would go out there and take pictures
of the trains and just bite their fuckin' asses off.
Q- What were some of your
favorite places to paint in LA back then?
Pico and Sepulveda, Motor Yard, I liked Belmont. Our shit went up and
got gone over the next fuckin day if not that night.
Q- Did West Coast (WCA)
ever have to battle any crews?
I don't think there was ever an official battle really. There might have
been a battle between one member against another member. It kinda happened
with K2S, I don't know, I respect their shit, totally different influence.
Two different fuckin styles, we were west side and they were east side.
I think those dudes were more down than West Coast as far as graffiti
with the exception of Wisk and Miner.
Q- Who started West
Coast Artists?
Me,
Pedro, PJay, Miner; I guess the crew was ISM, international spray masters.
Q- Did you bomb buses?
Yeah, mainly outsides; remember Wisk when you cut your fingers in the
fan on the 217? Ha Ha Ha...I was mainly into piecing.
Q-What got you into piecing?
Mainly the art aspect; I liked watching people come up with new shit and
the newest wild styles, whether it be letters, fill-in's or 3d's. I admired
the shit out of Soon's pieces. I used to like Green's shit a lot and Dream,
Sky and Relm. I never like Miner's shit or Ryze's. Ha Ha...just kidding.
Q- Did you have any rival's
back then?
Yeah anyone who wasn't West Coast, but that one punk Ser, I got in it
with him. If it wasn't for Soon I would've stabbed him.
Q-Who
was around then?
UCA, KSN, STN, K2S, KGB, I'm an old man with grey hair I can't remember
shit. My favorite shit is simples, silvers...
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of interview
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