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MIND2GAME34

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SAC: What do you write?

C45: Colt .45

 

SAC: What crews do you push and what are their underlying meanings?

C45: True Known Outlaws, Weed Heads, Loks On Dope, On The Run, Evil Mob, Drugs Money Sex and Bomb Squad.

 

SAC: How did you come up with your name and what's the meaning behind it?

C45: It kinda got given to me. I used to write a bunch of toy names when I was in elementary school. And at the time Mickeys was the best 40s that everyone drank. But I only got $5 allowance a week so if I got Colt .45 I could get 3 of them. And since Colt .45 is a beer favored by blacks and I hung out with Mexicans and whites, everyone would be like, “awww here comes Mr.Colt .45 with his mayate beer.” So at some point I decided fuck it I’ll write that, people call me that anyways. Plus I was obcessed with guns so it had that appeal too. And at first I wrote it with a K cause that was popular to do in the early 90’s in LA.

 

SAC: When did you start and how did you get into the graff game?

C45: Ever since I was a little kid my pops was interested in graff. Since the early to mid eighties. As I grew up, other people around where I lived were into it and by a certain age everyone was into it. That’s just how it was when I was growing up.

 

SAC: What are your reasons behind doing graffiti? (i.e. fame, fun, bitches, etc.)

C45: I’ve had my fill of all those things so at this point I just want to spread our culture to the next generation and every one past it. To show kids the right way to do shit by being involved directly. There are always gonna be new kids and we all gotta make sure they get schooled the right way so they don’t give us all a bad name. Also I got a reputation to defend and about a thousand friends to back up so I ain’t gonna be without work to do for awhile.

 

SAC: Who or what are your influences in terms of where your style is derived from?

C45: That’s a good one. Basically I try to do my shit how I saw shit being done when I was growing up in the late 80’s and early 90’s. Plus there’s always new fads to how shit is done now and friends now influence me a lot. There’s people who were doing shit back then that influenced me and people from back then and now who continue to influence me. To name names Cab is probably my biggest influence and also Porn, Jimer, Risky, Oiler, Pale, Fate, Gkae, Toomer, Guer, Adek, Resq; Chisme, Smash, Gsouth, Siner from Miami; Dash, Psycho from NYC

 

SAC: If you had to choose one and only one, would it be Quality or Quantity and why?

C45: Quantity. Duh. You can have all the quality in the world but if you got no quantity, ain’t no one gonna know who you are.

 

SAC: What’s your best surface to paint?

C45: I guess trains. Prolly extended height extended length flat auto part cars. Or those new white reefers if I can get a clean panel.

 

SAC: How do you feel about the documentation of graffiti on the internet and the aspects involved with it such as internet fame?

C45: Bitchmade. Sissy stuff man. It boggles the mind why stupid kids are living on the internet posting theirs and their buddies shit and waiting for feedback to stroke their egos. Get some self esteem and get over it.

 

SAC: What is your definition of “All City”?

C45: Someone who is known and has been seen up in all areas of the city. The internet kinda ruins that cause niggas can just post their shit and people see it even if they never really saw it in real life.

 

"Respect your elders. Stay out of my spots. And go over each other." - COLT45

 

SAC: Who are some of the most slept-on writers putting in work lately?

C45: Good question. I always think MQ doesn’t get enough spotlight. Siner and Gsouth, Guer, Zes, Pysa, Eye, DZ, Adek, SI, Dr. Sex, Xrae, Nekst, Koze, Apes, Oze 108 there are a lot of people who haven’t got as much play as they deserve.

 

SAC: Which brand of paint do you prefer using and why?

C45: Rusto. It lasts.

 

SAC: Rack or Buy?

C45: A little of both.

 

SAC: Any memorable or crazy missions you would like to share with us?

C45: None.

 

SAC: Best place(s) you’ve ever painted?

C45: I’ve painted in a lot of different cities but nowhere is like home.

 

SAC: What are your Top 5 Colors?

C45: Rusto Gloss Black, Rusto Gloss white for trains, flats for bombing fillins, and any bright contrasting colors for pieces. Harbor, spa, leafy, berry, grape, wildflower, sunburst yellow, apple, seaside…

 

SAC: Who are the Top 5 Bombers of all time?

C45: Me of course…ha ha ha. No but really. MQ. Cap. Oiler. Chaka. Gkae.

 

SAC: What has being a graf writer done for you so far?

C45: Friends, fun, fame, girls, traveling, connections…

 

SAC: What is your advice to the new jacks that want to get into the graf game?

C45: Respect your elders. Stay out of my spots. And go over each other.

 

SAC: Where do you see yourself in the game 15 years from now?

C45: Ever heard of the energizer bunny. I can’t wait until im old enough that my kids and my grand kids can carry my paint and fill in my letters for me.

 

SAC: Any thanks or shout-outs?

C45: We been losing a lot of people lately… Over RIP last year in LA, and this year the lil homey Alot RIP in Miami and Soler RIP in Las Vegas. And we got a lot of people locked up right now too. And on a positive note good luck to Miss Lady La Loca DJ Tribe who’s career is blowing up. I hope the best for her.

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NO COMP.ANYTHING THIS FOOL DOES IN NY GETS WIPED OUT.HE TRYES TO DISS WRITERS FOR FAME BUT ENDED UP PLAYING HIMSELF.

 

NO MATTER WHAT, YOU STILL CANT DENY THAT HE KILLS NEW YORK FREQUENTLY AND GETS DOPE SPOTS/LANDMARKS......IF YOU CANT ADMIT THAT, THEN YOUR PLAYIN YOURSELF MR.?.....ON TOP OF THAT NEW YORK IS ONLY ONE CITY......HE KILLS PRETTY MUCH ALL THE BIG CITIES IN THE US THAT HE STOPS IN....WHICH IS MOST......BUDDDDY....AND IF YOUR TALKIN ABOUT DISSIN FOR FAME....WHAT DO YOU CALL JA DISSIN SABER'S LA RIVER PEICE...YOU DONT EVEN GET FAME FOR THAT SHIT....ALL YOU GET IS A BUNCH OF LA CATS READY TO BLAST YOU CRACKHEAD ASS..... :haha: :haha:

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I THINK SHOULD SHARE THIS WITH YOU GUYS IF YOU HAVENT READ IT. I THINK THIS A MUCH BETTER INTERVIEW AND IT DEFINITELY MAKES ME WANA GO OUT AND BOMB THE FUCK OUT. PEACE

 

http://www.50mmlosangeles.com

Unit: Seriously, WHY do you write? What motivates you to write? Dig deep...

 

Colt45: Really, I motivate myself because I constantly doubt myself. Everyone thinks I’m a major egomaniac, and I am arrogant at times, always on purpose of course. But actually I continually doubt myself and I am never satisfied with what I’ve accomplished in any area of my multi-layered life. So for graffiti, I just always come down hard on myself. Every spot anyone has, I slap myself for sleeping on it. Every night I don’t go out and paint I hate myself for being a lazy fuck. Every time I go to a club instead of painting I feel like I’m falling off. Every night I stay home with my lady, when I have one that is, I feel like a pussy. All because I could have been out crushing shit but I wasn’t. I’m real hard on myself with the shit I paint too. It could have been bigger or proportioned better. I could have incorporated more colors or my can control wasn’t perfect on one letter’s highlight. I always need more sketches because I do the same ones over and over and over and over. So in every aspect of graffiti and my life, I’m always hating myself for not doing better. Which is pretty ridiculous because I’ve accomplished more in my short life than most people could ever dream of. But still, in every area of my life I always feel like I could go further no matter how far I’ve gone already.

 

My policy is if your grandma can’t read my piece then I’m doing something wrong. -Colt 45

 

 

Unit: Graffiti involves so many variables but the two prominent values seem to be artistic originality and fame... Do you consider yourself an artist or a marketer?

 

Colt45: I am definitely on the marketer side of that dichotomy if you want to create one. I don’t really feel there is a dichotomy between art and advertising, advertising is just using art for a purpose. For them it’s to sell shit, for me it’s to increase my reputation. But my graffiti is definitely designed to advertise myself in such a way that any and everybody knows who I am and can easily read and recognize my work when they see it. A lot of people want to push the limits of style and rock the most original shit. I am not one of them. I don’t need to come out with some new style or gimmick every time I paint to make people notice my work. I do the same thing so many other writers have done before me. I just do it bigger, better and more. I do the same things repeatedly like an advertising campaign so people will recognize my name when they see it and therefore increase my reputation in their eyes. My policy is if your grandma can’t read my piece then I’m doing something wrong.

 

 

Unit: Talk about your goals for graffiti art and for yourself as a person in society.

 

Colt45: The obvious goal is to increase my reputation so that I get more love, hate and respect than anyone else. But on a deeper level I think what we’re doing as writers is representing our culture. Graffiti is a very important part of our culture and it’s entirely ours. There’s no radio station deciding who’s successful and who’s not. No MTV deciding who runs primetime and who doesn’t. If you got the balls, the skill and the steel to do it and back it up, then you can do whatever you want, go as far as you want to go, and have only yourself to slow you down. I really think graffiti is important as a cultural representation of ourselves. I think every writer needs to push themselves to paint as much and as well as they possibly can so our culture is as strong as it can be and never dies out. I figure even if I die or go to jail forever, I’ve inspired thousands of other kids to go out and write graffiti. And of those thousands, maybe a few will be as good as I was when I’m gone. And as long as we can inspire enough kids to keep our culture alive, we will all live forever through them. I don’t see graffiti as a negative thing the way the police and the media often make it out to be. I see it as a positive thing in our lives that we share with the generations that follow us. I’m not on some ignorant “lets cause as much damage as possible” shit. In a society where young people lack any way of proving themselves to their peers other than sports, rapping, and gangbanging, graffiti gives young people an opportunity to do something productive with their lives while earning the respect that many people want as a part of growing up. Not everyone can be or wants to be a pro athlete or millionaire rapper or die hard gangster. But anyone can learn to paint quality graffiti and earn recognition by getting up.

 

 

Unit: It seems like our everyday lives have become completely immersed in advertising messages. Talk about your first memories of advertising... Billboards etc.. Do you think there is a correlation between advertising and American style fame graffiti?

 

Colt45: Well I smoke a lot of weed so asking me for memories is hopeless. I’m so bad I look in the mirror sometimes and see a stranger. But as far as advertising I think graffiti is a form of advertising. They advertise their product or service, we advertise ourselves. And frankly, some of us do a better job advertising ourselves than any million-dollar advertising budget could ever do. Sometimes I wonder why advertising firms don’t try to hire me to work for them. I understand propaganda a hell of a lot better than a lot of the people who make some of these stupid advertisements. Some of the shit I see on billboards or on TV makes me wonder what the fuck they’re selling anyways. It’s like looking at a piece and not knowing what it says. I’m like ok, another million dollar advertising budget down the drain. I think a lot of these advertisers are better at pitching an idea to a client than at pitching a product to the public. If these turkeys had half a brain they’d have me on salary as a consultant to make sure their shit is going to get the message across. Hey, everyone knows who I am and my budget consists of gas, food, paint and chocolate blunts. Lucky for them I already have a career so I’m not about to start my own advertising firm and put them out of business. But I would consider doing some consulting if I was approached and the money was right. I could use some extra vacation money, not to mention it just kills me when I see advertisements that missed the boat. I could probably start a new career in advertising correcting their mistakes.

 

 

 

 

 

Unit: Talk about graffiti in terms of now. What does it mean to be a graffiti artist. Why do you think kids get into it?

 

Colt45: The correct nomenclature is, graffiti writer. To be a graffiti writer in my humble opinion is to write graffiti. Our kind of graffiti. Not some art fag picture shit or whatever. If you go out and do other types of art, stencils, posters, pictures, paintings, whatever… yo, all the power to you. But you ain’t no graffiti writer. I’m a graffiti writer. Now there’s a few exceptions to any rule, a few people do a character for their shit. But if you think you’re one of the exceptions, you’re not, until further notice. You’re an artist, not a graffiti writer. Now as far as why kids get into graffiti I think has a lot to do with how modern society fails to offer many feasible options for young people to earn respect and prove themselves among their peers and in their community, especially for boys and young men. Everyone wants to be popular and get respect and attract the opposite sex’s attention, except for gays of course on the last one. So for a lot of young people, graffiti is a way to prove themselves, and make friends, and earn their peers’ respect, and attract females, and just to be somebody.

 

I think there’s only two things that can make me stop writing, love and death. -Colt 45

 

 

Unit: If graffiti is considered to be a form of art how do you feel about other more accepted art forms like sculpting oil painting multi-media etc.? Do you consider graffiti to be art?

 

Colt45: Yes, despite my spite for art graffiti is a form of art obviously. Now I can understand why people in the art-for-sale world don’t want to acknowledge it, because it’s free. That fucks up their whole trying to make money agenda. We don’t do graffiti to pay the bills, we do it because we love to do it. We do it because it is a part of our culture. We do it because we are respected by our peers for the graffiti we do. As far as other art forms I like some shit and don’t like others. It depends on the artist and the piece. But I do go to gallery openings as a part of my social agenda and I do look closely at the art on an aesthetic level and also on a practical level of materials used, technique, difficulty, etc. I can definitely appreciate anything if it’s well done. But if you come at me with some phony ass shit I’ll pull your card quick.

 

 

 

Unit: Do you ever feel that your graffiti art was/is motivated by political convictions? If so, how did you express those motivations?

 

Colt45: A few pieces in particular I have done had a political message contained in them. Everyone and their mother knows the billboard on the 101 I did. I did the theme for the first time I believe when we were about to go to war in Iraq because I was so pissed off that it was really going to happen. I have a lot of friends and family in the armed services and I sure as hell don’t want anyone I care about getting hurt or dying so these bloodsuckers can pillage that country and make off like bandits. Their money ain’t worth our blood. So I did the billboard to express a political opinion and also to reap the fame of my name being done with that anti-war theme.

 

Unit: Some people say graffiti by definition is illegal and therefore should exclude permission artists from being defined as graffiti artists... What is YOUR definition of graffiti and WHO should be considered legitimate graffiti artists.

 

Colt45: I don’t think graffiti has to be illegal. And likewise I don’t think if you do some art illegally, that it can be considered graffiti. Defining modern graffiti is difficult if not impossible to accomplish. I would suggest that graffiti is letter-based, name-driven, individual-focused, primarily aerosol, art. Now there are exceptions to all of those features in graffiti though. Some writers do characters without letters or around other peoples’ letters, but these writers also have a name and do write it or do letters for it at least once in a while. Its just their characters are their point of recognition. Some of writers also do their crews letters rather than their own name some or most of the time, but most writers do their own individual name most of the time, unlike gangs, whose graffiti tends to emphasize the name of the gang before the names of individual members. Also a lot of writers use other materials to write graffiti; bucket paint, markers, inks, scribing tools, etc., but most graffiti is done with aerosol paint. So its hard to define what it is we do, but somehow I can always see something and tell if its graffiti or not.

 

 

Unit: Talk about bombing murals...

 

Colt45: Yeah I’ve hit a lot of murals and it might seem like that would be malicious but really, its not. What happened is they stopped buffing the murals cause the mural people wanted to refurbish them, but they never had the money to paint over graffiti when new tags or whatever popped up on them. So they kinda just went to shit and we started hitting them because they already looked horrible and the murals were already destroyed so we figured fuck it, if they don’t care why should we. But I definitely think if they have restored a mural you shouldn’t hit it. If a mural is clean then writers should let it ride just out of respect for other people. I don’t want them painting over my art anymore than they want me painting over theirs. Damaging something that is undamaged hasn’t really gave me kicks since I was about 16. I’m a hell of a lot older than that now. But all respect aside, these muralists got paid five figures to paint these murals in the first place so I’m like, yo you got your money, what the fuck do you care. And the art in those murals on the freeways is really really pathetic. There’s a whole lot of graffiti writers I can think of who are infinitely better than any of the muralists who were paid five figures to paint that bullshit. And all of the writers I know of would have done it for free just to get the recognition from their peers for the art they produce. But you want to arrest us and charge us with felonies and fuck up the rest of our lives because we painted on your shitty murals that were already fucked up in the first place. Sorry, but you get no love from me.

 

I hear my boy on the radio advertising little shitty cars and I’m like, man what’s this world coming to. -Colt 45

 

 

 

Unit: What do you think about corporate interests using graffiti style art to promote their products? Is it a good thing that graffiti artists get paid by advertisers to promote a product or event?

 

Colt45: To tell you the truth I think its way weird. I feel like I’m in the twilight zone sometimes. I hear my boy on the radio advertising little shitty cars and I’m like, man what’s this world coming to. I mean a fool gotta pay the rent, I can feel that, but I can’t help but feel negative towards it. And I’m sure the people who are getting paid think its weird too. But they can’t talk shit like I can cause they’re getting paid and I’m not. I can understand that kids like graffiti style art and putting what kids like on your product makes them want to buy it. But having an art gallery/ hip-hop show/ cultural event to promote a little dingy car, I don’t know about that one. If they want to sell cars, maybe they should put the money into the engineering and concept department because those cars suck.

 

 

Unit: Lastly, when will you stop bombing? Realistically, what would it take to make you stop forever.

 

Colt45: I think there’s only two things that can make me stop writing, love and death. I think if I like got married to some dope ass fairy tale female I loved and who loved me and settled down and had kids and all that, I’d have something in my life to lose and I wouldn’t be out putting my ass on the line acting a fool. But at this point in my life I don’t really have shit that I care about to lose so fuck it. I don’t really care. The other thing that can stop me is death. But don’t get your hopes up. I’m hard to kill.

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Originally posted by buffalosubs@Apr 5 2005, 05:21 AM

colt over ket, never heard of ket or the crews he pushes. Are you sure its in miami?

 

 

YEA THATS IN MIAMI FOR SURE BUDDY..........KET,AOK,COD,RIS CREW

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