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Sounds like good viewing. Well From What I Understand Is That When he was Offered The Role of Det.Scotty Appleton in The 1991 Film "New Jack City" That He Turned It Down at 1st Untill a Close Buddy of His Talked Him Into Accepting That Film Role and He Reluctantly Agreed to do It!!.Now Look at His Celebrity Status as Far as Him Playing A Detective in a Very Popular TV Series!!.

I Was Almost Late for Work This Morning Cause of This Damn Ass Time Changing Crap Again,I Don't Know Why They just Can't Leave Well Enough Alone,You Know?!

To Me!!,I've been in This Graff Game for Over 20+ Years and I Feel That Graff is More Like Stress Reliever to Me in A Sense Because for A Person Like Myself,It Seems like Whenever I Go and Paint Whether It's Solo or W. The Homies,I Seem to feel so Damn Good After I've Completed a Piece for The Day,Yesterday,I Painted at A LEGAL Spot W. 2 of My Homies Called THEME CITY and It's A Real Cool Spot Outside of New York!!. Yes,Graff Does Educate But To Me is Not A Brainwash,Like I Tell Alot of People too That When I Was a Youngster,There are a Whole Lotta Worse Things That I Could've Been getting Myself Into Besides Going Out Tagging or Painting!!.

Don't feel too Bad Fellas About This VH-1 Special!! That Graffiti Segment Where They Interviewed LEE,FUTURA 2000 & NIC 1(of The Video Graf & Graf Core Series) Only Lasted for 2 Minutes.It Should've lasted for 5 and More Heads Should've Been Getting Interviewed as Well!!

I Feel ya SIME!!,The Only Time That I Do Freebies for Anyone is If It's for A Family Member or A Very Close Homeboy or Homegirl!!

Back in My HS Days,I Used to do alot of My Class Assignments and Homework In Graff Style Handwriting Till 1 of My Teachers Got Annoyed and Told Me to Chill Out and WRITE NORMAL!!,LOL!!.

My Perception of Old School Graffiti Art is Anyone Who Was Out There Doing it Before 1990 and Beyond That!!. I Started Out Actively Writing Graff back in 1982 Here in New York Through My Mentor who I Met Back in High School and YES!!,Back in The Day,The Styles were a Whole Lot Simpler to do and to Read and Was Not Very Complexed Like What Some of These NEW JACKS Are Doing Today In The Millenium!!.Back in The Day,It was also all About The Respect for 1 Another But There Wasn't That Much Love Back Then Between Other Writers The Way That It is Today,Back Then You Couldn't just Walk up to Other Graff Writers to ask Them If They Write,From The Stories That I Know to Be True,There was Always That Possibility That You Can Catch a Beat Down for It Too!!. I Remember Incident Some Years Ago and Hearing About It That There Was a Graff Crew from The Bronx That Went to Another Writers Home and Showed Disrespect and Terrorized Him for About an Hour in His Own Home By Pouncing on Him Repeatedly and Then Taking All of His Graff Materials Such as His Black Books,His Markers and Spray,You Would Be Surprised as to How Quickly The Word About This Spreaded Around In The Graff World too. Today In The Graff Scene,RESPECT Is Totally Lost I Mean Really,You've Got Some of These Younger Generations of Writers Going out Here and Dissing Some of The Elder Statesmen Writers,Some who Have Paid Their Just Dues and have Paved The Way for Some of You Younger Writers to Look Up and Learn from as Well!!,Graff Food for Thought!!.I Can't Start to Even Mention as to How Many Times That I Have Driven Through Different Areas of The Bronx and Have Seen Veteran Street Bombers Like COPE 2 or TABE or JA,People like That Getting Their Tags or Floaters Dissed by Young Playa Hater Writers Out There Just for Attention Which I Feel is Very F&%$ed Up too!!. Just Like CASE @ Had Mentioned in COPE 2's Video "You Gotta Respect Da Old School!!" Which is Not Just a Statement,But a True Know Fact!!

Sorry,Any Illegals!!,LOL!!

Usually When I'm Doing Legals W. Other People,But Never If I'm Doing a Legal Wall or A Freight!!

For Someone Like Myself,This is How I Feel About This Subject!!, I'm 41 and Yes!!,I'm Still an Active Graff Writer at My Age too,But Then Again,I'm a Married Man W. a Soon to Be 3 Year Old Son & The Way I Feel About Doing Graff for $$$$ Is This: If you Have The Skills and It Can Pay The Bills or Do Other Things for you I Say,Yes!!.I Give Props to Anyone who Can Make Dough off of Their Talents!!.In My Spare Time When I'm Not at My Day Job,I Spend Time Doing Peoples Names on Illustration Cardboards and Have Been Doing Them 4 Ever Since My Days In High School and It Has Really Payed off For Me too as Far as Getting My Bills Paid or Doing Other Things!!.But to Eachs Own,YES,There's Money to Be Made In Doing Graff It's Just The Thing that you Have Know How to Get Your Name Out There to People and Advertise Yourself as an Artist!!. Look at People Like SEEN UA,He Owns 2 Tattoo Parlors Here In The New York City Area and Has Become Very Successful W. His Work and Is Now Making Peoples Bodies His Artistic Canvas as Well as CES,YES 2 & MED Of TUFF CITY Tattoos In The Bronx!!,Lets Also Not Forget BIO,BG 183 & NICER Of The TATS Cru "The Mural Kings"!!.

I've Been Into The NY Graff Scene as a Writer & Artist Since 1982 Having Starting to Take Interest in it in 1980 Through My Mentor Named Leroy 444 Back in The Day at Mt.Vernon High(In New York)!!. During My 20+ Yrs. In The Movement,I've Seen Alot of Graff Writers Come and go W. Even Soem of The Cats That I Ran W. Back in My High School Days!!. My Only Regret to Being In The Scene Was That I Never Had The Chance to Paint a Few More Subway Trains like I Wanted to(Having Only Painted 3 Trains Back in '84 W. Retired COD Founder MICHELOB and WANE 1),But That's OK!!,It's also too Bad That Alot of These New Jack Writers That are From New York That are Comming Into The Scene Today Never Had The Chance to Experience The Feeling of What It was like to Paint on a Live Train and Seeing Your Fame Run In The Areas of The City(New York) Such as Queens,Brooklyn & The Bronx!!. Graff has Been a Very Good Experience for Me to The Fact That I Was Able to Meet Other Writers as Well as Other Non-Graffiti People!!.Today(at Age 41) I Only Paint Legally Every Now and Then When The Time Allows Me to Being That I'm a Parent With a 2 YO Son Who Turns 3 In November,Responsibility Must Come 1st In My Life and GRAFFITI Is 2nd After That of Course!!.I Do Make a Little Side Money By Doing People Names on Illustration Mat Boards For $25 and Up as a 2nd Income for Myself Which Helps a Helluva Lot too,So It's Not Really like I've Given Up The Art Altogether Anyway!!.I've had My Share of BEEF W. Certain People too But That's OK!!. My Advice to The New Jacks,Do your Graff Homework(The HISTORY) Of The Scene and Try to Be The Best That you Can at It as Much as Possible!!

Freights Definetely,I Did Alot of Them Here in NY W. My Partner Named SNATCH,We Was Catchin' Alot of Them at This 1 Spot Where We Was Hittin' Them Up at!!

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