PASO CHECKIN IN FROM PUERTO RICO

So I called up the lil homies I got out here to go do some spots, they wanna do a warehouse thats for sale off one of the highways, called the 3. So we meet up smoke 2 blunts, bullshit for a min wait for the new Jacka Bootleg i copped of the net, highly recommended by the way.. and we start mobbin... get to the spot, tryin to figure out where to park, cuase its next to a bank. And the police patrol all the banks on they're routes or some such shit out here, cuase of all the robberies, we decide fuck it I think it will be cool like right in front of the spot, but maybe back off the street alittle, so i pulled in circle the bank scopin for security guards, none to be seen, whip it out, flip a bitch, jump out gather the paint, we decided on doin big crew shots, TKO * DWA, i had previous sketched the letters, and we all agreed that shit looked chunky so I jump in the spot coverin my face becuase the bank next door has cameras all over the lot. We get too it, i start sketching out the letters, the homies start fillin in.. I just got done with the "TKO" and my spidey sense started tingling, I turned around and of course, the boys are there shining the spot light at the whip, a rental i had. So we duck and cover, hit the deck post up, theres alot of bushes and vines and bullshit all over growing the end of the lot in front of the warehouse were painting, the warehouse surrounded by thick ass woods in the back. and wrought iron 9 foot fence in the front and block walls separating the warehouse from the building next door.. the boys park the cruiser, get out and start walkin around the car, and into the banks lot, the bank and the warehouse arent separated by a fence just a open lot about 30 yards from pavement to wall. with a couple of trees and shit, from my hiding spot behind a lattice of vines i can see these fuckin pricks walkin around conversatin and what not.. Im thinkin we are cool cause A, they didnt see us just the car. B, we are deep in the cuts of this lot. C. they think somethings happening at the bank.
So we post.. then a cop car blazer pulls up, and still the dont trip off the huge letters going up not 50 yrds away.. still lookin all around the bank. But this is a different country, corruption runs rampant, the boys in the cruiser walk back to their car, converse with the fools in the blazer, look in the car some more, and disapear from my view for a few minutes, then I hear a loud pop followed by air escaping, my first instinct is these rotten fucks are popping my tires, then 2 more pops and air wooshing, Im thinkin NO FUCKIN WAY IS THIS HAPPENING!!!! we are fucking screwed!! these pricks are gonna post up at the car and wait for its owner to come back... Im sweatin bullets now, I can see the homies to my left and right just a few feet from my position. Im like yo, what the fuck do we do i whisper, they are like just chill they gonna leave.. finally after a few more rounds around the bank they finally dip down the frontage road. We stay posted up till we can see them gettin on the Highway. We creep out. start to paint again, cuase im like yo, were gonna be here awhile anyways why not handle it. So we start painting.. a few minutes go by,.... BAM boys again this time we stash the paint dip over the wall to the adjacent lot, and too the back of it chillin behind some dumpsters, theres a old leaning against the building and Im like hey climb that shit and get an idea of whats up. By the time homie gets up there. boys left again.. I tell em yo stay there and keep an eye out.. by this time the fills almost all done, and starting to outline.. the highways on thursday in the little town were in are known for street racing, so shits going off behind us while were painting.. im talkin hundreds of street mod cars doin burn outs, fuckin lawnmower mufflers and shit gettin stupid fast.. shit was wild to watch, we finish.. but not before the boys come back 2 more times we hide more.. prolly been here for 3 hours now.. we pop out, run to the car.. sho nuff these crooked fucks popped my tires.. 3 of em/ and tried to stuff a brick under the one they didnt slash. Im like WHOA.. then light bulbs on my head say, dude call the rental company roadside assistance.. call em. full coverage pays son! now they on the way with a new car and tow truck for the flat one. its gonna take like 2 hours at least.. im like alright stash all the paint, and we'll post at the car. Im like we need a story kids, cuase these fools are gonna trip when they see us standin around the car. So came up with a duzy baby, we ran out of gas, went the gas station for a can and some gas, came back 3 tires slashed.. walked back the station to return the can, and call the tow truck. shure enough soon as were done hiding all the paint in our bags, the boys come back theyre acting like what, I dont speak spanish for shit so im like yo homie kick knowledge to these fuckin pigs, and we tell em the story, my boys like yo just speak english real fast and act hella mad... which wasnt hard cuase i was pissed. the come trip out on us for awhile ask to search the car, keep us there bombarding dude with questions we tryin to corroborate our shit, they kinda trip that they didnt see us at the gas station or on the street, but we havent done anything wrong yet. i realize these are the same two cars of crooked ass cops that were there out walking around earlier, i can tell by their silouettes, they are kinda laughing and tryin to get us to snitch on our selves for like an hour, but finally they took off. the tow truck shows up right as another jake comes and yanks us out of the car at AK47 point. tryin to get us on the ground, askin whats going on, luckily one homie chimed in and explained, our ridiculous lie, the tow truck comes, the second cruiser dips. the tow truck takes one look and says, did the cops do this? HAHAHA we all started luaghing, as hes taking the new car down. we didnt say anything.. I signed the papers, dude snatched up the busted whip.. we hit the freeway, and dipped...

GOOD GRIEF

this kid kills period ....




1.state ya name gangsta...

Grief

2.what crews repped

DVR, MFG, FR.

3.1st graffiti experience

Damn i wish i could remember my first graff experience. haha well i remember my early stages when i was in high school and used to sneak out of my parents house past curfew to do some of my first fill ins around the city.I would ditch school and take the bus to rack supplies, rack paint because i wasnt old enough to buy it and catch scribe tags on the bus. FYI i always carry a scriber. It is my favorite tool of choice.I ditched more school than i attended. At night i would sneak out and i remember pretending i was in france during world war 2 and i would tell myself that cops and taxi cabs are like german snipers and i have to avoid them and not get seen by them and i would walk to spots to paint doing tags and every time a car drove by i would jump and hide like some sort of soldier ninja, haha those where the days, man i did a lot of graff in those years, most of it sucked.Painting in the snow was always my favorite. haha


4.what compelled you to do so

Well i grew up in Los Angeles during the construction of the subway and i remember seeing graff everywhere especially around the subway and bus stations and i DID NOT like it, i was like what is this garbage??? but i came to reno a few years later and i experienced culture shock and that is when graff came to me and i started doing it, i had always been attracted to art and skateboarding, graff was just there. I was anti social in school and i always felt like i needed to do something different to separate myself from the usual kids at school. One day i had a bad injury skateboarding that required me to stay off my feet so i started doing letters and doing pieces on paper then i ventured into the train yard. I would ditch class to paint trains during the day, my high school mascot was the railroaders haha how ironic is that?



5.current state of graffiti ?your opinion???

i think it is getting harder to do it illegal and it is a shame because that is the purest form of graffiti when it is raw, loud,ruthless,no permission, ugly, crunchy, ghetto,grimey, drippy and has that in your face attitude that says "hey! i was here, fuck you!" and i think it is important for graffiti to always have that in its essence. It seems like graff is branching out to different types of art medias and that is good to see but i really would hate to see it become corporate. Graffiti has always been the weapon of choice for the few people in our society to use to fight back at the people and corporations who truly deface our vision and minds with advertising and brainwashing bullshit and make us feel like we are just statistics and numbers in society. Now that most corporations figured out that they can use this art form to their advantage they want to exploit it so that is why it is important to keep it real,original, and in the streets.



6.your favorite city to paint

I would have to say San francisco is my favorite city to paint due to its compact streets and city structure and convenient transit.There is no place like it. The city I'm primarily based from is a 24 hour nightlife devils playground. In the city of Reno Nevada it is hard to paint city spots which left me the option of painting freight trains instead, but the city is underated and i have painted city spots and so have others that were never flicked or posted on the internet but Reno has had its grace of presence with a few good writers that have painted some good graffiti. In 2005 i went on a mission to paint several pieces,tags and bombs on a "hot" street called 4th and it is swarming with cops and bad news 24/7 but i did it for my own personal satisfaction and the fact of overcoming a challenge and in the end i think i did a good job and crushed most of the down town reno area and 4th street but most of the work i did back then i never flicked so it is lost graffiti and i had some good pieces running that i regret not flicking and now they are all buffed but I'm sure the police department has pictures of the damage i saw some of them and i ended up going to jail and got in a huge mess in court but that is another long story. After the 2005 hot spot binge i wanted to continue focusing on painting trains for the next following years or traveling to other cities.

7.what would u like to accomplish before you are done

well i never want to get to the point where i would have to admit being close to done ,i just want to keep doing what i do and progressing with my style and doing it repetitively and travel to other cities and get my name around and meet other writers and paint.

8.what is graffiti to you??

Graffiti to me is being able to do what ever i want. Life is what you make it.


9.who were your influences coming up???

I had a lot of influences. close friends and local cats in reno were some of the best to me.adjust, Chino,Mores, WBL Crew, TME crew, ITS crew,Ha crew, Ayer Lts, Mber, HM CREW, Sace Irak, Sag Ta, Setup, Rime, Grey, Kaper, Kaput, Sien 5, hobo monikers, WCB crew, Kahn, A2m Crew, Ikso, Emit,East att, chisme, Heat, Klean Lts, Pysa Lts, kuk, Abhor, Steel msk, Twist,Amaze, Trav, Skuf, Earsnot, Tie, Espo, Revs,west coast graffiti, Seen, etc....




10. if you had any advice for a new jack coming up what would it be

Yeah just keep doing it and doing it, and somewhere along the road sell your soul to the devil.


11.weve heard you recently had a pretty big art show what do u think about more and more bombers chasin that art money?

well i think its cool,even graffiti writers have to eat. But i think most writers should definitely put in work and get some clout before they consider doing a art show. As for myself i was tired of doing obscure graffiti in this city and i wanted to come out to reveal my work and i really felt like i had something to show people and I'm not sure i'll get pay for it but i really spent a lot of time preparing the pieces. People are rarely exposed to graffiti in this city so i wanted the chance to bring something new to the table. I usually try to keep art and graffiti in separate categories but i wanted to bring the two together and i got a result and it is what it is. Most of the works were collages of pictures I've saved in last few years that i thought had some importance to me so its very abstract and random but i think people were interested in what they were looking at and the expression of their faces was priceless. But a important element to me has always been being elusive and secretive with my work so i really was hesitating on doing this and felt like i was selling out but i guess it felt like it was time to move on and try a different approach. Im getting older and i really cant run from cops anymore due to skateboarding injuries so... word.



12.paint rack or buy???

all of the above, you never can have too much paint. any and by all means necessary.


13.trains walls or streets

first streets, then walls, finally trains. i think there must be a guideline for writers to follow those procedures in order and accordingly. i hate seeing garbage on trains. Practice on the streets first then hit up the walls to get some style then you can come to the yards when you can come correct.



14.what does dvr stand for

Doing Vandalism Right!!!


15 any fuck yous or big ups?????
death to those who oppose, ignorance is a weapon of its own destruction. Mad Love to my family friends and crew,you know who you are.

look above

Mama mia! A saucy Papa John’s deliveryman sliced up a Brooklyn Heights elevator like it was a piping hot pie, but little did he know that a security camera recorded every last scratch.

And now the owner of the Livingston Street building is biting back, suing the franchise for $3,200 — the cost, he says, of removing the “Dizzy CFM” tag that the ditzy doughboy scratched into the car’s wood paneling.

“We were shocked,” said Michael Cantor, the landlord of 59 Livingston St., the defaced rental building

between Court and Clinton streets.

“I spoke to the [franchise] owner and he said, ‘It couldn’t have been one of my drivers,’ ” recounted Cantor. “I asked him to watch the video and he refused. [Read More]

its a family affair

(Merced, CA) — Keeping things in the family is one thing but a California father and son have been arrested for allegedly spray painting graffiti on a building.

Authorities in Merced say they were tipped off by a concerned citizen who saw a 32-year-old teaching his 13-year-old son how to paint graffiti. Officers arrived on the scene but Felipe Ramos and his son took off. The two were arrested a short time later at their home not far away. Ramos is already on felony probation and is now facing felony graffiti and contributing to the delinquency of a minor charges. His son is also looking at graffiti charges.

TIL MUERTE

A FEW WORDS WITH ONE OF CALIS HEAVIEST HITTERS MUERTE

1.state ya name gangsta?

MUERTE

2.crews and clicks?

BTM ,TKO, WGF, HH ,STDR ,FYL ,BT LA CRUZ NEGRA GANG

3.youve been goin hard in the streets for the past few years what keeps you on smash mode?

CRIME,DRUGS ,PUSSY,HOMICIDE,MY LIFESTYLE,VANDALISM,VANDALISM AND MORE VANDALISM IN THE WORDS OF THE BIG HOMIE KERSE LIVE LIKE I WANNA LIVE

4. do you rack or buy your paint?

BOOSTIN THE MOST

5.you pop up in dam near every city i visit what city is your favorite to paint?

D.F MEXICO AND DELHI,CA FOR THE DRUGS AND HOOKERS

6.where would u like to paint next

ALL OVER EVERYBODYS HOUSES,CHURCHES,SCHOOLS,POLICE STATIONS ,FUCK EVERYBODYS LIVES

7.whos your partners in crime?

SHLEP,BSTOE,PERS BECAUSE THEY ARE THE CRAZIEST MOTHERFUCKERS IN THIS PLANET

8.rivals?

NEVER HEARD OF THEM BECAUSE EVERYTIME I SEE THEM ,THEY SKERT OUT YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE ,DONT LET ME RUN INTO YOU AT MY SPOTS

9.your throwie is very distinct but you also have done some of the bigger blocks ive seen and some great pieces whats your favorite to do

THE STYLE OF THE DAY ,BOMBS,BOMBS,BOMBS,FONTS,HOLLOWS,ROLLERS

10.whats next?

LIVE FAST DIE YOUNG,NIBIRU, WORLD SLAVERY,ZEITGEIST,ANUANAKI,NEPHILIMS ,GETTING HIGH ,TAKING A SHIT ,CATCHING SPOTS

11.shout outs?
TLOKO TKO ,LA CRUZ NEGRA, ADEK BTM TKO,3A, DO TKO ,AL , JEL TKO HAEL AL, RESQ CMA,SOKE TKO, VINSKI BTM ,MALVO BTM ,SHLEP STDR,WGF BESTO STDR ,ASOLT STDR TKO REST IN PIECE KERSE BTM, TKO,3A,AL

beantown crackdown

Even though he’s headed to prison, SPEK will still be visible in Massachusetts. The Reading-spawned graffiti icon, whose real name is Adam Brandt, has hundreds — if not thousands — of modest scribbles and ornate masterpieces spattered across the Commonwealth. In Salem, which is ground zero for the massive North Shore graf scene — and where he was recently sentenced to four months for tagging and vandalism — his tag is sprayed on dumpsters, brick walls, street signs, and every other type of flat surface imaginable. Barbed-wire fences hardly proved obstacles. As a teeming graffiti force, SPEK rarely encountered train yards and abandoned buildings that he couldn’t infiltrate.

For those reasons, he’s considered by both fellow taggers and law-enforcement officials as one of an elite bunch of exalted bombers — not all of whom are affiliated — who instigated an unusual police action this past December. A dozen town and city police departments joined forces to share information on the region’s heaviest graffiti hitters and hunt them down. While such police cooperation is de rigueur for more serious crimes, it is a brand-spanking-new strategy in the graffiti world. And whereas previously a captured artist/vandal usually faced community-service hours and fines, this new effort — spurred on by angry citizens in communities affected by the graffiti — is targeting an unprecedented number of taggers for jail time.


If SPEK was a Moby Dick of sorts for the consortium of Bay State vice squads, Boston Police Department (BPD) Detective William Kelley and MBTA Police Lieutenant Nancy O’Loughlin have been SPEK’s Ahabs, chasing the outlaw artist for a decade. But SPEK is far from the only big fish reeled in as authorities and community groups have cast a wide net from Marblehead to Dorchester. In October one of SPEK’s rivals, New York graffiti queen UTAH, was charged with 33 counts of tagging for her handiwork around Beantown. UTAH, born Danielle Bremner, is a member of the international crew Dirty 30, who from 2006 to 2007 heatedly competed for visibility with SPEK and his outfit, ITD (Illustrating Total Destruction). That same month, another veteran vandal, Tyson Andree Wells, who’s better known as CAYPE, was sentenced to one year in the South Bay House of Correction.


Exactly 12 months into this far-reaching regional law-enforcement campaign waged by the unofficially dubbed Greater Boston Area Graffiti Task Force, taggers are on the run, and at least five Krylon kings have been nabbed in the largest Bay State graffiti crackdown of this millennium.

After a nearly two-decade cat-and-mouse struggle, it appears that anti-graf cats have finally discovered how to reduce the amount of illegal street art in Eastern Massachusetts. While taggers have for years maintained the upper hand by relocating to neighboring locales when their own hoods got hot, authorities are now wising up. Highly visible taggers like SPEK and CAYPE have become trophy kills for the authorities, and their captures are being trumpeted as a warning to others. It’s a reality that both law-enforcement touts and taggers are willing to concede: for the first time since North Shore communities were overrun with graffiti in the early ’90s, the most prominent players in this local subculture now stand extraordinarily endangered

FLICK OF THE WEEK

SCHEMES AND DREAMS

ALFRED E WEEZY

you tryin ta get sick???

A FEW WORDS WITH ONE OF THE BAYS MOST ACTIVE WRITERS PASO............


1.state ya name gangsta....

I write Paso.


2.what crews u pushin?

I rep TKO FTL DVR.

3. we hear you travel quite often wheres the illest place youve been?

I do travel alot, My favorite place currently is Oakland tho, its gritty as fuck. I love bombin that place, keeps you on your toes.

4.u have been goin hard in the streets of sf lately what do u think about that city and its scene?

I got mad love for SF, but the scene out there is fuckin lame right now, nobodys really doin it that big, its buff squad is on patrol like a motherfucker. all the chill lil areas are gone, which i guess is good, lettin graffiti live only where its chill to live is for the squares.

5.what do u think about the internet and sites like 12 oz?

Its deff ruining graffiti as a movement. You have all this access to different styles, biters can just run rampant. Plus fools are getting caught up in some bullshit cases, snitches and the internet are really making it harder for everyone. At the same time, if your in one of the largest crews like myself, its a decent way to stay in touch with your peeps. its a double edge sword.

6.what paint are you using?

i stick to rusto for bombing..
if i get the chance to piece then prolly mtn. or belton. but thats a rare these days.

7.rack or buy?

mostly rack, the homies show me hella love and kick me cans alot too.


8.being one of those i do it all motherfuckers what do you prefer painting an ill wall or doin sav fill ins streetside?

sav'in out is my shit. I love bombing. anything illegal really. rollers. fire extinguishers. tags. the real shit of graffiti. your name big as fuck where squares hate it most.

9.what songs get u ready to paint?

oh man.. so many. anything really from slayer to Jdilla.



10. we hear you are part of the hyphabilly movement could you explain this a little?

HAHA! well truly you gave it the title.. but its just like being a jack of all trades, i dig the hyphy shit fo sho, but at the same time i cant deny my country ass roots.. its like mixing rockabilly and hyphy i guess. haha.


11.whats beef?

truly the worst part. I deff hate paintin the same spot more than once. but its all part of the game. you can catch me
firing up the hate machine, and chewing up the haters n/h.



12.whos your partner/s in crime?

fools i roll with mostly, IKSO dudes been puttin in hella work for like 15/16 fuckin years, truly an honor to paint with someone like that. my man CAKE that dudes just an all out savage, truly a not givin a fuck, out to destroy is his motto. My man SOKE this kids my ace, known eachother since we was little, gave me alot of style, put me on alot of game.


13.shouts???
Deff gotta give it up to my man ADEK TKO BTM 3A, dude showed me whars really up, gave me alot of confidence, basically re-taught me how to bomb. My man GUSTO 3A GSB, always showin hella love. BIG QUES PCF and FANTA IRAK! always down to kick it, gave me alot of street knowledge helpin me alot when i first got to SF.

alright PEACE.