Mad Interview

Anomie1: What do you write and what crews do you represent?

Mad, crews are ESC, KD, PFE, NSF, TNB, RSH. I also write Direc and Qesk.

Anomie1: How long have you been into graffiti and what made you start?

I been into graffiti since I was little visiting family in Philly and New York, didn’t start writing seriously till 1997

Anomie1: Who brought you up, and who are some of your influences?

I started off bombing, Kid ESC, helped me a lot when I met him in 97, then he was always getting locked up and sent away to boot camp and shit, so I met Sew FX, SM, TNB, and SEW really sat down and taught me how to piece, other writers such as Niyer, and Themo helped me out too. A lot of my influences are Swet, Dare, Sew, Cope2, Themo, Tkid. Themo, Tkid, and I have a lot of influences but its hard to name all the names.

Anomie1: Do you spend most of your time in New York or Phily?

I live in Philly, so I spend most of my time in Philly, I love New York, I have family in the Bronx and I try to visit often, I also spend some time down in Virginia, my hometown.

Anomie1: What is your favorite part of graff? Bombing, painting freights, cleans trains, productions?

My favorite part of graffiti, is definitely bombing, I’m not one of the top bombers or anything in Philly, but if there wasn’t complications like probation and open cases, and getting shot at in like 3 times in a 4 month period, and all these neighborhood townwatch wannabe heroes, that’s where I would definitely like to spend all my time, even though I love to do pieces but because of certain complications I focus a lot of time on freights and illegal pieces, definitely love to do cleans and permissions are fun sometimes but I don’t do them that often.

Anomie1: Oh, yeah i definatley know about heroes, speaking of which, do you have any fucked up bombing stories?

Fucked up bombin’ stories, everyone has them in Philly. Getting shot at, has to be the worst. I was writing on this truck down north one time wit kid and outta no where like 10-15 heads start chasing us, then I hear 2 shots. That shit was crazy they were chasing us for a minute, and it was winter so there were patches of ice on the pavement and shit, so I was like, “damn if I slip I’m dead” (laughs). Bombing in VA, crazy stories would have to be running through jungles and woods for hours and hours falling into holes and shit at night time, can’t see shit, getting’ cut the fuck up by crazy bushes and shit. I got stories for days. Another crazy story was falling through a roof in Philly on a rooftop wit kid, I fell to the floor below me, shit was so gutted, kid always has me swinging through trees to get on roofs, or climbin’ up roofs wit bricks fallin’ down on you when you grab em’, crazy stories.

Anomie1: Wow, were the dudes chasing you vigilantes or just some people trying to rob you?

Nah the dudes that chased us that shot at us, try to sneak up on us and said some shit about writing on there house and truck, they even got into a station wagon and started chasing us in that. it was nuts. I’m sure everyone that has bombed the bad lands in Philly has been shot at, at least once.

Anomie1: On a different note, I have seen that you put in a lot of work on freights, do you have a preference in the type of car you paint?

Nah I started off on freights with a bombing attitude, then with Lyes DOS, WH, TKO, and Phone WH, TKO, ESC, down in VA, kinda schooled me on freights, where they go, etc, what’s good to hit, what’s good to and not to do at spots, lay-ups etc, but I’ll rock any type of car, tanker, hopper, whatever. They all move and travel.

Anomie1: Well thanks for your time and this interview, you got any shout outs?

KID, CRE8, DEEM, SEC, GUES, COPE2, SEW, TKID,LYES, EBAY, PHONE, GS, BRIZO, CHISME, AEST, AREK, DEVER, NISE, TRE, CHOZE, AMIGA, ZORI4, DEC, NECS and everyone else in ESC SQUAD, KD, PFE, NSF'S, TNB, RSH all my crews, and everyone doing there thing......o yeah and FREE SES ESC and INE ESC.