Style Wars

on-the-letter arrow-- 514 00:24:25,799 --> 00:24:28,760 that was like connection. 515 00:24:28,844 --> 00:24:31,680 Some people had different arrows just going 516 00:24:31,763 --> 00:24:33,098 right through their pieces. 517 00:24:33,181 --> 00:24:35,392 ♪ The funk is here so you can go groove ♪ 518 00:24:35,475 --> 00:24:37,394 ♪ We want to make your body move ♪ 519 00:24:37,477 --> 00:24:40,564 ♪ Pump-pump-pump-pump me up! ♪ 520 00:24:40,647 --> 00:24:44,401 - Colors, designs, style, technical advanced... 521 00:24:44,484 --> 00:24:45,402 - Get loose. 522 00:24:45,485 --> 00:24:46,403 - Get loose. 523 00:24:46,486 --> 00:24:47,445 Cartoons, everything. 524 00:24:47,529 --> 00:24:49,114 And when they see you got a vicious style, 525 00:24:49,197 --> 00:24:50,907 they be wanting to get loose about it, 526 00:24:50,991 --> 00:24:52,909 and that's what keep it going. 527 00:24:52,993 --> 00:24:54,578 - That's what sparks graffiti. 528 00:24:54,661 --> 00:24:56,079 - Keep sparkin' it. 529 00:24:56,163 --> 00:24:58,915 - You know, I know a lot of good writers, 530 00:24:58,999 --> 00:25:01,418 and all the writers that I knew, they used to get up, 531 00:25:01,501 --> 00:25:02,669 so they used to tell me, 532 00:25:02,752 --> 00:25:04,754 "Trap, why don't you get UP?" 533 00:25:04,838 --> 00:25:05,672 And I started getting up with them, 534 00:25:05,755 --> 00:25:07,841 we started doing pieces. 535 00:25:07,924 --> 00:25:09,551 Then I met Dez-- 536 00:25:09,634 --> 00:25:12,179 - One day, I came to the bench and I seen him sitting there, 537 00:25:12,262 --> 00:25:13,889 looking at the pieces. 538 00:25:13,972 --> 00:25:16,141 You could tell a writer, you know? 539 00:25:16,224 --> 00:25:17,976 You go to the Bench and you see him 540 00:25:18,059 --> 00:25:20,770 as the trains go by, he be going like this, 541 00:25:20,854 --> 00:25:23,190 you know, he have ink stains on his clothes. 542 00:25:23,273 --> 00:25:26,151 - He gave me outlines and stuff to practice-- 543 00:25:26,234 --> 00:25:29,154 I can't let him go for at least five minutes, 544 00:25:29,237 --> 00:25:31,114 or he'll destroy the piece. 545 00:25:31,198 --> 00:25:35,035 You know? I turn around, "Trap, what you doing? 546 00:25:35,118 --> 00:25:36,453 I want to do my own piece." 547 00:25:36,536 --> 00:25:41,499 I said, "Yeah, but, you know, follow the outline." 548 00:25:42,083 --> 00:25:46,922 - Russ, Russ! 549 00:25:47,005 --> 00:25:48,465 What's up, man? 550 00:25:48,548 --> 00:25:49,507 You know it. 551 00:25:49,591 --> 00:25:51,176 Chillin', man! 552 00:25:51,259 --> 00:25:52,177 Slick Rick! 553 00:25:52,260 --> 00:25:53,845 Slick Rick! 554 00:25:53,929 --> 00:25:57,098 And the Acey Base! 555 00:25:57,182 --> 00:25:59,935 For about two and a half years I was upstate 556 00:26:00,018 --> 00:26:03,563 from like the beginning of 1970 to '72. 557 00:26:03,647 --> 00:26:04,731 What's up? 558 00:26:04,814 --> 00:26:07,734 Hey, what's up? 559 00:26:07,817 --> 00:26:10,153 When I came home, I ain't know nothing about no writing, 560 00:26:10,237 --> 00:26:12,656 no graffiti, 'cause I wasn't about it. 561 00:26:12,739 --> 00:26:16,159 All right, you know it. 562 00:26:16,243 --> 00:26:19,496 What's up, man? 563 00:26:19,579 --> 00:26:22,749 So, when I got home, I seen writing on the train. 564 00:26:22,832 --> 00:26:25,043 I said, "What's this stuff here? 565 00:26:25,126 --> 00:26:27,254 Those niggas doing their names big." 566 00:26:27,337 --> 00:26:28,838 Said, "Let me do one at least." 567 00:26:28,922 --> 00:26:32,175 'Cause I was down with art already. 568 00:26:32,259 --> 00:26:35,095 And I did me a piece for people in general 569 00:26:35,178 --> 00:26:39,099 to get to know who I am. 570 00:26:39,182 --> 00:26:42,060 I said, "Oh, that looks all right. 571 00:26:42,143 --> 00:26:44,229 I'ma go every Sunday now." 572 00:26:44,312 --> 00:26:49,109 Next thing I know, I started getting better and better. 573 00:26:49,192 --> 00:26:52,779 And as I realized, I knew to get better, I said, "Oh, man, 574 00:26:52,862 --> 00:26:54,948 I'm going to bring out the computer rock." 575 00:26:55,031 --> 00:26:56,866 And then that's when I really got loose, 576 00:26:56,950 --> 00:27:01,871 'cause then niggas was saying, "Yo, who's that guy?" 577 00:27:01,955 --> 00:27:04,165 Then one day, these news reporters people 578 00:27:04,249 --> 00:27:05,875 was on train station-- 579 00:27:05,959 --> 00:27:07,210 we was going by and we seen them. 580 00:27:07,294 --> 00:27:09,838 We seen them filming our whole car. 581 00:27:09,921 --> 00:27:11,548 We went up to them, and I remember, I said, 582 00:27:11,631 --> 00:27:13,717 Who you think probably done that right there?" 583 00:27:13,800 --> 00:27:15,844 Just to be curiou