TKO Interview in Clout #8 | Click here to purchase this issue!

MANY PEOPLE MIGHT NOT KNOW THIS, BUT YOU’VE BEEN AROUND FOR A LONG TIME AND HAVE RECENTLY MADE A COME BACK. WHAT INSPIRED YOUR RETURN?
I guess ’cause it was always in me. I was always paying attention to who was doing what and it was always in my heart. Then I hooked up with TOOMER and TRIBE and TOOMER is actually the one who put me down and told me to be from TKO but I told him I wasn’t down with graffiti and that shit anymore. So just from seeing the homies COLT .45, GUER, ALOY, DUEM and CAST that shit inspired me to come back. I would always be rolling with these fools and not doing shit just being the lookout so I just said fuck it, I might as well do it too. I’m going on 18 years now.

HOW HAS THE GAME CHANGED SINCE YOU FIRST STARTED?
When I first started there was none of that wack ass tag banging shit going on; it was all about straight writing and bombing. You were able to walk anywhere without anyone sweating you. Now it’s like you can’t walk nowhere, it’s not safe anymore to go anywhere and now it’s hard to do anything. ‘Cause of all the neighborhoods and the gangs and shit you can’t walk no where like you used to. And also back then it was all about respect and now there’s all these toys that got no history and no teachings and shit and they got no respect. I won’t name names. I won’t give props to any of these fuckin’ toys – you know who you are. Yeah you still got 15 years to go before you get to my level. Bitches.

HOW LONG HAVE YOU BEEN PUSHING TKO AND WHY?
I been pushing it since what, ‘97. I got put down in ‘97, but I didn’t start bombing it hard till like ‘99. The reason why I push it is cause I think we’re one of the sickest fuckin’ crews, if not the biggest fuckin’ crew in this country. We run shit.

CURRENTLY BEING ON THE EAST COAST, ARE YOU ROCKING OUT THERE AND IS IT RUNNING WITHOUT PROBLEM?
Great. Here we go. As far as beef I ain’t trippin’. I been beefing for the last 15 years so ain’t nothing new to me. It just makes me come out and do more. When I got here I didn’t have no problems with no one but fools started ragging me so they fucked up, I’m gonna end it. That fool Jack Ass ragged me in the river in ‘92 and ‘97, so fuck it I’m out here and I’m gonna let him and his boys have it. Fuck zipper heads. Fuck pill poppers. Fuck these fuckin’ hipsters. Motherfuckers out here could barely do a throwup, but there are also fools that can get down. But anybody that wants it can come get it. Most likely you ain’t gonna step to me anyways when you see me, so you just bitches to me.

DO YOU SEE YOURSELF QUITTING ANYTIME SOON AND WHEN YOU DO WHAT WILL YOU HAVE TAKEN FROM YOUR EXPERIENCE?
I’m not planning on quitting anytime soon. I could see myself being fuckin’ 60, 70 years old and still wanting to go out and hit shit. And when I have my kids I’mma hope to school them and I hope they get into graffiti and not into gangs. You know I’mma teach ‘em right. And I’ll be able to say that through graffiti I had the best times. It kept me out of a lot of bullshit and saved my life. Graffiti kept me alive and I know that if I die tomorrow, I’m part of graff history now and I’ll always be talked about.