L.A. Crews -
Interview with FEEVO*D.O.C
L.A. CREWS
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L.A. CREWS
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1. What do u write?
(FEEVO) I WRITE FEEVO ONE..THE NAME IS A SUBLIMINAL MESSAGE TO THE WORLD..IT CONTRADICTS ITS MEANING..PHEEBLE MINDED PEOPLE ARE USUALLY IGNORANT,LOST,WITH NO POWER WHATSOEVER..IN MY CASE I HAVE PROVEN SOCIETY WRONG...I HAVE FED THEM THE F.E.E.V.O. FOR TWO DECADES..FEEVO TRANSLATED IN MY LANGUAGE STANDS FOR..FRAGILING EVERY EXISTING VISUAL OBJECT...I EVEN HAD THE NERVE TO MISSPELL IT..THIS MISSPELLING WAS DONE INTENTIONALLY TO MAKE IT OBVIOUS OF HOW MUCH OF A PRISONER OF IGNORANCE I CAN BE..FEEVO IS NOT JUST MY TAG NAME, BUT IT HAS BECOME PART OF SOCIETY...THE FEEVO CAN ONLY SUCCEED IN THIS SOCIETY IF WE CONTINUE TO RUN THE STREETS WITH ONE GOAL IN MIND ...AND THAT IS TO DESTROY OUR CITY IN UNION RATHER THAN IN DIVISIONS.
2. What crews are u from?
(FEEVO) I AM REPRESENTING GRAFFITY AS A WHOLE..AS A UNIVERSAL CULTURE..IN THIS CASE I AM A MEMBER OF THE D.O.C. DOPED OUT CREATIONS WAS ITS ORIGINAL NAME GIVEN..ANOTHER CREW ODEO ONE AND I STARTED IN THE LATE EIGHTIES WAS C.E.W. WE THOUGHT IT OUT AND GAVE IT TO A DESCIPLE AND HE TOOK IT TO ANOTHER LEVEL..THE ORIGINAL MEANING TO THAT CREW WAS ..CONQUERING EVERY WALL..I AT ONE POINT WAS ASKED TO JOIN F.I.U.(FUCKING IT UP) I JOINED BUT REALIZED THAT I WAS ON A TOTALLY DIF. LEVEL AND DECIDED TO NOT BE INVOLVED WITH THEM..AT THE TIME I WAS RUNNING WITH RTDKILLERS..I GOT IN BY THE LEADER OF THE BIGGEST ORGANIZED GRAFFITY CREWS IN HISTORY..AT LEAST IN MY EYES I COULD SAY HE WAS A GREAT LEADER AND WAS ON TOP OF THINGS...HE WAS THE GREAT WISK ONE FROM IFK BC WCA RTDK AND SO ON..I RAN THE 18 LINE..THE 14 LINE..AND ROCKED ALL THE MONTEBELLO BUSES..I WOULD DITCH SCHOOL AND USE FAKE BUS PASSES TO GET AROUND..EVERY SINGLE BUS I GOT ON WAS A VICTIM TO THE INFAMOUS FEEVO..EARLY IN THE NINETIES I WOULD TRAVEL FROM LOS ANGELES TO THE INLAND EMPIRE WHERE I HAD MOVED TO..I WOULD DESTROY CITIES FROM LOS ANGELES TO SAN BERNARDINO..ANY CITY IN BETWEEEN THAT GOT IN MY WAY WHILE I HAD POSSESSION OF AN AEROSAL CAN WITH COLORS..WAS A CITY I WAS GOING TO GET UP ON..LATER ON IN LIFE I GOT INTO A CREW OUT IN THE INLAND EMPIRE CALLED U.C..URBAN CREW..I WAS IN FOR A BIT BUT NEVER EVER DID THE D.O.C. GET SET ASIDE
ALTHOUGH I WAS INVOLVED WITH MANY CREWS THE D.O.C. WAS A PRIORITY.. THIS WAS UNDERSTOOD AMONGST ME AND THE ASSOCIATES I WAS WORKING WITH..LATER ON IN TIME I CREATED THE 7.2.H.. SEVEN TO HEAVEN WAS A CREW THAT INVOLVED SEVEN OF THE MOST NOTORIOUS WRITERS IN OUR TIME..LATER ON AS I BEGAN TO GET MORE INVOLVED WITH OTHER WRITERS HUGE ONE, CREZ ONE AND BEKEN ONE CREATED A CREW NAMED ..MASTERS...THE MASTERS WAS A FOUR MAN CREW THAT INVOLVED HIPHOP MUSIC..WE GOT TOGETHER ON THE WEEKEND TO GO BOMBINg AND AFTER THAT WE WOULD CHILL AND MAKE BEATS AND FLOW TO THEM..THAT LEAD INTO THE CREATION OF THE 2012 CREW WHICH INVOLVED MUSIC, GRAFFITY AND TEACHING THE CULTURE TO OTHERS..THE 2012 CREW WAS PUT TOGETHER BY CREZ ONE AND BLOT ONE..THEY INVITED ME IN AND I ACCEPTED..CREZ AND I CREATED ..THE GANG UNIT CREW..THIS IS OUR TWO MAN CREW..WE MAKE HIPHOP UNDERWORLD MUSIC..CREZ MAKES THE BEATS AND I DROP THE LYRICS TO THEM..SO BASICALLY I REPRESENT THE D.O.C. MASTERS RTDKILLERS 2012. TWO OTHER CREWS I ROCK WITH ARE THE HARDKOREJUNKIES CREW ...OBVIOUSLY IT IS THE CREW THAT PUTS ALL THESE OTHER CREWS INCONJUNCTION EXCEPT FOR THE D.O.C. THE OTHER IS THE LAST BUT NOT LEAST... THE CFS CREW KNOWN AS THE CYBER FORCE SQUAD..THIS CREW WAS CREATED BY CITY 43..THIS CREW IS LIKE A STEPPING STONE IN MY RECRUITING OF D.O.C.FIRST CFS THEN DOC..FEW MORE WORDS ON CREWS..AT THIS MOMENT IM WORKING ON CREATING A WORLD WIDE GRAFFITY CREW..IT IS W.U.N. THE WRITERS UNION NETWORK
THIS CREW WILL BE A SECRETIVE CREW WHERE MEMBERS FROM AROUND THE WORLD WITH THE SAME BELIEFS WILL BE ASKED TO JOIN FORCES..WITH ONLY ONE GOAL IN MIND..WHICH IS TO TEACH THE CULTURE AND LEAD IT IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION..
3.What city are u from?
(FEEVO) WELL I AM A WRITER AND I CANNOT REVEAL MY SOURCES, BUT I AM ABLE TO SAY THAT I STAY IN THE WEST COAST NEAR LOS ANGELES..I AM SURE YOU ALL CAN UNDERSTAND AND RELATE TO MY SECRECY IN ADDRESSING WHERE I RESIDE..
4. How long have u been writing?.What year did u begin to write???
(FEEVO) THOSE ARE TOUGH QUESTIONS. I HAVE BEEN WRITING SINCE MY ELEMENTARY DAYS..IN THE EARLY EIGHTIES, BUT OF COURSE IT TOOK ME A WHILE TO MAKE A NAME FOR MYSELF. IN ESSENCE TO THIS ISSUE AT HAND. I RECOLLECT 1982 BEING THE MOST INFLUENTIAL YEAR OF MY FUTURISTIC GRAFFITY ART LIFESTYLE.
5. Do u still write?
(FEEVO) I AM IN THE PROCESS OF STARTING MY OWN CLOTHING LINE..(YES I STILL BOMB) A SIMPLE ONE COLORED INK T SHIRTS WITH SOME OF MY CREW MEMBER IDEAS AND PERSONAL MESSAGES ON THEM.. YES OF COURSE I STILL WRITE!! I AM A LIFER IN THE BUSINESS..WHETHER IT BE ON A WALL OR PAPER. THE LOVE FOR THE ART WILL CONTINUE AND GROW ON MY NEXT GENERATION(MY DAUGHTER WHICH WRITES "TOY9")SHE WILL INHERIT MY POSITIVE WAYS IF SHE CHOOSES TO LIVE THIS TYPE OF LIFESTYLE AND BLEED THE THOUGHTS OF KNOWLEDGE INTO OTHER PROSPECTFUL ARTISTS.
6. How did u get started?
(FEEVO) MY FAMILY PLAYED A BIG ROLE IN MY INTEREST IN PAINTING. MY TWO OLDER BROTHERS DID THEIR THING IN THOSE DAYS WHEN "BEAT STREET" THE MOVIE CAME OUT..THEIR AMBITION TO PAINT ENCOURAGED ME TO CREATE A NAME AND PRACTICE.SOON I WAS OUT WITH THEM HELPING THEM WITH FILL INS AND WHAT NOT..MY LATER INFLUENCES WERE SLEEZ ONE FROM LOD CHAKA ONE FROM LOD WISK ONE FROM IFK AND DEFINITELY GIN ONE FROM TNT. NEEDLESS TO MENTION SK8 ONE FROM CBS (REST IN POWER) MY INFLUENCES HAVE ALWAYS BEEN THOSE THAT SPEAK ON THE FUTURE OF IT ALL (GRAFFITY AND ITS OTHER 3 ELEMENTS).MY BIGGEST INSPIRATION IS MY GIRLS MOTHER. SHE USED TO WRITE FOIZT UNA FROM THE DOC CREW. HER CAREER IN ART ENDED WHEN THE BIG RESPONSIBILITY CAME. SHE WAS DOPE. WELL SHE STILL IS.( "LAUGHING OUT LOUD")
7. Have u ever got caught?
(FEEVO) PLENTY OF TIMES. I HAVE USED SO MANY A.K.A. NAMES IT IS NOT FUNNY. ACTUALLY SPEAKING ON THAT. RIGHT NOW IN THIS YEAR IM FIGHTING A CASE AGAINST THE PEOPLE OF CALIFORNIA IN RELATION TO VANDALIZM. IN THIS CASE I WAS NOT DAMAGING OUR CITY BUT THEY BELIEVE I WAS CUS I WAS AT THE SCENE OF THE CRIME WHEN THEY SHOWED UP. EVIDENTLY I AM INNOCENT BUT THE DISTRICT ATTORNEY IS USING MY PAST HISTORY OF VANDAL ARREST FROM THE EARLY NINETEES AS PROOF THAT I WROTE GANG GRAFFITY ON AN ALLEY GARAGE. YOU KNOW WHAT IS FUNNY!? IS THAT I AM NOT A GANG MEMBER BUT THEY ARE BLAMING ME FOR A TAG THAT READ..MARA SALVATRUCHA 13..NO DISRESPECT INTENDED TO ANYONE AFFILIATED OR TO THOSE WHO HATE THAT SPECIFIC GANG, BUT I AM NOT FROM THAT SET OR PERTAIN AS A MEMBER TO ANY GANGS.THE SYSTEM IS CROOKED. THAT IS ALL I HAVE GOT TO SAY ON THAT SUBJECT.
8. What did u like about the oldschool days?
(FEEVO) WELL I LIKE THE FACT THAT THEN THEIR WERE MORE BOMBS ON BROADWAY THAN THERE IS NOWDAYS. I MISS BEING YOUNG AND BEING ABLE TO FOCUS ON PAINTING RATHER THAN HAVING TO GO TO MY SLAVE CAMP. IN MY OLD DAYS IT WAS REAL EASY TO GET PAINT. I REMEMBER ME AND FOIZT UNA WOULD RAK SO MUCH ARTILARY.MAYBE FIFTY CANS IN ONE DAY.NOW THE ACCESS TO PAINT IS ALL UP TO HOW MUCH YOU ARE WILLING TO PAY. THINGS HAVE CHANGED. THE RESPECT FOR A STREET BOMBER IS NOT GIVEN WHEN IT IS DUE. THE IDEA OF TAG BANGING HAS YET TO CHANGE. WHAT CAN WE DO>? BUT TEACH AND HOPE THAT THE YOUNGSTERS UNDERSTAND THAT WE ARE ALL FIGHTING AND DRAWING ON CONCRETE FOR ALL THE SAME PURPOSE..IN MY DAYS WE DID NOT HAVE COMPUTER GRAFFITY BATTLES. WE TOOK OUT THE ANGER INTO THE STREETS AND THAT DETERMINED WHO WAS ON TOP OF IT ALL. IT WAS EVIDENT IN OUR DAYS WHO WAS ALL CITY AND WHO WAS JUST IN IT FOR A SEASON OR TWO..AS YOU CAN SEE I CAN GO ON FOR AGES DESCRIBING THE DAYS.. I MISS THE RTD BUSES..I MISS THE FREEWAYS BEING SO FILTHY WITH SPRAY PAINT. IT IS HERE AND THERE IN THIS ERA BUT DAMN IN THOSE DAYS IT WAS EVERYWHERE.
10. How has graffiti changed from back them till now?
(FEEVO) IN MY OWN OPINION, GRAFFITY HAS CHANGED IN MANY WAYS. FIRST OF ALL THE OLD WILD STYLE WITH ARROWS HAS BEEN DISAPPEARING SLOWLY.A NEW STYLE OF WHAT I CALL MERMAID UNDERWATER SEAWEED LETTERS HAVE BEEN DISPLAYED.WHICH IS COOL. EVERYTHING IN LIFE HAS ITS STEPS OF EVOLUTION AND GRAFFITY DOES TOO. WELL I AM A STREET BOMBER AND NOT NECESSARLY CLASSIFIED AS A PIECER. SO I STICK TO THE ROOTS AND BUST THROW UPS . USING THE FLAT BLACK AND ALUMINUM SILVER AS TWO OF MY PERSONAL FAVORITE COLORS..
11. Do u have any last words or advise for anyone?
(FEEVO) OF COURSE I DO..WE AS A COMMUNITY OF TRUE HIP HOP BELIEVERS MUST COME TOGETHER IN AGREEMENT THAT WE ARE ALL IN THE GAME TO PRODUCE MORE EFFECTIVE, EFFICIENT WAYS TO OVERCOME POLITICAL LAWS THAT FORBID US TO DRAW IN PUBLIC PLACES..AS A TRUE BELIEVER I RECOMMEND THAT WE UNITE AND FORGET THE STREET WARS AMONGST US..LEAVE THAT FOR THE REAL GANG MEMBERS. I KNOW SOMETIMES IT IS HARD FOR US TO BE HUMBLE AND SOFT, BUT WHEN SHIT HITS THE FAN WE NEED TO BE TOGETHER AS ONE..PLEASE UNDERSTAND MY ART..PEACE AND HARMONY TO THE WORLD OF HIPHOP.ONE LOVE FROM THE FEEVO .FOIZT UNA. TOY NINE. DOC RTDK.72H.MASTERS.2012.GANG UNIT.HARDKOREJUNKIES.COM.BIG SHOUT OUTS GO OUT TO THE LOS ANGELES TSS OTR LOD BC WCA LOD IFK COI KTL..I WOULD LIKE TO THANK MY YOUNGER BROTHERS FOR ADAPTING AND PICKING UP ON TONS OF SKILL..ICER ONE AND CITY 43...MUCH GRATTITUDE TO FILER, ELSE, SEE ONE, AEOX,SONIK,DEC,HUGE,CREZ,BEKEN,AND TO ALL THE CHILDREN FROM SATAN>>>WHY NEXT PRESTO BLIMP..AND IF I FORGOT YOU ITS CUS IM SO FUNKY TIRED...PS. EXPECT THE FEEVO OUT THERE SOON AFTER THE CASE IS DISMISSED.
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