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you can think of and all you have

to do is simplytakethose letters

make them bigger add you know 3d

to it and then you got some graffiti

you take those samethings and

bend them in the right places

and now you got some funk and

then you add some

connections and you got some

wild style.

I still think it'sthe style capital of

the us.

these are your writers writers

behind the scenes type fella's

staples of the bay.

That's just the funk style that I'm

down with isthat hard train style

that is based on bombing get up quick and

you can simplify it to a 15 minute piece

or you can multiply it to a two-hour

burner.

these two working class

crews have continued rocking

the bay area funk style for years

fsc and htk

hill top kids, hard times known, hailthe

kings, hard to kill, halftime kreation,

hieroglyphic transcendental

knowledge.

We progressed together we all got better

together we all learned how to do every trick

together every little thing we discussed which

colors don't work on the wall which ones do.

Yeah we've developed as a crew.

so this was the flavor of SF graff,

funk,

up until some visitors arrived from Los Angels

bringing with them there own version of style

their style was pointy, jagged

kind of out of place in the bay.

cause San Francisco and the bay

didn't have that particular style

until they started coming up here

and started bombing a lot.

you know them kids from LA they come and

climb up into these like weird little spots

and paint sh*t that I never even

would have thought of painting.

Bless,

Revok, Saber,

I got to give those guys a pat on

the back they did a lot ofwork.

MSK did a lot of dope work MSK

and AWR like it

was really obvious when they

came to town.

San Francisco has this entirely

different vibe then LA you know l love LA,

I'm all about LA, but it was a nice break

going to San Francisco cause you just run around

and hop on the bus and go here

and here everything was so close

and there's so much sh*t going

around and it was just great

just like a graffiti vacation you

know and I didn't want itto end.

we come from the Los Angels school of painting

and that's like basically at that point of time

they spent some much time buffing you

didn't want to be caught on the ground

so basically you climb to remain part

of the environment you climbed higher

and further so that it would be

harder for them to buff.

And that's at the point and time period

of progression that we where at in LA

so we moved up here and brought

a little piece of that with us.

instead of painting a spot onthe

street or in an alley

they are above a billboard on a

steel girder on the side of a bridge.

there was a lot of tension going on

I think between some guys

coming up from LA and guys from

Frisco,they really butted heads.

you see sometimes somebody comes in and

they paint a few good spots and they're out

its like a cycle of people coming and going but

there's still a lot of local cats around you know.

I felt angry I felt mad I felt f***ing

like f*** I got to come back

and to do something about this sh*t

cause if I don't then we are going go out

Like the city that just f***ing anybody

can come and just take over sh*t.

And we are not having that sh*t

here

but at the same time I think it pushed

a bunch of people to the next level

they realized that they couldn't just sit on their

ass all the time they had to be putting in work.

Yo Revok is dope but he's not from

here.

you just have to go with the flow and

just realize that this is your city

your going to be here your going to

remain here and your going to run sh*t.

And if people want to come here and leave they

can do that but I'm going to be here forever.

if some buddy comes with a

little more heart then you and

is down to f***ing you know put

their ass on the line and put in work

and make it happen, I mean more props to

them you know, no matter where they're from.

I think that there was a time when

you know it was only locals,

it was only San Franciscans here kind

of in the 80s bombing and in the 90s

there was a little resentment when

other people would come up but eventually

you know in true San Francisco

fashion we all learned to live together

and we where all better off

because of it.

it constitutes defacing public property in a

rather rediculous and then again obscene form.

we do want color, we do want

light, we do want artistic freedom,

but not at the cost of damaging

other peoples property.

I don't really get out of hand you

know, like sometimes

kids write on the windows with etching

fluid on like restaurants and business,

I don't like that.

it's the etchings and window scratching

that really screws us up cause

those glass windows are really

expensive to replace

Iike 1500 bucks and for a small

independent business like mine

that's a large chunk of our

change.

it don't bother me personally

cause graffiti is an art

and its an art that is rarely

respected.

it depends on where its at if its not

defacing property like this or

if its out on a blank wall or something

like that hey that's fine you know

but when your defacing property like a

booth or train or something like that,

that's our money going back to

clean that up.

we get of etched glass especially on

the cars that don't have camera systems

and that's the most costly type of

graffiti to bart.

that's their way of expressing

themselves

maybethey have anger maybe

they have issues...

I don't like it in the bus you know,

uh I think there is a culture behind

it.

well lets put it this way the way l

look at it is simply this,

its simply a form of un-vital

vandalism

for the most part teenagers and

even some adults

will exercise this un-vital

vandalism for what ever its worth

because its part of the name of the game

in this permissive society as it were.

back in the day the city had higher

prioritiest o focus on rather then graffiti.

Graffiti writing was not the issue

that it is today if you got caught

you where maybe hassled by the

cops, released and

at most a misdemeanor ticket was

issued.

Some examples of misdemeanors

are petty theft, fraud,

drug use,

vandalism

punishments include: community

service, small fines,

and in some circumstances a little

bit of jail time.

This is in stark contrast to the

felonies crimes such as grand theft,

kidnapping, rape, murder,

and now graffiti vandalism thanks

to proposition 21.

proposition 21 was passed in the year

2000 this new law allowed any vandalism

over 400 dollars in damage to be

prosecuted as a felony.

And it also labels groups of kids of 3

or more to be classified as a street gang.

The youth targeted proposition is

also being used against adults.

Felony punishments are way more

severe then misdemeanors and include:

Loss of civil rights such as voting, serious

imprisonment, and in some cases execution.

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