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GRAFFITI-NEVER DIES!

OVIE

HECK: WHAT DO YOU WRITE AND HOW DID YOU GET YOUR NAME/TAG?

OVIE: OVIEONE, AS FOR HOW I GOT MY NAME U WOULD HAVE TO WAIT UNTIL MY BOOK

ON MY GRAFFITI LIFE COMES OUT!!!

HECK: WHAT CREWS DO YOU PUSH?

OVIE: GOD TNB FC AND YKK!!!

HECK: WHEN DID YOU START WRITING?

OVIE: WELL I STARTED IN 1991, AND PICKED UP THE PASTE BY MID OF 92!!!

HECK: WHAT NEIGHBORHOOD DID YOU START WRITING IN?

OVIE: I STARTED IN THE KINGSBRIDGE SECTION OF THE BRONX. KINGSBRIDGE

AND MORRIS AVE BY THE 4 AND D TRAINS

HECK: WHAT DO YOU MISS MOST ABOUT THE HOOD?

OVIE: HANGING OUT ON THE CORNER OF 196 ST AND MORRIS AVE, JUST BASICALLY

DRINKING 40 OZ BEERS CHILLING WITH THE PEOPLE WHO I LOOKED UP TO THAT GOT ME INTO WRITING

LIKE: CRIME2, ALROC, SAZE RK, KAZE2, HOST AK, STAZ BAR,DREB TNG, MINE RIP, AND PART 5.

JUST CHILLING, CRACKING JOKES AND JUST HAVING FUN IN THE HOOD!!!

HECK: WHAT DO YOU REMEMBER ABOUT THE FIRST TIME YOU DID YOUR

FIRST FILLIN, BURNER, OR PEICE?

OVIE: WELL FEELING LIKE I WAS SCARED OF PEOPLE THINKING I WAS A TOY,

BUT I PICKED IT UP REAL QUIK, AND AS FOR BURNERS, A LITTLE NERVOUS KNOWING THAT I WOULD BE

PAINTING WITH LEGENDS LIKE COPE, TKID, SEEN AND PEOPLE OF THAT NATURE!!!

HECK: WHAT WOULD BE CONSIDERED A LEGEND IN YOUR EYES?

OVIE: SOMEONE WHO KEEPS GOING FOR 15 YEARS AND BETTER AND THATS

DONE IT ALL AS FAR AS STREETS AND BEEN AROUND A TRUE ARTIST OR BOMBER EVEN

BOTH LIKE COPE, GHOST, POVE, SEEN, KET, YES2, AND MYSELF

HECK: WOULD YOU SAY YOU GOT INTO GRAFF FOR THE FAME, RESPECT OR SENSE OF

SELF-ACHIEVEMENT?

OVIE: ALL OF THE ABOVE!!!!!!!!!!!TRUE STORY!!!!!!!!!!

HECK: WHAT WOULD YOU SAY TO MAKE PEOPLE RESPECT GRAFF AND WHAT IT MEANS TO YOU?

OVIE: WELL ONE THING I WOULD HAVE TO SAY IS, PLEASE DONT GO OVER THE DEAD PEOPLE

WHO ARE RESTING IN PEACE. THAT REALLY SUCKS!!! U HAVE ALOT OF DICK HEAD ASSHOLES THAT DO THAT SHIT.

IT WOULD MEAN A LOT TO ME IF PEOPLE COULD STOP THAT BULSHIT!!!!

HECK: WHO WOULD YOU SAY INFLUENCED YOU TO START BOMBING?

OVIE: CRIME2, KAZE2, ALROC, MED KBK, SAZE. ALSO LOOKING AT JA HITTING

EVERYTHING IN SITE AND RIS CREW. I WOULD ALSO HAVE TO SAY THAT I GOT LUCKY WHEN COPE2 NOTICED

ME FOR BOMBING HARD IN 92' AND THEN PUTTING ME ON AND DOWN WITH GOD CREW...

HECK: HOW DID YOU LEARN TO WRITE?

OVIE: I WOULD SAY, JUST DOODLING ON PAPER AND THEN PRACTICING ON WALLS

WITH A MARKER OR SPRAY CAN!!!!

HECK: HOW DO YOU GET YOUR PAINT? ANY FUNNY RACKING MISSIONS?

OVIE: 100% STR8 RACKING. I HATE BUYING PAINT. UNTILL THIS DAY I STAY

RACKIN UP ONCE IN A BLUE...WELL 1 DAY, ME AND COPE WAS RACKING DOWNTOWN. I WAS 13 AT THE TIME AND COPE

WAS LIKE 23. HE WENT IN THE STORE FIRST WHILE I WAITED OUTSIDE. ONCE HE CAME OUT, I WENT IN TO RACK AND

THE OWNER SAW ME. ONCE HE SAW ME RACK THE PAINT HE GRABBED ME, TOOK THE PAINT AND SMACKED THE SHIT OUT

OF ME BEHIND MY NECK LEAVING ME WITH A BIG RED MARK. AFTER THAT I RAN OUT OF THE STORE, BUT IT WAS BETTER

THAT, THEN ME GO TO JAIL. LOL, I REMEMBER COPE CRYING LAUGHING LIKE CRAZY AFTER THAT!!!!

HECK: BEEF: HOW DO YOU FEEL ABOUT IT? ANYTHING YOU WANT TO GET OFF YOUR CHEST?

OVIE: BEEF, WELL IT'S FUNNY HOW U HAVE PEOPLE THAT JUST STR8 HATE ON U

CAUSE YOUR HOT, THEN GO OVER U WITH NO NAME OR JUST JUMP ON THE BAND WAGON CAUSE OF OTHERS. BUT THEN

WHEN U SEE THEM, THEY ACT ALL COOL AND TRY TO SHAKE YOUR HAND AND DENY IT. ALSO U GOT PEOPLE ON THE

INTERNET THAT POST BULLSHIT COMMENTS AND THEN HIDE BEHIND FAKE NAMES, BUT I THINK OVER ALL

BEEF IS WACK!!!!

HECK: WHAT ADVISE WOULD YOU GIVE TO WRITERS OUT THERE?

OVIE: FOR 1, LEARN THE HISTORY ABOUT GRAFFITI, THEN BE ORIGINAL AND FIND A NAME

THAT NO ONES EVER USED. THEN GO ALL OUT AND PAY YOUR DUES. LAST, DON'T BE A RAT TO THE COPS. THAT'S REALLY

REALLY WACK! TRUE STORY!!!!!!

HECK: HOW DO YOU WANT PEOPLE TO REMEMBER YOU BY?

OVIE: ONE OF THE ALL OUT LAST BREEDS FROM NYC....

HECK: SHOUT OUTS?

OVIE: HELL YEAH..MY GIRLS INDIE 156 AND UTAH. MY NIGGAS, COPE, ALROC, FEWS, JAES, JEZ

QUEST, JEE, GHOST, ETHER MUL, EWOK, THE WHOLE FC CREW AND MY BROTHER JAS!!!!!!!!

HECK: FINAL THOUGHTS?

OVIE: YEAH, I WOULD LIKE TO SAY FREE SINCE, AND ATE...ALSO TO BE AWARE IS TO BE ALIVE

MAY GOD BE WITH YOU!!!!!!!!!