INTERVIEW BY HECKSTAR

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

AUDIE: AUDIE OF THE U5 CLAN. ON A GIVEN BACK IN THE DAY, DAY, I SES TO MYSELF, I'M GONNA WRITE AUDIE.

HECK: WHAT CREWS DO YOU PUSH?

AUDIE: IN MY FINAL BOMBING DAYS, U5; ADDITIONALLY BBK. OTHER CREWS I ROLLED WITH IN MY EARLIER BOMBING DAYS, IN NO PARTICULAR ORDER WHERE: NSK, WWC, KOR, MSD, RSV, WHICH SHARED MANY OF THE SAME MEMBERS. WE WAS ALSO COOL WITH CREWS LIKE RSW, 357, TA7 AND I'M SURE I'M FORGETTING SEVERAL OTHERS.

HECK: WHEN DID YOU START WRITING?

AUDIE: I STARTED WRITING IN '81 WHEN I OBSERVED MY COUSINS BOMBING.

HECK: WHAT NEIGHBORHOOD DID YOU START WRITING IN?

AUDIE: BUSHWICK, BROOKLYN.

HECK: WHAT DO YOU MISS MOST ABOUT THE HOOD?

AUDIE: I DON'T KNOW.

HECK: WHAT DO YOU REMEMBER ABOUT THE FIRST TIME YOU DID YOUR FIRST FILLIN, BURNER, OR PEICE?

AUDIE: MY FIRST FILLIN WAS ON A BUSHWICK HIGH SCHOOL ROOFTOP WHICH YOU COULD SEE FROM THE LIBRARY WINDOW. IT WAS A COMBINATION OF WHAT WOULD BECOME MY THROW-UP AND A BLOCKBUSTER. IT HAD ORANGE AND YELLOW BLENDS. I DID IT WITH MY THEN PARTNER DEVISE, HE WAS ONE OF THE ORIGINAL U5 PREZ'S.

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

AUDIE: A LEGEND WOULD BE A WRITER WHO TOOK HIS STRENGTH OR NICHE WHATEVER IT WAS IN OUR GRAFFITI WORLD, AND THEN TOOK THAT SPECIALTY TO A VERY HIGH PLATEAU. FOR EXAMPLE, BEING KING OF A YARD, LAYUP, TRAIN LINE, INSIDES, STREETS, TRUCKS, ROOFTOPS OR WHATEVER.

HECK: WHO WOULD YOU SAY THAT YOU MET, AND WERE MOST IMPRESSED WITH THEIR WORK?

AUDIE: TOO MANY, I HAVE NOT MET MOST WRITERS WHO'S WORK I LIKED.

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

AUDIE: I HAD BEEN DRAWING SINCE A WAS KID, THEN I SAW MY COUSIN TK3-LOC COP A TAG ON A DOOR. I STARTED LOOKING AT GRAFF AFTER THAT. I THINK ATOM, KP, PZ(PIZER), PG13, LOVE67 AND MANY OTHER WRITERS FROM BUSHWICK AND WILLIAMSBURG. AS FAR AS CREWS, LOC, CW(CRAZY WRITERS), WR(WRITERS REVENGE) BSK AND OTHERS.

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

AUDIE: ORIGINALLY FAME, ONLY BECAUSE I ALREADY WAS DRAWING AND GRAFFITI WAS A NATURAL TRANSITION FOR A HIP-HOPPER IN THE HOOD. HAD I NOT BEEN AN ARTIST I DON'T KNOW IF I WOULD OF EVER WRITTEN. RESPECT CAME AFTERWARDS SINCE ALL WHERE TESTED IN BUSHWICK, AND YOU HAD TO FIGHT, WHEN IT WAS ALL SAID AND DONE, I DID FEEL A SENSE OF ACHIEVEMENT.

HECK: DESCRIBE AN AVERAGE NIGHT OF BOMBIN FOR YOU.

AUDIE: THERE WAS NO AVERAGE NIGHT, I'VE BOMBED TRAIN LINES, LAYUPS, TRAIN YARDS, ROOFTOPS, TRUCKS, ETC.

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

AUDIE: GRAFF IS AN ART LIKE ANY OTHER, IT HAS SPREAD FROM NY TO THE ENTIRE WORLD, IF THAT DOESN'T DESERVE RESPECT I DON'T KNOW WHAT DOES. GRAFFITI FOR ME BECAME MY FIRST ARTISTIC OUTLET WHICH TOOK MY CREATIVE EXPRESSION TO A GREAT HEIGHT FOR ME.

HECK: HOW DID YOU LEARN TO WRITE?

AUDIE: I WAS INSPIRED BY MANY, NEVER HAD A THEACHER PER SE. LESSONS SOMETIMES CAME FROM A LETTER, A BLEND, ANYTHING. I WOULD THEN BUILD ON IT AND CREATE MY OWN STYLE. AS A WHOLE I THINK WILDSTYLE AS WE CALLED IT WAS MY ORIGINAL INSPIRATION, AFTERWARDS IT WAS WHATEVER.

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

AUDIE: MOSTLY RACKING AND THE OTHER USUAL MEANS, NO STORIES TO TELL.

HECK: ANY FUNNY STORIES?

AUDIE: NONE COME TO MIND.

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

AUDIE: BOMBING AND BEEF WILL FOREVER BE AN UN-DIVORCING MARRIED COUPLE. I FEEL NOTHING ABOUT IT, I HAVN'T BOMBED IN OVER 16 YEARS I THINK.

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

AUDIE: DONT GET CAUGHT.

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

AUDIE: IF THEY CHOOSE TO REMEMBER ME, HOWEVER THEY WISH TO IS FINE.

HECK: SHOUT OUTS?

AUDIE: TO ALL I'VE EVER KNOWN IN THIS GAME FRIEND AND FOE, PEACE. SONI, SLICK, ASP AND ZAN, I WILL TAKE THEIR MEMORIES TO MY GRAVE.

HECK: FINAL THOUGHTS?

AUDIE: IT WAS FUN.

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