INTERVIEW BY HECKSTAR

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

TABOO: TABU 79, TABOO 79 AKA TEE79 AKA TB79 AKA PRIDE129

HECK: WHAT CREWS DO YOU PUSH?

TABOO: TVS, SIS, TBC, TSR, TPA, TKA, BUS, DIG, MAFIA, DOG, CF, 7D'S, TSA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

HECK: WHAT WRITERS DID YOU GO BOMBING OR PIECING WITH?

TABOO: KC ONER, REPS, JS ONE, PLUS, JOE 61, OZ, THE REST OF THE TBC GANG, KEN-OO7 TSR, & DUEL TSR , KIST R.I.P, RID, YD TSR-TST, KILL6, BOOZ, NT, JORO, THE TSA GANG!!!

HECK: WHEN DID YOU START WRITING?

TABOO: 1979 HOMIE!!!!

HECK: WHAT NEIGHBORHOOD DID YOU START WRITING IN?

TABOO: EAST NEW YORK {RUST-O-LIUM} CENTRAL!!!!!!

HECK: WHAT DO YOU MISS MOST ABOUT THE HOOD?

TABOO: THOSE GOOD OLD FLATS :LOOKIN AT THE GRAFF GO BY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! TO THE OLD HOMIES; I TIP MY KRYLONS TO ALL THE MY FALLEN GRAFF SOLDIERS..

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

TABOO: WOW!! I WAS REALLY OPEN MY DUDE!!, IT FELT LIKE A GETTING AN ELECTRICAL SHOCK(HA-HA), MANY YOUNG WRITERS CAN NEVER FEEL THAT THRILL IT FELT GOOOOOOD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!(HA-HA)

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

TABOO: A LEGEND IS A WRITER THAT TOOK HIS WORK TO ANOTHER LEVEL...HE WOULDN'T BE AFRAID TO TRAVEL TO ANY BORO AND BOMB ANY YARD OR LAY-UP WITH AUTHORITY!!

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

TABOO: I GOT INTO GRAFF BECAUSE I LIKED IT!!..THEN I BEGAN TO LOVE IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

HECK: IF THEIR WAS ONE THING DIFFERENT YOU COULD HAVE DONE OVER THE YEARS WRITING, WHAT WOULD IT BE?

TABOO: IT WOULD HAVE BEEN TAKEN' IT REALLY SERIOUS..AND I WISH, I HAD TAKEN FLICKZ BACK THEN, BUT I WAS ENJOYING THE GRAFF LIFE THEN...

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

TABOO: THE BIG HOMIES FROM TOP, LIKE MY BIG BRO DIKE TOP, SID TOP WOW...THEM HOMIES THERE GET MY UPMOST RESPECT!! THEY ARE LEGENDS!!

HECK: HOW DID YOU LEARN TO WRITE?

TABOO: LIKE I SAID BEFORE, I KNEW MY BOY DIKE TOP WHEN HE LEFT THE GRAFF GAME!!...CAUSE WE'RE FROM THE EAST AND HE USE TO TELL ME: "HOMIE, LOOK AT YOUR ART-WORK..IT WILL SPEAK FOR IT SELF!!"

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

TABOO: I USE TO RACK UP!!(HA-HA) IN THE WINTER TIME FROM BRKLYN TO THE BX, NOT NOW !!!(HA-HA)THINGS HAVE CHANGED AND I HAVE CHANGED(HA-HA)

HECK: ANY FUNNY STORIES?

TABOO: WOW!! WHEN THE TIME I HAD GOT SHOCKED IN THE WILSON LL TRAIN LAY-UPS

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

TABOO: YEA WELL IN MY LIFE TIME, IN THE REAL GRAFF WORLD YOU NEEDED TO HOLD YOUR OWN FROM; RACKING UP PAINT, TO TRAVELING, TO KEEPING IT REAL AND MANNING-UP FOR YOURS...THIZ WAS MY REAL GRAFF WORLD!! WHO EVER SAID ANYTHING DIFFERENT EITHER BOUGHT THERE PAINT, NEVER TRAVELED THE CITY YARD TO YARD, LAY-UP TO LAY-UP, AND THEY PROBLY LYEING TO PEOPLE THAT THEY DID THIS AND THAT....AND IF THE BEEF IS THAT SERIOUS, THEY WILL HAVE TO MAN-UP FOR THERES!!!

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

TABOO: FOR ALL THE YOUNG HOMIES STAY UP WITH YOUR GRAFF GAME..BUT NEVER FORGET WHO YOUR ORIGINATORZ WERE IN THIZ GRAFF GAME YA FEEL ME..

HECK: SHOUT OUTS?

TABOO: BABY 168, PEO, DIKE TOP, WEO, UA2, SID TOP, CS ONE, SAIN TOP, FRED, KEN 007 AKA 001 TSR, KILL6, BOOZ, NASTY TOKE, JORO TSA GANG, KC-ONER JS-ONE, REPS, PLUS-ONE, JOE 61 BUS, OZ, DEK, TBC GANG, DUEL TSR, RID, KIST R.I.P, BID, BA, DIG GANG, LAZE & CRAB, SES DOG, EL TNS R.I.P, YD TSR CF TST, PG3 TPA R.I.P, G-WIZ, AND FOR THE REST OF HOMIES I BOMBED WITH...IF I FORGOT TO PUT YA DOWN IT WAS MY BAD....

HECK: FINAL THOUGHTS?

TABOO: YEA MY LIL HOMIE, I WANT YOU TO KEEP BANGING THIS SITE OUT AND HECK KEEP THE GRAFF ALIVE!!! TABU 79 THE VAMP SQUAD ,S.I.S,T.B.C!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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