INTERVIEW BY HECKSTAR

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

DET: DETONE

HECK: WHAT CREWS DO YOU PUSH?

DET: RIS, MCI, KAOS INC DOD AND MANY OTHERS

HECK: WHEN DID YOU START WRITING?

DET: 1989

HECK: WHAT NEIGHBORHOOD DID YOU START WRITING IN?

DET: QUEENS

HECK: WHAT DO YOU MISS MOST ABOUT THE HOOD?

DET: NOT A DAMN THANG...

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

DET: I HOPE THIS SHIT DON'T COME OUT WHACK

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

DET: ANYONE WHO PAVED THE WAY BEFORE ME

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

DET: ALL OF THE ABOVE

HECK: IF YOU COULD BOMB ONE THING TO MAKE PEOPLE RESPECT GRAFF, WHAT WOULD YOU BOMB?

DET: I WOULD LOVE TO DO A TOP TO BOTTOM WHOLE CAR

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

DET: AS A KID THE FIRST PERSON I REMEMBER SEEING UP WAS DUEL AND MIRAGE

HECK: HOW DID YOU LEARN TO WRITE?

DET: DOODILING IN MY BIBLE WHEN I WAS 9 OR TEN

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

DET: I USED TO RACK IT ALL THE TIME. NOT ANY MORE

HECK: ANY FUNNY STORIES?

DET: IT WAS ME JA AND DUEL, WE WENT OUT TO EASTERN LI ON A RACKIN MISSION...JA WAS CRAZY AS FUCK...IT DIDN'T MATTER WHAT STORE WE WENT INTO, HE KEPT RACKIN SHIT LEFT AND RIGHT...HE CAME OUT THE STORE WITH AN AX ONE TIME, THEN SOME PANTS, CLOCKS... AND MAD PAINT...NO ONE RACKED LIKE HIM....SO ANYWAYS I WAS LIKE 17 OR 18 AT THE TIME AND I WAS ALL WORKED UP SEEING HIM RACK ALL SORTS OF SHIT...SO JA HAD JUST COME BACK FROM A DEPT STORE WITH SOME SHIT AND I WAS LIKE "YO IMA HIT UP RITE AID RIGHT HERE FOR SOME FILM"....HE'S LIKE "AIGHT, I GOTTA MAKE A PHONE CALL"....SO HE'S IN THE FRONT OF THE STORE MAKIN HIS CALLS AND I'M INSIDE RACKIN FILM...TO MAKE A LONG STORY SHORT THEY WERE WATCHIN ME THRU A DOUBLE SIDED MIRROR AND THEY CAME TO GRAB ME...AND ONE GUY WAS IN THE FRONT, THE OTHER IN THE BACK OF ME...AND THEY WERE TRYIN TO ESCORT ME TO THE BACK OF THE STORE...AND FOR A SPLIT SECOND I SAID "WHAT THE FUCK AM I THINKING? WHY AM I WALKING BACK WITH THESE DUDES?"...SO I PUSHED ONE OF THEM INTO A STAND AND HE FELL OVER KNOCKIN DOWN EVERYTHING AND I PULLED MY HAND OUT MY JACKET THAT THE GUY WAS HOLDING AND SLIPPED OUT...I RAN OUT THE STORE....AND AS I'M RUNNING OUT I SEE JA STILL ON THE PHONE, TALKIN, AND WATCHIN ME AS IF NOTHING HAD JUST HAPPENED....HE WATCHED THE DIRECTION I RAN OUT...AND DUEL AND JA FOLLOWED ME AND PICKED ME UP DOWN THE ROAD....AND WE CONTINUED TO RACK ALL DAY LONG...CAME HOME WITH MAD SHIT...BUT LOST A JACKET!

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

DET: I DON'T...NOTHING

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

DET: LEARN SOME SHIT FROM THE OLD SCHOOL DUDES...AND STAY REAL TO NY GRAFF

HECK: SHOUT OUTS?

DET: DUEL, GHOST, MONE, MAZE, WEB KAOS, SHONE IF, NOXER SPOT...AND ANYONE ELSE I FORGET MA BAD.

HECK: FINAL THOUGHTS?

DET: WWW.SUPPORTKET.ORG

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