Storm One Interview

Sight Zilla interviews the legendary Storm. Storm is a South Los Angeles legend; she was known for her bus killings and decco tags. In this super raw and uncut interview, it was interrupted many times at the Desert Room Bar. Storm takes us back in time. Storm is and always has been the life of the party.

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SPEAKER_06 0:00

I'm right here with a legend, a South Central legend. If y'all don't know, y'all should know. I'm here with Storm. The infamous Storm. She was a killer back in the days, killed the buses, killed South Central. She read A4B. And she's a little shy right now, but uh I got her here. Been looking for her for like 13, 15 years. She's been hiding and shit. But I got her here. And I was gonna do a little quick interview with her. And I just want to know, like, Storm. Why did you choose the name Storm? Was it because of the X-Men? Was it because weather? Why'd you choose the name Storm?

SPEAKER_08 0:46

Well, Storm for sure was the X-Men. Cartoons. And because she was just a badass, you know, badass female with all these mouths. So I thought Storm was just a badass name. And then I like I like Stormenta, which is Storm and Tormenta, you know, into one. But that's how Storm came about.

SPEAKER_06 1:11

So, like, how'd you get into A4B? A4B was like, when I seen it up, it was like, it seemed like it was all girls. Then I met Bex, and Bex is like, I'm I'm I'm the head of A4B. And I'm like, how you got how you got this, you're the head of a crew with all these girls in it. Like, how'd you get into A4B? And then what did A4B stand for?

SPEAKER_08 1:33

A4B was above fake bitches, but we were like a spin-off from GBC. Yeah. So we were all from GBC. We were from GBC. How'd you guys get out of GBC? GBC just outgrew, we all, everyone outgrew everyone.

SPEAKER_00 1:48

Yeah.

SPEAKER_08 1:49

And then I moved to LA High, and that's where I met. Rex was already from GBC. But when we went to LA High, and then he wanted to start his own crew, and then that's where A4B came about. And then we had poison, and then you know, Cookie, all these different females from different crews. Cookie that was from OKS at that time.

SPEAKER_06 2:09

Okay.

SPEAKER_08 2:10

Because she was from OKS and OKS getting on with GBC though? Yes and no.

SPEAKER_05 2:15

Okay.

SPEAKER_08 2:16

The boys didn't, but the girls did because a maze ended up uh big Poison's baby daddy. So it's all it's all connected.

SPEAKER_01 2:25

Yeah.

SPEAKER_08 2:25

It's all connected.

SPEAKER_01 2:26

Alright.

SPEAKER_06 2:28

So like so how'd you get into A4B? Like he just got on, like Bex is like you gotta be on there like I die, I don't remember.

SPEAKER_08 2:37

There was no trials, no.

SPEAKER_06 2:38

Who got on first?

SPEAKER_08 2:39

You or Bex? You or this her? That's me. I was gonna say it, man. You were like that, he's Gucci. Gucci. Have you guys been to uh the Nile? The river? No, the Nile and uh England.

SPEAKER_05 2:57

So how deep was A for B?

SPEAKER_08 3:02

I know it there was cookie, Snoopy, Drama, you oh drama was not even from my no, she was from 58 Blazers.

SPEAKER_03 3:13

It was me, Poison, Delight, Biggs, I mean you guys, BFW Bardita.

SPEAKER_07 3:25

What is that?

SPEAKER_03 3:27

So why why did you start doing graffiti? Like how old were you gonna start doing graffiti?

SPEAKER_08 3:33

I actually started doing it when I was in LA High. So before GVC, before all that, I used to I went to Barendo and then I had a cousin that used to do graffiti. And then uh eventually, when I ended up going to LA High, that's when the whole graffiti culture was there, because I went to LA High with Hemp from LTS. So you know, which I know hemp, which is he's uh small world, he's my cousin's baby daddy.

SPEAKER_00 4:06

Okay.

SPEAKER_05 4:07

Hemp, um what so why out of all the things you do in the world, why did you choose graffiti? Like what did graffiti do for you?

SPEAKER_08 4:18

I just I grew up in the in the Tolo culture and I used to see how they all had to do something for someone. Being a graffiti artist, it was like you were a winner. You didn't have to do something for nobody, it was like you're representing yourself, and I love that you you did what you did for yourself and I represent anyone else.

SPEAKER_04 4:42

Okay, but so like okay.

SPEAKER_08 4:44

I just I I kind of like that the fact that you you show your girl.

SPEAKER_01 4:53

There's a bunch of girls back in your day there wasn't a lot of girls on graffiti, but now there's a bunch of girls doing graffiti. How do you feel about that?

SPEAKER_07 5:03

You wouldn't where you was it was it YouTube?

SPEAKER_08 5:06

No, Instagram. No, not Instagram, not I'm like, why can't I find you?

SPEAKER_02 5:11

So it's a it's a it's a pay, it's a like there's there's a lot of girls out there doing it.

SPEAKER_08 5:18

Well back in my days there was not much girls. The only the girls that I used to look up to was Tribe, TKO.

SPEAKER_00 5:24

Okay.

SPEAKER_08 5:26

I mean, even I wanna say Queen from CDP? Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 5:33

She's still she's she came back around, she's coming back around. Really? Yes.

SPEAKER_08 5:38

Wow.

SPEAKER_06 5:39

Still beautiful. She's still beautiful as ever.

SPEAKER_08 5:41

Because the CDPs ain't new them, Aqua, um, that's been a while. Shut up. Let's see. I'm intrigued. I want to see like everywhere. Like, I see poison, I'm like, yeah, poison looking good. Poison? Poison look good. I'll show you. I'll show you. But you know poison is.

SPEAKER_05 6:02

What about gel? How you felt about gel?

SPEAKER_08 6:04

Gel too. Jail too. I forgot about gel. She was those other OGs. Jail's back. No?

SPEAKER_06 6:11

Jail's back. She's painting again. Did you know that?

SPEAKER_08 6:16

No, I didn't. Now I see now I wanna do I know you're gonna make it come back now? Now I want to all the old school girls are coming back. That's a little fucking. Um I wanna show you uh poison.

SPEAKER_03 6:31

Damn, poison. I know. Damn. She's a sea hog. That doesn't look like poison. Poison got titties now. Look at that.

SPEAKER_07 6:41

How'd she get titties? She needs titties.

SPEAKER_08 6:43

Well, you know, for a thousand, uh five thousand dollars, anyone got titties.

SPEAKER_00 6:47

Uh what?

SPEAKER_08 6:49

Come on now. Don't be naive. But I was telling you, I was like, we we should hang out together. I was telling her about you. I was like, damn, okay, sir from me, PNSA, you know, da-da-da.

SPEAKER_06 7:02

She's like every member. But is she still with uh a maze? No. When her maze breakup?

SPEAKER_08 7:10

Ooh, that's like ten years ago. Come on now.

SPEAKER_06 7:15

Look at her. Fucking poison is like a fucking porn stuff.

SPEAKER_07 7:18

Look at her before.

SPEAKER_06 7:20

Nah, she got fat. She was skinny when I when I poisoned her.

SPEAKER_07 7:24

This is this is after when she became a poison.

SPEAKER_06 7:26

She was working when I met Poison. She was working at that fucking supermarket on Florence. Remember?

SPEAKER_07 7:32

Remember that all her family there. Yeah, a lot of shit. She used to get beat up. She learned how to fight because her brother's from McLean's and they and she was a tiger. She was a tiger, and they used to try to punk her.

SPEAKER_06 7:46

That is not poison.

SPEAKER_07 7:47

Yes, it is. Look at it. This is a babbage.

SPEAKER_06 7:50

She got like big ass lips, yes, big ass kitty. She got braids.

SPEAKER_07 7:56

She always had braids, even before she always had that little stop.

SPEAKER_06 8:00

Nah, that's not poison, bro.

SPEAKER_08 8:03

Look at that.

SPEAKER_02 8:04

Damn. She's single?

SPEAKER_08 8:07

I don't know. We've been talking about a reunion.

SPEAKER_06 8:12

It's going down over here at the desert room. We always move all over here.

SPEAKER_07 8:17

I'm ready to boop up.

SPEAKER_06 8:18

I'm ready to boom, boom, boom.

unknown 8:21

They don't know me.

SPEAKER_02 8:24

Don't call somebody home.

SPEAKER_08 8:28

Yes. This is the five days in the storm. That's not going down over here.

SPEAKER_06 8:34

So Storm, you say you know how to fly. Who taught you how to fight?

SPEAKER_08 8:38

I grew up with three boys, and I stick a box and taught me how to fight.

SPEAKER_01 8:44

Storm, Storm. Storm trying to knock somebody out.

SPEAKER_07 8:47

I'm ready.

SPEAKER_06 8:49

We're talking about poison. And poison looks totally different from what I seen.

SPEAKER_07 8:55

She updated, bro.

SPEAKER_06 8:57

That motherfucker looks like a video big sent porn. That motherfucker. Can she still write though? She can still catch that?

SPEAKER_08 9:05

She just, she just, she just, yeah? Yeah? She just sent us uh because we want to do a reunion. And she sent us um, she found an old acrylic landmark.

SPEAKER_00 9:17

Okay.

SPEAKER_08 9:18

And then she went over it. I think it was on born somewhere. But she went over it. And then but it was a landmark that she went over, and it was my name, cookie, and her name.

SPEAKER_02 9:32

I wanna I always wanted to go play with poison. But she was always with amazing shit.

SPEAKER_08 9:37

Maybe she was second and there was tribe and then poison.

SPEAKER_06 9:41

Oh, you put you're putting poison after tribe before before jail.

SPEAKER_08 9:47

Joe wasn't, I mean, South Central is South Central. And when you live in the hood and you have brothers that are hood because poisonous brothers, she's hood.

SPEAKER_01 9:56

Yeah.

SPEAKER_08 9:57

But she she did she diverted from that that life and she was the one at first. And then when she became a tiger, that bitch, she'll be outside waiting for the bus, and the bus will pass, and then she'll catch the back of the bus with I mean she will hang from a fucking bus.

SPEAKER_02 10:14

The time is doing, right?

SPEAKER_08 10:15

That's what I'm saying. Yeah. So you will scratch it like that. Cause, you know, I got I got chased by De la Cruz one time for fucking catching some. That's not De La Cruz used to be the OG graffiti cop that used to be undercover on the on the 111, the 311, the 115, the 60. So he he was one of the undercover.

SPEAKER_06 10:40

South central.

SPEAKER_08 10:41

Yeah, South Central HP.

SPEAKER_06 10:43

Okay.

SPEAKER_08 10:43

Because I remember I was on time with with foam.

SPEAKER_00 10:46

Okay.

SPEAKER_08 10:46

And we got chased out of, I think I want to say the 115. But we were over there by like Bowen Hills. We weren't wrecking.

SPEAKER_00 10:55

Okay.

SPEAKER_08 10:56

We went wrecking. And and we were in the bag, we were taking off the fucking protectors, you know, scribing. And then I remember that he pulled out the fucking, and everybody just started running. But I mean, he he was trying to go after the main heads. I was just in them. But that was the first time that I ever got chased out of a bus that was a known undercover that we all knew about, but we've never seen him.

SPEAKER_06 11:29

So where was foam from? What cruise it comes from?

SPEAKER_08 11:32

Foam is from FDK, SFV. So you know Fixer then. Yeah. Oh, I grew up with Fixer. Yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 11:42

Fixer. Fixer.

SPEAKER_08 11:45

Fixer. Fixer Pac 25. Fucking Drewski from TCK, all those. That's Southgate. That's Southgate people. That's all my people. I haven't talked to Fixer in like a good 10 years, but Fixer's Fixer. Yeah. I mean, Fixer is that's the homie.

SPEAKER_06 12:04

That's the homie. That's the homie. Um, we're talking about South Central. I mean, you rep South Central. I to me here, South Central Queen. What were some of the crews out there in South Central that you thought were fucking oven dope at that time? Besides, because you had because around that time you had the G V C's, OKS, UKSs, S O Ks are out, T Cs, L A Ws, E T I.

SPEAKER_03 12:34

E T I, yeah.

SPEAKER_08 12:35

SFP, uh The Dirty Dozen, PMK, to it, OK, Zap P. Um, LFT, I used to have a homie. See, those are very far.

SPEAKER_03 12:53

It's all good, man. That was the good days, man. All these homies are coming back. I did you remember Tumor?

SPEAKER_08 13:01

I I saw him, but I never really known him like that.

SPEAKER_05 13:05

How'd you feel like with the TKOs or up back then?

SPEAKER_08 13:08

The TKO is is elite.

SPEAKER_05 13:10

Yeah.

SPEAKER_08 13:11

TKO is like the elite, elite is like U T R like the seventh level.

SPEAKER_03 13:17

Come on.

unknown 13:18

Yeah.

SPEAKER_08 13:20

OG. OG. Well, I grew up also with Emery. Emery was from KOG, and we were from GBC. So these are all females that I grew up with.

SPEAKER_06 13:31

Never met her, but she was like one of the first girls from KOG, right?

SPEAKER_08 13:35

Yeah, but she was from GBC first. Oh. So Emery was my when I got into GBC, she was already from from GBC.

SPEAKER_03 13:43

But how many? So GBC had a lot of girls.

SPEAKER_08 13:46

GBC had Emery, Poison, me, Cookie, the light, but the light wasn't like.

SPEAKER_06 13:56

But but you were like one of the main killers. You and Poison were like the main killers.

SPEAKER_08 14:02

But we used to battle each other. Well, GBC, GBC, GBC Q used to battle GBC K.

SPEAKER_02 14:08

I remember that.

SPEAKER_08 14:09

So we used to battle each other, so to, but we were more of a like an H.

SPEAKER_02 14:14

So tell me this. Like GBC had beef with G T, right?

SPEAKER_08 14:17

Yes, yes. I I got that one, but just at fucking uh what's that score on uh Oh my god, I don't love it. So JC had girls. Yes, yes. But I never thought of JC. JC had uh at Fremont. So you at Fremont because I fought butches at Fremont.

SPEAKER_03 14:35

Okay. Y'all went over to Fremont to buy some JC girls.

SPEAKER_08 14:38

I went to Fremont.

SPEAKER_03 14:39

Okay.

SPEAKER_08 14:40

So it was me against them.

SPEAKER_03 14:41

Oh shit.

SPEAKER_08 14:42

It's like when I went to LA High, we used to not get along with that. It was a campus. I forgot the weed I don't give a fuck.

SPEAKER_06 14:51

Yeah.

SPEAKER_08 14:51

But I like to smell the weed. I don't I don't even like cookies, so I can't touch it, I can't.

SPEAKER_06 14:55

So you you had the beef with the G V C's. Do you remember jokes?

SPEAKER_08 15:01

I remember jokes.

SPEAKER_06 15:02

You remember jokes? Okay, and he's back, he's back now. You know that, right?

SPEAKER_08 15:06

I want to see him.

SPEAKER_06 15:07

Well, you want to see him? I want to see there, there come on. I did an interview with him last year.

SPEAKER_08 15:13

You did?

SPEAKER_06 15:13

Yeah. You gotta listen to it. He talks about air and everybody, and um uh he's been painting a lot. He's still he's still big. He's been painting a lot. You haven't seen him in the streets? He's been painting.

SPEAKER_08 15:32

I'm telling you.

SPEAKER_06 15:33

He's been he's been he's been getting out of it.

SPEAKER_08 15:36

I was in a fucking haze.

SPEAKER_06 15:38

Cause I know the G VCs and JC's just go ahead.

SPEAKER_08 15:41

I used to I thought bitches as cool.

SPEAKER_06 15:44

Did you ever did you ever have to fight any of the guys? Like, what about drips and all that?

SPEAKER_08 15:48

No, no, no. The guys that had a laccuba fucking war S10.

SPEAKER_06 15:54

What's up with Doom?

SPEAKER_08 15:56

Everyone's just everyone went in.

SPEAKER_06 15:58

You know Doom is painting again, right?

SPEAKER_08 15:59

I I saw a Doom, but I didn't catch the the if it was a TV singer now, because I was on the freeway.

SPEAKER_06 16:05

That's him. He's been painting, he's been active lately from San Diego to LA. Yeah? He's been hitting the freeways like crazy too.

SPEAKER_08 16:14

You should you should make a reunion of all the old school fucking people. And I bet you people for sure, dude.

SPEAKER_06 16:22

You know what, you know what we should do one of these nights? When you're not when you when you're you got enough courage, we go hit a spot. A side storm spot. And see how people react to that shit. It don't have to be it don't have to be throways, it can be uh it can be some tags in different places. You you still got you got throies? I never see you do throwies. All I saw was you catching scribes and tags.

SPEAKER_08 16:47

I was scared of throys because I grew up a fucking poem. You know? That's my brother.

SPEAKER_06 16:54

Yeah.

SPEAKER_08 16:55

He's the main hater with the game. But he always he has a oh in his backyard you can boy. So sometimes we go in there, but I haven't.

SPEAKER_06 17:07

I got the same, I got the same shit in my backyard too. So if you want to come through, practice, practice your throwing. I don't know where foam layers at. I might I might be closer than he is. Because I'm right there, you know, in South Central.

SPEAKER_08 17:24

You already bring him.

SPEAKER_06 17:30

So like so why do you so then you stop writing because like you got serious about being a mom or pretty much?

SPEAKER_08 17:37

But I'm back.

SPEAKER_06 17:39

Okay.

SPEAKER_08 17:39

She's back.

SPEAKER_06 17:40

So you uh so you want to go catch some tags on that?

SPEAKER_08 17:43

I do. I'm here and there, yeah, I do. I have a little itchy.

SPEAKER_06 17:46

What about the nails though? You wanna eat on you know?

SPEAKER_08 17:50

That that spring has no color line.

SPEAKER_06 17:55

Some of the girls be saying that the the the paint gets up under the nails and shit.

SPEAKER_08 17:59

I think it's a bit job. Press on press on.

SPEAKER_06 18:01

Oh, you wear press-ons?

SPEAKER_08 18:02

Yeah, I don't own.

SPEAKER_06 18:04

Why not?

SPEAKER_08 18:05

I only go get clean.

SPEAKER_06 18:07

Okay.

SPEAKER_08 18:07

And then I do my own.

SPEAKER_06 18:08

Okay. I don't know nothing about getting nails. I just thought like the press-ons were like the cheap way of getting nails.

SPEAKER_08 18:20

I mean it is. It's a better way to do it. You know, when you come from the projects, and you when you come from section eight and all that, you know, section A was the last of the last.

SPEAKER_04 18:37

Okay.

SPEAKER_08 18:38

You can take the girl out of the U, but you can take the U out the girl.

SPEAKER_04 18:41

Okay. So like I ask everybody this. What's your true your tool of choice? Streak, scribe, straight hand.

SPEAKER_08 18:50

I'm a scriber. Yeah?

SPEAKER_06 18:53

What uh razor blade or a pants driver? I see you with the I see you with the uh with the blades.

SPEAKER_08 19:00

That was the uh poison.

SPEAKER_06 19:05

There's a bunch of bus killers on there. We're not gonna forget rest in peace charm, no. Charm and Smash. Rest in peace, charm. I mean, this is the reason why we met up tonight to kind of like honor our boy. Honor charm. Rest in peace. Because he wouldn't have wanted this. He wouldn't want to come out.

SPEAKER_08 19:25

He would have wanted this for so long.

SPEAKER_06 19:28

He wouldn't want us to all come together, hang out and drink and shit. Yeah.

SPEAKER_08 19:33

You got the you got the power.

SPEAKER_06 19:35

I got the power? Who you trying to bring together?

SPEAKER_08 19:38

Who you want to bring together?

SPEAKER_06 19:40

I don't know about that, but who you want to bring together? You know, back in our era, like oh, like uh South Central barbecue writer, old school writers.

SPEAKER_08 19:51

Well, I'm talking about, you know, G VC, fucking See, I didn't know none of the G VCs on GCs.

SPEAKER_06 19:58

I knew them afterward, like a lot of G VCs dropped after a while, after like after 2000.

SPEAKER_08 20:04

When Cuba fucking got knocked out, that's when it just went.

SPEAKER_06 20:09

Yeah, everybody laughed and make their own shit. And then the G C's, I didn't see them up. All I saw was left was jokes and trips. I didn't see no other G A C's like that.

SPEAKER_08 20:20

I mean, it was back in high school. I went to LA High. LA High had to lead in the lead. I went to school with him.

SPEAKER_06 20:30

Didn't clean, didn't clean go to LA?

SPEAKER_08 20:32

I know Clean is my homie.

SPEAKER_06 20:34

Okay. When's the last year you got to clean?

SPEAKER_08 20:36

Last year. I was thinking I was fucking clean. Oh, what the fuck?

SPEAKER_06 20:43

I seen him, I seen him like two years ago at like uh media styles. Was that last year? Or two years.

SPEAKER_08 20:51

That's a real, that's an OG right now. Let's go clean.

SPEAKER_06 20:58

That's a triple OG. That's like If You Will is talking about uh, shout out to If You Will. He was talking about uh how Clean is like one of the one of the greatest, dopest buskillers of all time and shit.

SPEAKER_08 21:12

He truly is TBK. He truly is. To me, and he he's humble for what he is.

SPEAKER_06 21:21

Yeah.

SPEAKER_08 21:22

Because people don't realize in our culture he's top dog.

SPEAKER_06 21:26

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_08 21:27

It's like growing up with skills.

SPEAKER_06 21:29

Yeah, yeah. You know?

SPEAKER_08 21:30

Because we go to hip hops all Christmas with twice from SFP U T I because of the skills.

SPEAKER_06 21:35

When's the last time you talked about the skill?

SPEAKER_08 21:38

Well, I I know um his brother. Okay.

SPEAKER_06 21:42

Oh shit, okay. You call him on Instagram?

SPEAKER_08 21:54

No, I haven't already.

SPEAKER_06 21:58

I mean, is it is any Anybody is there one or two people that you ever wanted to really re get a reunion with besides the girls from A4B and GBC?

SPEAKER_08 22:09

For sure. You? You're one of them. Alright. I grew up with you. Yeah. You know, remember what I fought in your apartment. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Remember your your restroom? Your red room was a porno fucking. And then like a Playboy.

SPEAKER_06 22:24

Somebody, somebody sent me a fucking photo about that shit. I had all nothing but porn. That was old school.

SPEAKER_08 22:29

That was old school. I remember fucking frying chicken in your fucking I you don't remember?

SPEAKER_06 22:33

I don't remember that shit.

SPEAKER_08 22:34

I even I I had a fucking burn in my hand for years. Well what? Because we we cooked chicken one day. I think I think charm was there that day. Oh yeah. And it either poisoned on my little homegirl cheekies, or was it the day that I fought Snoopy?

SPEAKER_06 22:50

No, it wasn't that day because Charm wasn't there that day.

SPEAKER_08 22:53

Because I remember your your restroom guy. Every time I would go in there, it reminded me of the when you used to go to Las Vegas, the palms, yeah. To the to the uh the Playboy Bunny area. Yeah. Because it looked like a porno playboy snatch.

SPEAKER_06 23:08

I remember that shit. Yeah, I was a little pervert. Yeah.

SPEAKER_07 23:13

The good old days.

SPEAKER_06 23:15

Oh, that's fucking crazy.

SPEAKER_07 23:18

We're old.

SPEAKER_06 23:19

So like you gonna call clean? L T S K-O-G?

SPEAKER_08 23:23

Let's call clean.

SPEAKER_06 23:26

There it is. You think he's gonna answer?

SPEAKER_08 23:29

For sure. My mom will answer.

SPEAKER_06 23:32

Then you'll be like, what is she doing?

SPEAKER_08 23:34

What'd it do, boo? What'd it do, boo?

SPEAKER_07 23:42

What's up, mommy?

SPEAKER_08 23:43

What'd it do, boss? Hey, I'm right here with a legend. We're talking about the OGs. I'm with site from UPN. Uh uh, that's what I'm sorry, I'm sorry.

SPEAKER_06 23:50

Uh oh, Colleen's a legend. That's the legend.

SPEAKER_08 23:53

What's up, man?

SPEAKER_06 23:54

Oh man. We're right here at the desert room getting fucking vent.

SPEAKER_00 23:58

Um, man.

SPEAKER_08 24:00

We're talking about the OGs, boss, and I thought you were, you know. I'll say uh hello. That's right, that's right.

SPEAKER_06 24:06

We said that you were the old we the you the ultimate bus killer, TBK.

SPEAKER_08 24:10

That's right. Hey papa, we gotta hang out soon though.

SPEAKER_07 24:16

Yeah, we're gonna quit, okay? Alright, hit me up.

SPEAKER_08 24:24

Alright, Papa, for sure. Alright, yeah, y'all take care, right? Alright, alright.

SPEAKER_07 24:27

Alright, for someone else. Bye.

SPEAKER_06 24:30

Peace.

SPEAKER_08 24:34

That's the hallway.

SPEAKER_06 24:35

We gotta take you out painting, man. How old is your son now?

SPEAKER_08 24:39

20.

SPEAKER_06 24:40

No way. No fucking way.

SPEAKER_08 24:42

What about your babies?

SPEAKER_06 24:43

Oh, that's they're not 18 yet. When they get 18, I'm going to go. No, no. I started a little late. Yeah, I started late.

SPEAKER_08 24:53

The late train is the good train.

SPEAKER_06 24:54

Why you say that?

SPEAKER_08 24:56

Because, you know. I mean, I shouldn't say it. Because now that my son is 20 and he's grown, he's a good kid.

SPEAKER_06 25:03

So let me ask you this. Who's your top five? Top five graffiti artists all time.

SPEAKER_08 25:12

Him?

SPEAKER_06 25:13

Hemp, okay.

SPEAKER_08 25:14

To me, him. Yeah? Because I grew up in South Central. I went to L High. Okay. So if you went to L High, LA High was the elite. It was the pinnacle of the house.

SPEAKER_06 25:23

Better than Fairfax?

SPEAKER_08 25:25

I didn't go to Fairfax.

SPEAKER_06 25:26

I went to Fairfax.

SPEAKER_08 25:27

But I also went to Rosa. I was kicked out of a lot of schools for fighting.

SPEAKER_06 25:33

So I went to a I went to a lot of school. I went to 10 high schools.

SPEAKER_08 25:36

But I was saying, yeah. Clean. Helping clean.

SPEAKER_06 25:40

Okay, alright.

SPEAKER_08 25:42

My best friend foam.

SPEAKER_06 25:44

Okay.

SPEAKER_08 25:44

To me.

SPEAKER_06 25:45

And you're gonna put a girl in there?

SPEAKER_08 25:47

I might have to say tribe because someone that I looked up to.

SPEAKER_06 25:51

Tribe says.

SPEAKER_08 25:53

She was one generation older than me.

SPEAKER_06 25:55

You know what? She's a sweetheart.

SPEAKER_08 25:57

And that's crazy. She's a sweetheart. That's crazy.

SPEAKER_06 25:59

She's just such a nice person. She's a I I kicked it with her a few times when I was from TKO. Sweetheart. Went to church. Went to church with her once. Yeah?

SPEAKER_00 26:11

That's wow. Yeah?

SPEAKER_06 26:13

That's wow. She's yeah, she's she's a sweetheart. I don't know where she's at now.

SPEAKER_08 26:18

That even intrigues me more because for Vimos to be like that. Because I look like I'm a good girl, but yeah.

SPEAKER_06 26:25

No, Tribe, Tribe got a good heart. Um, she's wild though, from what I saw, but whenever I was with her, she was a sweet, she was a sweetheart. She was nice. She was like always thoughtful. Like she was dope. She was a dope person, but I don't know how everybody else was. I know guys are crazy over her.

SPEAKER_08 26:44

I mean, hello, even me that I was a female.

SPEAKER_06 26:47

Yeah.

SPEAKER_08 26:48

But I was younger than her, so to me, she was something.

SPEAKER_06 26:50

So if you could say if you could say anything to try right now, if you could talk to her and she was listening, what would you say to her?

SPEAKER_08 26:56

That that shot that you had with the in front of the bus.

SPEAKER_06 26:59

Oh man.

SPEAKER_08 27:02

Yeah? That catapult, because I'm like, if she could do that, I could do it too. Okay.

SPEAKER_06 27:07

But that's a that's a fucking legendary fucking fit.

SPEAKER_08 27:10

Yeah. She was I and I was around legends.

SPEAKER_06 27:13

Yeah.

SPEAKER_08 27:13

But to me, she was someone that I never was able to even. I never met her.

SPEAKER_00 27:17

Yeah.

SPEAKER_08 27:18

So I don't know her. To me, she's a living legend.

SPEAKER_00 27:20

Yeah.

SPEAKER_08 27:20

Because she's she's like, like, like fucking Santa Claus. Like, you know, the bitch is real.

SPEAKER_06 27:27

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_08 27:28

But I like that. And now that you're telling me she's humble, that's incredible.

SPEAKER_06 27:32

So around me, my story, when I was with her, she's humble as fuck. See? She was chill. I go to her house. She'll be so busy. She's business minded, right? From when I would got around her, because she was doing the DJing thing. She was out traveling all the time. I'll come clean her house for her and shit, you know? Yeah. We'll go to church. Church. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Went to church like one time.

SPEAKER_00 27:55

Church.

SPEAKER_06 27:56

And I was like, I'm going to church for a tribe?

SPEAKER_00 27:59

For real. Fuck. What the?

SPEAKER_06 28:01

A person I, you know, seen in magazines. She was like, she was a celebrity. She was a celebrity, yeah. In our world, she was tough dog. Yeah, she she she told me that right there.

SPEAKER_08 28:12

But my homegirl poison showed poison was wild. Poison was badass. Poison. She was a nice, she was, she was to me, she was right behind tribe.

SPEAKER_06 28:22

I always wanted to paint with poisoning.

SPEAKER_08 28:24

She poison can paint.

SPEAKER_06 28:25

Poison can really tell poison, let's paint.

SPEAKER_08 28:28

But poison comes from uh uh she has brothers, and I think when you grew up with boys, that kind of makes you different.

SPEAKER_06 28:35

Yeah, but like when I used to meet poison at the little grocery store she used to work at, she never came off like crazy. She had the the cornrows and shit. Yeah, and she was always just she didn't have to, yeah.

SPEAKER_08 28:46

She was humble, yeah. She was trying to. But we've been in fights. That girl could fight.

SPEAKER_06 28:49

Yeah, you can tell. She looked like she can fight.

SPEAKER_08 28:51

As long as you could fight it, you could you you could you could back up your mouth. That's how I can.

SPEAKER_06 28:57

But poison got titties now though. What's that?

SPEAKER_08 29:00

We're restoring the classic classic. They don't make them like this no more. You gotta restore.

SPEAKER_06 29:10

We gotta go catch some tags. We gotta go catch some tags and people gonna.

SPEAKER_08 29:13

You gotta make it happen. You gotta do a uh OG or old school.

SPEAKER_06 29:18

You think everybody's gonna you think everybody's gonna get along?

SPEAKER_08 29:22

See, uh I don't know how jokes feel.

SPEAKER_06 29:24

I don't know how jokes feel. I don't know how jokes will be. I I'm I'm gonna hit up jokes. I got jokes numbered. You got you know jokes? Did you ever met him? Does he know who you are?

SPEAKER_07 29:36

I don't know.

SPEAKER_06 29:37

I should call him and ask him. I should call him and ask him. Let me see. I'm gonna call him a fucker right now. Let me see. Let me see where uh do I got his number. I don't know if he's gonna answer. He's gonna be like, fuck this dude.

SPEAKER_08 29:50

You ain't got it like that, bro.

SPEAKER_06 29:52

Uh I don't got no uh I don't got no titties.

SPEAKER_08 29:57

I mean anybody could have titties.

SPEAKER_06 29:59

I don't got I don't got your I don't got your titties shit.

SPEAKER_08 30:03

Damn.

SPEAKER_06 30:07

Anybody else? Anybody else you wanna talk to? Anybody else you wanna? Damn. I got this all on the interview and shit.

SPEAKER_07 30:13

I forgot about that.

SPEAKER_06 30:14

Okay. I'm gonna wrap this interview up, but I don't buy you I'm gonna buy you another white car.

SPEAKER_07 30:20

Let's go.

SPEAKER_06 30:20

But I gotta go. We got one last question though. Any shout-outs you wanna give to anybody in the graffiti world from back then till today? Any shout outs?

SPEAKER_08 30:34

For sure. Shout out to Foam. That's my brother, espumita, but Gary, I miss you, Gary, Charmito. Damn.

SPEAKER_06 30:46

Oh let me put that shit in there. Anybody else?

SPEAKER_08 30:51

Antino.

SPEAKER_06 30:52

Antino? No poison? No poison?

SPEAKER_08 30:58

No, well poison we're gonna have we're gonna leak up too.

SPEAKER_06 31:01

Okay.

unknown 31:02

We've been staying after a long time.

SPEAKER_06 31:05

So we we gonna we're gonna wrap this interview up. It went off script like four or five times, eight times and shit. But that I hope y'all I hope y'all fucking enjoy that fucking shit. I don't know. I'm gonna have to like let motherfuckers listen to that shit first before I even put it out there or cut it out or whatever. That shit went off script.

SPEAKER_08 31:26

Chop and screw.

SPEAKER_06 31:27

But we'll chop and screw it, but if y'all know who Storm is, if you know, you know. If you were living in South Central, uh Huntington, Huntington Park, fucking Downey, fucking Burning the East Side, the low the bottoms. Y'all know who Storm was if y'all are up there. But she was she she said she coming back because all the other OGs are coming back, so when you see Storm up again, don't be surprised. Till next time.