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Interviews
Slick Rick speaks from behind bars. The Source (1993) Click here to read the interview

Slick Rick speaks from behind bars. The Source (1993)

Click here to read the interview

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Emory Douglas & buZ blurr connect at my old store/gallery back in 2008. Photo by the homie Shaun Roberts And, for those who care about such things, here’s an interview that I did with buZ around that same time: 2 Sides To Every Boxcar I hired out in ‘62 and didn’t start marking the cars until November ‘71. So that nine-year interim I was working various night jobs, and I had given up my idea on any kind of art, and had started reading novels like Vonnegut’s; all his greatest novels featuring his Kilgore Trout character—a writer that didn’t have readers, but he continued writing compulsively. I was also reading ‘Understanding Media’ by McLuhan, RD Laing’s ‘Politics of Experience,’ and those other heavy thinkers like Skinner and the conditioned response of his experiments and all that. So during all this time I had been in an afternoon job—it was one of the first times I’d had a regular daylight job—and most times I was working at night on switch engines and locals. So on this job I was working what they call the long field position, and I was down in the yard—the rail yard was downhill—and I had to keep the tracks from rolling out the north end so I had to keep the head brakes tied down on all the rails. So after I had that done, I was just laying down in amongst the cars to make certain they didn’t roll out. I had some free time so I decided to be a vandal myself, you know?

Emory Douglas & buZ blurr connect at my old store/gallery back in 2008. Photo by the homie Shaun Roberts

And, for those who care about such things, here’s an interview that I did with buZ around that same time:

2 Sides To Every Boxcar

I hired out in ‘62 and didn’t start marking the cars until November ‘71. So that nine-year interim I was working various night jobs, and I had given up my idea on any kind of art, and had started reading novels like Vonnegut’s; all his greatest novels featuring his Kilgore Trout character—a writer that didn’t have readers, but he continued writing compulsively. I was also reading ‘Understanding Media’ by McLuhan, RD Laing’s ‘Politics of Experience,’ and those other heavy thinkers like Skinner and the conditioned response of his experiments and all that. So during all this time I had been in an afternoon job—it was one of the first times I’d had a regular daylight job—and most times I was working at night on switch engines and locals. So on this job I was working what they call the long field position, and I was down in the yard—the rail yard was downhill—and I had to keep the tracks from rolling out the north end so I had to keep the head brakes tied down on all the rails. So after I had that done, I was just laying down in amongst the cars to make certain they didn’t roll out. I had some free time so I decided to be a vandal myself, you know?

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Conversation with Aesop Rock and Slug in Mass Appeal (2000) Continues

Conversation with Aesop Rock and Slug in Mass Appeal (2000)

Continues

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Muggs in Mass Appeal (2000) Continues

Muggs in Mass Appeal (2000)

Continues

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An Interview with the Dalai Lama by Adam Yauch. Grand Royal Magazine (1996)

An Interview with the Dalai Lama by Adam Yauch. Grand Royal Magazine (1996)

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Photos of tha Funkee Homosapien by Jim Ricks from an interview in Life Sucks Die (2000)

Photos of tha Funkee Homosapien by Jim Ricks from an interview in Life Sucks Die (2000)

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NYC LASE interviews Futura 2000.  Mass Appeal (Manhattan Issue, 2001)

NYC LASE interviews Futura 2000.  Mass Appeal (Manhattan Issue, 2001)

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An Interview with “Danny the Red” Ramparts (1968) The French student revolt surprised everyone. Shortly before police were called to “clear” the Sorbonne of students from Nanterre who had started daily rallies there, the leader of the Nanterre group, Daniel Cohn-Bendit—the stateless 23-year-old son of a Jewish couple who took refuge in France during World War II—unwittingly prefigured the national impact of the demonstrations. Continues here

An Interview with “Danny the Red” Ramparts (1968)

The French student revolt surprised everyone. Shortly before police were called to “clear” the Sorbonne of students from Nanterre who had started daily rallies there, the leader of the Nanterre group, Daniel Cohn-Bendit—the stateless 23-year-old son of a Jewish couple who took refuge in France during World War II—unwittingly prefigured the national impact of the demonstrations.

Continues here

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Black Rob Life Story by Frank Rivera for Stress (1999)

Black Rob Life Story by Frank Rivera for Stress (1999)

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Mini interview with Shabaam Sahdeeq in Stress (2000)

Mini interview with Shabaam Sahdeeq in Stress (2000)

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