12ozProphet

My man Pato came out from copenhagen and we had a little jam session Rich DiBernardo on the harp! and a bbq Brooklyn style (thanks to Tommy Rebel for the grill)
Sausage and peppers sponsored by PONY

When BT(BADTAXI) posted these pics on facebook I bugged out! It took me back to 1980 and I didn’t need a flux capacitor. I was ten years old when RR first took me bus bombing on Shore Road. It was a few blocks away from where I lived. RR was my first mentor in the graffiti game. He gave me the tag KAVS. His older brother Frankie wrote it but he quit, so RR handed it down to me. Later, I put the E in my name because we all hung out under the Verrazano Bridge and there was something called ‘The Cave’ -  that was a place inside the base of the bridge where kids smoked joints and sniffed rush - it felt right, so ‘Kaves’ it was. They say the streets give you your name and literary I was on my street drawing with chalk, toying up the pavement.  When RR noticed my potential, he took me under his wing.  RR was vice president of a crew called TBR (THE BAD RACKET). BF, who was from Red Hook, was the prez. RR was one of the best writers in my part of the neighborhood. He could piece, do throw ups and had one of the best hand styles with a uni. He would talk about writers that influenced him like Gasp 69 and Snake. Alot of these writers you probably never heard of but in my part of Brooklyn they were legendary.  Also, it helped that I lived on 92nd St / Gelston Ave and alot of writers lived or hungout on my block.  RS3 and his brother SER lived across the street from my building. So did HI5.  NC, VOS, SIRO, RE3, KILLER KANE, TP, EK and TEN all hung out on the block. There was always a good fifty kids on my block wilding out.


There was a place on Shore Road where the bus drivers would end their route. There was a park house there and you would walk down a few steps to the bathrooms. The bus drivers would go down there to smoke cigarettes and kill time. Meanwhile, we would stealthily bomb the buses with minis, unis and a marker called a tnt, which was a gutted-out pilot with a battery cover as a cap, filled with flowmaster mixed with store ink purple. The buses got bombed!  The bus would travel down 3rd and 5th Ave all the way through Sunset Park, Red Hook and downtown Brooklyn. You get the point.  We also bombed the Staten Island buses that stopped on my corner before crossing the bridge.


By far, AC was king followed by BT! BT was also a writer that was a master of hand style and got up - but I didn’t meet him and KROOK until years later. JOE NUTS, KROOK, CUSTOM, MR.R,  SPAR, SWAN, RAC, ROA and SES were all up on the buses. I also remember seeing POPO too. There were alot of writers from Sunset Park that killed the buses. AC and BT also killed the insides of the trains TBK NYC!


But back to the point, the buses was where I first got the rush to run up, bomb some shit and watch it run! So thanks to again to Bad Taxi for taking it back. I’ve always had some nostalgia for buses. My grandfather, John, who I never met, drove a city bus for 30 years and worked from the Jackie Gleason depot. I would carry his badge on me when I went on these missions.

thanks d-boy