MINONE RTW - Interview

Interview from 2002
Stylewars.com
Public Art Films (2004)

[@olyuppi7331]

When he said neva forgiv he meant it

[@snack4458]

Pjay and cap drew guns on min and his team and shot PG3, min and those guys all ran to the police needing protection etc.

[@jamiewilliams685]

@@snack4458 Are you for real ?

[@snack4458]

@@jamiewilliams685 yeah it’s documented on an interview with PJAY from 1989 he went over the whole ordeal.

[@jasperbosch4101]

MIN = A TRUE GRAFFITI KING. MIN = A TRUE GRAFFITI LEGEND. MIN = THE SOUL AND FUNK OF OG GRAFFITI BURNING AND BOMBING. ONE!

[@no1likeyou]

Min has always been one of my favorite writers. His NE throw ups wrecked havoc on the system and his t2b/e2e WC's were fuckin' legendary.

[@therealgameofdeath]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/faPbiJVjqZxqZ8k The 3 King Day

[@no1likeyou]

@hoppysax Lmao you clearly on some dumb shit. Try again, kiddo.

[@kingofnotts]

@hoppysax Who do you think is good?

[@toneriggz]

I think his son writes now. Pretty good.

[@chocolatepowershovel]

1:39 absolutely the best decription of bombing!!.....ever!!!

[@CraneRTW]

"NE" A True Legend. Respect from K-Rob aka CraneRtW

[@jellemeijer5397]

Great guy and big inspiration

[@misterjoe4601]

Much respect to you min one.All the rtw cats were my idols as a subway graffiti writer,(RICH,NE,IZ,QUIK,SACH,BOE,etc).I remember the 80's like it was yesterday.I went walking by the a yard in brooklyn the other day and saw in the concrete pillars an" iz" throwie and and "BO" tag(this last writer is underrated,he killed the a and c lines in the 80's.).I remember alot of graff writers were scared of bombing the dewey yards in coney cause of RTW.Young writers feared RTW and with a reason these guys didn't fuck around.

[@cntrlalltdlt]

Massive RESPECT

[@Nigmatics]

True Story damn, BOE too? He’s an OG from Marlboro projects.

[@DanielSmith-br1zi]

True story what you wrote? I always had a hard time understanding how RTW had a seriously feared reputation. Just looking at min, quik, bilroc, they seemed like hippies. I wasn't there tho.

[@kagyu1]

@@DanielSmith-br1zi they were hippies. Bill Rock and Crunch were tough mofos. Rasta and Rust were deep into martial arts. It didn’t get psycho until the 80’s and especially the ball busters in the 1 tunnel

[@Chronicstate187]

Rest in paint OG🙏❤️

[@seattlerain1212]

Min passed away? I was just talking to him. No way bro…

[@dadogs456bx5]

Legendary!!!

[@101intellectual]

amazing interview, so difficult to come across authentic, real footage of dons of the scene,PEAC3

[@nenedubs1723]

From Bart to aqua teen Carl 🔥

[@101intellectual]

"OH i see daddy now"

[@goallinujerk2452]

Yo MIN I got your Subway art graffiti poster you signed for me at South Street seaport New York some years ago I got it framed and hanging on my living room wall... Much respect to you.

[@landrum182]

Thats my boy minone rtw...remember when me you duro and shy147 rip was in Utica layup.. shy had them pillow bags..

[@landrum182]

@John Williams if this is min then of course you dont remember that was over 35...40 years ago..its your boy wrekonize

[@digitalsmooth8377]

@@landrum182 That car you did with WELD that ran on the 2 line was one of the hottest cars running....i was happy to catch flicks of that...

[@Artsells980]

Duro,is rumor true about him. They say he did some never forgive action.

[@puppet1324]

Way harder to wreck a whole city than a few train lines. But the back in the days is strong in the graffiti culture.

[@novelaego2404]

yep

[@jackalexander5099]

❤💪🏼🙏🏼 dope interview

[@meebeecrazee]

That brown and white throwie in the background was flavor

[@seanheston6216]

“If anything would’ve went different I wouldn’t have my son” mad respect to you Min the boy loves you 💯

[@atlemartoresonfjeldstad4557]

Min should start painting again. He had dope style.

[@villiantwo]

i dont know why he isnt doing canvas or anything to put up for sale. all these old school writers are making dough in the galleries these days. ths dude should be balling!

[@atlemartoresonfjeldstad4557]

​@@villiantwo Who knows man. Seems like he`s had a hard life and has a steady job now taking care of his daughter. Maybe that`s balling enough for him after all he`s been through. And not everybody is horny for the limelight like the ones that are eating off of canvases

[@imok3466]

37 and done.... Can't stop.

[@glandau8059]

MIN we ran into each other with DELK back 85 stay well Brother ..

[@jayonez137]

Growing up in the NYC area in the 70’s and 80’s. It was insane all the graff on all trains. The good ol dayz of NYC

[@truthisheredealwiit952]

Like Berlin is today. Bless the corrupt senate for running out of money which has led to the current golden era we have just now.

[@thefrankiepalmeri]

I'm mad curious to know who his pops was. There's a bit of a recurring theme with writers who put in a lot of work that come from well off families. Not taking away anything he's done but it is an interesting coincidence.

[@admnti]

Yeah like Dash Snow came from a mad prestigious family

[@grinchoi1]

His dad owned a number of pharmacies in midtown. Min mentioned it in a recent interview with the Museum of Graffiti. Great interview, check it out if you get a chance.

[@thefrankiepalmeri]

@@grinchoi1 Thanks, dude. I will have to research it. I never heard of this 'Museum of Graffiti' before.

[@grinchoi1]

@@thefrankiepalmeri here’s the link: kzbin.info/www/bejne/hqXQlImXoNCUi7c

[@ortizdaniel3410]

Yea I heard that the best example of that would be like JA

[@ProfessorKenneth]

MIN ONE 👍🏻💯👑

[@bertc.rodriguez6488]

I ran into this guy when i was a teenager i was starstruck

[@ANEMOSYMBOULIA]

Whoever appeared on "Wild Style" got famous and people know their names and pieces up to the present day. As for NE / Min One, he´s certainly one of the very charismatic writers who have been portrayed. It might help nowadays cats seeing his personal development - and how his son is "his heart". I´d like to know what he thinks about present equipment; it is so much more suitable than it used to be, even on second-rate surfaces...

[@tobietera]

Style Wars, no!?

[@kagyu1]

Or what life is like after being a treacherous crack addict who robbed friends. Every one gets to shine.

[@NineteenEighty8]

It's STYLE WARS

[@jiveturkeylee]

@@kagyu1 no need to disrespect

[@kagyu1]

@@jiveturkeylee This a@@hole robbed one of the nicest people I know at gunpoint and was treacherous to more than a few people who thought he was their friend. With back up of course. As human beings, we earn respect. Compassion for him ? Sure. His life seems fairly crappy as a result of his actions. . Respect. No.

[@mariacurry5679]

Most Talked About

[@spvcs3615]

Legendary yo

[@mickeymouse5555]

Remember you Killin da 1s wit those ne's . BIG RESPECT.

[@jacobkatzenberg1032]

No disrespect to Min but I always think about this interview when I see a Min tag and it looks like it was done by a child learning how to write the fill in on that gate is actually comparatively better then any NE I've ever seen and that he'll still do today with over 40 years of experience doing it

[@willyamezquita4404]

I don't know where he gets off calling that throwie a toy throwie. Typical New York washed up bragadocio!

[@ivantheterrible6959]

Graff culture in general is a competitive scene full of ego maniacs You probably do have to behave arrogant to some degree just to keep going

[@beachbum1432]

100% percent right-ROR FDS

[@gr4yf0x1983]

King every line? Yeah that's extremely hard to do

[@hektik8007]

Where is this guy now does he have Instagram

[@px30silver4ever]

man wtf happened to him he got so skinny he looks completely different now

[@MR-rd7el]

🚞🚞🚞🚞will allways RULE ....✊✊👊👊

[@Ezekiel1308]

Quisiera saber inglés para comprender aún más. Pero aun asi comprendi algunas cosas! 1:39 YUP

[@d_skrilla6479]

“Cause some guy cap wit a lucile ball hairdo done went over all your pieces”

[@saosalazar5585]

His name is "min one" that was him?

[@reek1111]

That chain is stupid heavy . You can tell he’s old school wit a Cuban that heavy just walk-in around nyc

[@shiestymf2899]

That looks better then anything min did

[@kagyu1]

Those NE throw ups all over the ding dongs were ugly . He was quantity over quality. Then he went down crack alley into a hell realm and you can still hear in his voice the life path he chose.

[@bigdaddy2343]

@@kagyu1 how come crack DESTROYED almost every "legend" of graffiti from NYC, Philly and Baltimore??.. you meet them now and they're either doing really good work with AA and Sobriety, or a born again Christian doing great things, or they are finally living a normal life.. they absolutely LOVE talking about 1981-1992ish.. I know all them types dudes.. "I remember back in 85 me and so&so did the 1 stop and then finished our cans with hangover tags on the edge of the building all the way around". It's like how come you dudes never ever ever bring up what you were up to 1993-2007ish. How come? How come we don't know where all the legends and kings were in the mid 90s to late 2000s.. lololol

[@kagyu1]

@@bigdaddy2343 working in Venice and Milan learning traditional finishes then getting paid to fly all over and do work. Bought a house , settled down , travelled the world. I can rattle off all the cats I know who never went down crack alley and were successful in business and In becoming well balanced humans. Min was not one of those cats.

[@650AFTERHOURSOC]

Cap throws did look better than anything min did period

[@memofrf]

BOSS.

[@pavlestanimirovic]

Wow

[@robertfrancis2039]

I WAS LOCKED UP WITH MINONE IN 2011. DAMN WHEN IS THIS FROM? WHEN I WAS IN JAIL WITH HIM HE WAS MAD SKINNY AND LOOKED MAD OLD.

[@grinchoi1]

This is from 2002.

[@sbakernyc5761]

He's looking rough now. Got that dope head voice

[@edletters9839]

Hey, would you be willing to sell this channel? I won't delete any of the videos but continue growing it instead.

[@CANControlGRAFFITI]

How much?

[@jseven7096]

Lol shout out Tuma... he might be pissed about this. Kot crew. Grover Cleveland high school lol

[@joshclark4832]

So what actually happened with the cap beef in the end ?

[@acerkrt]

Cap put fear in all of these guys hearts and terrorized them all with a sawed off shotgun . The end

[@andreamerino9146]

@@acerkrt that’s right. Min is talking about 116th Street throw down. He ran with the others. Cap and PJ were not playing that day. They were ready to put all of them down.

[@YUWHACK]

@@acerkrt cap also wasnt some invincible creature. Tkid knocked him out

[@acerkrt]

@@YUWHACK LMAO at invincible. T and Cap fought and Noone got knocked out . They both fought and gained respect for one another but that don't change the fact that Cap had Writers shook who started with cap cause they figured a white boy won't do nothing back . They were Wrong and Cap came with the sawed offs .

[@Rartterman]

hes 58 now

[@benburgis7039]

his kids benchin

[@jerryjones9573]

Carl from aquateen hunger force as a real person

[@DR-xt9ux]

Yo Min check It out a whole car ....

[@daredrof257]

Lil min)

[@gettingtooold9247]

Sabers relative

[@Carlos-nq7up]

Is this cat Cuban? He's got a "San Lazaro" or Saint Lazarus charm hanging from his gold chain.

[@a.edwardsnycta5785]

Likely Irish or Italian.

[@crabapples1995]

He’s a Jewish guy.

[@Yoquienmasqueyo]

4:20 hahahahahaha LoL

[@cntrlalltdlt]

Caps to me is the embodiment of a graffiti BOMBER! much respect for that as well I admire his work ethic

[@orirbjrk5573]

joeyy dvsn people tend to go by the script and play into the style wars drama with cap. Dudes a bombing legend, that’s The core of graff, anyone who judges it might as well call themselves a street artist.

[@cntrlalltdlt]

@@orirbjrk5573 much agreed bro 🙏

[@llamov]

Dude shouldn't hate on that lil piece. No offense, hes a legend after all. ..but his "N-E" wasnt anything special. At all. But either way Im a fan. Liked his pieces a lot. Unique

[@NittyGritty420]

True Story I heard u was beefing with him?

[@NittyGritty420]

balle 733 it’s not toy... and no disrespect to a king but min coming off like a “back in my day” hater

[@orirbjrk5573]

balle 733 it’s sexy, graffiti taste is subjective and rules don’t exist. Disproportionate letters can be cool, it’s definitely not toy. Also many of the styles in the 70s and 80s were still developing and kinda whack by today’s standards. Lotta old writers are just self righteous and stuck in the past. Is what it is, take it with a grain of salt.

[@orirbjrk5573]

balle 733 those are some of the best known writers of the 80’s, obviously their work is great, but you’d have to admit that they too started as toys. That’s all I’m saying. They were also the minority of writers then, most people copied them. Styles blossomed in the 80’s. Look at 70’s graff, most of it was garbage by today’s standards. You can’t argue this. They were literally building the basis of style. They didn’t have people to copy, they created their own styles. A lot has changed since then, many people borrow from them, sure, but styles are still being created too. West coast graff is hella different, some of it barely resembles 80’s/70’s ny stuff. You can’t trash all of it though, a lot of it is really good. That’s a classic 90’s flow there, letters are fine, maybe off kilter but that’s called style. Look at literally anything ich has ever done. And also don’t pretend they had time to sit there and make sure every line is perfect, lol. You sound like you never bombed before. You probably just saw style wars and think you know graff now lol. And taste will always be subjective. Any writer will tell you that. I hate when people act like dictocrats about graff. We started this in defiance of rules, don’t tell people what to do. People will try new things, if it looks good it looks good. And if everyone did the same thing we wouldn’t have styles.

[@orirbjrk5573]

balle 733 west coast writer. Not from Europe, just a KZbin name. No point arguing with a 14 year old tryin to flex. All of those people you mentioned wrote throughout the 80’s. They began in the 70’s and kept painting into the 80’s. Most of their best known work is from that time. Never said they were garbage either. If you are gonna diss what was on that door then you might as well diss every other NY bomber like ja, sane, bruz, sace, smith, mq, kez5, etc. Learn about graff before you speak. Just cuz someone from the 80’s calls it trash doesn’t mean it’s trash. Old writers do this all the time. Look at cope, literally everything he does is dissing other writers. JA does this too, it’s NY culture to be a bit arrogant in graff, don’t take it so seriously me suburbs of Iowa bomber lol

[@FrawwfMedina]

Fool interviews in front of the house

[@bigsemtv5327]

In that movie I thought you was trap

[@650AFTERHOURSOC]

Cap throws were better then ANYTHING min did period !

[@willyamezquita4404]

Nothing worst than a "Legend" who feels himself a little too much! That's that New York bragadocio attitude that turns a lot of people off.

[@smiauu]

the fuck u talkin about?

[@rust-0hspray156]

Well we clicked on the video to hear his story 😂

[@gmbeepop7372]

If u ever stood ur grown against others yk what it's like to amp urself up like this , sound like a mommas boy

[@SamuelShort-dk7yx]

So full of himself lmao

[@michaelvaughn1815]

min you never were King of rh J' line lm RC 2 TOP ask James bout me respect 2/u what happened to RH.. dondi Mickey 729/Hurst/mad..tren nico..p.o.g..aim/ssb..dean.. byb hate 168 tb duro .tex 2.. Chuck 129 started out 4urz after phase 2..comet/blacd miss those good ol days 😆iif you see tag jac mike . it's me ..RC 😎💯

[@edwardrodriguez3733]

Fuck RH!! LEISM2 C.T.B !! KING OF INSIDES. LE2 MTR BUSHWICK!!

[@howardsend6589]

Respect to the old school, but real talk ... Min wasn’t that good.

[@AceChosenOne]

He was also younger than most of the dudes he was writing alongside with gotta give him props for standing tall with some of the greatest

[@bigdaddy2343]

"Min wasn't that good" but was 12-17 yrs old from 78-83. And everyone he was paintin with was 16-23.

[@BruceLabounty802]

depressing interview