Monday, February 8, 2010

BLEN167 (feb )




my febuary start . hopefully ill rock one more. i love silvers !
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Saturday, February 6, 2010

YARD 5 PRESENTS


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Monday, February 1, 2010

KEVIN (NAC143 NAK1) SANTOS




KEVIN SANTOS
NAC143/NAK1/

Born in the South Bronx in 1964, NAK started his love for art by reading Marvel
comics.He started drawing SPIDER-MAN and other Marvel characters as a kid, and was influenced by the vivid color of Marvel’s great covers from the 1970s. In 1976, he moved to Roosevelt Island where he met "DAZE" who introduced him to writing style. He trekked daily to Intervale Ave in the Bronx to take pictures of train pieces. He met HENRY CHALFANT @Intervale who was also taking pictures of pieces.Henry asked, where he could find other writers and NAC, directed him to the bench@149th street and the Grand Concourse to find other writers.(YES,YES,YALL,P.277).

He soon soon started DJing after attending parties outdoors in Queenbridge Park. In 1979, moved to Betances Projects@143rd in the South Bronx and found out the hospital he was born, formally stood in place of the Betances buildings . Immersed himself in "Poppin and Lockin" with his cousin MR.WIGGLES and FABEL(Paser) and were known as Electric Company. Formed all Puerto Rican Hip Hop crew "FANTASIZING 5" and did his first train Piece in 1979, A NAC/DAZE/CYA WITH A KEL /CRASH/BLS production, . He did masterpieces with CRASH,KEL,COS,QUIK DAK2,PASER(Fabel) and painted productions alongside DONDI,NOC,SHY147,REPEL,KASE2,BASE2. He left writing in 1982, and worked as a Bookkeeper for LORD&TAYLOR and FORBES Inc.

In 1990, He attended FORDHAM UNIVERSITY Majored in Communications(FILM) and walked on to the Men’s TENNIS & SQUASH TEAM(DIVISION 1). By 1993, He earned a partial Scholarship and gave back to his Community working summers teaching Tennis for the New York Jr Tennis League. In 1995, his Squash Team captured the Division D championship.
He worked Production on Commercials, Film, and Music Videos.

I'M BACK !
SEPT 2001,spray painted American Flag canvas in Union Square Park as part of a 9/11 Memorial.Co-founded Ground Zero Arts, art to memoralize 9/11; gathered donated construction helmets and created masterpiece on them for the "Missing Show" @ NEW YORK HISTORICAL SOCIETY MUSEUM(6/02).


SEPT 2002, Founded MADHATN(myspace), writing style on mesh hats and clothing, live on the streets of Soho,Nyc and Times Square. 3/03 Added legendary Bronx writer BOM5/MW/RSC and FREQ(STENCIL ART) to the crew. Together they tagged and have done masterpieces on over 30,000 hats..
APRIL13, 2004.NYTIMES/Metro section P.1- Wins a lawsuit against NYC to make it legal to paint on clothing.
Currently painting live in SoHo with Bom5.Bringing original 80s flavor writing style and clothing to the people.

when you meet some old school train writers they tend to be on a ego trip. i met nak in 2002 or was it 2001 at a zulu aniversary in the bronx 170street university . i was in from pr to see the inventos premire at the h2o movie festival. meeting him was cool. humble and mad busy . he was rockin hats like crazy .i think we spoke for like 30 min. and banged off like 20 hats . i spent most of the time talkin with sien who was a old friend . whom was rockin some airbrushed shirts . looking at both . do there trade it was interesting to see the diferent styles of painting clothing . before miskeen and ecko etc etc . there was the old school way of doing your gear . now i walk into stores and see the same styles of clothing but commercialy made in factories . it sucks how companies steal ideas from hip hop to make some loot. the whole purpose of this is when ever you see a painted jackets (commercial) think of hip hop . when ever you see a painted trucker hat . think of NAK AND BOM 5 . true pioneers in graff much respect

BLEN 167
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BOM5 MW

BOM 5


Born in the SOUTH BRONX.
Raised on 174th STREET and HOE AVENUE.
Became 174SPIDER and ran with THE SAVAGE SKULL.
Learn rocking from HOLLYWOOD, MIGHTY MIKE, CHULO, SNAKE and TONY AMORE.
Started my own rocking crew called “WE ROCK”.

Got involved in WRITING (GRAFFITI) thru SMILY149(RIP),
And my cousin CHINOMALO174 (MTA).
Learn WILD STYLE thru my mentor BILLY167 (RIP) and REPEL (SLICK INC.).
Got the name BOM76, and then changed it to BOM5.
Got out of the gang life and into HIP-HOP thru AFRIKA BAMBAATAA’s first jam on unity.
Got down w/ZULU NATION, got card and learn to B-BOY
(BREAKDANCE) from ROBBIE ROB, SIMMONS, BEAVER, and SISCO KID.
Got down with ZULU KINGS.
And DJING(MIXING RECORDS) thru DJ.SALSA, SEE2, AFRIKA ISLAM, DISCO WIZ, JUNEBUG, JAZZY JAY,
GRANDMASTER CAZ and EDDIE CHEBA.

Also started to DJ with SOUND MASTER DISCO/ZULU NATION.
Got down with my boys BATCH and ABY, first SALSOUL then TBB (THE BRONX BOYS).
Thru TBB met SPY and learn more B-BOY moves.
Chill with JIMMY LEE, RIP7, WEBO, MONGO ROCK, KARATE CHINO, RUBBER BAND, BOSCO (RIP) and EZ-MIKE.
Got down w/ROCK STEADY CREW w/RIP7 thru JOJO and JIMMY DEE.
Got nasty and started my own B-BOY crew called “READY TO ROCK” with my cousin MACHO ROCK (RIP).
Got busy rockin’ hard at the JAMS.
RIP7 and I became B-BOY partners and we called ourselves TWO TUFF BREAKERS.
Started my own graffiti crew MW (MAD WRITERS) and my brother BANEONE as Vice Pres.

…THEN AFTER AWHILE THINGS STARTED TO FADE-OUT…
Present Time started my own clothing line BOMIN’ GEAR and design company MECHANICAL WARFARE.
Rocking my own program called “OFF THA WALLS” (teaching kids graffiti art in a positive way).

Also work for COCA-COLA doing GRAPHIC DESIGN and MURALS.
Started a business with OLD SCHOOL friend NAC143 called MADHATN’ specializing in AIRBRUSHING and GRAFFITI ART on MESH CAPS AND CLOTHING.
Lecturing on my life of growing up in the BURNT-DOWN-BRONX.
Traveling around the world, spreading the love of HIP-HOP CULTURE.

…MY LIFE WAS A STRUGGLE BUT I KEPT IT REAL…
…HIP-HOP IS A LIFESTYLE, GRAFFITI IS AN ART…
BOM5, MW INC.

I FIRST MET BOM ALMOST 20 YEARS AGO IN 147 SCHOOL YARD IN THE BRONX . TRUELY A HUMBLE PERSON . I MET BOM THREW A UW WRITER NEV . ALOT OF MY INSPIRATIONS CAME THREW LOOKING AT HIS PIECES AS I SHOW BELOW . I WAS ALWAYS REALLY ATTRACTED BY THE COLOR PATTERNS IN HIS PIECES . AND TILL THIS DAY STILL USE THE SAME STYLE . SOME CALL IT BITING I CALL IT PAYING MY RESPECTS . THANKS BOM FOR THE BIO A TRUE MASTER WRITER!

BLEN 167
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PUERTO RICO CLEAN TRAINS

PUERTO RICOS CLEAN TRAIN MOVEMENT IS VERY YOUNG LIKE THE SYSTEM . ONLY A SELECTED FEW HAVE DONE THE DIRTY DEED . THERES ONLY ONE LINE IN PUERTO RICO AND ITS A SHORT ONE WITH ONLY ONE YARD AND ONE LAYUP . IT HAS BEEN HIT BY US AND EUROPEAN WRITERS . THERE IS A LONG GOING BATTLE ON WHO IS GOING TO KEEP CONTROL OF THE LINE . SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST. THE LINE IS RAPIDLY CLEANED . THERE IS A 90% THAT IT WILL NOT RUN .

THE TRAINS HAVE BEEN FORGOTTEN BY WRITERS FOR
NOW BECAUSE OF ON GOING

BEEFS AND BATTLES FOR THE METROPOLITAN STREETS OF
PUERTO RICO. THERE IS A CITY PLAN FOR 4 ADDITIONAL LINES IN DIFERENT TOWNS OF THE ISLAND . SO WE WILL EXPECT MORE CLEAN TRAINS BEING ROCKED.














FOR LEAGL REASONS I DONT CONDONE THE DEFACING OF PUBLIC PROPERTY.
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Sunday, January 31, 2010

XOMI .


WHEN YOU LOOK AT PUERTO RICOS GRAFF SCENE ITS BASICLY LIKE ANY WHERE ELSE . COPIED NAMES . STUPID BEEFS , EGOS, AND STREET DOMINATING CREWS . THERES ALWAYS ONE OR 2 WRITERS THAT STAND ABOVE TTHE REST BE IT IN STYLE PERSONALITY OR EVEN SKILLS . XOMI IS ONE OF THE ONES THAT TRUELY STANDS HIS GROUND ABOVE THE REST XOMI HAS BEEN IN THE GAME FOR A MIN AND HAS GIVEN PUERTO RICO A BIG PIECE OF HIS STYLE . ONE OF THE COOLEST AND FUNNIEST PEOPLE IVE BEEN AROUND IN YEARS . FOR NOW HES PUT THE GRAFF GAME ON HOLD TO TATTOO AND TO ATTEND BUSINESS. I FINALLY CAUGHT UP WITH HIM AND THIS IS WHAT HE HAD TO SAY.

YOU HAVE BEEN AROUND FOR A WHILE NOW WHY THE NAME XOMI

-the name is a long story but to make it short its because of my grandad that pasted away years ago and he suffered from a couple of sicknesses and one of them was forgetting about everything lol he always called me by somi cause he forgtot my name so i remember the good old days with him and i remember it and got the name but i just make a simple adjust with the X cause i saw it was a hard letter to work with in graff so i got the challlenge

HOW LONG HAVE YOU ROCKIN WALLS-
since january 2 of 2006

WHAT CREWS DO YOU REP -bna

I HAVE SEEN YOUR GROWTH IN STYLE ITS TRUELY UNIQUE WHO AND WHAT HAS BEEN YOUR INSPIRATION IN YOUR STYLES I CANT PINPIONT ANYONE

well my inspiration in the begining not that got his style but the first person that told me yo! lets paint i know you have it was shet he toke me to my first wall and iintroduce me to the beauty of graff and from there i start sketching a lot making different styles learning and making combos with the letters and years later i got into the candy fliping lol, and inspiration of every graffwriter i saw in the streets making me want to get better and better until now! like blen167 that always got faith on me and support me not only in the graff game in tattos to.

I OVER HEARD YOU HOLD PUERTO RICOS LONGEST PIECE RECORD HOW LONG WAS THE PIECE AND HOW LONG DID IT TAKE TO PAINT-

shit that was a 70ft wall piece of pure freestyle wildstyle ..i was just bored and like at 4.45 am if im not incorrect i decide to bomb a wall that was near my hood and bombed it but i was so chill there and relax that i decide to rock a bigger piece that i though lol so it took me 2 days cause the cops pass by and though that it was legal and from there the owner of the house liked it and now its mine lol

I REALLY NEED YOU TELL TELL PEOPLE WHAT YOU CALL YOUR STYLE WHEN YOU USE MAD COLORS HAHAHAH
-first i always paint freestyle i cant i just cant do a sketch on a wall i always do everything freestyle i just improvise well i just paint with lots and lots off scraps cause im a cheap artist no money just scraps and lots of colors so i got this homie that was always loving the colors and she baptized my style candy fliping lol like a trip between xtasy and acid lol cause all the colors and i love to mix it with flourecent colors yeiii!

WHAT DO YOU SEE IN PUERTO RICOS GRAFFITI SCENE

-a lot of talent really a lot of people here have much talent and i have traveled to paint in prand they have the sickest styles but like graffiti scene i think people are more getting it into the competitive side of things i think they have to concentrate in their art and thats it dont use graff as a competition just do what you love and thats it! but in general im not to happy with pr graff to much drama for a small island!

TRUE THAT !! TO MUCH DRAMA !!

YOU HAD A HUGE BOOM BOMBING WHAT HAPPENED THAT YOU SLOWED DOWN-

its all about bombing.it all started by bombing i got my name up like that after that is that i got more concentrate into pieces but yea i am taking it easy cause personal shit i have to take care first but bombing is graff i love it

WILL THEY BE A COME BACK ?
-jejeje im not dead im sleeping for a while

YOU LEFT THE ISLAND TO ROCK IN CALIFORNIA WITH TUNA HOW WAS THAT EXPIERIENCE . BEING THE FIRST TIME OUT OF THE ISLAND .-

it was a great experience like an artist and personal all by my self in a total diferent world i got my good days and i got my bad days i learn how to hustle to survive and i learn in that trip who really are your friends and who use u for who you are ! i specially want to thanks tuna my brother from another mother for acepting this fucking puerto rican like a brother and all his family! i left for i while im thinking ON going back!

HOWS THE CALI SCENE?-

shit is nice i saw lots of style meet a lot of artist i got to a lot of events i was invited in a couple of graff shows and body paint i have a great time!! and the scene is diferent from here theres a lot of drama 2 and a lot of cool people !

BESIDES GRAFFITI I HEARD YOU WERE INTO MOTO CROSS ALSO AND SNOW BOARDING . THE MOTOCROSS I CAN SEE BUT SNOW BOARDING IN PR !!

HAHAHA-naaa fool motocross that was when i was young i love that shit! i still want to go and do some freestyles but i just dont have money for that right now jejeje thats exspensive and snowboard i just want to do it and im going now in february but i had never see snow !how the fuck im going to be into that jejeje

AWSOME TRUELY . HOW DID YOU MAKE THE CHANGE FROM WALL TO SKIN.
IVE SEN YOUR WORK AND ITS AMAZING

-well in thats im just begining and its something that i love! really love its going a permanent art in the skin! like my canvaces forever in someone! what a better way to get up by that jejej,, into graff i have to thanks blen167 cause he was the one that told me you should do it and i made a design for a homie a graff that say his last name and blen supose to tatt it and he told me yo! why dont you doit you made de design already and i laugh jejeje i didnt ever grab a tattoo machine and blen told me i trust you you can so i said fuck it lets doit and my homie was cool with it so ... and when i start doing it blen the fucker jejeje leave me alone cause he was going to drink with his homies and left me alone jejejjeje i got so nervous but everything came out good! and since then i love it!

HOW LONG HAVE YOU BEEN TATTOOING-

well i had being tattoing for 2 years and a half but for me is less cause i start and for like 2 years i tatt like 1 time every 3 months so for me i wasnt like tattoing just doing it some times now in the finalls of 2009 im tattoing almost everyday so im getting the practice

IT SEEMS YOU HAVE BEEN DOING IT FOR YEARS WHERE ARE YOU TATTOOING ?

im in all stars tattoo ceiba and psychodelic tattoo carolina and i have a private studio in my apartment

WHAT ARE THE PLANS FOR THE FUTURE IN TATTOOING AND GRAFFITI-

graffiti lots of new stuff and crazy shit! jeje and tattooing .... you will see by the name im just starting!

SHOUT OUTS !
-everywriters in the world everyone is doing there thing !! i dont say names cause if i leave one they start bitching lol but everyone that support me and my art thanks and there more to come! thanks blen for the interview
freestyle candyfliping all day!!!

PUERTO RICO LO HACE MEJOR!!
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Saturday, January 30, 2010

www.bnacrew.blogspot.com


BNA CREWS BLOG WAS MADE TO SHOW EVERY ONE THE MANY STYLES AND CREW MEMBERS AROUND THE GLOBE IN THE CREW . WE HAVE MANY MEMBERS REPING AND WE ARE TRUELY A FAMILY AT WORK . DURING THE PAST YEARS YES WE HAVE MET WE ARE NOT A INTERNET CREW . BUT A BUNCH OF FRIENDS ROCKIN WALLS
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