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SCANT RTD INTERVIEW

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Where and what year did you start writing?
It all started in the galaxy of Queens about 1988.

What inspired you to become involved in writing?
Watching Beat Street.

Did you have a mentor?
Spit from Beat Street but I don't die at the end!

Who influenced your style?
No one really. I pretty much learned it all by myself.

How did you get your name?
Suckin' Clits And Nasty Tits

List all the other names under which you have painted?
I've always been SCANT. I never use to write anything else.

What borough are you originally from?
Killlla Queens where the cream fiends intervene.

What lines and neighborhoods have you hit?
I went all-city baby!

Who were your most successful partners?
TRAKE, SIDE and SENSE.

What crews have you written for?
RTD and Bomb Squad.

You have a reputation for being rebellious. How do you feel that developed?
I started going all out when my brother died. I was bombing everything then. Mad people started hating and started raggin' my shit so I went nuts and I told myself if I cant live no one can live so I went all out and started raggin' everyone in the graf game.

Have you had any conflicts with other crews or writers?
Plenty. I beat DECK up. Gave KEZ5 a nice scar across his face. There are mad writers I beat up. I don't even wana' give them fame and say who they are.

Do you have any good raid stories?
Me and my boy DOCR was bombing some pits when all of a sudden 3 pit bulls started chasin' us. I dropped my bag filled with about 20 cans and jetted for my life cause it looked like they didn't fuokin' eat for months. Thank god I got away, 'cause I wasn't about to be there chow chow.

Who were the best writers of your era?
RTD crew 10000 percent!

When did you quit?
In about 2000 'cause it just got dead no one was really doing it hard like I was.

Are you currently involved in art?
At this moment not at all I been fiending to bomb but this new shit with vandal squad is bull shit on how they can arrest you with out even getting' caught. That's some straight bull sh*t! So vandal squad, all I gotta tell u is suck my pee pee, 'cause y'all never ever caught me in the act.

Do you have any closing words?
I will always be SCANT RTD and if anyone got a problem with that feel free to bring it. 'Cause you will get dropped and to all my beef I put BBQ sauce on all of you and ate you up bottom line!! And I wanna' give a shout out to all my fu*kin real niggas who get money and have the world by the balls! And last but not least REST IN PEACE TO MY BROTHER DENIS ! I'll never for get you my nigga' and the prez of RTD KING SEUS and last but not least SPOOK. Those are RTDees fallen angels who will always be remembered!


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