Some street bombing for ya...

KEAMZ:HOW LONG HAVE YOU BEEN WRITING FOR?

DETN8:since 1991 almost 9 years

KEAMZ: WHAT OTHER TAGS DID YOU USED TO WRITE BEFORE "DETN8"?

DETN8:i used to write DEAD,ONELS,STOK,AND SOMEOTHER BS TAGS

KEAMZ:NOW THAT YOU LOOK BACK IN THE DAYS AT "MINY DETN8"....HOW DO YOU THINK YOU WERE ,RELATED TO GRAFF?

DETN8:I DEFINATLEY WAS BLIND SIDED BY ALL THE "OLD SKOOLERS"...WHO I THOUGHT WERE DOWN BUT TIME HAS SHOWN CHANGE..AND I DIDNT KNOW AS MUCH AS I DO NOW.....IVE PROGRESSED WIT TIME LIKE EVERYONE ELSE HAS ..

KEAMZ: DO U THINK THAT YOU HAVE REACHED YOUR PEAK PERFORMANCE IN GRAFF(GRAFF ORGASM...LOL)? DO YOU THINK U EVER WILL? IF U ARE ALREADY THEIR...

DETN8: YOU NEVER REACH A PEAK IN GRAF I THINK AS LONG AS THERE ARE NEW WRITAZ COMIN THROUGH AND SHIAT YOU CAN NEVER KNOW TO MUCH AND I THINK FOR SURE YOU CANT REACH ANY TYPE OF PEAK...ITS LIKE YOU THREW A BURNER 2 YEARS AGO AND THEN YOU DID ONE YESTERDAY AND YOU LOOK AT THE 2 YEAR OLD ONE AND YOU THINK ITS GOT MAD MORE FLAVOR THEN THE MOST RECENT ONE....SO I PERSONALLY BELIEVE NO WRITER HAS A PEAK..NO MATTER WHAT YOU SAY..YOU ARE ALWAYS LEARNIN..

KEAMZ: HOW DO YOU THINK GRAFF HAS CHANGED OVER THE YEARS IN MIAMI 305? HAS IT CHANGED IN OTHER PLACES YOUVE PAINTED AT?

DETN8:TELL YOU THE TRUTH IVE ONLY PAINTED IN MIAMI...AND IT HAS CHANGED ALOT...TO MUCH EGO IS INVOLVED WITH THE PAINTIN..

KEAMZ: WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT ALL THIS AOL/INTERNET BEEF AS A RESULT OF GUESTBOOKS ON GRAFF SITES?

DETN8:ITS STUPID......TAKE IT TO A WALL ANY ONE CAN CLAIM ANYONES NAME ON A COMPUTER..ITS LIKE HI IM...A CLASSIC IM CROME...EVERYONE HAS CLAIMED THAT NIGGAZ SHIAT...GETTIN FAME WIT ANOTHER NIGGAZ

KEAMZ: DO YOU THINK THAT GIRLS LOOK DOWN ON GRAFF?

DETN8:NAH NOT REALLY I THINK ALL GIRLS LIKE NIGGAZ THAT WRITE..YOU ALWAYS GET THE REQUEST FOR CAN YOU DO MY NAME PLEEZ

KEAMZ: WHAT DID YOUR PARENTS THINK ABOUT IT? HOW ABOUT FRIENDS/TEACHERS/ETC?

DETN8:MOM DUKES LIKES IT BUT SINCE I STARTED WRITIN ME AND THE PAH DUKES HAVE BEEN BEEFIN..MOMS LIKE DONT GET CAUGHT AND POPS IS LIKE I HOPE YOU GET ARRESTED..FRIENDS DIG IT I TAUGHT A DCOUPLE OF THEM HOW TO WRITE BUT SOME JUS ARE TO DAMN CAUTIOS AND HAVENT GOTTEN ANYWHERE

KEAMZ: WHO DO YOU THINK,IN MIAMI, HAS GOT THE BEST THROWUP (ASIDE FROM YOURSELF OF COURSE)? PIECING? STYLE? ETC...?

DETN8:MAN THERE ARE ALOT OF DOPE WRITERS IN MIAMI AND ALOT THAT ARENT DISCOVERED YET SO ITS HARD TO TELL....BUT YOU KNOW I GOTTA SAY TSC CREW..LOL

KEAMZ: HOW WOULD YOU DESCRIBE YOURSELF WITH RESPECT TO GRAFF?

DETN8:YOU RESPECT ME I RESPECT YOU....I AINT GOTBEEF WIT NO ONE...SO YOU LEAVE ME ALONE AND I LEAVE YOU ALONE....MY MAMA SAID..TREAT OTHERS HOW YOU WANNA BE TREATED..LOL

KEAMZ: DO YOU FEEL THAT PEOPLE ARE BOMBING LESS THESE DAYS BECAUSE OF MAD PEOPLE GETTING ROPED?

DETN8:IT DEPENDS ON HOW YOU LOOK AT IT....I THINK THERE IS ALOT MORE HEAT DUE TO RECENT EVENTS WITH THE WHOLE CROOK AND CROME BS BUT WRITERS WILL ALWAYS FIND OTHER MEANS OF GETTING UP....WE DONT DIE WE JUS MULTIPLY...

KEAMZ: WHAT DO THINK IS MORE IMPORTANT TO TEST YOUR SKILLS: THROWUPS, BLOCKBUSTERS, PIECING, JUST BOMBING THE FUCK OUT OF 305,other...?

DETN8:EVERY ASPECT OF GRAFFITI IS USED TO TEST YOUR SKILLS ....BUT I FEEL THAT PIECING IS WHERE IT IS REALLY AT ANY ONE CAN PICK UP A CAN OF PAINT AND GO BOMIN...BUT THE SKILL COMES TO HOW MUCH FLAVOR YOU CAN ROCK ON A PANEL..

KEAMZ: WHO GOT YOU STARTED IN THIS GRAFF GAME?

DETN8:MY HOMEBOY SEBS BACK IN 1991..

KEAMZ: WHAT CREWS/WRITERS DO YOU THINK GOT POTENTIAL FOR 2000?

DETN8:I HONESTLY FEEL THAT THOSE DD CATS GOT SOME POTENTIAL AND LOOK TO BE A UP AND COMING CREW....AND I THINK THE TE'S ARE GONNA START THROWIN SHIT DOWN AGAIN.ITS HARD TO BE SURE BUT THAT IS WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE

KEAMZ: TELL MIAMI WHAT GRAFF MEANS TO YOU?

DETN8:IT IS MY LIFE...I LOVE JUST WAKIN UP IN THE MORNING AND KNOWING THAT THE MAN ABOVE HAS BLESSED ME WITH A TALENT THAT IS UNIVERSAL...ITS A WAY OF LIFE..YOU KNOW ITS WHO YOU ARE YOU JUS GIVE UP SO MUCH FOR IT AND YOU DIE KNOWING THAT YO HOPEFULLY I WAS A POSITIVE INSPIRATION FOR SOME KID OUT THERE AND JUS KNOWING THAT AND KNOWING WHAT I ACCOMPLISHED IN THIS CRAZY LIFE..ITS WHAT KEEPS ME GOING...

KEAMZ: HOW HAS IT CHANGED YOUR LIFE?

DETN8:ITS MAD ME A MORE OPEN MINDED PERSON...AND THE GIRLS DIG IT

KEAMZ: WHAT GRAND PLANS DO YOU AND THE "TSC CREW" GOT FOR 2000 AND BEYOND?

DETN8:WE JUS WANNA KEEP ROCKIN SHIT AND KEEP IT GOING WITH MAD BURNERS,BOMIN,THE WHOLE NINE..YOU KNOW TRY NOT TO LET THE NAME DIE OUT

KEAMZ: DOES "TSC" HAVE ANY HUGE PRODUCTION PLANNED FOR THE TURN OF THE CENTURY?

DETN8:I WISH I COULD TELL YOU BUT I REALLY DONT KNOW LIKE I SAID WE JUS WANNA KEEP ROCKIN IT..

KEAMZ: SO YOU SEE ANY NEW GADGETS THAT MAY ARISE FOR GRAFF USE?GADGETS I DONT THINK SO BUT THE ILLEST SHIT NOW THAT I SEE ALOT OF CATS DOIN IS HOME MADE MARKERS..DRIPPIEZ..I LOVE THEM

KEAMZ: HOW DID YOU COME UP WITH YOUR TAG "DETN8"?

DETN8:WELL I USED TO WRITE DEAD..AND BACK IN 1995 I WAS GONNA BATTLE THIS OTHER CAT WHO WAS WRITIN DEAD...SO ONE NITE IN MY ROOM I WAS WORKIN ON A PIECE AND SINCE I WAS ALWAYS INTERESTED IN ABBREVIATING WORDS WITH NUMBERS AND SHIT I CAME UP WITH DETN8....IT FITS MY PERSONALITY..YOU GET ME AROUND COPS OR DISRESPECTING ADULTS AND BOOM...HERE YOU GO..A PHAT DISH OF DETN8'S DOME PIECE.

KEAMZ: DO YOU THINK THAT MY MOTHER FUCKING SITE WILL CRASH WHEN THE CLOCK HITS 12 O'CLOCK ON JANUARY? THAT WILL SUCK!!!

DETN8:FUCK THAT Y2K BS...JUS BUY THE CHIP AND YOULL BE STR8..

KEAMZ: ANY LAST WORDS OF WISDOM FOR THE STRUGGLING ARTISTS THAT JUST ENTERED THE GRAFF WORLD?

DETN8:YO DONT LISTEN TO WHAT ANY ONE SAYZ,DO YOUR SHIT FOR YOU..DONT LET ANY ONE TELL YOU DIFFERENT......AND IF THEY TRY TO JUS SAY OK IM SORRY AND KEEP ON GOIN...SARCASM IS A WONDERFULL GIFT FROM GOD....

KEAMZ: SHOUTS TO.....?

DETN8:YO, YOU KEAMS ONE FOR ALLOWING ME TO DO THIS INTERVIEW.. BIG UPS.. MY TSC FAMILY.. MI CORAZON FRIO.. TEEVEE.. QUAKE.. ATOMICK.. NME.. DTEK... SEBS.. AGAMETT.. RUETS.. RAVIE.. LADY TIPS.. LIQUID.. HONER.. CABOOM.. STOE... LUST... SEGA.. ERIEE... ONE LOVE TO YALL... BIG KEHNAE.. KYLE "THE HOT ROD KING".. SHILOE.. LOVE... MISTER FUZER OF MSG CREW.. CREED.. EDSKI.. RAGE.. SHIE... HOZE.. IHS.. MW.. UW..BIG UPS.. TE CATS MSICS.. CURE... PETRO... GES ROCK... BEFORE.. LOVE... WAR AND DEKAF SKG.. RESPECT... AND TO ALL THE LADIES THAT HAVE PUT UP WIT MY SHIT.. RESPECT KEEP YA HEAD UP.. AND TO MY MOM AND POPS.. WITH OUT YOU I WOULDNT BE HERE.. I LOVE YOU.... PEACE..