Selfish BBoy Cipher...

Milk has beef with this waffles place in Harlem...
Milk doesn't think Iz the Wiz was a square...
How can you have a square cipher, Meres? No offense, Doug E., but I'd rather have pancakes...

Milk doing some rounds...

Milk says these awnings are lies...This is not really a Halal food place...This one is a porno DVD place...I personally think the better Halal places are on carts, there's bones in the chicken and rice buffets in this neighborhood, but there is one place you can go to...

Milk says this is a misspelled awning. Don't they have spell check?

Bedstuy...My first home in New York...

Men of Many Hats...

Iron Chef Snails eating Target for breakfast...

Traitor Joe's...

Taking it to the Mattresses...

Clue, you proved you're not a man of honor.

Out of the Crates, Into the Fire!

This is Milk's store...

Tonight with Joan and Travis and Scifen and Skeme...

Mad love to Skeme and Scifen...
I'm from the East Bay and these aren't really burritos to me...Actually, Harlem's a better spot for Mexican food...

Milk wanted this wall, but Target had no foresight...

There is only one ALEX in my life now...Alex Silvia AKA Ink76...

I met Ink76 (founder of DAA) at a graff store with Sonic many years ago...He's my Puerto Rican father figure...I met them both shortly after meeting Iz the Wiz at a Lee Quinones gallery reception. I was surprised to see all the old school in the house...It was so beautiful for me...I was introduced to Iz by Star. Star thought I was a photographer, but Iz invited me to paint...He was President of the Phun Phactory with Pat (a former member of the X-Terminators, an elite force of the FBI which extinguished vandals and created artists...). I was able to paint with many people who were living legends to me and the place is now known as 5 Pointz...They gave me a rooftop spot you could see from the 7 train and Star gave me paint, a lot of paint, but he had beef with Alex...I was like a kid in a candy store...I've always adored Iz and have been concerned about his health because he was so hardcore that he had to have his kidneys replaced...It was the first time that he painted since his kidney replacement, so I felt honored...He is also a major father figure to me...These are my influences, those are my Dads...I'm also Twist's cousin...

A note to Skeme: I'm giving this drawing by my Dad to you for all the great support you have given me...Showing my love for my YNN crewmate, NicOne, founder of VideoGraff, also an accomplished photographer, not to mention a sick ass artist...Thanks for your support, too...

A Confession and my last words to Ease...

I spent many years in love with you, but you chased fame and fortune and I have a different path. One time I was at one of Cope's parties and I didn't realize I was standing near Pink and you walked by and kissed her ass and totally ignored me even after I made your whole crew dinner at my house. Pink's never been nice to me. I've never really had any influential women painters in my life. Maybe that's the secret to my formulaic makeup. You didn't even stand up for me when I got busted by the cops. They accused me of knowing personal details about you and IHS. Hey, I've always been down with Ink. He's the one who's been my true family. He's the one who told me when I landed in the hospital that you didn't give a sh*t about me. I've never been the type to be pretentious and so after the Pink incident, I saw you and your crew at Tracy's show and left abruptly after I gave love to Tracy because I could not bear to be condescended to. You are not a friend. In fact, you're cruel. And I'm sorry that I wasted so much time thinking that one day...well, anyway, I hope you don't step on other people, as you did me...'Cuz I have always been nice. And I'm a lifer...

Two Weeks in Cali...I need a vacation...

It was not a vacation...Between kissing babies, I was working my ass off...And sometimes I let my guard down in cafes and unfortunately, it's not a perfect world in the hood...Oakland has hit hard times just like the rest of the country economically and now the bold criminals are getting so fierce that they strike inside the restaurants and cafes...I was able to do a bunch of work for my Mom, but it was not enough...She is not very healthy and super stressed out all the time...She really needs some help, but trust is an issue when it comes to employees. There was a fire at the nail salon, I rented two apartments, I dealt with fire inspections, I was cleaning out an apartment where this lady had left all her stuff, wall-to-wall...Anyways, I also got to stop into FiveTen Gallery (I was hoping to see Phresh, he's been having a hard time...) and had an emotional few seconds with Dream's shrine, took some flicks of Krash's clothes for Stem, and then after standing amongst the people who I have beef with who could not even say anything to my face, I left, angry...I have a lot of beef still...See, my problem with the AS crew is that people like Phresh who I met in the early 90's when he was painting the Pest Control wall (Ren and Stimpy) with Dream (that was also the first time I met Dream) is also on TDK...And he has always been cool, tries to hit me up all the time...I have a lot of love for him even though he is troubled...I cannot be made to choose to give up on everyone...Aware has nothing to do with these people...He and Cardio came to visit me in Boston when I was living in the dorms at college...I have nothing against him and so when he was DJing at Verse, was I supposed to ignore him and pretend not to have love for him because I know he is a sweet guy? I'm pissed that Crayone and Eskae and Ader feel that they can take away the people that I am also protective of...I told Sundance to protect the good ones, so they aren't taken advantage of by the pretentious other ones who flush the whole crew's rep down the toilet with their wackness...The thing is they hang onto Sundance's coat tails because he has a good reputation and people love him, but they take advantage of him by being wack to other people...I just don't want the good ones to be jaded...That's all...I still have love for the good ones...The problem is I have a really bad temper...I think that's why Ink76 knew me when we first met...He saw it in my eyes...He's ruined me because he recognized me right away...

And then I told Alex off...In a moment of weakness, I called him after my laptop got stolen...It was the wrong thing to do because all he could do was talk about himself. I think he realized his mistake because he called me the next morning first thing trying to be nice to me, but talked about Obama for like 10 minutes...The call was lost and I texted him, "If you can't admit you miss me, then what's the point? I know you miss the apartment, but I don't have a computer anymore. I think it would be better for you if you stay with the next bus." He called again and said we should talk in person when I get back because it was too hard to talk over the phone about personal stuff...

Anyways, it's over...I also told Fred that Crayone was Clue's friend and I ended my friendship with Clue too because he never wrote my Mom an apology and even had the nerve to blame me for his giving up his perfect life in Cali...I told him from the very beginning I would never ask him to move out to New York...That was all on him...

The good news is that I have a "silver lining"...