Tell us a little about yourself and how you found the style you got into.

I’ve been drawing since I was 3 on my dad’s notepads. Just doodling random stuff and growing up in the Bay, there’s hella graffiti everywhere so I was trying to replicate that. It’s formed into what I draw today.  The stuff I draw is what I did during as a kid. Like block letters my dad used to draw and all the hyphy movement stuff too. They used to have sick ass covers. I brought that to the current day. My styles have always been colourful so i just brought that to current day things. Just from stuff I’ve been through.

The Bay Area plays a huge part in what you portray in your illustrations.  How was it like being born in raised in the hyphy movement? Bay area’s music has a huge influence on your work.

Oh hell yeah! That’s probably the reason why I draw what I draw. I was 8 or something and my dad gave me a RBL tape and some Dre Dog.  Ever since then I have been into that type of music. That old school G-funk and Mob shit. My cousins were also really into the hyphy movement around 06 and the myspace era. All the crazy headers and graphics inspired me too. I didn’t know how to code and do it online so I just drew them.  I want to make it seem like just by looking at my work I want people to know where I’m from.  

You mention your dad inspires you alot, was he an artist as well?

My dad had his own business so that was a model. He always showed me how to hustle in that aspect.  But he would always doodle. Like Teen Angel, brick and block letters and put daly city over everything he was drawing.  I still use the brick letters in my work today and seeing it hella young.  

Tell us about your “Breh” movement.

That was hella funny! It was my big homie panda sex when i was doing grafitti.  He’s a frisco graf writer. A legend. He’d always say breh and he was just doing his thing.  I met him one night for the first time after seeing him since I was a kid on flickr. He put me down on the crew and I just started doing breh flips just for laughs.  And it just sort of blew up out of nowhere. That’s where the Brehlenciaga flip came from. It just sort of kicked off. Shout out to that fool. 

So you did graffiti too?

I’ve been doing graf since I was a kid like at 11 in middle school. I was just tagging on everything and got hella markers and hit up lamp posts and books.  Now I just keep it on paper. Don’t want to risk it haha.

So why does your heart rest with the Bay Area?

I love everything about the Bay. We have the culture, the rap, the lingo. We got sideshows, the way people dress, beanie flips. We have Mac dre and E40. It’s gone now but people are still with it. It’s a melting pot too, with all races coming together and all of it becomes a bay thing.  It’s cool being from where everyone wants to be.  

Outside of art, what are other things you’re passionate about that inspires your aesthetic.

I’ve always collected vinyls and cassettes, toys and shit.  All the old rap tapes my dad would grow up listening to. Then the stuff I would end up finding too from those tapes. I really like collecting music, it’s close to me.

How many tapes do you have in your collection now?

Around 300. I sold a lot though but I still have a shitload. It’s all the stuff I listen to when I work.

If you could an album cover for any artist, who would it be?

RBL Posse since it was the first cassette I ever got. I’ve been slapping “Don’t Give Me No Bammer Weed” since I was 12. It’s dope because I put some RBL posters in my drawings and they hit me up and sent me a bunch of stuff. They found out I was including them and he just found my work online. He’s been supporting ever since.  Some homage shit.  

What are the next big plans for you?

Thinking ahead makes me scared haha. I want to have another art show out here in the bay and have all the homies come through. I want to do one for my hometown. Other than that just cook with other artists.  Lately I’ve been doing drawings where I’d start it and they would finish the other half. Just work with more people that love drawing. And make it into a magazine like Teen Angels. I like helping people. The best I can do is just find the same people and help them and the homies out.  I want to let it all happen naturally. I just want to work hard and whatever happens, happens.