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About Me

Born in Wuppertal, livin still in Remscheid! IÂ´m drawin and sometimes paintin since i got out of pempas!When i was 12, i started to listen Hip Hop and got into it more and more! Skeelo and Fugees was the first Hip Hop, i listened, and especially "the score" of the Fugees is still a dope album! When i was 16, i visited some Jams in the AJZ Bahndamm near my hometown, where i saw WBC, a dope Hip Hop Crew from the area around Cologne and Bremerhaven! That time, german Hip hop was a big Hype, but quickly i realized many Fans werenÂ´t down with Hip Hop, just with german Hip Hop, with german language! Long time, i sympathized with the idea of starting Djing! I did a little bit in the AJZ Beatbox CafÃ©, a nice idea, but that wasnt so serious cuz i still had no real practice, and few people where comin there cuz it was in the middle of the week! So in 2006, in summer, i bought my turntables and a mixer! Made my first mixtape end of 2006, but still donÂ´t have muzik on the pc, just on tape! IÂ´m not single,(kiss you Winchinchala), and itÂ´s my fuckin private thing if i wanna have some children later, or if i gonna buy a clone of the Mercedes-Donalds-Company in future!!!(Haha!!) I wasnÂ´t often at concerts, but almost 3 years ago, i saw Flash from N.Y. yÂ´all know, in Wuppertal, still burnin!And this year in atumn, i saw Mr. Lif on live stage rockin it! Really nice, cause the club,Stadtgarten, was small, so the feeling was oldschoollike familary(how i only can imagine the oldschool times)!!! More things about me you can see under this text!If you want to see sum of my drawin and graff, clik pics! After studying many styles i tried to do somethin really new with Writing, i think i did, but of cuz i donÂ´t think iÂ´m a king who inspired others! I wanted to tell more in my styles, to connect letters and characters and more! I started with some common style, deconstructed them and transform them in one sketch! Sci-Fi and Surrealism often inspired me in this, but in same time, itÂ´s reflecting the actual world too! Right now, iÂ´m not so interested in Graff anymore, i feel i explored it enough yet, and donÂ´t see new things out there! Maybe iÂ´ll return to it later but now i wanna do other things in drawin or painting!!

My Interests

Art that means music, paintin, drawin, movies or.......cooking! But iÂ´m also interested in the rest of the world and the universe!!! By the way, like most people know here i guess, myspace was bought by Rupert Murdoch in 2005, BUT MR. MURDOCH, YOU CANÂ´T BUY THE PEOPLE!!!

I'd like to meet:

The Artists i like, and other people! But though this is a nice possibillity to get to know for music and communication, iÂ´m not a big fan of internetblogs, cuz i think if you talk too much in the internet, real face to face communication becomes less interesting or more superficial!Please check my grafx under pics!!! The foto with me an the tomato made my girlfriend, other pics and that old japanese graphic is nice and interesting to me, so i show it, the rest is my work!SOON, IÂ´LL PUT HERE A MIX TO LISTEN! IÂ´LL SEND A BULLETIN TO YÂ´ALL!! Right now there are just some mixtapes goin around at some Wutal homiez tapedeckz! The shit is Raw-material!

Music:

Hip Hop and sum Jazz, Soul, Funk, Rock, all thatÂ´s good music!!!Fugees(on of my first Hip Hop albums, i bought),BDP and also later Krs, Rakim, a little P.E., Mos Def, Talib Kweli, Gangstarr, Beastie Boys, Nas,Dilated Peoples, Co.Flow and also later El-P , Cann.Ox, RJD2, Mr.Lif, DJ Krush, Dj Q-bert, Grandmaster Flash, Advanced Chemistry, Beginner, El da Sensei, Soulposition, Planet Asia, RZA and the rest of Wutang also a bit, De la Soul, Erikah, Badu, Madlib, J Dilla(R.I.P.), 9th wonder, Mf Doom, Dangermouse, Jean Grae, the Roots, Roots Manuva, Blak Twang, Jonny Coltrane, Horowitz, Pink Floyd and sometimes Emerson Lake and Palmer! But canÂ´t mention all, cuz thereÂ´s a lot of good artists!!! My philosophy of Hip Hop is like oldschool spirit and progressive styles! Oldscool spirit to me means express yourself, it aiÂ´t where ya from, itÂ´s where ya at, love, peace and unity, but i should stop now cuz i donÂ´t wanna seem like a preacher! Progressive style means staying open minded and tryin new things! Of Course i like classical Hip Hop like Gangstarr, but i also want to listen some crazy craetive El-P Beat thatÂ´s breakin some conventions!Lokums actual favorites:LP: OHNO - Exodus into unheard rythmsSingle: KRS - My life/Fucked up

Movies:

CanÂ´t tell all now! Blade Runner, Dances with wolves, Ghost Dog, Dead Man, Nausica, Koyaanisqatsi, Wildstyle, Berlin Hardknocks 4, He got game, Tanz der Vampire, Once upon a time in America, Zatoichi, Batman Begins, 2001 spacey odysee, Ran, Jazz Club, The good, the bad and the ugly, My name is Nobody(Butts Spenca und tÃ„rence Hill), Invincible(Unbesiegbar).....

Television:

Sometimes, but theres too much bullshit!

Books:

Now readin Orhan Pamuks Istanbul! Before........some Kafka, Robert crumb, Lucky luke, Werner, Lakota Woman from Mary Crow Dog, Rosa Luxemburg, Enki Bilal, Fear of a kanak planet(gÃ¼ngor und loh) ,Reich Ranicki, Roga Willemsen, Edward sherrif Curtis,a little bit Charlz Bukowsky, Noam Chomsky and ......newspaper, TV-magazine!

Heroes:

Rosa Luxemburg, Rosa Parks, Adorno, Chief Joseph, Einstein, M.L. King, Krs, Dondi(R.I.P.), Lee, Blade, Amok, Kaos 45,Zische Breitbart(Samson), my girlfriend, Buddha and my parents!!! They are Idols, good people i like, but admiring a person as a god, i never liked! Havin some ideals, true, according to the common scence that needs intellect and heart, good ideals,is important! But of cuz itÂ´s often hard to see the dissonence of these ideals and the reality, so the moment of giving up, and accepting all like it is can be strong! I donÂ´t believe in a master plan of a better world, thereÂ´ll be never a perfect one, but if you give up, itÂ´ll get worse! So i try to find Balance between thinking about the worlds problems and forgetting it when i want to chill and have fun! If you wanna start doin somethin for your Karma, buy fair -trade-products!!! Show your power as costumer!!! But please, donÂ´t trust too much in the outa apereance!!!