Painted in 1994 at the now famous AKB Lay up in the Twin Cities. Not really anything special about this freestyle, I had plans to go and do a little bit more on the lines but this was really the only good car on the line. I was with a few other writers too. Nobody wanted to hit the Middle over the doors on our attempted E to E. I had made a comment to a few of the younger Homies in the crew to "Not be scared" and urged them on to just man up and do it. Everyone just kept saying that it looked like it was going to be too much work due to all the bars and shit and were really timid about hitting it. So, finally after about 10 minutes of people giving their reasons for not wanting to hit it, I just said I would take it. I rocked this out real fast with fat caps. Like I said, I wasn’t really trying to do something big but as a joke and a reminder to all the other writers with me that bitched out on taking the door, I hit up real big, "OOOH SCARY!". Like it was no big deal. It kind of had a double meaning too, looking at my piece, that shit was pretty scary looking at the time. Lol. I’m not trying to bust anyone’s balls with this now, back in the day, for sure. Hitting the door in the 90’s was something most all writers hated doing. Usually when a group would get down on a train, the best guys would always get first choice and the up and comers would get the doors. It was just the way it worked. If you look back at a lot of the pieces from that era, you would see this hierarchy. You would also notice how the pieces in the middle always look a little janky. It was the low man on the totem pole scenario. Which is always how it should be. Making the younger writers take the difficult spots only made them stronger over all. They would learn how to rock over really fucked up abstructions and when they got on a good wall, they would come off so ill because they had built up all this hard earned skill which made flat walls easy for them. This pushed them into believing they could hit anything and most did. It was an unwritten strategy that really worked and helped in developing some incredibly ill ass writers. Fun times!
