ORBY AKA ( your girls favorite writer )

1:What do you write, how long have you been writing for (year started), and why did you get involved in it?      

Orbeezy from DubKayTeezy aka Orby1Kenobi aka the big kahuna aka your girls favorite writer! I started doing graffiti around 06/07 just little marker tags here and there usps labels haha got serious in 2008 but once I got mobile it was a wrap I was driving that bucket to the Bay Area all the time San Jose, Frisco, Oakland all the little towns too in between all the way down to the 805 and LA just to lurk spots met tons of cool folks along the way that I still keep contact with today. I just fell in love with it since a youngster I used to take trips to sf and LA as a kid  I come from a small city where there’s not a whole lot graffiti so when I’d take trips to the city it would blow my fucking mind! I was hooked  I just wanted to get my name out everywhere on almost any surface day or night it got me into a lot of trouble throughout the years with the law but I also had some of the greatest times and stories it got to the point where’s that all I cared about doing planning my day just go paint on some shit with some buds having a good time enjoying the simple things in life not giving a fuck. It got very addicting shit I can’t lie it’s still hard to shake the habit today I guess my pops was right me gusta la mala vida!

2:How did you get your name?                                                  

Just fucking around with letters in summer school I never really paid too much attention in class I was always sketching on paper or textbooks. I liked the way the letters flowed together, who doesn’t love to have a name with the letter “O” in it, you can pretty much do anything with it..

3: Who were your biggest influences and why?

Twist THR,Gusto, Searius OSH, Plantrees & Optimist DE. Hour Dr.Sexo PIGS, Naka and Nesta TFL, Natrl GL, Atlas CBS, ICH YME, Sestor, Yuck, Yesm, Ceks WKT man the list goes on there’s plenty of others I can name but those always did dope shit had styles of their own so salute to those cats! I was a lover of graff before I did graff. 

4: What's  your Favorite type of graffiti?                                          

Honestly I love all aspects of the game from doing some black and silver throws on a box truck, to painting some fresh Virgin concrete in the middle of nowhere, or painting a dope boxcar freight(auto racks all day) in a chill ass yard, to catching a sick in your fucking face freeway shot, catching mean streak tags on to white presto hit ups on some rusty surface or in a cutty ass spot, or catching scribes in any restroom i take a shit in on some sexy ass mirror don’t get me started on etch! One of my favorite pastimes is a fresh kilz white shakened up just write to catch a fresh tag on a black tarp! Oweeee I’m horny now, Fuck!!

5: Do you consider graffiti Hip Hop? and if not where did you pick it up from and what group do you think it falls in?                                

Graffiti is whatever the fuck you want it to be, I know some emo niggaz that do graff and I know some actual killas that write on shit too! 

6: What's your favorite type of music?                

I like it all, from Bay Area 90’s rap to Oldies to punk to corridos to reggae I have exquisite taste..

7: What's the difference between Graffiti and Gang graffiti to you?           NEXT QUESTION.

8: Fruity pebbles or coco pebbles? 

Only fuck with the captain!

9: Are you in your prime as of right now? And if not, when do you think your prime was? 

I wouldn’t say in my prime I’m in the tagger dad club now so graffiti isn’t my priority like it once was anymore but no I just paint whenever the fuck I feel like it or some buddys are down to do a collab but I will always love it so I’ll always be around still doing that tagging shit as my family would say..

10: What's your favorite city that you have painted and why is it your favorite?

I still have a lot of traveling and places to see but Oakland and SF were always great times with friends

11: What do you think of people getting jail time for graffiti ?

I mean you are writing on someone’s shit so it is what it is just be on your toes keep trucha ya know! 

12: Do you still drink 40’s and if so what's your favorite brand to drink?

Oh fuck throwback foo! I been on the remmy with Red Bull but I’ll throw back a cold mickeys! 

13: How do you feel about the graffiti trend and as well as being used for everything now a days (clothing,lunch boxes , hats , etc…..)

It’s pretty weird for the most part, I loved the secrecy! Only a chosen few know what I write I don’t try to advertise it either, I’m like Clark Kent baby it’s like a secret identity top secret shit. Yeeee!

14: Do you have a chase story that people would like to hear one that you almost shit your self during?            

There’s a few and some funny ass ones too but I don’t want to incriminate myself or others, a lot of them were out of peer stupidity now that I reflect back on it and could have been avoided. 

15: Any last Shout outs?        

Shout out to my bad ass kids and baby mama! The entire DUB club, anyone who still finds time for this shit even though life gets hectic and busy as fuck! Oh yeah Don’t be a scumbag and don’t do do drugs that shits wack..