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Interview with Per FX crew: © Streets Are Saying Things™.

Interview by Stern Rockwell

SASTER: What writers are you really not feeling?

PER: You know what? I’m not feeling the niggas that aint loyal and pretend to be cool out of personal interest, and as soon as opportunity knocks….. they forget where they came from. They know who they are! I’m not feeling the niggas that built their careers on being snitches. Snitches that snitch on little writers so they could get the green light to the yards to do their thing. No matter what I did in life I always kept it real, and never snitched!!! I earned my ranks!
Nobody gave me shit!! I’ll put it to you like this…. When you come up to a wall, and “if you know your Graff”, you know exactly what part everybody played on the wall. The shit aint a mystery!! I’m a graffiti artist to the fullest, which means -I rock style in the form of letters. I help out on backgrounds, but suck at characters. I aint afraid to admit anything! I still paid mad dues into Graff. If I had to throw in some names I think Ces is a fucking sell out and Eaz is fake. I just didn’t pick up on it soon enough I should have thought something was up when a nigga fronts like shit’s cool…. years go by and he never takes you to his house. That’s shiest waiting to happen.

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COPE2.

You hear the name all over. You hear it on radio, the television and see him while playing your Xbox.

COPE2, the name is associated with royalty in the Graff game. A true King whose been holding it down for several decades.

COPE2 finds himself in an interesting position. While many writers have failed to reap financial rewards from Graffiti, COPE2 finds himself receiving the accolades and financial success that isn’t associated with the careers of writers. He has made a living from Graff, and it is his profession.

I caught up with the King and exchanged words with him. He wasn’t reserved, but chose to discuss everything from beef, projects, accusations that he is a snitch, the haters, the current game, fucking people up, the cops, personal relationships, and life.

COPE2 put it down, and it goes like this…

CLARKE: So how did you come up with the name Cope2?
COPE2: Cope2 man, Bronx graffiti legend. I came up with that name back in 79, 80. My boy use to write “Kope” with a “K”. I forget what I was writing back then …..I use to write “BIN” and then I handed “BIN3″ to a friend of mine. Then I started writing “Cope” with a “C”. I got the 2 from when I idolized BAN2, he use to be king of the insides. He had a lot of shit on the lines. I use to watch a lot of names like 2FAMOUS, BAN2 PHASE2…I got inspired by them and since then I was COPE2.

CLARKE: When did you start writing?

COPE2: 78, 79 my cousin use to right. He was a local kid from the neighborhood. I picked it up from him and him taking me on the subways and then watching the trains go by…trains by COMET and BLADE, whole cars and whole cars by Lee…

CLARKE: So you actually saw all of this?

Cope2: Yeah, that really blew me away. I said “I want to get big like this!”

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