Started illegally painting in Kingston without a tag name, doing one piece the spring of 1983 inspired by the

movie Dreams Dont Die. Painted stuff like Funk Rules in 86, Hip Hop in 87 and in 88. Came up with my Ren.2 name in the fall of 1988 and used it as my ID when piecing the word Hip Hop in the Ottawa transit tunnel in the spring of 89 and elsewhere later. Started piecing Ren.2 on the Autoracks as Canadas first freight piecer as of Jan1992. Came up with my Daser tag name in the summer of 1992. Corresponded through I.G.T that year; Phase 2s worlds first Aerosol Art/Hip Hop chronicle. Got hooked up with writers all around the world, trading photos in the early to mid nineties, hooked up with some Zulu Nation people. Have been an avid train watcher since the late 1970s. Back when the trains were completely clean through the eighties till the early nineties. Myself, then Ren starting out that business in this country. First graph crew I got Name: Daser aka Ren.2 down with was CMD through mail correspondence with a guy who wrote Tem from CMD in 92/93. The most important crew I rolled with and is my true crew to be down with is TCM. To this day I am a breaker, and mixing DJ, these other elements I have been practicing since 1984. I began recording radio mix shows via cable FM radio and got my hands on tapes floating around of Mr. Magics Rap Attack on WBLS, and most of all The Wizard out of Detroit. These cassettes have fueled me all throughout the years as a source of inspiration to practice some of the other elements. Its 2010 and I will keep going for the rest of my life, more so as a soloist with vision because of the downfall of Rap into this Gangster Crap. The expanding redundancy of todays Graffiti commercialization product type kids just gets in the way. Every kid is doing it these days so it would seem. I have to think about Hip Hop in a very protected manner because of the really high level of exploitation now. Its all for sale Kid! Full palate of paint. Low pressure cans, stolen name writers on the internet, fake fame mentality, YouTube suckers. You cant fake or buy that 80s style Bro, you had to be there. Daser One

1 Daser: Canvas 2004

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