Supanova Slom
interview excerpt
“In the midst of that you had brother Thirstin Howl, and I've never met him, but he was a legend in my community because we lived in the same hood. You know he was in Crown Heights too. I know the part of Crown Heights more near the Utica area, the Utica Avenue part, not too far from where I was in Crown Heights. So, I've heard about him. His name rung a lot of bells. Him and Prance Lo and people like that. They, I call those, they were the first dynasty of the Lo. So, you're talking about from 86 I would say officially, but 85, you know I'm going to respect the OGs, they tell their side of how they....you know as far as really you know, some Lo Lifes 86-87 you started to really see visually what that looked like. Again, I wasn't apart of that era. I observed it. Being young, I was real small and hearing about the Lo Lifes, you know from 86-91, right. Now you have different types of crews, and I think the documentary of course probably touches on or is based a little bit on that in that you had the Ralphies Kids, right? Then you had the US polo man. So, it was like the East New York margin with the Crown Heights , you know flow. You know. Booster gangs, you know kids, fly, they wanted to be fly. Flyness was at that time in the 80s because of crack cocaine was the thing. Fresh and fly because all of the dope boys was fly. So, everybody had their interpretation of what fly and fresh meant for them and how they were going to interpret it, right. So, as far as the LoLifes and the First Dynasty those brothers from 86-91, you know I'm pretty sure legends had, that some of them had their hands in dope, but for the most part they were a boostin gang. And they got fresh based upon their goods. You know what I'm saying? And so they became legendary for a specific thing, mainly around Polo, right. Now what made it so powerful is that by the time I became a LoLife, so my era was from 91-95. I call myself the 2nd Dynasty. To me, and I'm not disrespecting the latter or the first, that's when the culture started to pick up on Los impact, was in my dynasty. Because from 91-95 you started to hear that Hip-Hop was referenced and you started to see the influence. So, it was really that. But, Thirstin' and them, you know I'm going to always put respect the elders, the Ogs. They put such a notorious work in from 86-91, right? Let me tell you how powerful the work was that they put in. By the time it hit 91, Polo was the only garment on the street that could be used as commerce. We have to pay attention to that, that's very important.”
