I just did an interview with Clout that included such well-thought-out questions as, “What makes you so special?” and “Are you going to continue to do the DOs & DON’Ts?” He also said I have “quit a different humor.” Unfortunately, I’m a megalomaniac on Adderall who types faster than he talks and can’t resist rambling when anyone shows even a semblance of interest. Here’s the highlight:3
PR- Being as Clout is a graffiti magazine, can you give me your take on graffiti?
GM- Graffiti is a wigger vandalizing some poor bastard’s property by writing a nickname (a fucking nickname) all over it. It breaks my heart to see a new business open up that some hard-working entrepreneur has poured all his money in and then have some asshole hit him with a $1,500 glass replacement bill by writing a shitty tag in etching cream on the glass. What a spoiled brat thing to do.
The origins of graffiti aren’t much better. It started out as Puerto Rican kids in the Bronx growing up without a dad in a house full of women. They saw their sisters fawn over John Travolta and their mother reading celebrity magazines all day so they decided “Fame” was where it’s at. There was no father to slap them upside the head and say, “Go clean the front stairs.” So they start writing their stupid fucking name everywhere and on trains and shit as a way of saying, “Look at me. I’m famous.” Rich suburban kids are always desperate for some kind of urban culture so they started aping this retarded trend in a sad attempt to feel “down.” How lame. You are aping a fatherless child with distorted values. The fact that you now have Germans and Scottish kids and all of Europe trying to be some weird perversion of someone like Lee Quinones is so pathetic, it makes my head spin.
How did we get here? Nickname Mania! It’s even worse than corporate advertising everywhere. At least they’re advertising something that exists. Graffiti is ubiquitous advertising with no other purpose than making one shithead feel like he is successfully aping one Puerto Rican teenager who was aping the values of his stupid adolescent sisters. Fuck off.
Is there or has there ever been any graffiti here or in Canada or anywhere that’s stood out to you at all?
I mean, the guys that actually improve the look of something don’t really do it anymore do they? I’ve always loved Espo, and Kaws’ ad vandalism is great but those guys are in galleries now. I guess Banksy improves his surroundings. That’s about it. Here in Brooklyn it’s just stupid fucking tag after stupid fucking tag.
PR- Have you ever wrote your name on anything?
For a while we would go out and write our own names because we thought graffiti was so gay. Gavin Miles McInnes was my tag for a minute. Then I heard Mark Ryan did that joke years before me. Why would I want to mimic Latinos getting sucked into female culture? When you see them getting manicures and corn rows it’s the exact same shit. I wonder when the German kids jump on that bandwagon.
The rest is here, but be warned: It goes on for days and days.
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HAHAHAHAHAHAAHAH!!!!
09.15.09 at 5:34 pm
Graffiti has been around since at least Ancient Rome.
09.15.09 at 5:45 pm
haha! this was fucking hilarious….reminds me of the one time some chick interviewed her and you ripped her a new asshole when she asked you to be “serious”.
09.15.09 at 5:49 pm
p.s. fuck off vegan jules
09.15.09 at 5:50 pm
thank you for actually completing the interview. pretty fucken awesome. bahahaa.
09.15.09 at 5:57 pm
I feel the same way about tattoos. Just because you get a tattoo, it doesn’t automatically make you cool, ironic or not. Why do people think the more tattoos they get, the cooler they are?
09.15.09 at 5:58 pm
Dash Snow.
09.15.09 at 6:04 pm
Was the “daddy blog” thing a joke?
09.15.09 at 6:46 pm
Graffiti ? tagging, fagbag
09.15.09 at 8:06 pm
Damn that was supposed to be a crossed out equal sign, but this blog engine is a shit demon, so fuck it
09.15.09 at 8:07 pm
HA HA HA HA.
if i ever meet gavin i’m going to ask him about the do’s and dont’s nonstop.
he got so butt hurt i could sense his white jeans getting all in a bunch.
plus he used “nigga” which is adorable.
09.15.09 at 8:16 pm
this made me laff (from http://cloutonline.com/?q=node/3613)
PR- You seem to know everyone actually. I recently saw the video of you with Mike Muir from the Suicidal Tendencies. Who DON’T you know? And who would you like to know?
GM- I’ve been to the Yankees Game with Will Ferrel, had drinks with Tommy Lee, I’ve been to SNL with Johnny Knoxville but I’ve never been to me.”
09.15.09 at 8:16 pm
you would like that, you fag
09.15.09 at 8:17 pm
remember when Vice sucked off Irak? i do.
09.15.09 at 8:53 pm
regardless of the IRAK fandom element, Gavin’s opinion of graffiti is exactly right. tagging is about as cool as eminem’s last album. making up your own nickname if fucking stupid. and who gives a shit when it was invented. just because something is old doesn’t make is less lame. its for white guys who hate themselves.
09.15.09 at 10:34 pm
listening to you urban homos bitch and whine continuously makes me damn glad i live in the middle of fucking nowhere.
09.15.09 at 11:08 pm
The old sod would change his tune if CRASS said it was cool.
09.16.09 at 12:17 am
GET OFF MY LAWWWWNNNNNNNN
09.16.09 at 1:29 am
My favorite part: “Nigga, I’m 39-years-old with 2 kids and a house. You think I give a shit what my parents think?” BAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Could’ve even used a touch of “Bitch, I’m a grown-ass man.”
Good work, Gavin. You should seek out more stupid interviewers. This was classic.
09.16.09 at 4:20 am
I get what you’re saying, Gavin.
Would it be fair to say that Dash was also a “Rich suburban kid desperate for some kind of urban culture so he started aping this retarded trend in a sad attempt to feel “down.” How lame. You are aping a fatherless child with distorted values.
Except he wasn’t just a rich suburban kid, he was better than them….Hamptons and shit.
I mean, you guys are on his dick so hard. I love how the Puerto Ricans get shit on, but Dash is a martyr/hero. (He also rocked cornrows.)
09.16.09 at 4:41 am
PR- Do you think that was the moment David decided to do Alvin and the Chipmunks?
GM- Is that supposed to be some kind of stab at him where he should be embarrassed? I don’t get it. Would you refuse enough money to buy a house if the cartoon that paid you wasn’t cool enough? It’s not a cigarette company or some corrupt corporation. It’s a fucking cartoon. This is just like the white guy at Max Fish. There isn’t one person who scoffs at David for doing that movie who wouldn’t jump at the chance for a fraction of the fee.
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If it wasn’t David Cross and it was Suroosh, Gavin would be all “sell out” “creative differences” about it.
09.16.09 at 4:56 am
Gavin Killed it
09.16.09 at 5:44 am
I don’t care if macinnes quit when Viacom took over or if he was ousted because Viacom didn’t want him there.
All I know is street carnage is a lot more entertaining than whomever is running the show over there now. Comparing this interview to vice’s Spike Jonze one Gawker was making fun of yesterday is a prime example of this.
I tried to say this on viceland yesterday but got censored. That says a lot.
Fuck vice. Fuck Viacom.
09.16.09 at 8:47 am
@ WAMP: That was David LEE you moron
p.s. go fuck yourself
09.16.09 at 9:48 am
Love this, graphitti is for typography nerds with no imagination. fags.
09.16.09 at 10:40 am
Don’t blame me, you wrinkly Canuck scrote!
09.16.09 at 11:18 am
but i guess that would be why i read and write shit on this site
09.16.09 at 4:24 pm
YOu like “Dirty Limericks”? Are you Hagrid?
09.16.09 at 4:29 pm
all the ads on your site are wigger shit – fucking backpack rappers and expensive kicks. i mean, get your $$ but the holier than though attitude is silly. also, was SACE a Danish Wigger?
09.16.09 at 5:09 pm
ramble
09.16.09 at 5:37 pm
Gavin Mcinnes IS THE REAL LIVE Nathan Barley…except 20 or 30 years older.
09.16.09 at 6:26 pm
Your a twat. Why do an interview with a graffiti magazine if you dont like graffiti ? Your not looking for fame are you ? Your clearly more obsessed with fame than the people you claim to hate. A chance to give your unthought out, controversial thoughts some air and shout “Look at me! Look at me!”, even louder than an etch tag on a shop window.
09.16.09 at 6:36 pm
“controversial”
09.16.09 at 6:38 pm
urm what if u just dont give a flying shit about being cool are over the “fame” getting up and over element and just enjoy it
oh wait i gues anything to do with vice would ever understand that
09.16.09 at 6:50 pm
YouAreATwat, spell “you’re” wrong 4 more times for me, please. I love it.
09.16.09 at 7:20 pm
i dont get why gavin pulls his card about spelling before he even posts it. the shit talking makes him look kinda stupid and the ego he has when someone takes the time to interview him makes him look even stupider but the interview was funny so i have to give him that. also, i didnt get the part where he talks shit on graffiti then namedrops sace later on, whos exactly the type of person he incorrectly says all graffiti writers are. he must have that point of view because he only hangs out with LES hipster graffiti guys who do heroin and coke. on the other hand, clout is a good publication and features the same bullshit gavin is advertising on his blog.
09.16.09 at 8:08 pm
The person who wrote this sounds like a faggot bitch, who was too shit at graffiti and got bullied by some of the bigger boys.
Just sound like a 187 toy homo.
special fuck you
Decon
09.16.09 at 8:13 pm
to be honest u sound like a corny ass suburb white male or even worse a lame ass over thirty white male that moved to brooklyn to be more “urban”. get the fuck over ur predjudiced, simple minded point of view. why dont u move to a clean steralized mid west city that supports ur red neck ideals.. or maybe travel to brazil and see how dope graffiti culture is in other countries that consider it art instead of a crime and learn ur self a thing or two… nigga.
09.16.09 at 9:12 pm
Gavin loves ‘hardcore’. ‘Hardcore’ is anti-social, unlistenable, and created mostly by disgruntled youths (until old dudes set up tribute bands… ahem).
Graffiti is anti-social, in most cases pretty fucking ugly, and created mostly by disgruntled youths (wherever they’re from, Puerto Rico or the Hamptons… blah blah blah).
It’s fine for Gavin not to like it, it’s very ‘hardcore’ of him, but his argument is bullshit.
09.17.09 at 7:08 am
I ordered some sneakers from some german site once. It came with a free box of black latex gloves. Took me a week to figure out what the gloves are for.
Also: the problem with writing your name as a tag is that some jerkoff comes along and writes “rocks little boys” and shit like that under it.
Also: Gavin should apologize for the vice logo being in grafitti font and for “Steady Bombing” ever existing.
09.17.09 at 8:45 am
Comedy.. The comments add to the awesomeness of the interview. Clout is a good mag and the todd bratrud interview that they just printed is just as funny as anything i’ve ever read in vice. I visit the clout site, this site, sometimes vice and am a big fan of SACE and the IRAK crew. Word up!
09.17.09 at 11:23 am
toy homo loves it all! pma!
09.17.09 at 12:41 pm
Gavin Mcinnes IS THE REAL LIVE Joseph Fritzl…except 20 or 30 years younger*
fixed.
09.17.09 at 12:49 pm
Who’s David Lee?
09.17.09 at 4:38 pm
this asshole is just another hater!
09.29.09 at 9:55 am
[...] Being interviewed by dumb people sucks. Here’s another fine example: Ian MacKaye being cross-examined by a couple of condescending flakes. If anyone still wonders why we despise hippies so much, it’s because they keep taking credit for everything youthful and anti-establishment, as if their blip in San Francisco actually mattered. Hell, if they get to claim that they created counter-culture, then we get to say they also invented divorce, consumerism, fake education, debt economics, STDs, and body odor. Behold: [...]
10.12.09 at 11:32 am
Damn, you came off like a real arrogant tool in that interview.
01.06.10 at 4:10 am
I really do like when people get fired up about shit. This dude aint wrong about any of those things. If Someone wrote on your fresh new era fitted cap or Northface jacket you’d be aggravated too right?.
I actually know a girl that in an attempt to come up on some hoodfame is selling krink and spray paint out of her apt. in Portland. her dad built the Pearl district and her mom is the most waspy elitist nugget i have ever met. Baller ass house as a kid , old money family and now she’s “racking?” things from WALMART and sucking wigger dicks to sell spray paint.
She used to own a gallery, sell locally made little items to help artists and host knitting nights at the shop.
Wigger dicks!
I’m just Sayin!
04.09.10 at 11:45 pm
Does anyone have a link to the complete interview? It took Clout a little while to realize the article wasn’t fawning over vandalism and removed it.
06.21.10 at 5:02 pm