Interview with DOSE MPC

Interview with DOSE MPC

Oral history recorded for the Bronx Aerosol Arts Documentary Project on May 19, 2022 with DOSE MPC, current president and longtime member of the Morris Park Crew, a notorious Bronx graffiti crew with one of the toughest reputations out there. In his oral history DOSE MPC speaks about his early years with his mom and brother on Undercliff Avenue and in Puerto Rico, the family's move during his childhood to the neighborhoods of Morris Park and Pelham Parkway, his experience of racism and encounters with white-passing Latinos in these majority-white neighborhoods (at the time), his first encounter with graffiti and first use of spray paint, how he started writing "DOSE", his induction into the Morris Park Crew, racking, MPC clubhouses, his current aspirations and activity as a writer, and much more.

The interviewers are Dr. Steven Payne, librarian and archivist at The Bronx County Historical Society, and Kurt Boone, prolific documentarian of urban culture for the past 40 years. The Bronx Aerosol Arts Documentary Project is a project of The Bronx County Archives at The Bronx County Historical Society Research Library. This interview made possible through the contribution of Columbia University's Oral History Archives at Columbia (OHAC) and will be dual-listed in a collection there.

2022.05.19

English

OH-BAADP.20220519

MP4

01:53:13

The Bronx, NY

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