RIPE ONE. PBC

Makati City

NAME: RIPE ONE

A.K.A: MAYOR RIPE / MR. WISDOM / STATUS1

KR3W: {P.B.C} PINOY BOMBER CREW, {T.I.W} THE ILLEST WRITERZ {O.S.F.A} ONE SIZE FITS ALL {K.A.K} KRAZY ASIAN KIDS {MCK} MAKATI CITY KINGZ {S.T.Y.S} SICKER THAN YOUR AVERAGE {THE NA$TY SEVEN}

STARTED GRAFFITI: 1999.

HOME TOWN: Makati City, MKTCT, MKT

HEROES:

International: Seen. Ces. IztheWiz. Cope2. Blade. Pjay. Duster. Quick. Virus. Can2. Scien. Tkid170. Daim. Revok1. Omega. Askew1. Roid. Mr. Cartoon. Chaz.

Local: (SVC360) Assassin, Black Boy, Tagger1, Dozer1, Snooze1. (SNH) Koozer1 & Booster1. WSI. PWA and my fellow originators/mentors Mc Smoke1 aka (Pozer 1) Don Ice1 (Soup1) PBC'99. Flip1. Bonz. Rank. Beat. Sway. Grim. Flow. (SBA CRU)

HISTORY:

The doors of the Lettering World were opened to me by my older brother who was at by that time has a little marvel comic colletion, and a book for writing roman and black letters, this was way back 1995-'96. But after seeing another type of letters and how to construct them, then that was the time I shifted my interest into the GRAFFITI WORLD. My original graff name before using {Ripe1} was Stroke1, I also used the names "Vein1" and "Keith86". I really got hooked into graffiti when I first saw the Grafflix Section of The Source Magazine 1999 I think it was a Snoop Dogg Cover and his wearing a dallas cowboy jersey. This specific grafflix issue shows the New York style of Graffiti letters like Seen, Pjay, Quick, Blade, Can2 etc. Hip-hop magazines was our main source for graffiti pics to study like BLAZE, RAP PAGES, YELLOW RAT BASTARD and THE SOURCE. because internet was not that accessible at that time,we need to go to different book sale in the metro just to get new pictures of Graffiti in the USA.

This was in our 1st year highschool days, the year was 1999, I was with my friends Smoke1 who is also known as (Pozer1) and Ice1 (Soup) Mischief1 (Stype1) Naughty1 (Deep). Some of them specially Smoke1 and Ice were in that time was already into gang graffiti tagging. From there we formed "The 2nd Officially established Graffiti Crew in the Philippines right after (SBA CRU). PB stands for Pinoy Bombers. It bacame PBC when the group became bigger and the rest as they say is History.

Right now I'm more focused on just innovating my style and try to influence the next gen of local writers

  • Work
    • Graffiti Writer
  • Education
    • School of the Hard Knocks