text: There’s people that consider themselves to be more community than us, there’s people that are straight up commercial that will only work for compensation, which I also don’t agree with, because I want to do the work for the people. We’re community artists. I won’t paint for Hennessey, Corona, Pepsi, Subway, any of those guys. That was a one time thing when I did Pepsi a long time ago, and it was really just kind of naiveté.
  What kind of example is that setting for the kids that I teach our work with? Because I’m going to be this bad-ass artist that does all this fly stuff, revolutionary stuff, but I’m going go off and work for some fucking company, painting advertisements?
  I think we’ve chosen like the really difficult, bang-your-head-on-the fuckin’-wall-every-step-of- the-way path by doing it as community artists. [Some artists] are getting flown in to paint a dead rat. I respect that you’re flying in and you’ve made that level of business success, but I don’t respect that you’re going into a place that has a history of rodents and low income and slumlords and violent crime. I mean, there’s also a beautiful rich history of culture. But you go into a low-income community and basically perpetuate that lower income community’s perception in the general public by painting rats. You do that, you’re amplifying it.