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Same, man you got the wrong historical spot because there used to be a native american trading post on the tip of manhattan. its now wall street, you know? ♪ ♪ too many creeps ♪ too many creeps ♪ too many creeps >> clayton: want to come in for a minute? >> anthony: yeah, sure, id love to. id be interested to look at your dope bags. >> clayton: yeah, heres some. i got this guy who was a bank robber, and he was going to jail, he hooked me up with this. this is from the early 80s. >> anthon...

In britain dressing like me, and cutting their hair like me. and you have this inadvertent tectonic affect on kids all over the world. >> richard: it wasnt inadvertent, but it was indirect. i mean, i wanted to have that effect. other bands who responded to the way i was doing things got famous. so it ended up having this huge impact and influences. when i first saw the picture of the sex pistols, it was like, i just had to laugh. >> anthony: thats a charitable interpretation of events. malcolm m...

And, you know, they were no joke, right. and i remember theyd be hanging out on the stoop on the church across the street, smoking dust. all of them with their golf clubs and 007 knives. everybody would be listening to, of all things, kraftwerk, trans-euro express. theyd be out there screaming, "were going to kill the next [ bleep ] that comes out of that building." and im laying there, thinking "i gotta go to school tomorrow, man." i was never a violent person. christ, i was raised by hippies. ...

♪ >> anthony: there were a lot of freakish, never couldve happened at any other times, it seems to me, bands who had a readymade audience. okay, and you did the same. you can basically say, "i am a rock star." >> lydia: well hey, hey, hey. no, no, no. first of all i never said i was a [ bleep ] star. >> anthony: no, but i mean but not by word, but by deed and deportment. >> lydia: we are great, arent we? >> first of all, im not a star. im not an icon. that may be in your midnight fantasies. >>...

In this building? >> harley: no, this wasnt the building i lived in. this is a squat though, that actually became legal. i was actually in that building right there. when i lived in it, we had no windows, no front doors. you know youd find a door in the street, youd put it up and chain it up yourself. no running water. i used to bathe in the fire hydrant in front of the building. i used to sleep with my pitbull so rats wouldnt get too close to me at night. >> anthony: you actually grew up here. ...

Became literal explosions. i learned violence from my old man. so i was angry. when your house is on fire, you know, you dont read poetry and you dont sing a folk song. you gotta scream. >> anthony: i missed all the great art of the time. i came for heroin and i came for music. other than that, i didnt live here. but man, a lot of people didnt make it and i remember i guess around 1980, it was like, something is happening and no one knows what it is. >> joe: you mean the aids? a lot of that time...

Oh, yes, you were telling me about this guy. >> joe: and here, if you want to use this. >> anthony: its beautiful. ♪ >> joe: you know, all of the paintings are novels, so its a dense story, and the more that you look, the more that you learn. and its in non-linear time, you know, like youre exploring at your own pace whatever you want to look at. and someone else might start in a different place, and it might tell a different story. >> anthony: the performance art -- at one point you came to p...

And it was consistently the exa -- you know its great when you could go someplace and they have the exact same food. come on, this is it. >> anthony: still the same? >> freddy: still exactly the same. >> anthony: thats encouraging. >> freddy: which is great, its great. even though theres a hotel three doors away. and high rises going up, you can still have a decent meal. >> anthony: you brought hip-hop culture to a very finite number of people initially on the lower east side. totally changed th...

>> lydia: you know, i have my eye on the octopus. >> anthony: okay. then im going to straight into the -- >> lydia: straight? youre going to go straight? youre finally going straight, oh my god! im impressed. can you verify exactly what straight means in -- >> anthony: [ bleep ] if i know. >> lydia: no way, honey. even when youre straight, youre not straight. >> anthony: did you expect to make a living from art? >> lydia: no, of course not. >> anthony: i mean, at no point? >> lydia: no, i just w...

But i think the thing that was so attractive about that period was you werent locked in to one format, or one form, you know. it was just, everybody was doing everything. >> anthony: you introduced the entirely revolutionary notion that street art was in fact really art. >> freddy: the painting that we did on the street was coming from a place that pop-art came from as well. like popular culture, magazines, advertising, comics. and so some of the first people to buy paintings from me and jean-mi...