the brotherLO they call HAZ

what memories come to mind when you hear LOlifes 25th year  anniversary?

I think of Going to Coney Island, The Deuce or Walks to Pitkin, we would get dip, Thirst with the cazals, Dis with two different color dunks on, live with his Astro's hat and myself with the Levis suit.. Just me and brothers, surviving the jungle and making it happen, bagging chicks, chilling hard daily defending each other, no beef no fights no hate or jealousy, amongst us, Not once thinking what we were doing was anything more then being together, LOLIFES was just us, that's all nothing else our team, doing us.

 what was your typical day like in the early days of LOlifes?

Again we didn't have a leader, in my age group we were all leaders. So you didn't know who would have a plan that day, but you knew someone would, I would either be heading downtown, or bombing the IRT's, getting paid, or linking with some pieces, we would get up.. bum around the hood, of course back then, the classic pieces flowed like water, so we were some fresh dressed bums, Lo sweats or shorts for swimming trunks, walking around the hood patrolling the block, taking calls on the corner phone, running back and forth to the store... these were the lighter times. There were times when we had beef with up to 4 different housing complexes at once, we would be fired on during the middle of the afternoon, I used to wear a vest to go to the corner store for my mother, and I sometimes took a weapon when i escorted her to the store, it was the best and the worst of time.

how did you get your name HAZ?

I started writing graffiti, I chose hazardous, which changed to hazerdust, then Hazer and then to HAZUNO.. but people most refer to me as HAZ.


















what did you want to accomplish with putting this book together?

To show civilians (non LL's), that we are a true family, that we live together, that its more than clothing that binds us, that when we say love and loyalty, it's from the heart, That we are fathers, and business men, that our brotherhood is real.

did you work with anyone else in producing this project?

I did the entire layout, and 98% of the photography, "Eugene HATCHER" canone, also contributed some images, and a few were taking from our families around the world.

how did you come about designing the logos for the Lolife families?

I'm the Thugeek! it's a known fact, I was always a computer head since the early years, so to get into computer graphics was natural progression, I was responsible for almost all of thirsts and a few of Racks early covers. It's just what I do.

are there any more projects coming from you in the future?

Another pictorial and pushing the Lo-end theory, and a few I cannot speak on.

part2 comming soon