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I'm Roman Mars.

I'm Roman Mars. I'm the most beautiful sounds on here.

I grew up mainly in Ohio and in the 80s I only knew about New York City from the movies and all

the movies every single one of them had this one establishing shot that said audience we are in New York City

it was a graffiti covered subway

Oh it's beautiful

for me a suburban kid from Ohio

that graffiti was exciting, but it didn't seem artistic or complicated.

It was just scary hoolganism.

Too bad you can't see. The graffiti was a total mystery to me too.

Producer and Heperman grew up in Nebraska, also far from New York City.

It was like Technicolor hieroglyphics.

He doing the poet Z.

Oh, he's doing his shit.

Back to front.

All of these intersecting lines and colors, I mean, I knew that they were letters. I just never knew what they said.

New York was another planet and graffiti was its language. There's only 26 letters to the

alphabet, but somehow graffiti writers manipulate it and they make it theirs.

And those trains looked so cool on the outside, but the inside was a whole other story.

You would not have gotten on that subway.

The place were filthy.

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