My Life In Letters

In this brief discussion we began the conversation in Los Angeles 1982 just prior to Relm's first days bush chasing as Mr Fizz. This talk could have gone on for hours especially when Wane One joins the chat in the second half. We are powered bu Monster Energy and hope you enjoy! 

Took a while but we finally got Yanoe on to the podcast. Sometimes you have to go to a persons backyard to make it happen. We begin at the beginning with tag banging in the North Holywood PeeWees to moving to Houston in the later 90s and linking with Nekst and Vizie. We know you will enjhoy this epiosde powered by Monster Energy See @oh_yanoe on IG and https://www.yanoexzoueh.com/ to learn more 

From Northern France, all around the globe, to Los Angeles for the last few years we sat down with the married couple/design powerhouse duo that is Scien and Klor. We are in the Secret Walls studios podcast booth again for this Wet Paint edition episode where we start around 89 and get blessed with stories. This episode was recoded at Secret Walls studios and we are powered by Monser Energy.

After years of trying we finally got a chance to sit down with Axis to discuss his early days in LA bus chasing, SK8 one and skating culture into a bit of his design life and how it feels to be a part of the Wet Paint LA 2026 show POWERED by Monster Energy

As part of the WET PAINT LA show running until April 5th at Start Gallery LA we got to sit down with POSH to talk all things LA Graffiti, poetry and succulent harvesting. Hope you enjoy this WET PAINT edition. 

Episode 94 of the @mylifeinletterspodcast is live now wherever you get your podcasts featuring Meow MDR aka @catgods.  As part of the @wearewetpaint LA show we got to partner with @persue1 and @waneonecod to bring you a series of Wet Paint edition episodes featuring some of LA's most dynamic writers. We recorded all these editions at @secretwalls.studios powered by @monsterenergy and had an amazing time all along the way.

We are in Los Angeles powered by Monster Energy at Secret Walls Studios during the 3 week run of the WET PAINT LA opening March 21st running through April 5th.  In this episode we cover much of the history of We Are Wet Paint and much more!

We had the honor of being at Secret Walls Studios in LA this past February and learned all about the origins of Secret Walls from founder Terry Guy and some of its 20 year history while at the same time we got the artists perspective from VMR3 to learn first hand what its like to be in a Secret Walls art battle. This episode was recoded live in the Secret Walls podcast booth. We hope you enjoy!

We had the pleasure to be in San Francisco at Empire Studios where Dregs hosts his History of the Bay podcast. We got to get the history of the Dregs from Lakeview to Law School. Hope you enjoy! 

Took many years to make this episode happen but we finally got the chance to discuss graffiti and life with Mike FORS the SF native. We hope you enjoy. 

We cover the late 70's to about 1986 in this part 1. We enjoyed being down in Miami at The Art of HipHop for this interview on location. Excuse some of the audio issues in this episode. 

We finally got the chance to pick up where Topr's first episode left off and get all caught up. Hope you enjoy! 

Queens finest in the building!! We cover Late 70s to the early 90s in this (Part 1) interview with Diego 127!!

Live and direct from London Town we got to finally get out friend REMI RUF on the podcast. Starting 1984 he is still a force today. Enjoy! 

We got the chance to learn more about Tars and his come up in Vancouver British Columbia CANADA! Hope you enjoy and please share and subscribe to our podcast! 

After much ado we finally got Duel RIS on the podcast where we discuss all the details of his upbringing in Brooklyn and Bayside Queens in this first episode of 2025! We cover 1984 to 1992 in this episode and we are already hyped to have him back on to cover the next chapter of his infamous graff career. Hope you enjoy! 

Very excited to be updating you on whats to come for this new season of My Lie In Letters Podcast for 2025! We cover a bit of whats been happening on the backend at MLIL and most importantly for you all what NEW guests we have coming onto the show. Thanks for all the support!

We were very excited to get some time with the living legend Stash. Possibly the God father of the street wear movement in the US and japan we talk all things hype from bombing motion tags on the MTA to the foundations of BAPE. Share this episode! In our opinion it's one of the best we've done. Enjopy! 

Joey Merz in the house for this surprise episode! 

We have heard you asking for more fresh female writer interviews and we have delivered. Straight from the dirty south we present Whims from the Few and Far crew!

We had the pleasure of learning about this East Bay legend and how he came up. Our host Adam had the chance to get a tattoo from Bloved and the conversation went from graffiti to tattoos to black books and more. 

We were very excited to talk all things graff and community, Philly to Puerto Rico. It was our pleasure to learn about this mans life and work. Stay up Tame!

We get the skinny on Optimists career from SF to Asia and back again. We were honored to finally get this talented artist on the pod. Hope you enjoy. Please share and tell your team to subscribe to our humble podcast. 

After much coordinating Adam got a chance to discuss Bukue's career in depth and to scratch an itch out host has had for a long time growing up a fan of Bukue'a graffiti but never having met. The conversation is a great one. Enjoy!

We begin this episode in Honolulu 1983 and work our way from there. It's technically the second time we have had Slick on the show as he was a part of the panel discussion moderated by Adam Fu at Rust Magic Festival in 2019. Episodes #68 and #69. We were honored to speak with the big homie on this our 75th episode. 

This episode was originally recorded in April of 2020. Lost for a while, Covid complications for a while but the episode was found and is ready for consumption. ENJOY!

Great chat with a great guy. Kid Crow from the ID Super babd Boys crew out of Germany!

We waited 2 long years to get Part 1 from TDS back on the pod but here he is. Check out last episode Season 1, Episode 31. We cover 1972-1974! Facts! Enjoy. Please tell your friends to subscribe to this pod and to support us. Thank you!

So much history with this man right here. Been knowing him for over 2 decades and his work and style persists! Check his page on IG @kieranswanpaints 

Super excited to speak with Nero 156 on this second episode of season 3.

Hailing from the great state of Massachusetts we got a chance to sit down with Stoe from CDC BA. We get to begin our talk around 98 when it comes to Stoes graffiti career and we work our way through the nuances of his work up to about the mid 2000's.  We look forward to getting back with Stoe for a part 2 next season or beyond.  This episode has audio production by Launch Pod Media. My Life In Letters is Hosted and created by Adam Kiyoshi Fujita.

Took a little time off to have a baby with my wife and to wrap up some other work projects. So we haven't released an episode in 2 months but were back with Trix! Great to get some West LA history on the map and Trix had a lot.  We no longer are able to use the @mylifeinletters Instagram page but PLEASE go like and follow our new FACEBOOK page My Life In Letters Podcast Thanks and ENJOY!

Ive been so busy with projects and expecting our second daughter that I haven't been able to post a new episode in a few weeks. But fear not! New eps are coming.  I also lost access to the @mylifeinletterspodcast page recently so I haven't even been able to inform you guys to whats going on.  I really appreciate all your support. And again more MLIL eps are coming.  Thank you Adam

Our first European interview live from Italy with the Dutch born Mr JUNE. We span the early days of his graffiti career in the mid 80's in his town just outside Amsterdam. Through his day studying. We will get back with June next season to cover the last 15 years. We hope you enjoy!

This full interview is one of our favorites. Not only does Mone break down the earliest days of his graff career but we also get to learn more about the Mount Vernon perspective as he was and is a suburb writer making himself known in NYC and beyond. Huge thanks to Mone for coming on and as promised on the ep we will follow up with him next season to do a part 2 episode.  See @rockinitsuckers instagram page to see more of his work or google MONE RIS and let the flood gates open on ya. 

Speaking with MONE got us all sentimental fro the days of Krylon and Rusto, stock caps and no computers. In this teaser episode we remember what it was like to get your hands on a piece of media like Subway Art for the first time. That rush that you may or may not be able to get now a days in our Social Media culture.  We hope you enjoy this episode and in 2 weeks we will release Mone's full interview. Stay tuned.  While Mone isn't on social check out the @rockinitsuckers page to see more of his work. 

This is a part 2 to Episode 16 from Season 1 of My Life In Letters. We were so blessed to get the Bay Area native and legend Spie back on the show. We learn so much whenever we get to speak with Spie. He is a natural teacher and student of life. We were particularly grateful to hear stories about Mike Dream and about their travels and his legacy. We hope you enjoy this episode and learn from it. 

In this episode 5 of My Life In Letters we focus on some pf Spies ideas and thoughts on leadership. I dig into the themes that Spie provides around critical thinking and on being our bests selves.  In two weeks we will release Spies full interview.  See his Instagram to see more work @agentdecoy and as always you can reach out to me Adam @adamfu or through the MLIL page @mylifeinletterspodcast.

In this 4th episode of season 2 we deliver to you the entire interview that we recorded with GUSTO TFP 4B. He is a Queens native and has stories for day with guys like Faust, Stae2, DCV, Sen2 and so many more.  we got to hear some great tales of Mentorship on his initial episode and in this full interview we learn about Gusto's immigration story, how he "faked it" into a full time job at MTV as well as good old fashioned "racking" stories with his team.  We were so thankful that Gusto took the time to sit down with us.  See  more of his work at @gustonyc on Instagram and his site www.gusto.nyc. 

In this episode we get to speak in detail with Gusto from Queens New York about his experiences with mentorship in the graffiti community and how that shaped him. It shaped him as an artist and writer but also as a designer working in corporate settings. I have researched extensively on mentorship and on what it is to have leaders in our community.  This is a fraction of the larger episode which will be released on Sunday March 11th.  You can see more of Gusto's work on Instagram @gustonyc 

In this episode we pick up where we left off last year with Wane, in Season 1, Episode 25. In this second discussion with wane we cover his work from 1986 to the early 2000's. We talk a broad range of topics pertaining to the graffiti culture. Many strong themes come up like business ownership, community building, public speaking and graphic design.  See Wanes work on Instagram at @waneonecod and see his website to buy work and learn more about the man himself at www.waneone.com

Wane sits down and spends time to give us an update to his episode from last season. In Season 1 episode 25 Wane tells us about his life in letters from 1979 to 1986. In this new episode we focus on the entrepreneurial side of Wane and how he created and ran The Writers Bench clothing line. In two weeks we will release our interview in its entirety. See Wanes website waneone.com and his Instagram for the most up to date work @waneonecod

Amuse 126 takes over the hosting chair and Atoms is in the hot seat. 

Changes are in store. We will be taking a break to revamp,  rebuild, recharge and refresh the podcast. Its been a wild year with lots of ups and downs. Some highlights and thoughts recorded here.