T Kid

The Terrible T-KID 170 TAT TNB MAC
T Kid piece (centre) alongside Phos4 (left) and Jay1 (right), Rummelsburg 1994
Born	Julius Cavero United States
Known for	Public art Graffiti Painting Street art
Style	Wildstyle
Movement	Graffiti
Website	tkid 170 on Instagram

Julius Cavero, better known as T-KID (or Terrible T-KID 170) is a graffiti artist from the Bronx, New York.

Biography

Background and early life

T Kid's father was an immigrant from Peru, who worked at the Linden Assembly in New Jersey. He eventually became an iron worker as a union welder. His mother emigrated from Puerto Rico in the mid 1950s.

Graffiti

Cavero began graffiti in the 1970s, tagging "King 13" every time he won a challenge, performing daredevil tricks on swings in local parks. He was a short lived member of a gang called the Bronx Enchanters and The Renegades of Harlem, where he learned how to paint trains.

Cavero later became the president of TNB (The Nasty Boyz) and ex-president of TVS (The Vamp Squad), one of the most notorious New York graffiti crews. Henry Chalfant documented numerous subway trains painted by T-Kid 170. T-KID is still active and his work can be seen in the Bronx as well as around the world. He is also a member of MAC crew from Paris. T-Kid was originally asked to be the narrator for the Hip-Hop documentary Style Wars but he declined. The Museum of Graffiti has featured T-Kid in exhibitions like T-Kid: Living Wild Style, highlighting his pivotal role in 1970s/80s NYC subway graffiti.

Appearances in other media

More recently T-Kid has appeared in the videogame Marc Eckō's Getting Up: Contents Under Pressure.

External links

• Official Website Archived 2016-05-20 at the Wayback Machine
• Interview
• 2010 In depth Interview
• Image
• www.at149st.com
• The Nasty Terrible T-Kid 170: Julius Cavero, 2014