First, don’t sell self-incriminating t-shirts and second, don’t take holidays off. On Christmas Day 2006, the Made U Look crew was at work below Central Park, painting the now infamous “Cash is King” whole train. They painted ten subway cars top to bottom and end to tend, spelling out the crew’s name over 750 feet long. Xplicit Grafx, the international graffiti magazine interviewed Made U Look, helping to shed some light on their feat and confirming speculation that law enforcement actually was behind the sketchy website that popped up to sell t-shirts and a video of the hit.

According to Made U Look, the now defunct website, madeulooknyc.com, was created by “New York authorities, in an attempt to confuse and perhaps slip us up.” “We had nothing to do with any of that – website included and if it was up to us no on would have seen what we did for a very long time.” So if you had the bad sense to order one of those cheesy t-shirts, you can figure some “NYC authorities” have started a file on you.

Photographs and part of the Made U Look interview are excerpted below.

Last year we found a website selling videos & photos of a MUL whole train performed on the NYC subway. What happened?

On Christmas 2006, 6 members of the Made U Look crew painted a top-to-bottom end-to-end whole train in New York city right under central park, 10 trains in total, 75 feet in length each train. One of the very few ever done and perhaps the first as a crew name spell-out. We did our homework and it still took us a considerable amount of time and a whole lot of luck to pull off. The video sold was not of our actions but of the results of our actions, as were the pictures. The pictures were taken from inside the yard and were better than most of ours. So in a nutshell, New York authorities, in an attempt to confuse and perhaps slip us up, offered their versions of our whole train online. We had nothing to do with any of that – website included and if it was up to us no on would have seen what we did for a very long time. The internet is wak and upgraded a modern magazine’s status to classy in comparison. However we come from a time when the magazines were the wak medium, a time when you had to trade pictures to be in the know. The internet and digital cameras did not exist… And many times you didn’t even get pictures. Sometimes we miss the old days very much.

Screenshot and interview excerpt from Xplicit Grafx 3.8 which is on sale.