T Kid

Julius Cavero, T-KID (or Terrible T-KID 170) is a graffiti artist from the Bronx, New York.^[1]

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
Nationality	American
Known for	Public art Graffiti Painting Street art
Style	Wildstyle
Movement	Graffiti

Biography

Background and early life

T Kid's father was an immigrant from Peru, who worked at the Linden Assembly in New Jersey. His mother emigrated from Puerto Rico in the mid 1950s.

Graffiti

He started in the 1970s, tagging the name "King 13" every time he'd win 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.

He 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. 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 nasty terrible tkid170, 2005

Appearances in other media

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