"It started .. as a private joke and then grew" Diaz and Basquiat would later tell The Village Voice in an interview [REF].
Henry Flynt claims that Shannon Dawson (later of the band Konk) played a major part in the trio of writers in the first wave SAMO graffiti writers,[REF] but most accounts, including those of Basquiat, claim the writing was done by the duo of Basquiat and Diaz [REF].