Jeff Brown (artist)

Jeff Brown (also known as King Kase2) was born in New York City in 1958. He was a graffiti artist and a significant contributor to the hip-hop movement. He painted his first handball court in 1973 and by 1976 he had painted over fifty major pieces on subway trains in New York City. In the 1980s he popularized his computer style, a form of wildstyle where letters are broken into boxes and scrambled. He was featured in the original hip-hop documentary Style Wars, which won the Grand Prize for Documentaries at the 1983 Sundance Film Festival.

He was admired by other graffiti artist because he was very productive, despite the fact that he lost his right arm and leg in the accident when he was just ten years old.

Jeff Brown died on August 14, 2011[1] , at Lincoln Medical and Mental Health Center in South Bronx from lung adenocarcinoma.

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