Jeff Brown
Person or entity appearing in film
1958 – 2011
Who was Jeff Brown?
Kase2 was born Jeff Brown in New York City in 1958. He was a graffiti writer 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 rock" 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. Kase was a member of TFP Crew.
The self-proclaimed King of Style, Kase was admired by other graffiti writers as having a natural flair for his art, his train pieces being creative and stylish. Kase lost his right arm in a subway accident when he was just ten years old. Kase explained what happened himself in 'Style Wars': "It wasn't no severely bad accident, just that I got burnt by wires, that's all... electrical wires, and then they rushed me to the hospital and they just had to amputate... 'Cause my tissues and muscles was burnt bad."
Jeff Brown died on August 14, 2011, at Lincoln Medical and Mental Health Center in South Bronx from lung adenocarcinoma.
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- Born
- 1958
New York City - Also known as
- Kase2
- King Kase2
- Case2
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Died
- Aug 14, 2011
South Bronx
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on July 23, 2013
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