Case2, also known as King Kase2 and Kase2 (born 1958 as Jeff Brown), was a graffiti writer and a significant contributor to the hip-hop movement.
Brown was born in New York City. He painted his first handball court in 1973 and by 1976 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.
The self-proclaimed King of Style, Case was admired by other graffiti writers as having a natural flair for his art, his train pieces being creative and stylish. He was included in the original hip-hop documentary Style Wars, which won the Grand Prize for Documentaries at the 1983 Sundance Film Festival.
Case lost his right arm in a subway accident when he was just ten years old. Case explained what happened to 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."
Case died on August 14, 2011, at Lincoln Medical and Mental Health Center in South Bronx from lung adenocarcinoma.
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