Career
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. Kase lost his right arm in a subway accident when he was just ten years old.
Kase explained what happened to himself in "Style Wars": "lieutenant 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."
Kase died on August 14, 2011, at Lincoln Medical and Mental Health Center in South Bronx from lung adenocarcinoma.