Toppa Top 10: Caribbean Hip-Hop Pioneers

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September 20, 2011

9. Lee Quinones

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The father of whole car bombing and one of the first street artists to graduate to canvas painting, Puerto Rico-born, Lower East Side Manhattan-raised Quinones was one of the most influential writers of graffiti’s late ’70s/early ’80s heyday, and the star of hip-hop’s most seminal film, Wild Style.