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AboutBorn in Manhattan in 1956 to an African American father and Cherokee mother, ALI attended public school on the Upper West Side with future noted graffiti artists SAMO (Jean-Michel Basquiat), Futura 2000 (Lenny McGurr), and COCA 82 (Pablo Calogero). He began street-tagging in 1970, and with his younger brother Michael, founded the early crew The Underground (UND). He went on to found The Soul Artists (SA)[3] several years later, and became a respected subway artist well before the advent of "wildstyle" graffiti art. ALI influenced and inspired fellow SA and UND member BILROCK-161 who started The Rolling Thunder Writers in 1976. (RTW went on to become one of the most famed and prolific of all of the New York City Subway graffiti clubs. RTW membership included some of the best-known artists such as REVOLT, ZEPHYR, MIN-ONE, QUIK, CRUNCH, RICH2, PADE, REGAL 192, BOE, SACH, KEL 139, EL 3, IZ THE WIZ, and HAZE.)
ALI's works often contained a humorous political message, a trend which led to his establishing and publishing the comic-oriented "Zoo York Magazine" in the early 1980s (The premier issue, was first published in May 1979).
ALI's works often contained a humorous political message, a trend which led to his establishing and publishing the comic-oriented "Zoo York Magazine" in the early 1980s (The premier issue, was first published in May 1979).
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