Hip-hop iconoclast Rammellzee's prolific art has long been obscured. That's starting to change
Chris Campion, Los Angeles Times, 31 December 2022
IN THE EARLY 1980s, New York artist Rammellzee made two trips to Los Angeles with his friend Jean-Michel Basquiat. The second, in March 1983, inspired Basquiat's painting "Hollywood Africans," which resides in the permanent collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art. It immortalizes himself and the artist Toxic with Rammellzee, who is wearing wraparound mirror shades like the Terminator.
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