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‘It’s been called the greatest hip-hop film ever’: how we made cult graffiti classic Wild Style

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 8 December 2025

‘I handed a guy a starting pistol for a stick-up scene. But instead he reached into his car and took out the sawn-off shotgun you see in the movie’

I was part of the New York graffiti artists the Fabulous 5, who were primarily known for painting whole subway cars on the Lexington Avenue line. Lee Quiñones was the group’s Michelangelo. I’d been running with Jean-Michel Basquiat and wanted to take graffiti art into art spaces . I thought that an underground independent film could tell our story in the way we wanted.