By RANDY KENNEDY – NY Times
Rammellzee, an early graffiti writer, hip-hop pioneer and performance artist whose style influenced the Beastie Boys and Cypress Hill, died Sunday in Far Rockaway, Queens, where he was raised. He lived in Battery Park City in Manhattan.
He was 49 and died after a long illness, said his wife, Carmela Zagari Rammellzee. [Read More]