As Zéb, Jak was also active with punk stencils. JAK was a hip hop graffiti pseudonym of Stebut from Nancy, who was one of the most important Nancy hip hop pioneers and also worked as a musician and DJ.

Photo: Yvain von Stebut.

In Dieulouard (between Nancy and Metz) hip hop reached a teenager via TV shows and music videos in 1982, who later became MashUp. With Kafar he founded the UPK Crew in 1990.

Photo: ©MashUP.

The soon-to-be King Pin saw New York graffiti in the September 1983 issue of a German trade union magazine. In Cologne in 1984, he met the pioneering graffiti writer Lee Quiñones and then traveled to New York, where he met local graffiti writers. He became one of the first writers in Germany and also appeared in the influential US illustrated book Spray Can Art in 1987.Photo: King Pin.