Founded: 1991
Founder: Hector “Hex” Rios
Location: Los Angeles, CA

Hector “Hex” Rios is one of the earliest known and well-respected Hip Hop Graffiti pioneers of the west coast. His contributions to the international scene has influenced thousands of artists in all disciplines, genres and forms, ranging from Graffiti Arts, Museum shows, animators, comic book artists, graphics designers and more. He is best known for his constantly impacting original styles in lettering, Bboy characters, colorizations and foundational photo realism with spraypaint. Hex is the inventor of the Stencil Cap (HEX CAP) which took aerosol artistry to new detail levels worldwide. His use of environmental effects, light sources, improvisational themes, mythological heroes and villains, urban quotes and poems, etc. have been credited as a major catapult to the Hip Hop Graffiti Culture coast to coast. Hex was and still is an innovator and a trailblazer, creating one of the first Hip-Hop street wear brands named “FATCAP TM”. Hex also opened and ran the very first Hip-Hop retail store in 1991, called “The Hip-Hop Shop”, which was located on Melrose Avenue in Los Angeles.

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