Details are few, but writer, film maker, artist, and curator Sacha Jenkins has reportedly died at 53 years old. Jenkins, a Philadelphia native is the founder of Graphic Scenes & Xplicit Language, one of the first magazines dedicated to Graffiti art. Jenkins is also co-founder of Beat Down, a Hip Hop newspaper of which Elliot Wilson was once music editor.

Jenkins and Wilson later founded Ego Trip, a magazine which chronicled the Hip-Hop, skateboarding and Punk Rock cultures. Jenkins also released Ego Trip’s Book Of Rap Lists, and Ego Trip’s Big Book Of Racism. Television series such as The White Rapper Show and Miss Rap Supreme would follow.

Jenkins was a writer and producer of television and film projects including Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues, All Up In The Biz, Wu-Tang Clan: Of Mics and Men, The Boondocks, 50 Cent: The Origin Of Me, Bitchin': The Sound & Fury of Rick James, and Fresh Dressed. As a writer, Jenkins wrote for Spin and Rolling Stone, and co-authored Eminem’s biography, The Way I Am.

Rest In Peace Sacha.