Graffiti Hip Hop New York

Graffiti as an urban art form has existed since at least the 1950s but began developing in earnest in the late 1960s and flourished during the 1970s.

Graffiti hip hop new york. Welcome to new york graffiti the new upcoming site for nyc graffiti. A new generation of new york mcs and graffiti artists were rapidly attracting attention from music producers and collectors. Focusing on graffiti that was started back in the 1970 s in new york city hip hop at it s roots. Shortly after the death of charlie parker nicknamed yardbird or bird in 1955 graffiti began appearing around new york with the words bird lives but it was not for about one and a half more decades that graffiti started to be noticeable in nyc. In 1980 media began to link graffiti with other emerging urban cultures those of breakdance and rap music also produced by youths from the most neglected areas of new york creating a concept called hip hop. Hip hop graffiti emerged from the social cultural and political inequalities regular to the u s. The new cultural object took form in press articles performance shows and in particular in movies some of which had wide international distribution.

Modern graffiti began in philadelphia in the 1960s. Graffiti in hip hop began as a way of tagging for one s crew gang and developed during the 1970s on the subways of new york and later expanded to the city walls themselves. Leading that generation was freddy né fred brathwaite the pioneering artist who had his fingers in everything from graffiti and rapping to acting notably in charlie ahearn s cult classic wild style.