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Graffiti is one of the four main elements of hip hop culture (along with rapping, DJing, and break dancing). [6] The relationship between graffiti and hip hop culture arises both from early graffitists practicing other aspects of hip-hop, and its being practiced in areas where other elements of hip hop were evolving as art forms. By the mid ...
Graffiti is the most controversial of hip hop's elements, as a number of the most notable graffiti pioneers say that they do not consider graffiti to be an element of hip hop, including Lady Pink, Seen, Blade, Fargo, Cholly Rock, Fuzz One, and Coco 144. [115] [116] [117] Lady Pink says, "I don't think graffiti is hip hop. Frankly I grew up with ...
Lee Quiñones tags a 10-car subway train. Hip-hop, as a nascent subculture, encompassed many art forms, graffiti being one of the most visible and divisive.
Stencil graffiti artists such as Blek le Rat existed in Western Europe, especially in Paris, before the arrival of American graffiti and was associated more with the punk rock scene than with hip-hop. [39] In the 1980s, American graffiti and hiphop began to influence the European graffiti scene. [39] Modern graffiti reached Eastern Europe in ...
Hip-hop or hip hop (formerly known as disco rap) [7] [8] is a genre of popular music that emerged in the early 1970s in New York City. The genre is characterized by stylized rhythmic sounds—often built around disco grooves, electronic drum beats, and rapping, a percussive vocal delivery of rhymed poetic speech as consciousness-raising ...
Can't Stop Won't Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation is a 2005 book by Jeff Chang chronicling the early hip hop scene.. The book features portraits of DJ Kool Herc, Afrika Bambaataa, Chuck D, and Ice Cube, among others, and is based on numerous interviews with graffiti artists, gang members, DJs, rappers, and hip hop activists.
Style Wars is an American 1983 documentary film on hip hop culture, directed by Tony Silver and produced in collaboration with Henry Chalfant.The film has an emphasis on graffiti, although bboying and rapping are covered to a lesser extent.
Style Wars (1983) – an early documentary on hip hop culture, made in New York City; Bomb the System (2006) – a drama about a crew of graffiti artists in modern-day New York City; Infamy (2007) – a feature-length documentary about graffiti culture as told through the experiences of six well-known graffiti writers and a graffiti buffer.