by Doggydaycare April 28, 2009
Get the graffido mug.Celebrities who have risen from the street-level world of hip-hop, punk rock, and urban subcultures. The glitterati of the gutter.
by Dizzy Hayride March 7, 2009
Get the graffiterati mug.Graffeace is act vandalism, in which the participant takes dump in a highly inconsiderate location without permission of the property owner.
girl: "That Robbie is a serial Graffeace artist! Last night he took a dump on old man Thorns front door step. There was seriously Graffeaces all over the place!"
boy: "oh Word!"
boy: "oh Word!"
by Robbie Sea August 14, 2009
Get the Graffeace mug.A graffiti taggin' squad from northern KY formed from Blood and Crip gang members. PxBGK3TS-ARMY. represented by a purple or black bandana. or the kolour purple.
man1:dude you know jake?
man2:yea man, hes reppin pine st. Crip why?
man1:na dog hes going all city with Graffiti Kingz
man2:dude there shit is crazy!!
man2:yea man, hes reppin pine st. Crip why?
man1:na dog hes going all city with Graffiti Kingz
man2:dude there shit is crazy!!
by fghjk34 June 29, 2011
Get the graffiti kingz mug.Graffiti is NOT one of the four elements of Hip Hop. This is chronologically impossible. "Graffiti" was first born as "Writin' " in NYC in 1969-70, a decade before rap music reached NYC in the late 70s. Hip Hop which began in the early 80s, can not include "graffiti" as one of its elements, because Writin' or Graffiti surfaced decade before Hip Hop. Hip Hop is really the last element of Writin'.
Graffiti is the plural of the italian "graffito." Graffito in english means to scratch or scribble. What you saw on the NYC subways in the early 70s were no "scribbles. Instead, those of us who started Writin' would call our large letter pieces, masterpieces.
We were WRITERS who WROTE OUR NAMES.We were not "graffiti artists." Every time a new face would appear on the scene, we would always ask two questions, "you write?" and "what you wrtie?" Not "do you do graffiti?"
It was the NYT who first baptized an entire Culture with the denigrating term "graffiti" in 1971.
Why this denigration? The only correct answer to this question is: Racism.
If our last names would have been been Rockefeller, Trump, Bloomberg or Kennedy, instead of Ramirez, Jones or Delgado, then those same powers that be would have named the new Culture with a more formal name. Instead of "graffiti", the NYT would have referred to it as "avant garde pop something art." But because it was invented by the children of the Working Class, the powers that be saw fit to denigrate the entire Culture with "graffiti."
Graffiti is the plural of the italian "graffito." Graffito in english means to scratch or scribble. What you saw on the NYC subways in the early 70s were no "scribbles. Instead, those of us who started Writin' would call our large letter pieces, masterpieces.
We were WRITERS who WROTE OUR NAMES.We were not "graffiti artists." Every time a new face would appear on the scene, we would always ask two questions, "you write?" and "what you wrtie?" Not "do you do graffiti?"
It was the NYT who first baptized an entire Culture with the denigrating term "graffiti" in 1971.
Why this denigration? The only correct answer to this question is: Racism.
If our last names would have been been Rockefeller, Trump, Bloomberg or Kennedy, instead of Ramirez, Jones or Delgado, then those same powers that be would have named the new Culture with a more formal name. Instead of "graffiti", the NYT would have referred to it as "avant garde pop something art." But because it was invented by the children of the Working Class, the powers that be saw fit to denigrate the entire Culture with "graffiti."
by MICO March 12, 2015
Get the Graffiti mug.by Crazycon12 May 21, 2016
Get the graftoner mug.A graffmance When two graffiti writers/artists go out and paint/write with each other and throw one another's Tags up
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