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graffiti 

A fun illegal crime that involves ruining walls with profanity
Mickey your under arrest for doin graffiti on public property
graffiti by Mickey_M.... November 29, 2010

Graffiti 

something started by punks to say F**k You society But later copied by the rest world to write whatever they want and make themselves look really cool Something alot of teens do to call themselves gangster.
Douche- hey yall seen me tag on the wall over ther i wrote lil shadow graffiti is gangsta

punk- F*ckin Society
Graffiti by Chuck256 October 5, 2010

Graffiti 

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 to Writin', what the N word is to African American.
Graffiti by MICO March 12, 2015

graffiti 

“illicit or controversial forms of art intended for and presented to the public
Nietzsche's work is often recognized as graffiti, due to its controversial nature
graffiti by smartperson42069 August 21, 2019

Graffiti 

Some cunt put graffiti on bobs wall, I'll help him clean it up....poor guys terminal....wife left him for his oncologist... doesn't need this shit
Graffiti by Hanna Mitchell February 23, 2023

Graffiti 

Graffiti is a genre of what some people call art and others call vandalism
Graffiti by GRAFFITI_MASTER******* February 12, 2024