54 Graffiti Hip Hop New York

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.

Graffiti hip hop new york. If you don t want to have adobe flash installed or are on a apple device then. 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. 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. Hip hop emerged in new york city which could be described as an urban world of physical and psychological violence frank and mckenzie 43. Hip hop graffiti emerged from the social cultural and political inequalities regular to the u s. Focusing on graffiti that was started back in the 1970 s in new york city hip hop at it s roots. And graffiti can be seen as the personal expression of an oppressed and disenfranchised people starr 132.

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. A new generation of new york mcs and graffiti artists were rapidly attracting attention from music producers and collectors. Modern graffiti began in philadelphia in the 1960s.