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GRAFFITI IS INDEED AN ELEMENT OF HIP HOP!
(Here is why)

Graffiti has always been around, but everyone, everywhere, knows EXACTLY what it means when they say "Hip Hop" graffiti -- that doesn't mean just tagging on a wall, but the actual culture of creating styles and getting up.

You could look to many graffiti artists that were rapping in the hood, throughout their years as oldschool New York writers, creating styles, and not just tagging.

For people that were into rock, I get it, but you better believe that people were practicing graffiti when Hip Hop first came out, and probably before rap, as disco and soul.

I do NOT think graffiti is NOT an element of Hop Hop, just because it came before it!

That's like saying your brother is not your brother, because he's older than you, despite coming from the SAME family.

And believe me, the style of graffiti that evolved into the culture we love today, DID come from the SAME family; meaning all 4 elements of Hip Hop came out of the ghettos of New York!

To put this into a more realistic perspective, because rap, graffiti-as-ART, mixing, and breaking, ALL originated in about the SAME decade, more or less, and from the SAME places, you can bet that some of the people practicing it, were probably literally from the SAME FAMILIES, too!

Yes, graffiti culture started earlier, but the other 3 elements, Breaking, D-jaying, and Rapping, did not come out in the SAME year either!

They, too, have their own culture, but basically spread around the world TOGETHER, NOT alone! - Just like Graffiti!

In fact, most graffiti artists, even BEFORE "Style Wars", "Subway Art" and "Spray Can Art", were indeed doing graffiti, breaking, rapping, or mixing, TOGETHER!

Those books and documentaries just helped to greatly "popularize" them, but were only documenting what they were doing in real time - that is practicing those cultures TOGETHER!

This doesn't mean SOME people were practicing graffiti WITHOUT the other 3 elements, but by FAR most DID.

I disagree with anyone that claims Graffiti is NOT a part of Hip Hop, and ANYONE that thinks graffiti is NOT an element of Hip Hop.

Like the other 3 elements, they each had their own cultures, but at a certain point, they all merged to form ONE movement, and it was THROUGH this movement, that it spread across the world, literally making it a TRUE element of Hip Hop!

For over 40 years now, those 4 elements have spread around the world TOGETHER, NOT alone!

...Once again - NOT ALONE!

And there is simply no way that can ever be ignored!

-- Dark Riddle

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GRAFFITI IS INDEED AN ELEMENT OF HIP HOP!
(Here is why)

Graffiti has always been around, but everyone, everywhere, knows EXACTLY what it means when they say "Hip Hop" graffiti -- that doesn't mean just tagging on a wall, but the actual culture of creating styles and getting up.

You could look to many graffiti artists that were rapping in the hood, throughout their years as oldschool New York writers, creating styles, and not just tagging.

For people that were into rock, I get it, but you better believe that people were practicing graffiti when Hip Hop first came out, and probably before rap, as disco and soul.

I do NOT think graffiti is NOT an element of Hop Hop, just because it came before it!

That's like saying your brother is not your brother, because he's older than you, despite coming from the SAME family.

And believe me, the style of graffiti that evolved into the culture we love today, DID come from the SAME family; meaning all 4 elements of Hip Hop came out of the ghettos of New York!

To put this into a more realistic perspective, because rap, graffiti-as-ART, mixing, and breaking, ALL originated in about the SAME decade, more or less, and from the SAME places, you can bet that some of the people practicing it, were probably literally from the SAME FAMILIES, too!

Yes, graffiti culture started earlier, but the other 3 elements, Breaking, D-jaying, and Rapping, did not come out in the SAME year either!

They, too, have their own culture, but basically spread around the world TOGETHER, NOT alone! - Just like Graffiti!

In fact, most graffiti artists, even BEFORE "Style Wars", "Subway Art" and "Spray Can Art", were indeed doing graffiti, breaking, rapping, or mixing, TOGETHER!

Those books and documentaries just helped to greatly "popularize" them, but were only documenting what they were doing in real time - that is practicing those cultures TOGETHER!

This doesn't mean SOME people were practicing graffiti WITHOUT the other 3 elements, but by FAR most DID.

I disagree with anyone that claims Graffiti is NOT a part of Hip Hop, and ANYONE that thinks graffiti is NOT an element of Hip Hop.

Like the other 3 elements, they each had their own cultures, but at a certain point, they all merged to form ONE movement, and it was THROUGH this movement, that it spread across the world, literally making it a TRUE element of Hip Hop!

For over 40 years now, those 4 elements have spread around the world TOGETHER, NOT alone!

...Once again - NOT ALONE!

And there is simply no way that can ever be ignored!

-- Dark Riddle