What role does graffiti have in hip-hop & rap?

Batman · 06-04-2012, 01:16 AM

Frankly I've never been able to stay interested in these genres and am pretty ignorant of them (I'm making my way through the history & recommendations thread) but I've always paid attention to the better graffiti art around my city and was wondering what, if any, it's role in hip-hop is/was. I also thought it would be cool to have a thread were people could share pix of some cool stuff they've seen around their area. I'm a big fan of Odd Fellow's work, he's everywhere in the San Francisco Bay Area.

He does a lot of fantasy-looking stuff;

Downtown, market street I think.

I'm pretty sure this is in the east bay, around San Leandro I think.

I'm guessing this is in the mission district.

06-04-2012, 01:16 AM	#1 (permalink)
Batman Whatever, dude Join Date: Feb 2012 Posts: 70	What role does graffiti have in hip-hop & rap? Frankly I've never been able to stay interested in these genres and am pretty ignorant of them (I'm making my way through the history & recommendations thread) but I've always paid attention to the better graffiti art around my city and was wondering what, if any, it's role in hip-hop is/was. I also thought it would be cool to have a thread were people could share pix of some cool stuff they've seen around their area. I'm a big fan of Odd Fellow's work, he's everywhere in the San Francisco Bay Area. He does a lot of fantasy-looking stuff; Downtown, market street I think. I'm pretty sure this is in the east bay, around San Leandro I think. I'm guessing this is in the mission district.