Relationship between graffiti and hip hop

As I said in the other comments, graffiti has been very united to hip hop (specially in New York and some places of Europe). The hip hop appears in the 1960's in some neighborhoods of New York like the Bronx. Normally the people that sang hip hop were African and Latin americans.

We have to mention that graffiti has been an important part in the hip hop culture. We can say that it is the artistic branch of this culture.

Also it is important to emphasize that a lot of clothes of the singers are decorated with graffitis. Normally the singers that paint, have their own graffitis reflected on their sweatshirts.

It's quite extensive graffiti relationship with the culture of hip hop. There are other elements like the b-boys (the ones that do breakdance), MC's, skateboard...


We can have a good idea of the relation of this two elements (hip hop and graffiti) with communication. The first one is very important, because the music has been a very good way to express ideas. For example, the hippie movement, with their music had a strong impact against the Vietnam war.

And graffiti sometimes can be the way of expression that can't be expressed with words.