BACK IN THE DAY Refers to the “old days”, old school, or when a writer first started writing.
Can also refer to a crew instead of just one writer. Many people can be “up”, but only a select few could be considered “all city”.
ALL CITY What a writer is considered to be when he/she is “up”, but this term implies more status than being just “up”. A newer glossary has been compiled by 149th Street.Īn effort has been made to keep to some of the history of each word, its origins and its current application to graffiti culture. So terms in use in your area may well be different. Note that this list is quite dated and somewhat NYC-centric. Thanks to RaskeL & Celtic (for info on homemades and Griffin shoe dye), Eros (for old-skool NYC/subway info) and Subway Art by Henry Chalfant for basic info and references. Slapped together by Chad with help from Schmoo. Real Writers Wouldn’t Deface a Small BusinessĪlso in Japanese! and a new one: translated by Takuya Hiramoto Lesser artists can only gain status by impressing a (‘king’)” (What is street art? Top 5 street artists in the art world- Part II). The most visible or skilled artists are known as ‘kings’, and iconography of crowns within their work is a reference to the writer’s status.
“Although the graffiti art community may seem unstructured, it adheres to a stricthierarchy among its writers. “Paradoxically, graffiti, which prides itself in being one of the only true subcultures in so much as its practitioners are in it not for the money but for the fame, could in fact be, a direct result rather than a by-product of advertising, the glaring antithesis to notions of purity and altruism” (Kataras). Graffiti Is Advertisement (Space Used is Important) Communication is Usually to Other Writers Not to the General Public The Ultimate Offense is Writing Over Someone Else’s Work
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