How Did The Influence Of Spray-Paintings In Hip Hop Culture
When these artists began performing in cities, it was a time for people to congregate and listen to good beats and experience art happening before their own eyes. Herc would be performing and crowds would break out into dancing and spray-painting. Many such as Flash, did not understand or respect the correlation spray-painting had to the Hip Hop culture, but they were strategically tied to one another. Also, according to Flash, the dance style called break-dancing was “a way of expressing how the music sounds”. It was also a form of physical competition and displaying a style of dance as a form of ritual warfare. Over the years b-boy and b-girls (break-dancers), emcees (rappers), deejays, and graffiti artists (spray-painters) all came together