2023-08-16 18:58:39
Published on August 16, 2023 at 8:58 p.m. Modified on August 16, 2023 at 8:59 PM.
Hip-hop don’t stop
Born in the depressed Bronx of the early 1970s, hip-hop has gradually become a global phenomenon. It is today the common denominator of the most popular music in the world (rap), of a future Olympic discipline (breakdance) and of a pictorial practice that has conquered art galleries (graffiti)… We almost forget the DJs behind the story.
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If the walls spoke, what would they say about the history of graffiti? Who would be the first to have put their stamp on the street? And where was it? We find wall inscriptions from Antiquity. But those that interest us here are those of hip-hop culture, of which graffiti is an integral part. And their story begins long before that famous evening of August 11, 1973 in the New York Bronx, the date of the most famous of block parties and the “official” birth of hip-hop.
The first artist associated with this movement comes from Philadelphia. His name is Darryl McCray, or Cornbread, and he acts at the end of the 1960s. In love with a young girl named Cynthia, he will shout his love on all the walls of the city by tagging… his own blaze. Other main feats of arms: he painted the elephant of the city zoo or the private jet of the Jackson Five. So much for the beginnings. The fever then spreads to the Big Apple, where graffiti acquired its letters of nobility at the very beginning of the seventies. It’s who will put his most prominent signature, have the best style, spread his mark the most. Techniques and styles are developing, crews (team of graffiti artists) are formed, artists stand out. Given this chronology, art does not therefore appear ex nihilo on August 11, 1973.
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