Hiphop = A Kulture of Peace & Prosperity
= An alternative way of life capable of transforming subjects & objects. Hiphop is a strategy towards Health, Love, Awareness & Wealth for all those who Declare ‘Hiphop’ their lifestyle!
Hiphop = our unique Spirit, our unique collective consciousness, the force behind Hip Hop's elements. "Hiphop" is the name of our lifestyle.
Hip Hop = the performances of Breakin, Emceein, Graffiti Art, Deejayin, Beatboxin, Street Fashion, Street Language, Street Knowledge, and Street Entrepreneurialism. It is what we call ourselves and our activity in the world. "Hip Hop" is the name of our Kulture.
hip-hop = Rap music product. |
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GRAFFITI ART: (The study and application of street calligraphy, art and handwriting). Commonly called Aerosol Art, Writin, Piecin, Burnin, Graff and Urban Murals. Other forms of this art include Bombin and Taggin. Its practitioners are known as Writers, Graffiti writers, Aerosol artists, Graffitists and Graffiti artists. |
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WRITER: Practitioner of the art of graffiti. |
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TAGGER: As opposed to "writer"; this term is usually used to refer to those who only do tags and throwups and who never piece. Some taggers seem to like more destructive methods such as scribers and sandpaper in addition to markers and paint. Some taggers do get interested in piecing, some don't. Taggers who never piece are sometimes called "Toys" by more experienced, piecing writers. |
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TAG: The most basic form of graffiti, a writer's signature with marker or spray paint. It is the writer's logo, his/her stylized personal signature. If a tag is long it is sometimes abbreviated to the first two letters or the first and last letter of the tag. |
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PIECE: A graffiti painting, short for masterpiece. It's generally agreed that a painting must have at least three colors to be considered a piece. |
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BITE: To copy another writer's style. This is considered a no-no and is looked down upon, even though writers often borrow imagery from cartoons and comics. |
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BATTLE
This is done when two writers or two crews have some sort of disagreement. The battle can take two forms: skills battle or getting up - essentially quality vs. quantity. A skills battle is when two writers piece a wall within a certain time period (usually a day or a few hours) and whoever does the best piece is the winner. A getting-up battle is when the writers take a certain area of a city and whichever crew can get up the most in that area within a certain amount of time (say a week to a month), wins. For both kinds of battle, an outside crew or writer judges who is the winner. The terms of losing and winning are usually negotiated by the crews involved and can be payment in paint, pot, a sock in the jaw, the losing crew has to stop writing their name, etc., etc. |
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BOMB: Prolific painting or marking with ink. To cover an area with your tag, throwups, pieces etc. |
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BOMBING: To go out writing. |
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WILDSTYLE: A complicated construction of interlocking letters. A hard style that consists of lots of arrows and connections. Wildstyle is considered one of the hardest styles to master and pieces done in wildstyle are often completely undecipherable to non-writers. |
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BURNER: Originally a well-done wildstyle window-down whole car, a burner is a very good piece. Obviously, the reference to a window-down car is not applicable for pieces that are not on trains. A burner is any piece that has good bright colors, good style (often in wildstyle) and seems to "burn" off of the wall. |
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BURN:To beat the competition with your style. Also refers to a really good piece, as in one that "burns". |
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Da Burna Mentality: Significance should be our ultimate goal, not survival.
Lets not do the least we can do, that will just ‘get us by’.
Lets do the most we can do!
Da USN Burna Mentality - click here |
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