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Around the 70's graffiti started to become popular when people began tagging.
Tagging was all over the place and some of the tags are still known today. -
Taki was a particularly active tagger in New York. He appeared in the New York Times and became well known for his tagging.
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Throw ups are simple pieces, written with only a few colors in an artistic way.
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This is known as The Buff - an attempt to clear the city of graffiti, once and for all. The laws against graffiti increased.
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In the late 70's, it became popular for writers to fill out a whole wall with their works.
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Groups of people helping each other, competed against other groups by doing murals as good as possible, sometimes by doing a "married couple" - a piece across two train cars
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Because of The Buff it became difficult for writers to find places where they could paint and write.
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As graffiti became more popular, the newer artists, the "toys", started writing across old writers' pieces
