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Tagging
Taki 183 started the "Tagging". Tagging is when you write your name and then you show other people that you've been there. -
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Taki 183
Taki 183 started Tagging and became famous of it. -
Taki 183
Taki came in "The New York Times". -
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New styles
Writers start using spray cans, and making throw ups. Simple bubble letters. -
The buff
The mayor of new york declared war on graffiti. The mayor want to clean the city with the "buff". -
Graffiti gallery
The buff came and destroyed the graffiti so a man made graffiti galleries. Walls where writers are allowed to paint their graffiti. -
Competition
Writers start spraying cars and "married couples". It became a competiton between the writers and their crew. -
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Hard time
"The buff" was cleaning areas with the writers work. It's hard to make graffiti when the buff's there and the law gets harder. The "toys", which is the new writers destroyed the good writers work. -
Graffiti today
People still make a lot of graffiti. Some places it's illegal, and some places it's not. They make graffiti in so many different ways today.
