When hip-hop became popular, a new type of art started to appear on walls, buildings, trains,cars, and anything that could be written on this new type of art appeared.The first graffiti tag was by a high school student in Philadelphia to get the attention of a girl. Then graffiti began to get popular in the 1960’s. When graffiti got its beginning in hip hop, the graffiti associated with hip-hop most likely got started sometime in the mid-to-late 1960s. The exact beginnings can't be pinned down, but most discussions point to one article that brought graffiti into the spotlight -- "'Taki 183' Spawns Pen Pals," published in the New York Times on July 21, 1971. The article describes Demetrius, a Greek-American
