Reputedly, the graffiti movement was started about 1972 by a Greek American teenager who signed or ''tagged, " Taki 183 (his name and street, 183rd Street) on walls throughout the New York City subway system. Graffiti and break dancing, the aspects of the culture that first caught public attention, had the least lasting effect. As the hip-hop movement began at society's margins, its origins are shrouded in myth, enigma and obfuscation. Although widely considered a synonym for rap music, the term hip-hop refers to a complex culture comprising four constituent elements: deejaying or "turntabling" rapping, also known as "MCing" or "rhyming" graffiti painting, also known as "graf" or "writing" and "B-boying, " which encompasses hip-hop dance, style and attitude, along with the sort of virile body language that philosopher Cornel West described as "postural semantics." Hip-hop originated in the predominantly African American, economically depressed South Bronx section of New York City in the late 1970s. cultural movement that attained widespread popularity in the 1980s and '90s also, the backing music for rap, the musical style incorporating rhythmic and/or rhyming speech that became the movement's most lasting and influential art form.
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