With graffiti inking its way to dominance over the NYC subway system, a cop from the city's swelling ranks of transit guards stares down a carriage, 1979. (Getty Images) Legend has it that the first ...

Graffiti and hip-hop culture have been intertwined since their emergence in the late 1960s and early 1970s, particularly in ...

On this date six years ago, the graffiti world and the entire Hip Hop community lost one of its most influential pioneers. Michael Lawrence Marrow, better known as True Mathematics Allah and globally ...

With a truck full of 10 life-size replicas of subway-car sides rumbling across the country in preparation for a celebration of graffiti next week, Mayor Bloomberg said yesterday that New Yorkers ...

Sugarhill Gang’s Wonder Mike on “Rapper’s Delight”: ‘We Knew We Had a Hit’ Herein lies the ink-stained testament of NYC native and early ’80s hip hop graffiti-pioneer Mike McLeer, aka KAVES, who—after ...

Hip-hop at 50: A history of graffiti in NYC ABC News' Megan Ryte reports on the history of graffiti in New York City and how pioneering artists who began by painting subway cars are now selling their ...

Fab 5 Freddy is a pioneer, a cultural legend and one of the key architects who brought hip-hop culture worldwide and mainstream. Born in the Bedford Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, Fab 5 Freddy began ...

Artists and curators Robert Cooper, left, and True Trimingham set up an interactive subway car for the upcoming "Can't Stop, Won't Stop: Celebrating 50 Years of Hip Hop" exhibit at Albany Center ...

“Since graffiti first broke out, NYPD has always had some form of the Vandal Squad. There were transit cops for a minute too, but in the late 80s or early 90s the city dropped them. The Vandal Squad ...

Herein lies the ink-stained testament of NYC native and early ’80s hip hop graffiti-pioneer Mike McLeer, aka KAVES, who—after a career-complicating biff and bust by the transit cops’ Vandal ...