Want My Name in Ghetto Graffiti Letters
What's iller than having your name tagged up with some Ghetto Graffiti on the
freshest landmark in your city.
The names of my entire crew from 1983 are Bombed on the War bunker walls in Illeseim, Germany til' this day. Now that's what's up!
I Want My Name in Ghetto Graffiti Letters
As a blast from the past and in keeping up Graffiti "Vocab" here are some common glossary names for ya'.[ I Want My Name in Ghetto Graffiti Letters ]
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ALL CITY
What a writer is considered to be when he/she is "up", but this term implies more status than being just "up". Many people can be "up", but only a select few could be considered "all city". Can also refer to a crew instead of just one writer.
- BACK IN THE DAY
Refers to the "old days", old school, or when a writer first started writing. Also a hip-hop/rap term.
- BACKGROUND
Originated on the subways out of neccessity. Backgrounds were used to make the piece stand out from all the tags
and assorted scribbling on a subway car that make the piece hard to discern; the color or design painted behind the piece to
make it stand out from the wall or train.
- BACK TO BACK
A wall that is pieced from end to end all the way across. Also can refer to throwups that are one after
another. 
- BATTLE
This is done when two writers or two crews have some sort of disagreement. The battle can take two forms: skills battle or getting up - essentially quality vs. quantity. A skills battle is when two writers piece a wall within a certain time period (usually a day or a few hours) and whoever does the best piece is the winner.
A getting-up battle is when the writers take a certain area of a city and whichever crew can get up the most in that area within a certain amount of time (say a week to a month), wins. For both kinds of battle, an outside crew or writer judges who is the winner.
The terms of losing and winning are usually negotiated by the crews involved and can be payment in paint, pot, a sock in the jaw, the losing crew has to stop writing their name, etc., etc.
- BITE
To copy another writer's style. This is considered a no-no and is looked down upon, even though writers often borrow imagery from cartoons and comics.
- BLOCKBUSTER
Big, square letters, often tilted back and forth and in (usually) two colors. Mainly invented to cover over other people and to paint whole trains easily, but they are effective on smaller walls for maximum coverage. Blade and Comet claim to have invented these.
- BMT
Train line in NY that had only ridgys and ding-dongs (except for the As and Cs.)
- BOMB
Prolific painting or marking with ink. To cover an area with your tag, throwups, etc.
- BOMBING
To go out writing.
- BUBBLE LETTERS
A type of graffiti letters, usually considered to be an older (and sometimes outmoded) style. Often used for throwup letters because of their rounded shape, which allows for quick formation. Phase2 originally created this style.
- BUFF
Any means employed by the transit authority to remove graffiti from trains. The more modern usage is when any graffiti is gone over or removed from any surface, not necessarily just from trains.
- TO BUFF, BUFFED
to erase, erased.
- BURN
To beat the competition with your style. Also refers to a really good piece, as in one that "burns".
- BURNER
Originally a well-done wildstyle window-down whole car, a burner is a very good piece. Obviously, the reference to a window-down car is not applicable for pieces that are not on trains. A burner is any piece that has good bright colors, good style (often in wildstyle) and seems to "burn" off of the wall
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