graffiti died when hip hop died. people did graff because of the hip hop era they had the funk and style in their pieces now a days writers dont even do graffiti for hip hop they do it because its a trend and they go around shooting toys who went over their shit. writers who get up dont have TIME to worry about the newjacks and toys. graffiti is hip hop and hip hop is something positive. if most kids weren't doing graffiti they would be doing worse things than writing their names on the wall but now people consider and look at graff as a gateway to negative things such as violence and drugs. thats my opinion on this topic.