{"product_id":"taki-183-graffiti-snapback-hat-nyc-street-art-embroidered-cap-blackout-tonal-black-on-black-old-school-hip-hop-gift-for-writers","title":"TAKI 183 Graffiti Snapback Hat | NYC Street Art Embroidered Cap | Blackout Tonal Black on Black | Old School Hip Hop | Gift for Writers","description":"In 1969 a Greek kid from 183rd Street in Washington Heights started writing his name.\n\nThe next summer he took a job as a foot messenger. The company gave him taxi fare. He kept the money and walked instead, and he wrote his name everywhere the job took him — every borough, every line, doorways and trucks and the insides of subway cars. He wasn't the first person to write on a wall. He was the first to be everywhere at once.\n\nIn July 1971 the New York Times ran a piece on him, trying to work out who this was and why. It was the first time anyone outside the city had heard of any of it. Within months there were hundreds of kids doing the same thing, and one of the four pillars of hip hop had its opening chapter.\n\nHe's never given up his full name. Half a century on, that still feels right.\n\nThis cap is black on black — the handstyle embroidered tonal into matte twill, with the date underneath. In a photograph it's almost nothing. In your hand, in raking light, it's all texture. That's deliberate. Not everything needs to announce itself. The back of the hat features a manifesto for writing, \"I wanted people to know it existed.\"\n\n· Structured mid-profile six-panel, flat brim\n· 6 embroidered eyelets\n· 80% acrylic, 20% wool\n· Adjustable snapback, one size fits most, Head circumference: 21⅝″–23⅝″ (54.9 cm–60 cm)\n· Tonal black embroidery, not printed\n· Designed by us, printed and shipped by our production partner\n\nShips free. For writers, for people who know where this started, and for anyone who prefers their references quiet.","brand":"BX Originals","offers":[{"title":"Black","offer_id":54436577214774,"sku":"6A81107893D07_4792","price":38.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"White","offer_id":54436577247542,"sku":"6A81107893D07_22453","price":38.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0955\/9602\/0022\/files\/a0ed9009-il_fullxfull.8387935990_6te9.jpg?v=1787363421","url":"https:\/\/bxoriginals.com\/products\/taki-183-graffiti-snapback-hat-nyc-street-art-embroidered-cap-blackout-tonal-black-on-black-old-school-hip-hop-gift-for-writers","provider":"BX Originals","version":"1.0","type":"link"}