So when one "tags a car" what exactly are they painting? Just a random stripe? Some kind of racist thing? Gang sighn? Something smart like their own name? The Mona Lisa?
Not being a smartass, I seriously just haven't heard of this before...
Okay, I can't believe I'm posting this, but here goes. A "Tag" is basically an autograph for you or your gang. Think "Kilroy was here". Its either (if done artistically) a claim to fame, as in "That Kilroy is cool", or a dis to a fellow tagger or rival gang. Ie you paint over a Sharks tag with the word Jets. Either way, it gets you street cred with a certain kind of dumbass and buys you your 15 seconds of fame.
FQ13 who remembers his mom saying "Fools names and fools faces always appear in public places". Apparently a lesson lost on the twitter/face book/youtube and tagging generation.
FQ13