graffiti

usually unauthorized markings (as of words, symbols, or images) on a public surface (such as a building, bridge, train car, etc.)

Heard in 57 songs (465M+ combined views) — most famously in "Intergalactic [Remastered 2009]" by Beastie Boys.

Updated September 27, 2026

Songs Featuring “graffiti”

Beastie Boys - Intergalactic [Remastered 2009]

Time: 2:28

Mmm, drop

Now, when I wrote graffiti, my name was Slop

If my rap's soup, my beats is stock

Beastie Boys - Intergalactic [Remastered 2009]

Lauryn Hill - Everything Is Everything

Time: 2:14

More powerful than two Cleopatras

Bomb graffiti on the tomb of Nefertiti (uh)

MCs ain't ready to take it to the Serengeti

Lauryn Hill - Everything Is Everything

Twenty One Pilots - Levitate

Time: 0:59

Yeah, this is not what you thought

No, no, we are not just graffiti on a passing train

I got back what I once bought back

Twenty One Pilots - Levitate

Lil Wayne - Seeing Green

Time: 1:45

But leave the keys to your heart next to your soul and your spirit"

Some see graffiti as art, some could see hoes to be women

But I'm the greediest shark amongst the ocean of killers

Lil Wayne - Seeing Green

The Pharcyde - Passin' Me By

Time: 0:54

I was on her jock, yes indeed-y

I wrote graffiti on the bus

First I'd write her initials, then carve a plus

The Pharcyde - Passin' Me By

Linkin Park - Runaway

Time: 0:26

Graffiti decorations

Under the sky of dust

Linkin Park - Runaway

Coldplay - Hurts Like Heaven

Time: 0:00

Written in graffiti on a bridge in a park

Do you ever get the feeling that you're missing the mark?

Coldplay - Hurts Like Heaven

Daddy Yankee - Yo Soy de Aqui

Time: 2:34

Donde los difuntos resucitan (¿Cómo?)

En forma de graffiti.

Yo soy de aquí

Daddy Yankee - Yo Soy de Aqui

Nipsey Hussle - Keyz 2 The City 2

Time: 1:05

I got the key to the city, I got a hoe that's saddity

Talk to that bitch in Swahili, tattoo my name in graffiti

Wack at your hood in graffiti, come through your hood on the weekend

Nipsey Hussle - Keyz 2 The City 2

Maren Morris - You All Over Me [Taylor's Version / From The Vault]

Time: 0:39

They leave it muddy underneath, reminds me of you

You find graffiti on the walls of old bathroom stalls

You know you can scratch it right off, it's how it used to be

Maren Morris - You All Over Me [Taylor's Version / From The Vault]

Makaveli - Intro/Bomb First (My Second Reply)

Time: 1:42

Expose snakes 'cause they breath freely, see me ride?

Located world wide like the art of graffiti

I think I'm tougher than Nitti, my attitude is shitty

Makaveli - Intro/Bomb First (My Second Reply)

2Pac - Old School

Time: 3:20

Jekyll and Hyde, LL when he Rocks the Bells

Forget the TV, about to hit the streets and do graffiti

Be careful don't let the transit cops see me

2Pac - Old School

Ed Sheeran - Overpass Graffiti

Time: 0:50

I will always love you for what it's worth

We'll never fade like graffiti on the overpass

And I know time may change the way you think of us

Ed Sheeran - Overpass Graffiti

Busta Rhymes - Look Over Your Shoulder

Time: 2:52

And deeply carve up a nigga, believe me

Graffiti your armor, you heebie, you jeebie

Bikini your broad up (you guinea pig)

Busta Rhymes - Look Over Your Shoulder

Green Day - Jesus of Suburbia

Time: 2:42

No one really seems to care

I read the graffiti in the bathroom stall

Like the holy scriptures of the shopping mall

Green Day - Jesus of Suburbia

Bia - Super Freaky Girl [Queen Mix]

Time: 3:29

Horseback ridin', I be like, "Giddy up"

When I touch a city, paint it red like graffiti up

I ain't gotta beg for sympathy from the media

Bia - Super Freaky Girl [Queen Mix]

Olu Dara - Bridging the Gap

Time: 1:58

I'm a artist from the start, Hip-Hop guided my heart

Graffiti on the wall, coulda ended in Spoffard, juvenile delinquent

But Pops gave me the right type'a tools to think with

Olu Dara - Bridging the Gap

Slipknot - Hive Mind

Time: 2:58

And scrawl, your little bits of hate

Your little digital graffiti breaks

So don't close your eyes (get it off, get it off)

Slipknot - Hive Mind

Group Therapy - East Coast/West Coast Killas

Time: 0:43

custom designed, for instrumental

Yes indeedy, lyrical graffiti

And this one's a burner, baby

Group Therapy - East Coast/West Coast Killas

Eminem - Higher

Time: 2:39

Learn to defeat enemies with the ink, thinkin' of these rhymes

Would be as easy as eatin' graffiti

Would be like remedial readin' to me (yeah)

Eminem - Higher

50 Cent - Hold On

Time: 1:33

Shit on my nigga, you shit on me, we of one

Used to do graffiti, now look we major

Don't make me write my name across your face with a razor

50 Cent - Hold On

Lecrae - Dum Dum

Time: 0:17

Loud colored tennies

Body marked up like graffiti

I don't push a Maserati, Beamer, Benz or Bentley

Lecrae - Dum Dum

Taylor Swift - Honey

Time: 2:00

Sweetie, it's yours, kicking in doors, take it to the floor, gimme more, buy the paint in the color of your eyes, of your eyes

And graffiti my whole damn life

Honey

Taylor Swift - Honey

A Boogie wit da Hoodie - Ballin

Time: 1:56

Go bottle after bottle like a genie

Shakin' up the bottle like it's graffiti

I'm never cappin', I pulled up with a beanie

A Boogie wit da Hoodie - Ballin

Macklemore & Ryan Lewis - Buckshot

Time: 2:19

Chill-chill-chilin' with the crew

Just writing my name in graffiti on the wall

Who-who-who is he?

Macklemore & Ryan Lewis - Buckshot

Bon Jovi - Two Story Town

Time: 0:35

There's a "For Sale" sign on the front door of the city hall

The subway line got graffiti crawling off the wall

I could take a hit but I don't want to take the fall

Bon Jovi - Two Story Town

Chris Brown - Graffiti

Time: 0:56

Man I can't let you do it

Graffiti you tryna spray (spray)

Spray on me (me)

Chris Brown - Graffiti

Nas - Writers

Time: 0:10

Writers

Writin' my name in graffiti

Yes indeedy, I wrote graffiti

Nas - Writers

Naughty by Nature - Hip Hop Hooray

Time: 1:47

You try to act like something really big is missing

Even though my name's graffiti-written on your kitten

I love black women always and disrespect ain't the way

Naughty by Nature - Hip Hop Hooray

Meek Mill - Real Niggas Come First

Time: 1:54

And I ain't got no ice in it, rollin out the light tinted

So these niggas see me (see me), sway em like graffiti (fiti)

I get what I wanna (wanna), like I own a genie (genie)

Meek Mill - Real Niggas Come First

Snoop Dogg - Downtown Assassins

Time: 3:30

Make an example, what I said, ya end up dead

Spayed the wall with graffiti like hogs for all my lost Doggs

Never reach until I see the blue sky till I die

Snoop Dogg - Downtown Assassins

Nicky Jam - GET DOWN

Time: 2:34

Give you cream, give you pounds

Graffiti paint that town

You my pretty sweet thing I found

Nicky Jam - GET DOWN

Lupe Fiasco - The Emperor's Soundtrack

Time: 1:11

Won't let the CD's city defeat me

Rub me out like genies; smoke a sweet to my graffiti

Nigga what

Lupe Fiasco - The Emperor's Soundtrack

Grandmaster Flash - Beat Street

Time: 2:59

I'm sittin in the classroom learning the rules

And it says you can't do graffiti in school

That can't be wrong in the hallowed hall

Grandmaster Flash - Beat Street

Nelly - CG2

Time: 1:59

I'm comin' down down, baby, duck when you see me

When Kyjuan comin' the spray, yo it ain't graffiti

No I don't eat bullets, but I'll feed the needy

Nelly - CG2

Rush - You Bet Your Life

Time: 1:49

Bet your life (minimal, expressionist, post-modern, neo-symbolist)

Bet your life (arm chair, rocket scientist, graffiti existentialist)

Bet your life (deconstruction primitive, performance photorealist)

Rush - You Bet Your Life

Ryan Lewis - Cowboy Boots

Time: 1:24

Good Lord, they broke all my shields

Locks, bathroom doors, graffiti and high heels

Until you felt the altitude, you don't know how high feels

Ryan Lewis - Cowboy Boots

A Tribe Called Quest - Give Me

Time: 1:24

Shorty's online to cop the new CD

So hip hop'll bust nut in graffiti

We could two piece it or we could just seize it

A Tribe Called Quest - Give Me

Blur - Essex Dogs

Time: 1:15

Watching dogs somersault through sprinklers on tiny lawns

I remember the graffiti, we are your children coming in with spray cans of paint

I remember the sunset and the plains of cement

Blur - Essex Dogs

Ricardo Arjona - Reconciliación

Time: 2:21

¿Quién diría que años atrás

Pintábamos graffitis de "te amo"?

No digas más que esta de más

Ricardo Arjona - Reconciliación

My Chemical Romance - Save Yourself, I'll Hold Them Back

Time: 1:52

This ain't about all the friends you made

But the graffiti they write on your grave

For all of us who've seen the light

My Chemical Romance - Save Yourself, I'll Hold Them Back

Mötley Crüe - Droppin Like Flies

Time: 0:44

We hope it goes away

Graffiti on the walls in modern Babylon

Nothing left to save

Mötley Crüe - Droppin Like Flies

Prince - Graffiti Bridge

Time: 0:09

Everybody wants to find Graffiti Bridge

Something to believe in

Prince - Graffiti Bridge

The Clash - Overpowered by Funk

Time: 3:10

Picture frame, tickets here

For the graffiti train

People at home show you care

The Clash - Overpowered by Funk

The Roots - I Remember

Time: 1:05

I used to ride the train to the same two stops

And look at the graffiti on the rooftops

Like the same song playing on the jukebox

The Roots - I Remember

Redman - A-Yo

Time: 0:06

I be like, "Yiggy, yes, y'all", doctor on call

I'll rock 'til my name in graffiti on the wall

Got flow like the rappers in Great George

Redman - A-Yo

Joni Mitchell - Nothing Can Be Done

Time: 0:42

There are no victimless crimes I know of

Out here in these graffiti ruins, my love

Oh, I am not old, I'm told

Joni Mitchell - Nothing Can Be Done

21 Savage - Wheelie

Time: 0:52

Pay the rent and the car note, he invest in me like crypto

Tell me just how much you need me (yeah), paint the walls like I'm graffiti (yeah)

Birkin bag me, double C me (ooh)

21 Savage - Wheelie

Lucinda Williams - Sidewalks of the City

Time: 0:19

You see a man with hunger in his face

And all around you, crumbling buildings and graffiti

As you bend down to tie your shoelace

Lucinda Williams - Sidewalks of the City

Suzanne Vega - Zephyr & I

Time: 1:26

Now the kids are gone but their souls remain

The graffiti goes but the walls retain

The flowers go but the earth must still remain

Suzanne Vega - Zephyr & I

Eric B. & Rakim - Put Your Hands Together

Time: 3:56

With stacks of verbal attacks so clap your hands

Rhyme written in graffiti xeroxed on blueprints

Students influenced are now a nuisance

Eric B. & Rakim - Put Your Hands Together

Rascal Flatts - Tonight Tonight

Time: 1:22

Everybody's dancing, it's a party y'all

You move yourself in that graffiti sky

Gives you that feeling, everything's gonna be alright

Rascal Flatts - Tonight Tonight

The Rolling Stones - Never Wanna Lose You

Time: 3:03

And love is always madness

Graffiti on the wall

Please don't make me crawl

The Rolling Stones - Never Wanna Lose You

Simple Minds - Graffiti Soul

Time: 1:19

There's nothing I'd change

In my graffiti soul

♪

Simple Minds - Graffiti Soul

Lou Reed - Mama's Got a Lover

Time: 0:26

she says he likes collages but

the money's in graffiti

Money's in graffiti

Lou Reed - Mama's Got a Lover

Indigo Girls - Cold Beer and Remote Control (Studio Version)

Time: 1:51

The room is dark (the room is dark)

The blurry graffiti on the benches

Across at the public park

Indigo Girls - Cold Beer and Remote Control (Studio Version)

DJ Premier - HEROES

Time: 0:33

From an older neighbor who was playing Fuck the Police

Eleven writing graffiti, Fifteen I'm selling weed

By Sixteen I had an MPC

DJ Premier - HEROES