This article is a descriptive revision about the concept and evolution of graffiti, its different intakes and perspectives, illustrating its evolution and various standpoints found in academic publications that allow us to reveal its importance as a cultural inheritance emanated from its own nature and political and social aspects that it represents. The articles were taken from three different data bases: Jstor, Communication & Mass Media Complete from Ebsco and from Google Scholar; the time frame of publication was done from the year 2000 up to the year 2016, which allows evidentiary support for the current situation of graffiti emphasizing on the important cities of its origins and its evolution. As a result, we found the importance of graffiti within an artistic movement that communicates and represents a collective identity of the circumstances within a specific context, constituting cities as communicative environments.