hip-hop – Around the World in 80s Movies Podcast

Breakin’ 2: Electric Boogaloo (1984) | Sam Firstenberg

January 4, 2019April 18, 2019 qwipster Comment is Closed

Somewhere underneath the never-ending music and dance numbers is a story about keeping Shabba-Doo’s community center for inner city youth (named “Miracles”) from falling into the hands of a slimy developer who wants to bulldoze it to erect a shopping center in the middle of the community. This would leave the kids nowhere else to […]

Breakin’ (1984) | Joel Silberg

December 29, 2018April 18, 2019 qwipster Comment is Closed

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Former “Solid Gold” dancer Lucinda Dickey stars as Kelly, a waitress by day, aspiring jazz dancer in her spare time. She has the looks and talent to go far, at least according to her dance instructor, but this move seems to come at a price, as he wants a little action on the side to […]

Style Wars (1983) | Tony Silver

December 22, 2018April 18, 2019 qwipster Comment is Closed

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Style Wars is a documentary look at the street art among the youth of New York in the early 1980s, especially in the South Bronx, particularly in graffiti art and break-dancing. The film takes a balanced look at the youth culture, showing the artistry and thought involved in young people trying to make a name […]

Beat Street (1984) | Stan Lathan

December 14, 2018April 18, 2019 qwipster Comment is Closed

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Producer and activist Harry Belafonte’s commercialized slice-of-life drama stars Guy Davis as Kenny ‘Double K’ Kirkland, a South Bronx hip-hop DJ with big dreams, and Jon Chardiet as Ramon, a Puerto Rican graffiti artist who would rather tag trains than get a real job. Rae Dawn Chong is Tracy, an upper-class music student from a college […]

Wild Style (1983) | Charlie Ahearn

December 8, 2018April 18, 2019 qwipster Comment is Closed

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The seminal hip-hop film looks at underground Bronx art culture, including rap, graffiti art, break-dancing (aka b-boying) and DJing (aka turntablism), as we follow the exploits of a graffiti artist named Zoro and his quest to take his art and make it a living. Charlie Ahearn and Fab 5 Freddy created this film to expose […]

Krush Groove (1985) | Michael Schultz

December 1, 2018April 18, 2019 qwipster Comment is Closed

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The loose story of how Def Jam came to be, featuring the hottest hip-hop artists of the mid-1980s, Run-DMC, Kurtis Blow, The Fat Boys, LL Cool J, The Beastie Boys, and many more. Blair Underwood plays Russell, whose management company is coming up with some hot musical acts, including Run-DMC, featuring his brother Joe, who […]

Berry Gordy’s The Last Dragon (1985) | Michael Schultz

November 25, 2018April 18, 2019 qwipster Comment is Closed

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Taimak stars as a young African-American Harlemite who is a devout student of martial arts. He lives kung fu, breathes kung fu and is so entrenched in the ways of the kung fu warrior, he stands out in his predominantly Black community for his lack of hipness and Asian-tinged wardrobe (he even eats his movie […]