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Apologies for the sound quality but this video is like sixty something years old – before technicolor dolby and whatnot.

Any computer headz PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE for your BROTHERS AND SISTERS HOOK THIS UP 😘 شکر

FROM THE EDITOR:

السلام علایکم و رحمت الله و برکت

INTERNATIONAL HIP-HOP MONTH is coming to a close. But when you are a B-GIRL like me it is really a lifestyle and you know we DON’T STOP WON’T STOP. KEEP ON TIL THE BREAK OF DAWN SUN TO SUN AND ON AND ON AND ON AND ON….

So the only thing I really didn’t do yet was watch a flick. There are so many. I bought a videotape of Wildstyle from PRINCE WHIPPER WHIP back in about ’98 at a B-BOY CONVENTION. He autographed it and it was really dope. I am pretty sure that was the first HIP-HOP movie. Certified Classic.

A MUST SEE FOR ANY HEAD

BEAT STREET was next.

“Your moves ain’t worth a BIT!”

– ROCK STEADY B-BOY

Lawd when did bits go out of currency?

I certainly never even saw one but I know you used to be able to get a “shave and a haircut” for one penny or two bits.

Yes a bit was worth one-half of a penny.

Anyway the B-Boy in the movie BEAT STREET told the op (quite convincingly) that his moves were not worth one half of a penny. Or a piece of a coin : a bit of a coin…

Wildstyle features every element prominently with the exception of the human beatbox. I don’t remember one beatbox in the whole movie. Even when DOUBLE TROUBLE was sitting on the stoop there was copious fingersnappage but no beatbox.

Presently my personal favorite strictly because it was MY first HIP-HOP movie that I was conscious enough to have fond memories of is KRUSH GROOVE.

I read that when they were approached about a movie they said they didn’t want to make a documentary. They wanted a real live ACTION movie with a captivating plot like old Westerns with shootouts and a damsel in distress

I think the hardest part of that whole movie was koo koo El Jay. And I don’t even like him. But when he came busting through the ceiling cutting up the floor knocking out windows and breaking down doors and whatnot that one scene immortalized and exemplified the essence of HIP-HOP’s aggressiveness that is rather scary to most people but is also indicative of our tenacity and determination to obstinantly DON’T STOP WON’T STOP – permanently cementing HIP-HOP MUSIC as a ubiquitous pillar of OURSTORY.

I saw BREAKIN’ and RAPPIN’ as a double feature. Not crazy about either one.

But I always loved this classic. CLASSIC – meaning it still sounds crisp and fresh forty years later.

If there was a rap in it it could be HIP-HOP’s theme song 😃 “Daylight doesn’t matter…”

WE DON’T STOP WON’T STOP

MIDNIGHT DOESN’T MATTER

The ballerina was supposed to be BLACK. But you know Black girls can’t never do nothing without sneaking so like Rick James they settled for the devil.

Also very up on my list: BROWN SUGAR and THE ART OF RAP

THE LAST DRAGON.

Flashdance just because of the novelty of the cameo of the ROCK STEADY CREW in a major film was groundbreaking LOL literally Breakin on the ground 😂😭😂😭😂😭😂😭😂😘

Most of the above are on YT for free.

And I am not counting movies and stuff as HIP-HOP just because a rapper has a major role.

It has to make me feel that way.

There are a lot of flicks that are not HIP-HOP but had a profound influence on future artists like the BRUCE LEE / Kung Fu theatre that used to come on after SOUL TRAIN.

Most of the time I would go outside when that came on but apparently the Brothers was really into it.

I like it a little ☺

Then there are some films that don’t have NOTHING to do with HIP-HOP but the soundtrack is like that!

The YT computer gods keep sending me suggestions like (*creepy halloween whisper*) they knooooow… LOL

NEW JACK CITY brought about a renaissance of the movie soundtrack as a viable album choice and at the same time ushered in a new era/style of HIP-HOP originated by Teddy Riley – NEW JACK SWING. As demonstrated above. Dancers stopped breakin completely for a while and the ULTRA WAVE trendy/poser/mod/suit&tie steez which I thought was so fly took over.

(Breakin made a strong comeback a few years later along with the gear.)

But during the NEW JACK SWING ERA We actually used to dress up and wear cologne when we went out. Nylons and pumps for the girls and Creepers for the guys.

My homegirl Fatima got discovered at Paradise 24/Diamond Productions.

I saw her in the KNOW THE LEDGE video or some contemporary E and Rakim video then she blew up and started shinin’ me on.

That still hurts but Allah is Sufficient for me. الله اکبر 😄

I am still happy and proud of you. الله اکبر

JUICE

BOYZ IN THE HOOD

Sorry. I really used to jam HOW TO SURVIVE IN SOUTH CENTRAL but I am MUSLIMAH now and THE WEST COAST just overall is outta control.

It is the westernest of the wicked west so you already knowin…

I gotta pass on most of the WEST COAST HIP-HOP. You gotta have boundaries. Someone once told me about L.A. “We got flava too.” But most of it is overflowing in filth and indecency so I gotta draw the line around the MISSISSIPPI.

Hammer was like the only westcoast rapper you could play with your children around! But he was more of an entertainer than an emcee.

But that is why I decided to steer clear of westcoast films. It is very easy to get sucked in and I do not want to risk exceeding the limits soooooo…. Back to the Bronx 😘

Lowkey this was actually my fave song for YEARS! IKR? From a soundtrack? But cheah A soundtrack

I’M GONNA GIT YOU SUCKA