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Beat Street

Beat Street movie poster
Directed by Stan Lathan
Produced by Harry Belafonte
David V. Stan Lathan (born July 8, 1945) is an American television and Film director and Producer. Harold George Belafonte Jr (born March 1 1927 is an American musician actor and Social activist. Picker
Written by Andy Davis
David Gilbert
Paul Golding
Steven Hager (story)
Starring Rae Dawn Chong
Guy Davis
Jon Chardiet
Leon W. Andrew Davis (born November 21, 1947) is an American Film director, producer and Cinematographer, noted for David Gilbert (born October 6, 1944) is an American radical leftist organizer author and terrorist currently imprisoned at Clinton Correctional Facility Steven Hager, a writer journalist and Counterculture and Marijuana Activist, was born May 25 1951 in Champaign-Urbana Illinois, the son Rae Dawn Chong (born February 28, 1961) is a Canadian -born American actress Guy Davis (1966-) is an American Comic book artist primarily known for his work on Sandman Mystery Theatre and various Hellboy Grant
Saundra Santiago
Music by Arthur Baker
Harry Belafonte
Webster Lewis
Cinematography Tom Priestley Jr. Saundra Santiago (born April 13, 1957 in The Bronx, New York) is an American actress Harold George Belafonte Jr (born March 1 1927 is an American musician actor and Social activist.
Editing by Dov Hoenig
Kevin Lee
Distributed by Orion Pictures
Release date(s) June 6, 1984
Running time 105 min. Orion Pictures Corporation was an American company that produced movies from 1978 until 1998 Events 1508 - Maximilian I Holy Roman Emperor, is defeated in Friulia by Venetian forces; he is forced to sign a three-year Year 1984 ( MCMLXXXIV) was a Leap year starting on Sunday (link displays the 1984 Gregorian calendar)
Country United States
Language English
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Beat Street is a 1984 mainstream hip hop dramatic feature film, and the second following Breakin'. English is a West Germanic language originating in England and is the First language for most people in the United Kingdom, the United States Events The Walt Disney Company founds Touchstone Pictures to release movies with subject matter deemed inappropriate for the Disney name This article is about the 1984 movie; for other breakin' or breaking references see Breaking. It is set in New York City during the popularity rise of hip hop culture in the early 1980s. The City of New York Hip hop is a Subculture, which is said to have begun with the work of DJ Kool Herc, Grandmaster Flash & the Furious Five, and Afrika Bambaattaa

The movie was the East Coast answer to the Los Angeles-set Breakin', displaying break dancing, DJing, and graffiti with a mild social undertone. Breakdance, breaking, b-boying or b-girling is a Street dance style that evolved as part of the hip hop movement among A disc jockey (also known as DJ or deejay) is a person who selects and plays recorded music for an audience Graffiti (singular graffito; the plural is used as a Mass noun) is the name for images or lettering scratched scrawled painted or marked in any manner on property Some of the plotline was based on the graffiti documentary Style Wars. Style Wars is an early documentary on Hip hop culture, made by Tony Silver and Henry Chalfant, made in New York City in 1983. Most visibly, the villain character Spit in Beat Street was lifted from the way the real-life graffiti artist Cap was portrayed in Style Wars.

Notable performances include a song by Grandmaster Melle Mel & the Furious Five, breakdance battles between the New York City Breakers and the Rock Steady Crew, and cameos by beatboxer Doug E. Fresh, Richard Lee Sisco, and the Treacherous Three. Melvin Glover (born May 15, 1961 in The Bronx New York) also known by his stage name Grandmaster Mele Mel, and formerly Grandmaster Melle Breakdance, breaking, b-boying or b-girling is a Street dance style that evolved as part of the hip hop movement among New York City Breakers is a Breakdancing crew and hip hop group that was established in the Bronx borough of New York City. Rock Steady Crew is a Breakdancing crew and hip hop group that was established in the Bronx, Doug E Fresh is the Stage name of Douglas E Davis (born September 17 1966) an American rapper, Record The Treacherous Three was a pioneering Hip Hop group that was formed in 1978 and consisted of DJ Easy Lee, Kool Moe Dee, L

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Background

The project began when journalist Steven Hager began writing visiting the South Bronx to document break dancing, graffiti art and rap music in the early 1980s. Hager sold his script to Harry Belafonte. Harold George Belafonte Jr (born March 1 1927 is an American musician actor and Social activist.

Production

Many of the internal dance sequences were filmed at the popular New York City nightclub the Roxy located at 515 West 18th Street in the Chelsea section of Manhattan. For other people and places named Roxy see Roxy and Roxy Theatre Roxy NYC (sometimes Chelsea is a neighborhood on the West Side of the Manhattan borough of New York City. Manhattan Island, in New York Harbor, is much the largest part of the Borough of Manhattan, one of the Five Boroughs which form the City of New York

Most of the graffiti art that was displayed all throughout the film was not done by real graffiti artists - it was airbrushed by set decorators.

Cast

Kadeem Hardison is credited as "High School Student" in the film. Kadeem Hardison (born July 24, 1965) is an American Actor, perhaps best known for portraying Dwayne Wayne on the Cosby Show However, his scenes are all cut from the final theatrical version.

Singer Brenda K. Starr has a small cameo in the film as a young singer auditioning at an open call audition. Brenda K Starr (born Brenda Kaplan on October 15 1966 in New York City) is an American Singer originally in dance-pop

Contrary to popular (internet legend) belief, RZA of the Wu-Tang Clan was not actually in the movie. Robert F Diggs (born July 5, 1969) better known as RZA (pronounced) is an American Music producer, Rapper, and occasional Some rumors have floated around the net stating that he is the guy in the black hat rapping during the Roxy auditions scene. However, RZA has gone on the record stating he was NOT in the film. In fact, RZA would have only been 15 at the time Beat Street was filmed, and clearly the gentleman in the black hat is much older than 15.

The two young break dancers auditioning during the Roxy try outs were known as The Fantastic Duo. The younger, shorter one is known as Young God (Robert Steele). The older kid is known as Loose Joints (Jamel Brown).

The final performer at the audition, whom most believed was not an actual performer, was known as Andy B Bad. The song he's performing was actually released on vinyl.

Soundtrack

This was the first American film to feature more than one soundtrack album. Originally, Atlantic Records, which released the soundtrack albums, had three volumes planned, but only two of these were released. Atlantic Records ( Atlantic Recording Corporation) is an American Record label best known for its many recordings of Rhythm & blues, Rock The second volume was never released on compact disc.

The trailer includes an alternate version of the title song performed by Kool Moe Dee, a version which also was not featured in the movie or on the original soundtrack albums. Mohandas Dewese (born 8 August 1962) better known as Kool Moe Dee, was an American old-school MC prominent in the late 1970s throughout

Volume 1:

  1. Beat Street Breakdown - Grandmaster Melle Mel
  2. Baptize the Beat - The System
  3. Strangers in a Strange World - Jenny Burton & Patrick Jude
  4. Frantic Situation - Afrika Bambaataa
  5. Beat Street Strut - Juicy
  6. US Girls - Sha Rock, Lisa Lee, Debbie D
  7. This Could Be The Night - Cindy Mizelle
  8. Breaker's Revenge - Arthur Baker
  9. Tu Carino/Carmen's Theme - Ruben Blades

Volume 2:

  1. Son of Beat Street - Jazzy Jay
  2. Give Me All - Juicy
  3. Nothin's Gonna Come Easy - Tina B
  4. Santas' Rap - The Treacherous Three
  5. It's Alright By Me - Jenny Burton
  6. Battle Cry - Rocker's Revenge
  7. Phony 4 MCs - Ralph Rolle
  8. Into the Night - La La

Impact

Beat Street’s impact was felt internationally as well as throughout the United States. In Germany, for example, movies like Beat Street and Wild Style are credited with introducing the hip hop movement to the country. Wild Style was the first hip hop Motion picture. Released independently in 1982 by First Run Features and later re-released for home video Because movies are so easily distributed over borders, part of the importance of this movie lay in its ability to influence both East and West Germany, which at the time were still divided. [1] Beat Street was of particular importance in the East, where it is said to illustrate for young people the evils of capitalism [2]. Because the film focused so heavily on the visual aspects of hip hop such as breaking and graffiti, these aspects had the heaviest influence on the emerging German hip hop scene. [3] It was precisely these visual aspects that helped bring about hip hop culture in Germany, rather than simply a genre of music. Beat Street appeared in the Democratic Republic at almost the same time as in the west. Dresden, the center for the Beat Street scene was geographically out of media range, making it a perfect center to explore this genre of music. The hip hop scene from the entire public would meet for break dancing competitions, rapping competitions and graffiti spraying[4]. Puerto Rican and African-American breakdancing, rap and freestyle dance sound, and inner-city American graffiti made up what Germans knew as hip hop culture. The aftermath of Beat Street propelled events such as competitions in rapping, break dancing, and graffiti spraying throughout Germany [5].

External links

Notes

  1. ^ Brown, Timothy S. "Keeping it Real in a Different Hood: (African-) Americanization and Hip-hop in Germany. " In The Vinyl Ain't Final: Hip Hop and the Globalization of Black Popular Culture, ed. by Dipannita Basu and Sidney J. Lemelle, 137-150. London.
  2. ^ Brown, Timothy S. “‘Keeping it Real’ in a Different ‘Hood: (African-) Americanization and Hip-hop in Germany. ” In The Vinyl Ain’t Final: Hip Hop and the Globalization of Black Popular Culture, ed. by Dipannita Basu and Sidney J. Lemelle, 137-50. London; A
  3. ^ "Beat Street" http://www.fast-rewind.com/
  4. ^ Elflein, Dietmar. "From Krauts with Attitudes to Turks with Attitudes: Some Aspects of Hip-Hop History in Germany. " Popular Music, Vol. 17, No. 3. (Oct. , 1998), pp. 255-265.
  5. ^ Elflein, Dietmar. "From Krauts with Attitudes to Turks with Attitudes: Some Aspects of Hip-Hop History in Germany. " Popular Music, Vol. 17, No. 3. (Oct. , 1998), pp. 255-265.
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