[.ca] Beat Street

From Amazon.com:
A slightly dated but nonetheless fascinating snapshot of musical history, Beat Street is an urban musical detailing the roots of hip-hop. Set in early-1980s New York, the film focuses on the lives of a small group of young people setting their experiences against the larger backdrop of the city's burgeoning music scene. The story of up-and-coming DJ Kenny (Guy Davis) and his relationship with jazz musician Tracy (Rae Dawn Chong) may only be a device, but it's surprisingly effective, as is the ultimately tragic tale of graffiti artist Ramon (Jon Chardiet). The movie's real raison d'être, however, is to showcase the sounds of the street, so it's full of some of hip-hop's most influential names--Melle Mel, Doug E Fresh, Kool Moe Dee, the Rocksteady Crew, Jazzy Jeff, and Arthur Baker. And while the combination of electro and rapping may sound a little crude to modern ears, there can be no doubt that Beat Street is the sight and sound of history being made. --Phil Udell

THIS MOVIE SHOULDN'T EVER GET LESS THAN 5!!!!!!:
WHOEVER GAVE BEAT STREET LESS THAN 5,,AREN'T TRUE TO HIP HOP,AND PROBABLY DOESN'T UNDERSTAND THE MOVEMENT THAT BOUGHT ABOUT YOUR 50 CENTS,AND PETEY PABLO'S,AND JAY-Z'S.... BEAT STREET IS MY #1 HIP HOP MOVIE!!! (...)BEAT STREET WILL REMAIN A CLASSIC TO ME..

ROCKSTEADY BY FAR WINS THE BATTLE, OFF CAMERA:
In the movie it would have appeared that NYC Breakers would have won the battle @ the Roxy because of their fast, dynamic moves. But I think Rocksteady on the streets would beat them easy. If you see home movie footage of both groups, Rocksteady by far has more original and different moves that show true bboying. But dont get me wrong, I'm not taking away from the NYC Breakers power and speed, and I still think they are tight !! This was my favorite movie growing up in the 80's along with Fast Times @ ridgemont high (what a combination huh !) peace ya'll

Hip Hop In It's Hay Day:
The movie Beat Street, has always been one of my favorite movies of all time. Mainly because, it captured three important elements of Hip-Hop, and that was Djing, breaking and Graffiti writing on the subway cars. There are so many different scenes that I enjoyed in the movie, but the scene when Kenny was djing in his room before Tracy came in happens to be one of my favorites. I feel this way about that scene because Kenny was zoned out in his own world, and I can relate to this because I'm a dj and I often do this myself. Another one that involves Kenny was when they had the party in the abandoned building, and he starting the party off saying "It's working.....It's working. Wow what a classic scene. The battle scene at the Roxy,was and is still to this day, one of the legendary battles to have gone down in Hip-Hop history. To see all the orignal members of The Rock Steady Crew and The New York Breakers battle was just exciting to see to. Even till this day, I don't know how Crazy Legs, took his sneakers off, after doing a backspin. The soundtrack to the movie was excellent just as well. Some of my favorite joints that were played in the movie was, LaLa's "Into the night" and C.M.'s "This could be the night"and also the "Beat Street Breakdown" by Melle Mel and The Furious Five. Another one of my favorit scenes, was when Kenny was at The Burning Spear and he was playing D.j Globe and The Whiz Kid's "Play that Beat" with I.O.U. by Freeze. Damn, I wish I was there. Today, there are websites and books that you're able to look at different pieces from various graffiti artist like "Lee"- (Wild Style), Dondi-(Style Wars) and Dez just to name a few. But to actually see it in a movie was a great feeling. Even though a few writers atually did the art work on the subway cars in the movie, Ramon did an excellent job making us believe that he really did it all. The movies "Wild Style" and "Style Wars" were some of the first films to ever be made on this sub-culture. But when, "Beat Street" was released, I think it made things brighter for those that were in the darkness about the Hip-Hop culture and what it stood for. Too bad we can't relive the early 80's again.

HO HO HO open up yo dowww:
THE SONG IS CALLED I.O.U BY FREEZE PEACE

A combination of Beastmaster,Andromeda,Mutant X and Hiphop:
Beat street is one of the greatest movies of all time since House party and Class act came out in the 90's decade where I grew up.It was really a great movie and one of the best movies of the year!