Wild Style (1983)

User Rating:

7.1/10   

Director:

Charlie Ahearn

Writer:

Charlie Ahearn (writer)

Genre:

Documentary | Drama | Music

Tagline:

Break Dancing Graffiti Rap

Plot:

Legendary New York graffiti artist Lee Quinones plays the part of Zoro, the city's hottest and most elusive graffiti writer...

Plot Keywords:

Hip Hop | Graffiti | Breakdance | Independent Film

Cast

Easy A.D.	...	Cold Crush Brothers
A.J.	...	Himself (as DJ AJ)
Almighty K.G.	...	Cold Crush Brothers
Patti Astor	...	Virginia
Busy Bee	...	Himself
Grandmaster Caz	...	Cold Crush Brothers
Lil' Rodney Cee	...	Double Trouble
Charlie Chase	...	Cold Crush Brothers
Ruby Dee	...	Fantastic Freaks
Dot-a-Rock	...	Fantastic Freaks
Grand Mixer DXT	...	Himself (as Grandmixer D.St)
Fab 5 Freddy	...	Fab Five Freddy
Sandra Fabara	...	Rose
Grandmaster Flash	...	Himself
Frosty Freeze	...	Rock Steady Crew
Mr. Freeze	...	Rock Steady Crew
J.D.L.	...	Cold Crush Brothers
Kevie Kev	...	Fantastic Freaks
Lisa Lee	...	Herself
Crazy Legs	...	Rock Steady Crew
Carlos Morales	...	Raymond's brother
Glenn O'Brien	...	Museum Curator
'Lee' George Quinones	...	Raymond 'Zoro'
Rammellzee	...	Himself
Master Rob	...	Fantastic Freaks
K.K. Rockwell	...	Double Trouble
Prince Ken Swift	...	Rock Steady Crew
Grand Wizard Theodore	...	Fantastic Freaks
Tony Tone	...	Cold Crush Brothers
Prince Whipper Whip	...	Fantastic Freaks
Dondi White	...	Himself
Andrew Witten	...	Zroc (as Andrew 'Zephyr' Witten)

Runtime:

82 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

Iceland:12 | USA:R | UK:15

Company:

Wild Style

Trivia:

Most of the footage was filmed during the late fall of 1981 into early 1982. It took the producers almost a year to get it released.

Movie Connections:

Featured in Beef (2003)

Soundtrack:

Military Cut (Scratch Mix)

Never exaggerating if I say this is a true Hip Hop Classic..

If you think you are a true Hip Hop fan and when I talk about Wild Style and you are asking me "What?", then something must be wrong...

Wild Style is the first and true Hip Hop documentary/film about a culture that remained one of the strongest of the past few decades. Never has there been an artform of music that was just basically made of other music styles, but has managed to grow and evolve on its own.

If you want to understand the basic elements of Hip Hop (Rappin', DJin', Breakdancin' & Grafitti) then don't look any further, here's what you need.

As one of the top titles wanted on my "Please-Release-It-On-DVD-List", this movie is not a movie in its real form. Because it was pretty much lowbudget, it has a feel of documentary, but it certainly has a story. Not very much, but the knowledge that almost everyone of the cast was/is someone in the Hip Hop Community 1982, makes this title very interesting to see what they contribute to this movie, and Hip Hop in general.

You've probably read the plot outlines in other reviews, so I won't tell you anything you've already read in those reviews. All I can say is, if you wanna know what the TRUE meaning is of Hip Hop, instead of the BLING-BLING type o' Hip Hop which is totally (well, almost totally) commercialised, see if you can get a copy of this movie and "take a trip down memory lane", like my man Nas said in his 1994 DJ Premier produced cut "Memory Lane (Sitting In Da Park)", another Hip Hop Gem..

RECOMMENDED!!