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Wild Style is a 1983 American hip hop film directed and produced by Charlie Ahearn. Regarded as the first hip hop motion picture, [1] it includes appearances by seminal figures such as Fab Five Freddy, Lee Quiñones, Lady Pink, The Rock Steady Crew, The Cold Crush Brothers, Queen Lisa Lee of Zulu Nation, Grandmaster Flash, and ZEPHYR. [2] [3]
Sep 15, 2023 · MTV Raps), and they started to dream up 1982’s Wild Style, a love song to the city’s graffiti artists and one of the earliest, most momentous portraits of hip-hop culture committed to film.
Aug 2, 2023 · Sugarhill didn’t destroy it, it made [hip-hop] into a household term. But it changed everything from being a DJ-driven local culture into a thing to sell records with MCs.
- Kevin Polowy
Mar 18, 2021 · Wild Style is arguably the very first movie and definitely one of the very few that shows the true essence of what Hip Hop is about. On this date in 1983, film director and cultural artist...
Oct 11, 2013 · The story of hip-hop's first movie, as told by the people who made it. Released in 1983, the best film ever made about hip-hop is also the first.
- Alex Gale
- Buzzfeed Staff
Mar 17, 2023 · Wild Style is arguably the very first movie and one of the very few that shows the true essence of what Hip Hop is about. When Hip-Hop was being passed off as a fad that wouldn’t last beyond...
Aug 12, 2015 · When Eminem's 8 Mile revived the hip-hop biopic, a form that had lay dormant since the days of Krush Groove, 50 Cent was the first to capitalize.
