Graffiti Rock and Other Hip Hop Delights

Yo, I don't own the DVD, but having seen the show in its initial (and ONLY) airing, I remember it like it was yesterday. WPIX Channel 11 in the New York area...at 8pm in the evening. I just knew Hip-Hop had arrived officially!!! The world was finally witnessing what I had been into since 1978...yeah I goes back!! This show, corny as HELL by today's standards, gave you the nuts and bolts of what Hip-Hop was all about. The 4-Elements of Hip-Hop (emceeing, djing, graffiti art, and breakdancing) fully represented!

It's sort of like your average party that was happening back in '84 (minus the guns & weed) and you were invited. New York City Breakers (Rock Steady Crew's competition in "Beat Street") did their THING!!! Mr Wave, Chino, Powerful Pex...etc...killed the dancefloor with their breakdance/popping skills. Co-hosts Kool Mo Dee and Special K of the Treacherous 3 did their thing (in their HOT A$$ leather outfits - and I mean HOT as in perspiration). Run-DMC came thru and did "Sucker Emcees" (RIP JMJ), and then "battled" Treacherous 3....kinda weak, but it was on TV, it was Hip-Hop and THAT'S what made it cool. Then Shannon (Let the Music Play) came thru and did her thing.

All throughout the show, the "most host" Michael Holman would interview kids from the crowd and they would speak on what they were wearing. When Michael asked one kid "how do you sport your gear?", he said "I sport it FRESH homes!!" WOW, that was wack, but so cool back then...lol When the show broke for commercial, a word used by Hip-Hopers would fly on the screen (written in graffiti of course) the words "Fresh", "Wack" "Word".

I must agree with some of the writers above, this is sorta corny but still loveable in its own way. You sit back and laugh at yourself, because you know if that were you being interviewed, you would have said and done the same things. You were wearing the same clothes (kangols, shelltoe Addidas with fat laces, a name plate chain and belt buckle, and Cazals, windbreakers, etc), so you could identify with EVERYBODY at the party.

In all I highly recomend this DVD to all true Hip-Hoppers who recognize the true school of Hip-Hop, before commercialization, before gangstaism, before the bull crap, when Hip-Hop was all about getting girls and having fun!

As I said, I don't own this DVD, but considering nostalgic value the show itself contains, this is a true gem that MUST be owned by anyone considering themselves in any way part of this Hip-Hop culture.
Peace!

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