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Allmusic editor Chris Witt gave the soundtrack album four-and-a-half out of five stars and noted its old school tracks as the highlights, writing that "The contrast between the life and color of the old school tracks and the unrelenting gloom of the Wu-Tang cuts, produced over ten years later, suggests that hip-hop may have lost something in ...
Tremaine Brown Jr. as Miles "Boo-Boo" Kipling: A mechanically-minded kid who is an irrepressible 40 year-old in a 14 year-old's body. Yahya Abdul-Mateen II as Clarence "Cadillac" Caldwell: A "fly gangster", prince of the disco world, and son of the owner of the most notorious after-hours nightspot in the Bronx. [9]
Beats is a 2019 American coming-of-age-drama film directed by Chris Robinson and written by Miles Orion Feldsott. The film stars Anthony Anderson, Khalil Everage, Uzo Aduba, Emayatzy Corinealdi, Paul Walter Hauser, Dave East, Ashley Jackson, Evan J. Simpson, and Dreezy, and follows a reclusive, teenage music prodigy who forms an unlikely friendship with a struggling producer.
They was looking for a rapper around 1984, and I had [the hip-hop movie] Beat Street out. We was pretty popular in ‘84. ... you are going to witness the unification of the old- and new-school of ...
The series takes place in 1977 New York City and follows the genesis of the DJing, B-boying, graffiti, and emceeing, the four element cultures of hip-hop. After the premiere of The Get Down, Netflix premiered Hip-Hop Evolution, a music documentary discussing the history of hip hop in which Grandmaster Flash talks about the evolution of his art.
This category is for films in which hip hop is a main aspect of the story. These are different from Hood films , which may contain a hip hop soundtrack but a story which does not relate to hip hop. Subcategories
In 2009, A. O. Scott of The New York Times examined the film: "Style Wars is a work of art in its own right too, because it doesn't just record what these artists are doing, it somehow absorbs their spirit and manages to communicate it across the decades so that we can find ourselves, so many years later, in the city, understanding what made it beautiful."
Stomp the Yard is a 2007 American dance drama film produced by Rainforest Films and released through Sony Pictures' Screen Gems division on January 12, 2007. Directed by Sylvain White, Stomp the Yard centers on DJ Williams, a college student at a fictional historically black university who pledges to join a fictional Greek-letter fraternity.