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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]
Oct 8, 1983 · Wild Style: Directed by Charlie Ahearn. With Lee Quiñones, Lady Pink, Fab 5 Freddy, Patti Astor. South Bronx graffiti artist Zoro is commissioned to paint a backdrop for a hip-hop concert.
Oct 11, 2013 · Released in 1983, Wild Style covered all four elements of hip-hop—graffiti, MCing, breakdancing, DJing—in the culture’s earliest days. It’s not a documentary, but at time it feels like one.
Jan 27, 2019 · Wild Style is an American 1983 hip hop film produced by Charlie Ahearn. Released theatrically in September 1982 by First Run Features and later re-released f...
Sep 15, 2023 · The Timeless Honesty of Wild Style, the First Hip-Hop Movie. By Bilge Ebiri, a film critic for New York and Vulture. Charlie Ahearn and Fab 5 Freddy’s documentary-like film became an...
Aug 8, 2018 · At the time, the words “wild style” were on everybody’s lips – it was the name for the colorful, hyper-stylised letterforms dominating graffiti that most people could not read. Simultaneously, hip hop music was sizzling in the clubs and parks, as the first generation of DJs spun breakbeats while MCs tore up the mic and b-boys ...
Universally hailed as the first hip-hop movie, "Wild Style" captures New York's hip-hop culture circa 1981 and several prominent figures including Busy Bee Starski; Fab 5 Freddy; the Cold Crush Brothers; and one of the godfathers of hip-hop, Grandmaster Flash.
Wild Style. Rent Wild Style on Prime Video, or buy it on Prime Video. South Bronx graffiti artist Shy Zoro is commissioned to paint a backdrop for a rap/break-dance concert.
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Wild Style. Directed by Charlie Ahearn • 1982 • United States. Starring Lee Quiñones, Lady Pink, Fab 5 Freddy. The original hip-hop movie, WILD STYLE was the first feature film to document the scene’s music, break dancing, and street art at its inception.
Wild Style follows the exploits of maverick tagger Zoro (real life graffiti artist Lee Quinones), whose work attracts the attention of an East Village art fancier, (Patti Astor) who commissions him to paint the stage for a giant Rapper's Convention.
