![]() Released independently in a handful of theaters, the movie wasn’t a box-office smash, but future generations of hip-hop fans and artists alike made sure it remained a cult classic. The year the film was released, Run-DMC dropped their first single, “Sucker MCs,” and hip-hop quickly began exploding from a local sound to the global juggernaut it is today-which has only made Wild Style, with its pitch-perfect time capsule of hip-hop culture in its adolescence, that much more indispensable. It’s become a Magna Carta of sorts, a founding document for a culture that at that time was unknown beyond the streets of the five boroughs. ![]() The film is defiantly low-budget and raw, but that didn’t lessen its impact. The setting is hip-hop’s nursery, the South Bronx, at its run-down grimiest the leads are played by real-life graffiti legends Lee Quinones and Lady Pink, then fresh-faced street kings Fab 5 Freddy co-stars, and the Rock Steady Crew is shown busting moves pioneering rappers and DJs such as Grandmaster Flash, the Cold Crush Brothers, Kool Moe Dee, Busy Bee and other old-school legends are captured performing in their prime. It’s not a documentary, but at time it feels like one. Released in 1983, Wild Style covered all four elements of hip-hop-graffiti, MCing, breakdancing, DJing-in the culture’s earliest days. ![]() The best film ever made about hip-hop is also the first: Wild Style. ![]()
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