{"id":1052,"date":"2010-01-07T00:26:22","date_gmt":"2010-01-07T06:26:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oldschoolhiphop.com\/?p=1052"},"modified":"2013-12-03T12:11:48","modified_gmt":"2013-12-03T18:11:48","slug":"beatstreet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oldschoolhiphop.com\/video\/beatstreet.htm","title":{"rendered":"Beat Street"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1064\" title=\"beatstreet\" alt=\"Beat Street DVD\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oldschoolhiphop.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/beatstreet.jpg\" width=\"156\" height=\"227\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&amp;location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fdp%2FB000089738%3Ftag%3Dtothbeyall%26camp%3D14573%26creative%3D327641%26linkCode%3Das1%26creativeASIN%3DB000089738%26adid%3D0NVVAJ3RXWM8X5BC3EPN%26&amp;tag=tothbeyall&amp;linkCode=ur2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325\">Click to Buy it From Amazon.Com<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=tothbeyall&amp;l=ur2&amp;o=1\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p><strong>DIRECTOR: <\/strong> Stan Lathan<br \/>\n<strong>PRODUCER:<\/strong> Harry Belafonte<br \/>\n<strong>WRITER:<\/strong> Andrew Davis<br \/>\n<strong>COMPANY:<\/strong> Mgm\/Ua Studios<br \/>\n<strong>YEAR:<\/strong> 1984<\/p>\n<h2>Synopsis<\/h2>\n<p>Follows young up and coming deejay in the Bronx, his break dancing younger brother and their friends as they try to move to the top of the hip hop class.\u00a0 Also includes graffiti artist and wife through their troubles leading up to the artists death.\u00a0 Several performances from rappers, deejays, breakers, and graf artists.<\/p>\n<p><strong>PERFORMANCES IN FILM:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Along with several deejay bits by film&#8217;s star DJ Double K, there are many other old school performers.<\/p>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"\/artists\/emcees\/usgirls.htm\">Us Girls<\/a> performs in the house party at the beginning of the film.\u00a0 &#8220;US Girls, can boogie two&#8230;&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>The Roxy segment features <a href=\"\/artists\/deejays\/afrika.htm\">Afrika Bambaataa<\/a> and the Soul Sonic Force + Shango.\u00a0 Here&#8217;s a switch from the usual call and responses of the time.\u00a0 Bam has the crowd chant &#8220;Emancipation Proclamation.&#8221;\u00a0\u00a0 <a href=\"\/artists\/deejays\/jazzyjay.htm\">Jazzy Jay<\/a> is on the turntables.\u00a0 Check out the crates of records around his set up.<\/li>\n<li>The Roxy segment also features a battle between <a href=\"\/artists\/bboys\/rocksteadycrew.htm\">The Rock Steady Crew<\/a> (aka Bronx Rockers) and <a href=\"\/artists\/bboys\/nycbreakers.htm\">The New York City Breakers<\/a> (aka Beat Street Breakers).<\/li>\n<li>While not performing, <a href=\"\/artists\/deejays\/kooldjherc.htm\">Kool Herc<\/a> plays himself as the owner of the Burning Spear.<\/li>\n<li>At the Spear, perhaps on the best performances of the film occurs when <a href=\"\/artists\/emcees\/treacherousthree.htm\">The Treacherous Three<\/a> are joined by <a href=\"\/artists\/emcees\/dougefresh.htm\">Doug E. Fresh<\/a> and <a href=\"\/artists\/bboys\/magnificentforce.htm\">The Magnificent Force<\/a> to perform &#8220;Xmas Rap.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Although they are relatively unknown, at the Roxy tryout session, I always loved Richard Sisco and Wanda Dee&#8217;s performance.<\/li>\n<li>The Roxy Finale features <a href=\"\/artists\/emcees\/furiousfive.htm\">Melle Mel and The Furious Five<\/a> (at that time made up of Scorpio, Cowboy, King Louie, Kama Kaze Kid, and Tommy Gunn).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>Reviews\/Comments<\/h2>\n<p>When this first came out, I loved it mostly because of all the breakdance segments, but as I grew up I ended up appreciating the mc\/dj performances more.\u00a0 I could watch the &#8220;Xmas Rap&#8221; with T3 and Doug Fresh over and over. &#8211; JG<\/p>\n<p>This is a classic hip hop joint all the elements are there, graff, DJing, MCing, B-Boys and Girls&#8230;Loved it then loe it now. I use it to school my children how these new artist got there moves (from the Streets)&#8230; DJ Spaz Richmond, Va.<\/p>\n<p><em> Submitted by DJ Spaz<\/em><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">Check out a clip from Beat Street<\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/c_ShwO10d6g?rel=0\" height=\"360\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Click to Buy it From Amazon.Com DIRECTOR: Stan Lathan PRODUCER: Harry Belafonte WRITER: Andrew Davis COMPANY: Mgm\/Ua Studios YEAR: 1984 Synopsis Follows young up and coming deejay in the Bronx, his break dancing younger brother and their friends as they try to move to the top of the hip hop class.\u00a0 Also includes graffiti artist [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[108,129,35,75,113,131,103,121,83,521],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldschoolhiphop.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1052"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldschoolhiphop.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldschoolhiphop.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldschoolhiphop.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldschoolhiphop.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldschoolhiphop.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1052\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldschoolhiphop.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldschoolhiphop.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldschoolhiphop.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}