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South Bronx graffiti artist Zoro is commissioned to paint a backdrop for a hip-hop concert.South Bronx graffiti artist Zoro is commissioned to paint a backdrop for a hip-hop concert.South Bronx graffiti artist Zoro is commissioned to paint a backdrop for a hip-hop concert.
Lee Quiñones
- Raymond 'Zoro'
- (as 'Lee' George Quinones)
Lady Pink
- Rose 'Lady Bug'
- (as Sandra 'Pink' Fabara)
Fab 5 Freddy
- 'Phade'
- (as Frederick Braithwaite)
Andrew Witten
- Z-Roc
- (as Zephyr)
William Rice
- Television Producer
- (as Bill Rice)
Daze
- Union Crew
- (as Chris 'Daze' Ellis)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaThe stick-up guys were cast when Charlie Ahearn saw them hanging around the location. Ahearn offered them a prop gun but they insisted on using their real sawed-off shotgun. All of their lines were improvised.
- GoofsAt 6:18 Hector tells Raymond 'Zoro' to take off his do-rag. Then Ray's hair pops back and forth between being flat from the do-rag to a picked out Afro during their conversation.
- ConnectionsEdited into And You Don't Stop: 30 Years of Hip-Hop (2004)
Featured review
Never exaggerating if I say this is a true Hip Hop Classic..
If you think you are a true Hip Hop fan and when I talk about Wild Style and you are asking me "What?", then something must be wrong...
Wild Style is the first and true Hip Hop documentary/film about a culture that remained one of the strongest of the past few decades. Never has there been an artform of music that was just basically made of other music styles, but has managed to grow and evolve on its own.
If you want to understand the basic elements of Hip Hop (Rappin', DJin', Breakdancin' & Grafitti) then don't look any further, here's what you need.
As one of the top titles wanted on my "Please-Release-It-On-DVD-List", this movie is not a movie in its real form. Because it was pretty much lowbudget, it has a feel of documentary, but it certainly has a story. Not very much, but the knowledge that almost everyone of the cast was/is someone in the Hip Hop Community 1982, makes this title very interesting to see what they contribute to this movie, and Hip Hop in general.
You've probably read the plot outlines in other reviews, so I won't tell you anything you've already read in those reviews. All I can say is, if you wanna know what the TRUE meaning is of Hip Hop, instead of the BLING-BLING type o' Hip Hop which is totally (well, almost totally) commercialised, see if you can get a copy of this movie and "take a trip down memory lane", like my man Nas said in his 1994 DJ Premier produced cut "Memory Lane (Sitting In Da Park)", another Hip Hop Gem..
RECOMMENDED!!
Wild Style is the first and true Hip Hop documentary/film about a culture that remained one of the strongest of the past few decades. Never has there been an artform of music that was just basically made of other music styles, but has managed to grow and evolve on its own.
If you want to understand the basic elements of Hip Hop (Rappin', DJin', Breakdancin' & Grafitti) then don't look any further, here's what you need.
As one of the top titles wanted on my "Please-Release-It-On-DVD-List", this movie is not a movie in its real form. Because it was pretty much lowbudget, it has a feel of documentary, but it certainly has a story. Not very much, but the knowledge that almost everyone of the cast was/is someone in the Hip Hop Community 1982, makes this title very interesting to see what they contribute to this movie, and Hip Hop in general.
You've probably read the plot outlines in other reviews, so I won't tell you anything you've already read in those reviews. All I can say is, if you wanna know what the TRUE meaning is of Hip Hop, instead of the BLING-BLING type o' Hip Hop which is totally (well, almost totally) commercialised, see if you can get a copy of this movie and "take a trip down memory lane", like my man Nas said in his 1994 DJ Premier produced cut "Memory Lane (Sitting In Da Park)", another Hip Hop Gem..
RECOMMENDED!!
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- Ernasto
- Jun 3, 2002
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- Country of origin
- Language
- Also known as
- Graffiti Wild Style
- Filming locations
- New York, USA(Location)
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- Gross worldwide
- $4,948
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