Wild Style

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Release Date: 2002

Label: Rhino Home Video

© 1982 Wild Style Productions, Ltd.
© 2002 Rhino Home Video, an AOL Time Warner Company

Disc Information:
Region 1 DVD
English Dolby Surround 2.0
English 5.1 Audio
Movie runs 82 minutes

Extra Features(Tracks listed on the digital media screen):

31 - Theatrical Trailer
32 - Outtakes: Busy Bee V.S Lisa Lee
33 - Music Video: Wild Style Subway Rap
34 - Photo Gallery: Slide Show Montage
35 - Photo Gallery: Slide-Show Manual (With Descriptions)



Wild Style captures the hard core south Bronx scene with its pantheon pioneers such as Grand-Master Flash, Grandmaster Caz (Cold Crush Brothers), Busy Bee, The Rock Steady Crew, Fab 5 Freddy, DST, Double Trouble (4), Grand Wizard Theodore, Ramm-Ell-Zee, Shockdell.
B-boy performances by: The Rock Steady Crew
Graffiti artists: Lee Quiñones ("Lee" George Quiñones) and Lady Pink (Sandra "Pink" Fabara)

Hip hop was becoming a mainstream culture in the early 80's.
All the artist that appear in this film are real recording artists, and not just actors who can also sing; including real life graffiti artists who take part in this musical documentary style movie about the Hip Hop culture. All 4 elements of Hip Hop are well represented in this movie: The Dj, The B-Boy, Graffiti, The Mc.

The movie's final scene is what most people in the Hip Hop community consider to be the most famous Hip Hop party in history.
Some of the live tracks performed in this film became part of the actual studio recording soundtrack LP, as it appears in the film. See Wild Style for the actual film soundtrack.
See also Wild Style - 25th Anniversary Edition (Original Soundtrack) released which included the "live performances" remixes, plus the original studio recording soundtrack.

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