Best documentary of all time in my opinion If you are going to be a part of hip-hop culture in any form or facet, you NEED to watch this documentary, and that’s not just my 2 cents, that’s facts
No, there's one with a breaker opening a newspaper at the end of his freeze... Like "oh, stocks are up" I can't remember what that was from but it dealt with the early hip-hop years in England/over seas There was this dope rapper with the raccoon hat
Being born and bred in uptown Manhattan (Rock Steady Park is directly behind my building), this documentary confused many people (mostly people that aren't from NYC), into thinking graffiti and hip hop went hand in hand. When the trains were already covered in paint and ink, the term hip hop wasn't even thought of or it had too small of an audience for it to be noticed. It was mostly rock, a little Motown and funk. The only disco they really had was groups like The Bee Gees and the closet thing to breaking was the dance called The Hustle. You can see it in the movie Saturday Night Fever. The trains were bombed with graffiti. But, hip hop wasn't even coined yet, prior to Saturday Night Fever, most people listened to rock....if you're a true New Yorker...you'd know the main radio station was 77 WABC on AM radio and you know they didn't play hip hop, it was mostly rock and the trains were Bombed! Take it to the bank. Still, a nice documentary, it just confused some people is all. Peace!
I met 70% of people in this documentary...im blessed & grateful to God to be a New Yorker born & raised here...im 50 years old & this has brang me back so much memories & it has took me back to my child hood days in the early 80's
These were days of no phones and kids on the street hanging with their friends enjoying life. Every time I watch old videos like this I get depressed and it’s sad that we will never get these days back man.
I met CASE2 IN 1988, My best friend STAK FUA took me to his house in the Bronx. CASE2 made me a member of TFP. I used to write PON MSD WE WERE FROM BUSHWICK BROOKLYN. RIP REC MSD, RIP SHOW MSD. MAD SUBWAY DEMONZ , MONEY SEX DRUGZ, MOMMA SELLS DRUGZ.. Respect to all our forefathers, Thank You for introducing me to GRAFF.
Great to watch this 40 years later & at the age of 50 i'm in awe of these guys , just expressing themselves in an era that opressed & crushed anyone 'outside the norm' . If this stuff was in a gallery in london it would be praised & sell for mega money
It actually is! Beyond the Streets Exhibition is in the Saatchi Gallery in London this month, Seen himself was there along with a bunch of other writers. Check it out before its gone!
I grew up 233rd & white Plains rd... ( I remember Cap... and I remember the crew called " Sin - Sin " > two deaf twin Puerto Rican brothers) # I was born 1973
Still one of the best made documentary. The different perspectives presented. Trying to objectively establish what graff is. What it means to people from completely different walks of life. It portrays a very interesting moment in time in the best way possible. So many interesting and exceptional individuals. Such influence all over the world. The soundtrack is great too! Let's just celebrate the 40th anniversary of the film. A thousand words still have some hoodies left :)
@DaveNiceNYC Being born and bred in uptown Manhattan (Rock Steady Park is directly behind my building), this documentary confused many people (mostly people that aren't from NYC), into thinking graffiti and hip hop went hand in hand. When the trains were already covered in paint and ink, the term hip hop wasn't even thought of or it had too small of an audience for it to be noticed. It was mostly rock, a little Motown and funk. The only disco they really had was groups like The Bee Gees and the closet thing to breaking was the dance called The Hustle. You can see it in the movie Saturday Night Fever. The trains were bombed with graffiti. But, hip hop wasn't even coined yet, prior to Saturday Night Fever, most people listened to rock....if you're a true New Yorker...you'd know the main radio station was 77 WABC on AM radio and you know they didn't play hip hop, it was mostly rock and the trains were Bombed! Take it to the bank. Still, a nice documentary, it just confused some people is all. Peace!
Absolutely timeless, great quality. I had to pick this up on blu Ray when it was released. When visiting new York now is there anywhere on this documentary that you can visit that would still be there. Stations, yards etc ?
6min in and wow. The cinematography is amazing. This looks more like a feature film than a documentary (Helps that this is obviously film). Also, there's this game that came out recently and it's precisely about going "all city". I didn't know that was an actual thing they did until now. Good to know.
LOTTA WORK IS IN STILL GALLERIES ALSO•••• RECOGNIZED THNX 2: FAB5 BASQUIAT(RIP) JAYZ || ODD THAT ITS VERY LIL FOCUS ON ART STUDENTS WHO BOMB ON THE REG
I watched this documentary in hs when one of my most beloved teachers gave me the dvd to use it as evidence for a written piece I had to write for English 12 and it was basically like a “choose your own topic” kind of paper so I chose to talk about the 80s and now I do graff bombing 😭
Hip hop and graffiti are mutually exclusive. The whole graffiti is one of the elements of hip hop argument is bunk. Graf came first. Graf intertwined due to its urban nature with hip hop but they are mutually exclusive. Don’t get it twisted
"What'd you do last night?" "We did, umm, two whole cars It was me, Dez, and Mean Three, right? And on the first car, in small letters, it said 'All you see is' And then, you know, big, big, you know, some block silver letters That said 'crime in the city', right?" "It just took up the whole car?" "Yeah, yeah, it was a whole car and sh!t..." Escúchela, la ciudad respirando Escúchela, la ciudad respirando Escúchela, la ciudad respirando Escúchela... "The new moon rode high in the crown of the metropolis Shinin', like "Who on top of this?" People was tusslin', arguin' and bustlin' Gangstas of Gotham hardcore hustlin'"
Nothing but criminal damage, yep that is what i saw at 14 in UK & i wanted in as more fun than smashing windows for a chase & a beating off your dad when the police took you home lol. First thing i did was pinch all the cans out of our shed & then put them back empty after bombing my estates slam walls & subways alone as kids would grass you up in the mid 80's. Got caught tagging when i was 18 & it got kicked out of court but my card was marked even though they never found my black books & photos. Got to paint two nightclubs before i went down the SL1200's groove when illegal raves hit us in the face. Got a job at a tattoo studio, even tried art school for one year but got pulled back in by younger writers late 90's & packed in a couple of years ago as i can't run as fast now, but we have a legal wall now. My mate i painted with for over 20 years came knocking last week as he has finally stopped going to prison.................................Back to square one as it sure is a drug you cannot kick, i pinched this video out of the shop my mum worked at back in the day as i was a paper boy. Props to all writers round the world with that itch 🤫✍👊
@@doctorcloverr too funny! I never caught it. I know the group, haven’t heard them in a minute, so I went back “get loose, get loose” Haha! Good catch! Edit: that’s Kase’s voice, we lived in the same building for a little bit.
After 50 years they finally RESPECT Breakdancing to put it in the Olympics 2024, it's going to be crazy especially if you been watching the Red Bull series!!!!
Its crazy how hard skemes mom tried to make him sound stupid. Dudes speaking straight forward. Not using much lingo or secret words. Just facts about his passion. And apparently he sounds dumb 😂😅
This is real hip-hop. More about graffiti and dancing and style, and racially mixed. This is how it all began: just kids in the Bronx, kids in Brooklyn.
Best documentary of all time in my opinion
If you are going to be a part of hip-hop culture in any form or facet, you NEED to watch this documentary, and that’s not just my 2 cents, that’s facts
Amen
No, there's one with a breaker opening a newspaper at the end of his freeze...
Like "oh, stocks are up"
I can't remember what that was from but it dealt with the early hip-hop years in England/over seas
There was this dope rapper with the raccoon hat
Ok whigga
Graphite was going up before hip hop & the May be connected now but not in the past earl days…
Being born and bred in uptown Manhattan (Rock Steady Park is directly behind my building), this documentary confused many people (mostly people that aren't from NYC), into thinking graffiti and hip hop went hand in hand. When the trains were already covered in paint and ink, the term hip hop wasn't even thought of or it had too small of an audience for it to be noticed. It was mostly rock, a little Motown and funk. The only disco they really had was groups like The Bee Gees and the closet thing to breaking was the dance called The Hustle. You can see it in the movie Saturday Night Fever. The trains were bombed with graffiti. But, hip hop wasn't even coined yet, prior to Saturday Night Fever, most people listened to rock....if you're a true New Yorker...you'd know the main radio station was 77 WABC on AM radio and you know they didn't play hip hop, it was mostly rock and the trains were Bombed! Take it to the bank. Still, a nice documentary, it just confused some people is all. Peace!
I met 70% of people in this documentary...im blessed & grateful to God to be a New Yorker born & raised here...im 50 years old & this has brang me back so much memories & it has took me back to my child hood days in the early 80's
funny to see you here lol
These were days of no phones and kids on the street hanging with their friends enjoying life. Every time I watch old videos like this I get depressed and it’s sad that we will never get these days back man.
R.I.P to any of these people who might no longer be here. We’ll carry on your passion. Graff will never die!!!
28:50 - KASE referencing Frank Frazetta, these guys were so in tune with the art
I met CASE2 IN 1988, My best friend STAK FUA took me to his house in the Bronx. CASE2 made me a member of TFP. I used to write PON MSD WE WERE FROM BUSHWICK BROOKLYN. RIP REC MSD, RIP SHOW MSD. MAD SUBWAY DEMONZ , MONEY SEX DRUGZ, MOMMA SELLS DRUGZ.. Respect to all our forefathers, Thank You for introducing me to GRAFF.
Great to watch this 40 years later & at the age of 50 i'm in awe of these guys , just expressing themselves in an era that opressed & crushed anyone 'outside the norm' . If this stuff was in a gallery in london it would be praised & sell for mega money
"....an era that opressed & crushed anyone 'outside the norm' "
Garbage.
It actually is! Beyond the Streets Exhibition is in the Saatchi Gallery in London this month, Seen himself was there along with a bunch of other writers. Check it out before its gone!
Fantastic! Thanks for the update, much appreciated
@@benitolazio8193 Ight bean eato
I grew up 233rd & white Plains rd... ( I remember Cap... and I remember the crew called " Sin - Sin " > two deaf twin Puerto Rican brothers) # I was born 1973
The friendship that Dez and Trap have is the kind that you get only once in life. If you are lucky.
Koch was like, " You can't execute Graffiti Writer's...... sadly "
Still one of the best made documentary. The different perspectives presented. Trying to objectively establish what graff is. What it means to people from completely different walks of life. It portrays a very interesting moment in time in the best way possible. So many interesting and exceptional individuals. Such influence all over the world. The soundtrack is great too! Let's just celebrate the 40th anniversary of the film. A thousand words still have some hoodies left :)
An absolute classic that's revisited every few months. What a time that must have been to be part of the scene!
@DaveNiceNYC
Being born and bred in uptown Manhattan (Rock Steady Park is directly behind my building), this documentary confused many people (mostly people that aren't from NYC), into thinking graffiti and hip hop went hand in hand. When the trains were already covered in paint and ink, the term hip hop wasn't even thought of or it had too small of an audience for it to be noticed. It was mostly rock, a little Motown and funk. The only disco they really had was groups like The Bee Gees and the closet thing to breaking was the dance called The Hustle. You can see it in the movie Saturday Night Fever. The trains were bombed with graffiti. But, hip hop wasn't even coined yet, prior to Saturday Night Fever, most people listened to rock....if you're a true New Yorker...you'd know the main radio station was 77 WABC on AM radio and you know they didn't play hip hop, it was mostly rock and the trains were Bombed! Take it to the bank. Still, a nice documentary, it just confused some people is all. Peace!
5:06 Infamous convo in the Intro to "Respiration" BlackStar. One of the best hip-hop songs ever.
Escuchala la Musica respirando
Changed my life over night …
Case2 was wayyyyyy ahead of everyone in his time. Butch was heat too. Goddamn man.
The style of letters are wild!
Seeing this documentary in the summer between 6th and 7th grade fuckin changed my life forever.
From here to fame!
I really wish I could have experienced NYC in the early 80s. Different world.
And the 90s too
It was beautiful before crack showed up!
@@amneshthank the cia
This video is the reason I love hip hop . I miss this era
AMAZING DEZ WAS KAY SLAY RIP 🙏
Timeless place in history, art is LIFE
Great posting
Wild Style, Style Wars, Beat Street the Hip hop Trinity.
Yes
Visiting NYC and a place out west. The shark piece and the colorful words.
Seen it a 100times.over the yrs but man the Video is untouchable. No other graff vid/movie got the sauce like that.
Absolutely timeless, great quality. I had to pick this up on blu Ray when it was released. When visiting new York now is there anywhere on this documentary that you can visit that would still be there. Stations, yards etc ?
Thx for uploading this masterpiece! I still have the OG book!
Damnnnnnnnn
This is my childhood. So. Anycoties. We ran those tunnels rooftops and trains yards. Been watching this doc since the 1980s
this shit never ages
33:54… that uprock was iLL! 🔥
54:22… dope footwork!
6min in and wow. The cinematography is amazing. This looks more like a feature film than a documentary (Helps that this is obviously film). Also, there's this game that came out recently and it's precisely about going "all city". I didn't know that was an actual thing they did until now. Good to know.
WILD STYLE UNHINGED
I remember recording this of Channel 4 bonfire night 1985,classic New York documentary on Hip Hop 🙂👍🤘🏽
“I don’t even like that. People like that, they deserve to get everything crossed out. Forever.” 😂
I had this on VCR tape back in the day😊
32:47 Richard "Crazy Legs" Colón. He retired last year.
this thing changed my life💯
Somehow I got a hold of a copy of this at school and immediately started writing on everything!
I hear samples used by Mellow man Ace, funkdoobiest, mc lyte, glasser, ME, De La Soul
00:06:49 King Tito's Gloves by Deadly Avenger uses that scene to great effect.
Wow - that’s pure hip hop culture right here, the essence of it… such a shame what it has become, just money and bitches.
Hip Hop is always culture. Rap Music is always business. Just understand the difference and all will be well
@@janconner2087YA DIG??
UNDERGROUND V
MAINSTREAM
46:34 the bench
I never seen this before until now
Art galleries on wheels for everyone to see
LOTTA WORK IS IN STILL GALLERIES ALSO•••• RECOGNIZED THNX 2: FAB5 BASQUIAT(RIP) JAYZ ||
ODD THAT ITS VERY LIL FOCUS ON ART STUDENTS WHO BOMB ON THE REG
New York was such a dump back then, visiting it as a kid I was in awe of it.
I watched this documentary in hs when one of my most beloved teachers gave me the dvd to use it as evidence for a written piece I had to write for English 12 and it was basically like a “choose your own topic” kind of paper so I chose to talk about the 80s and now I do graff bombing 😭
Hip hop and graffiti are mutually exclusive. The whole graffiti is one of the elements of hip hop argument is bunk. Graf came first. Graf intertwined due to its urban nature with hip hop but they are mutually exclusive. Don’t get it twisted
"and he wrote 'WAR' next to Fat Albert" ... "Oh shit" ... "You can't never make up for that. That's never forgive action."
Fun fact: MIN's father was a chemist in Manhattan, and one of his regular customers was...Lucille Ball.
SPIT!! 😂
@@bubz3t136 The comediam? I from Brasil and don´t know much about this...
@@hawkrollaCAP. ZORO. SPIT. RUIN REAL ART
Looks like the Spit character in BeatStreet (1984) was inspired by Cap in this doc.
The good ole days.
Anyones know the tunes are what the rock steady breakin too 7.45 onwards?Thanks
"What'd you do last night?"
"We did, umm, two whole cars
It was me, Dez, and Mean Three, right?
And on the first car, in small letters, it said 'All you see is'
And then, you know, big, big, you know, some block silver letters
That said 'crime in the city', right?"
"It just took up the whole car?"
"Yeah, yeah, it was a whole car and sh!t..."
Escúchela, la ciudad respirando
Escúchela, la ciudad respirando
Escúchela, la ciudad respirando
Escúchela...
"The new moon rode high in the crown of the metropolis
Shinin', like "Who on top of this?"
People was tusslin', arguin' and bustlin'
Gangstas of Gotham hardcore hustlin'"
We gotta start rockin some straight letters
I used a " pilot " marker... my tag name was " Memo "... # fun in the bronx
"The application of a medium to a surface."
Man I missed them days
31:17 song?
Cap is the original spit from beat street
Lol skemes mom is so funny bro
Right she was sick of his bullshit LMAO
@@deliamore9276 😁😁
Very well spoken young fellow.
U don't doodle when your on the the phone 😂
@@mikevega07 yes you do doodle
LMAO I've always loved that "do doodle"
I got 3 kids under 5 years old and they watch style wars not coco melon 😎
Great dad
Lol
Whatever pepper pig
From here to fame!
This is the Bible right here.
The bible of hip hop rap 👍😎
This is my LIFE !!!!!!!
Same
Back then graffiti was male dominated, now its mostly women bombing trains, its right off the charts, big shout to Lady Pink ❤
NOT IN PHILLY,,, MOSTLY MEN BOMBING BUT ALSO LOTTA ART STUDENTS LIVING XDOUBLE XLIVES
Nothing but criminal damage, yep that is what i saw at 14 in UK & i wanted in as more fun than smashing windows for a chase & a beating off your dad when the police took you home lol. First thing i did was pinch all the cans out of our shed & then put them back empty after bombing my estates slam walls & subways alone as kids would grass you up in the mid 80's. Got caught tagging when i was 18 & it got kicked out of court but my card was marked even though they never found my black books & photos. Got to paint two nightclubs before i went down the SL1200's groove when illegal raves hit us in the face.
Got a job at a tattoo studio, even tried art school for one year but got pulled back in by younger writers late 90's & packed in a couple of years ago as i can't run as fast now, but we have a legal wall now. My mate i painted with for over 20 years came knocking last week as he has finally stopped going to prison.................................Back to square one as it sure is a drug you cannot kick, i pinched this video out of the shop my mum worked at back in the day as i was a paper boy. Props to all writers round the world with that itch 🤫✍👊
What song are they listening to at 8:28?
Ever find jt
14:00 what word is that?
24:53
I know this is in a song but I can’t put my finger on what song it is
Trouble funk - pump me up
Cash money had a great cut up of this song - scratching to the funk
Ok
It is in Graffiti on a high school wall by People under the stairs
@@doctorcloverr too funny! I never caught it. I know the group, haven’t heard them in a minute, so I went back “get loose, get loose”
Haha! Good catch!
Edit: that’s Kase’s voice, we lived in the same building for a little bit.
After 50 years they finally RESPECT Breakdancing to put it in the Olympics 2024, it's going to be crazy especially if you been watching the Red Bull series!!!!
It must be SEEN to be believed
RIP, Dondi Dez,Case2,Iz the Wiz,SHY 147 frosty freeze RSC
Yaooo. A dude who used to run the railways was named: Dick Ravage
Fuck that’s a wild name 😂 1:00:11
Muy buena!
Yoooo nobody told me drake was a graffer back in the 80s shit and his mum was biggie too!
Word!
35:13 He said it was The Son of Sam with 44..😂NY Bars
Cornbread 1960 the bomb tho…..
Its crazy how hard skemes mom tried to make him sound stupid. Dudes speaking straight forward. Not using much lingo or secret words. Just facts about his passion. And apparently he sounds dumb 😂😅
Stellar
Stylewarzzz,year3000!!!!
Bak2da,,future...
Yeahaaaa Yeahaaa,,Yeahaaa,,,,,
In,graff we trust!!!!
In,graff we bomb!!!!
😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺👑👑👑👑👑👑👑👑👑👑👑👑👑👑👑👑👑👑👑👑
TK Kirkland was in this!!! Awesome! $!
Should make a movie on Skeme ✊💯
The train was the ultimate satisfaction as soon as they locked them down graffiti died
The woman at 37:17 I wonder what she is up to nowadays, if shes still alive
Ai can’t do this
"I call that fairy flyin" lolol
The kid from 25:10 reminds me of boondocks 😂
That shit is dope
8:45 the Olympics were here! lol
Who's the "kid" at 23:25
MinOne
At least they were outside 🤷🏾♂️🤘🏾
lmfao best part 52:58 his mom bantering
RIP KAY SLAY
Jeez, we really didn't care how we looked back then, as long as you color coordinate and took a shower.
Ads didn't work 😂
WHAT WHAT I LOVE GRAFFITI !!! THANK YO
Skeleton dropping jewels!!!
This is real hip-hop. More about graffiti and dancing and style, and racially mixed. This is how it all began: just kids in the Bronx, kids in Brooklyn.
❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Dopee
why rocksteady never have any brothas in they crew?
They appear in this film: Frosty Freeze, Kippy Dee, Little Crazy Legs. There was also
Ty Fly, Jimmy Dee, Norm Ski.
It's more than paint..
Who this after getting up?
18:30 mark… homie was hatin loo
Cap was such a TOY. His style was Day 1 Amateur.