Beat Street is a 1984 mainstream hip hop dramatic feature film, following Wild Style in featuring New York City hip hop culture of the early 1980s; break dancing, DJing, and graffiti.
Set in the South Bronx, the film follows the lives of a pair of brothers and their group of friends, all of whom are devoted to various elements of early hip-hop culture. Kenny Kirkland (Guy Davis) is a budding disc jockey and MC, and his younger brother Lee (Robert...
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Beat Street is a 1984 mainstream hip hop dramatic feature film, following Wild Style in featuring New York City hip hop culture of the early 1980s; break dancing, DJing, and graffiti.
Set in the South Bronx, the film follows the lives of a pair of brothers and their group of friends, all of whom are devoted to various elements of early hip-hop culture. Kenny Kirkland (Guy Davis) is a budding disc jockey and MC, and his younger brother Lee (Robert Taylor) is a hardcore b-boy who dances with the New York City Breakers. Kenny's best friends are Ramon (Jon Chardiet), a graffiti artist known by his tag, "Ramo", and Chollie (Leon W. Grant), his self-styled manager/promoter.
The film begins with the main characters preparing for a house party set in an abandoned apartment building, where Kenny is the featured DJ. An uninvited Lee and his breakdancing friends crash the party, and nearly get tangled into a battle with a rival troupe, the Rock Steady Crew. The battle of mostly words is broken...
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