Upbeat, lets-put-on-a-show, musical about the wonders of rap music tells the story of Kenny, a young hip-hop artist living in the rough slums of the Bronx with his younger brother Lee and their mother Cora. Kenny dreams of making it big as a disk jockey and playing in the most swank of Manhattan nightclubs, The Roxy. Into their lives comes Tracy, a composer and assistant choreographer from New York College who inspires him to try to continue his dream while romance begins to grow between them despite coming from different neighborhoods and worlds. Meanwhile, Lee is part of a break-dancing gan... g set on dominating the scene of their street. The rest of their friends include Ramon, a graffiti artist determined to spread his painting to every subway car in the city while dealing with his girlfriend Carmen. Chollie is a fellow rapper who becomes Kenny's manager after he lands him a gig at a Bronx club as the DJ. Many rap groups, break dancers, and pop singers whom include Us Girls, The Treacherous Three, The System, Rock Steady Crew, Soul Sonic Force & Shango, The Magnificent Force, New York City Breakers, Furious Five, Tina B., Afrika Bambaataa, Johnny B. Bad, etc, make cameo appearances.
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Beat Street
Although it trades in such eighties phenomena as break-dancing, rapping and graffiti, this exploitative teen pic proves only that the "puttin' on a show"formula has changed little since the days of Judy Garland and Mickey Rooney. Director Stan Lathan doggedly attempts to depict the degradation in which many inner-city black Americans are forced to live. But DJ Guy Davis and spray-can artist Jon Chardiet are walking stereotypes and, while the latter's subway murder is effectively handled, the former's romance with upmarket student Rae Dawn Chong is totally unconvincing. In addition to co-producing, Harry Belafonte helped compose the songs.
Beat Street
While Charlie Ahearn's 1982 independent feature Wild Style worked frontline reportage of New York's nascent rap and...
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