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A cult portrait of the times that honors hip-hop, b-boys, and graffiti art along with their leading visionaries.
Raymond aka Zoro, a budding graffiti artist, takes us to the South Bronx in the 1980s. In this hardscrabble world of streetball and MC battles, the Downtown art scene meets Uptown graffiti culture. This globally acclaimed hip-hop film showcases the offbeat culture of graffiti, breakdancing, rap, and turntablism.
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Meet the director
Charlie Ahearn
Charlie Ahearn was born in Binghamton, New York, in 1951. He moved to New York City in 1973 to participate in the Whitney Museum of American Art’s Independent Study Program. While making films in the years that followed, he was introduced to the local hip-hop scene. His feature film WILD STYLE, released in 1983, was an enormous success, as was the soundtrack, which features numerous Old School legends.