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Friday, February 8, 2008

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Breakin'
Written by gWiz

Now I was only two when this came out so of course I wasn't at the theater checking it but from the first time I saw this movie it changed me. Yea yea im talking about "Breakin". You see all these movies now with basically the same plot...a white person from the suburbs ends up (normally a jazz dancer or ballet) some how meeting somebody from the "urban" part of the city. They go on to show the white person how to dance like them and then they end up battling other people in the hood. lol right? But Breakin' didn't seem like that to me because it was one of the originators, from seeing the graffiti on the trains to seeing young Ice T rapping with the perm and snow goggles this movie represented Hip Hop in so many ways.

All the Hip Hop movies now really have nothing to do with actual Hip-Hop. I mean as much as I love Belly it was just Scarface with DMX and NAs. I can't even consider some of the other movies because everything is forced. All the Master P movies, did you really want to see Silk Da Shocker act? I couldn't stand him rapping let alone acting. Nothing seems authentic anymore. Can we actually make another Breakin' or maybe a Beat Street with our current state of Hip-Hop?



Posted by gWiz Musik at Friday, February 08, 2008

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3 comments:

Anonymous said...

No we can't make another Breakin or Beat Street because as you said the movies these days always follow this pre-made formula that's corny as sh**. Hell no we don't wanna see another Step Up (by the way they did do a sequel, it's a shame). It pisses me off to see all these black and latino dancers who professionsally dance take a backseat and play "the crew" to some Jessica Alba or whoever, as the main "dancer." Just like hip hop, movies sell out too. They're all about who's gonna bring in the most money, and right now those dark faces don't seem to be it. Every now and then we get a movie like "Stomp the Yard," which I actually thought was pretty bad but I give Columbus Short and the other dancers in that movie their props. Hip hop isn't what it used to be, so we can't really expect hip hop movies to be either. And I know it's a little bit of a stretch on the hip hop genre but anybody for The Last Dragon?!

February 9, 2008 at 11:23 PM
K Storm said...

A lot of the elements that represent HIP-Hop isn't that mainstream anymore. Graffiti, DJin, Breaking...its not that popular in hip-hop today. Back in the day the DJ was the man/ or woman. Now he/she is the addition to the artist. So these movies, are a reflection of the evolution of hip-hop. They use white actors to bring in the money, because thats who's bringing in the money in hip hop. Its branched out to the suburbs. Either way, unless the its a movie set in the 70s or 80s, no hip hop movie will ever represent the TRUE elements of hip-hop.

February 11, 2008 at 3:29 PM
Anonymous said...

... Makes Brown Sugar seem so much better now (lol)

February 11, 2008 at 3:31 PM

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