What I credibly know and like about Hip Hop probably wouldn’t fill up a lot of pages. But growing up in NYC, it was everywhere, so I simply absorbed a lot of it even against my inclinations. While I may have been more interested in listening to bands like Devo, Venom and the Circle Jerks during my high school days, the steady diet of Grandmaster Flash & the Furious Five, Houdini, Kurtis Blow and Run-DMC that routinely played in the student commons of my high school infiltrated my brain via osmosis.
I eventually cultivated my own tastes for Hip Hop, thrilling to certain records by Public Enemy, N.W.A., Ice-T, Digital Underground, Das-EFX (why their first album isn’t more celebrated, I’ll never know), Ice Cube, Nas, A Tribe Called Quest, the Wu-Tang Clan, Busta Rhymes and a couple of notable others. I was always a fan of the Beastie Boys as well, although they’re practically a genre unto themselves by this point.
I don’t listen to much Hip Hop these days, and couldn’t honestly give a single crap about Lil Wayne or Kanye or Nicki Minaj, who just seems like she’s TRYING SOOO HARD. Forget that crap. I must begrudgingly admit to liking some of Jay-Z’s stuff, but I’m kind of tired of hearing how godlike he is. Yawn. Enough already.
Anyhoo, one person of mine who DOES know his shit about Hip Hop is my friend Glen. He shot me a note extolling the merits of the film in the trailer below, and waxed at greater length about it on his website. It does look pretty authoritative. At the very least, if this is anything to go by, it will at least feature some lovingly-shot footage of NYC. Check it out.
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