Dana Heinz Perry
Director of Photography
Hart Perry
photo: Afrika Bambaataa Back in the Day Chronicles hip hop's birth in an impoverished and neglected section of the Bronx and the establishment of the four elements of hip hop culture: rapping, deejaying, break-dancing and graffiti. By the end of the hour, hip hop is no longer confined to the ghetto. It has inspired a generation of downtown rockers, begun to make inroads into the record business, ignited feuds between some of its earliest stars and, back in the ghetto, at least temporarily defused gang warfare.
photo: Kool Herc / mobile sound system
photo: Dj & b-boy Bring the Noise Details the evolution of rap into a national record business phenomenon. Focuses on the rise of the decade's premier record label - Russell Simmons and Rick Rubin's Def Jam - and of such seminal artists as Run-DMC, LL Cool J, The Beastie Boys, Will Smith and Public Enemy. Gangsta Gangsta Chronicles the rise of "gangster rap" in LA and the simultaneous eclipse of "conscious rap" in New York - both of which styles were inspired by the uncompromising black pride of Public E