You Don't Stop: 30 Years of Hip Hop
Producer
/ Director
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 Enemy. Describes how NWA emerged
from Compton at a moment when crack cocaine and street gangs were at its
devastating height. The show goes on to appreciate the drawl and good
humor of Snoop Dog, whose cars-and-girls oriented videos recalled the
glory days of the Beach Boys - and to wonder at Tupac Shakur's ability
to embody the thug, the revolutionary, the preacher, and the handsome
leading man in perplexing succession. It also tells the story of the origins
of Dr. Dre, the most influential record producer in hip hop. |
photo:
Ice-T |
photo: Tupac |
Life
After Death
Some five years a |