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Style Wars is the legendary hip-hop documentary and a timeless film classic, the indispensable record of a golden age of youthful creativity and exploding hip hop subculture. Style Wars captures the look and feel of New York's ramshackle subway system as the graffiti writers' public playground, battleground and spectacular artistic canvas. Opposing them by every means possible were Mayor Edward Koch, the police, and the New York Transit Authority. Meanwhile, MC's, DJ's and B-boys were rocking the city with new sounds and new moves, as street corner breakdance battles became performance art. The soundtrack features classics performed by The Sugar Hill Gang, The Treacherous Three, The Fearless Four, Grand Master Flash and The Furious Five, Trouble Funk, Rammellzee/K-Rob and Dion.
This two disc deluxe edition featuers 3 1/2 hours of bonus footage, over 23 minutes of original outtake footage; interviews and commentary with the director, producer, and editors; 32 artist galleries, guest interviews, a 30 minute loop of over 200 whole cars and burners, and a whole lot more:
Featured are interviews and/or outtakes with Dondi, Shy 147, Kase 2, Crash, Lady Pink, mix-tape king DJ Kay Slay (Dez in the original film), Crazy Legs, Frosty Freeze and Ken Swift of the Rock Steady Crew, Skeme and his desperately worried mother, Barbara Andalcio, Seen UA, Min One, Iz the Wiz, Doze, Duro, Mare 139, and the notorious Cap—plus transit detectives Jacobs and Hickey. Guest artists are: Fab 5 Freddy, Guru, Goldie, DJ Red Alert, Lee Quinones and Blade. Included is extremely rare archive hip hop footage from the 70s and 80s, and Hall of Fame photographs of classic graffiti art subway cars. New music is contributed by Definitive Jux artists El-P, RJD2, and Aesop Rock, plus Mr. Wiggles, Kimson "Angola Red" Albert, David Chalfant, and Darryl Jenifer.
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