History
Here’s a few good movies to check regarding the history of Hip Hop
Now I would like to take you to some of the original venues from back in the inception days of Hip Hop. There was a club called the Fun House in Downtown Manhattan in NYC, not too far from the world famous Roxy. If any one was any one back then they performed at the Fun House. The Fearless Four, Dougie Fresh, UTFO, the battle of all Roxannes were at the fun house. The Fun House ran for years showcasing all of the people that were making any noise in the Hip Hop game. I remember a very young unsigned KRS 1 being there before. Makes you wanna go back. The Fun House was so big, it held around 3000 people and was always packed every weekend. No doubt, as around 1984 when Hip Hop started to get real violent and someone got killed there (and not just stomped out) that was the end of the club, never to opened again. I also remember the American Indian bouncer that worked there. The roughest bouncer in history with no doubt!
Listed above is a movie called Wild Style. This is really the first Hip Hop movie ever made. Filmed around 1981-1982 and came out around fall of ‘83. One of the real stories of all of the original aspects of early Hip Hop before many readers were even born. Starring, the Cold Crush Brother, Fantastic 5, Grandmaster Flash, Busy Bee, Fab 5 Freddy, Patti Astor, Lisa Lee, lee Quinones and many others. All the very first rap groups to introduce it to the world. It’s such a great movie to see because it shows the early 80’s NYC beboy look and the style of rap there was. The original venues and set ups are a great thing to witness. Lee Quinones plays a graffiti in the movie. In real life he was a legendary graffiti artist back in NYC in the early eighties. It’s in such a rare form, it’s mostly features Fab 5 Freddy introducing Hip Hop to the white corporate world and I guess the rest is history.
