Ever since hip-hop first blossomed out of the South Bronx, there has been a desire by filmmakers to capture visual evidence of the culture in motion. Early documentaries, like Tony Silver’s classic Style Warsand Charlie Ahearn’s partially dramatized almost-documentary Wildstyle, represent some of the earliest feature-length film representations of hip-hop culture.

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Ever since hip-hop first blossomed out of the South Bronx, there has been a desire by filmmakers to capture visual evidence of the culture in motion. Early documentaries, like Tony Silver’s classic Style Warsand Charlie Ahearn’s partially dramatized almost-documentary Wildstyle, represent some of the earliest feature-length film representations of hip-hop culture.

In the decades since, countless films have been produced shining light on nearly every single nook-and-cranny of the culture and its history.

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