Beat Street
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Nov 6, 2026
Kevin AveryHOST
So I'm going to go with something that was, you know, we were talking about movies that feel New York or at least where the city feels like a character.
Kevin AveryHOST
And I'm going to go with 1984's Beat Street, directed by Stan Latham, starring Radon Chong, Robert Taylor, Guy Davis.
Kevin AveryHOST
Mary Hallis is in this movie.
Kevin AveryHOST
I didn't realize that was her.
Alonso DuraldeHOST
maybe after.
Alonso DuraldeHOST
I worked at a movie theater.
Alonso DuraldeHOST
We were showing Beat Street and Breakin' simultaneously.
Alonso DuraldeHOST
There you go.
Steve SkinnerHOST
yeah there was i thought yeah so that one's not a documentary so i must have no okay
Greg OrmeHOST
no that one's another it's kind of a new york version of this but we're also getting that next week with beat street so i'm not like right
Steve SkinnerHOST
yeah oh
Greg OrmeHOST
we
Steve SkinnerHOST
gotta cram it in yeah and it you know eight's a nice tidy number that gets us through the end of the year so i guess yeah breaking because there was a documentary about break dancing i think the year before breaking came out and then 1984 breaking comes out and i guess yeah you mentioned beat street if the i guess the director wanted them to finish the movie faster so it would be released before beat street
Greg OrmeHOST
Yeah, they started making it after Beat Street wrapped filming and then managed to release it a month before Beat Street.
Greg OrmeHOST
And this was made so quickly that two months before it came out, they didn't have any official images of the leads.
Greg OrmeHOST
So the initial poster is just like paintings of not people in this movie.
Fat JoeGUEST
This guy was phenomenal.
Fat JoeGUEST
Doing movies.
Fat JoeGUEST
He had movie deals.
Fat JoeGUEST
Movie deals.
Fat JoeGUEST
They was giving him money for five movies.
Fat JoeGUEST
Charlton Heston.
Fat JoeGUEST
DMX, super duper stars.
FiendGUEST
on hip hop, so I enjoyed Crush Groove, the movie.
FiendGUEST
I enjoyed Beat Street.
FiendGUEST
Electric Boogaloo, you know what I mean? I enjoyed the fabric of all of that, bro, you know what I'm saying? Plus, I felt like I had no choice but to be some type of hip hop rap something.
FiendGUEST
They had a club that was four houses over from me, right? A club that was four, doors away from my doorstep and this club is what bounce music was invented right let alone the the guy who owned the club name was ghost so the name of his club was called ghost town he was the concert promoter for hip-hop concerts in new orleans and he was their limo driver He used to let Run DMC, Public Enemy, these guys come to his little club.
PerilGUEST
Well, they came out here in 84, by the way.
PerilGUEST
And they did a world tour off the back of Beat Street, which is the quintessential Harry Belafonte sort of There was Wild Style before that, but that was the Hollywood movie that made it across the world.
PerilGUEST
So England got it.
PerilGUEST
And it changed hip-hop in England, changed hip-hop in – not in New York because New York got it earlier.
PerilGUEST
But outside of New York, Beat Street was the one that really took hip-hop culture on a more commercial sense right across the world.
Danny GrantHOST
So that was a big one for me, that movie.
Danny GrantHOST
So going back to like that early hip-hop, Beat Street, Wild Style, et cetera, you sort of seen it.
Danny GrantHOST
Obviously, things were slow back then, right? You talked about how it went to England and then came to Australia.
B-RealHOST
That's crazy.
B-RealHOST
That's the whole beat street, baby.
B-RealHOST
That's why, you know, because it's your art.
B-RealHOST
And when someone's plagiarizing the art, I mean, you're going to have a reaction.
Psycho LesPANELIST
Their biggest record, Body Rock, rock the body, rock the body.
Psycho LesPANELIST
That shit was in New York, was lit when that came out.
DJ FMPANELIST
Who's the one that played the Santa Claus in Beat Street? Was that Kumo D? That was Kumo D.
DJ FMPANELIST
That's so
Rachael GunnGUEST
Then in the early 80s, It goes global.
Rachael GunnGUEST
You know, you've got Beat Street.
Rachael GunnGUEST
You've got rap culture is getting really big.
Rachael GunnGUEST
You've got Breakin', Breakin' 2.
Jackie GilliesGUEST
Street.
Jackie GilliesGUEST
Beat Street, man.
Jackie GilliesGUEST
I taught myself how to
Mitch ChuriHOST
lock and pop.
Kenton GibbsGUEST
They are out there cutting up.
Kenton GibbsGUEST
This is Crush Groove and Beat Street out here.
Kenton GibbsGUEST
We might as well start learning the robot like everybody else, cuz this is terrible.
Kenton GibbsGUEST
That's what this is right now, all right? America's best dance crew is Florida State, all right, for people who remember that show from back in the day.
Desiree AstorgaHOST
Mm.
Salman AgahGUEST
So, but there was a moment, you know, for example, there was a movie called "Beat Street," and then there was another one.
Salman AgahGUEST
Um, there were a couple breakdancing kind of related films that came out in the '80s, and I loved it.
Salman AgahGUEST
I mean, I just loved the, I loved the r- I loved rap, and I loved the dancing, and I loved the whole vibe around it.