Big Fun In The Big Town – Dutch TV Hip Hop Documentary (1986)
http://www.bramvansplunteren.nl/artikelen/hiphop-doc-big-fun-in-the-big-town-out-on-dvd-after-more-than-25-years/
Director: Bram van Splunteren
Presenter: Marcel Vanthilt
Interview format documentary about the Bronx’s rap culture.
Some of the local celebs included:
Grandmaster Flash, Doug E Fresh, Roxanne Shante & Biz Markie, Russell Simmons, Run DMC, LL Cool J & E Love, Suliaman El Hadi of the Last Poets, Schoolly D & DJ Code Money.
This is actually amazing, but by that time things were being made "New School"; and Flash and the pioneers were being dismissed. I was already pining for it.
J. Cole brought me here from his Sway In The Morning interview a few years back. This is the essence of pure Hip-Hop! Hopefully, Cole and a few others can restore this energy ✨
32:00 , Last Poet complaining about current rappers being egotistical. Well he got his wish once Public Enemy, NWA and early-mid 90s REAL rap came thru…
Anybody know other foreign documentaries on the culture like this one? When I see such golden moments in time I wonder where the people at now, from the students to the music teacher to the folks in the background
Hip Hop History and all that old school gear :
12:43
It's amazing to see how far rap has come in the 35 years since this was made!
With this documentary the Dutch made up for the ‘Holiday Rap’…..
So this is how the end of Western civilization started. We should have nipped it in the bud.
R.I.P. Biz Markie
This is actually amazing, but by that time things were being made "New School"; and Flash and the pioneers were being dismissed. I was already pining for it.
One of the dopest eras ever, with many of the greats, properly documented – I been watching this doc since 1986 – RIP Biz Markie
BIZ!!!!!!
7:17 mr rimmer LOL
Briljant. Dank voor de upload!
J. Cole brought me here from his Sway In The Morning interview a few years back. This is the essence of pure Hip-Hop! Hopefully, Cole and a few others can restore this energy ✨
32:00 , Last Poet complaining about current rappers being egotistical. Well he got his wish once Public Enemy, NWA and early-mid 90s REAL rap came thru…
I never liked LL Cool J music. I did love "mama said knock u out"
schoolly d was gangsta af
Anybody know other foreign documentaries on the culture like this one? When I see such golden moments in time I wonder where the people at now, from the students to the music teacher to the folks in the background
The film crew didn't know, they were shooting history in the making
LL schaut sich immer um ob da gauner hinter ihm auftauchen
I watched this documentary on Dutch television when it was first broadcasted. Now I'm 50 years old. Where did time go?
If no one finds the mystery crew fuggit I’m remixing that
We need to find this Mystery Crew…
19:09 MJ name drop
One year later, Public Enemy came in full effect..
Damn!!!! At 18:47 Russell Simmons had my grandfather's bald spot and hair on the side that early in the 80's?
Blacks and PuertoRicans in The Bronx when this Hip Hop wave was new.
At 16:11 that car has some nice ass rims for the year 1986.
What became of the mystery boys? The one on roght looks familiar.
The Mystery Crew at 20:30 was dope…..I wonder what happen to them.
Hip-hop is now a billion-dollar industry
RIPJMJ!
The Mystery Crew Tho!!
Make sure you go back to the neighborhood and get them Capricorn
You look like Chad Johnson grandmaster……… Capricorn and LL Cool J had your same dreams CAPRICORN