1985 semi-biographical film about the founding of Def Jam Records — featuring Run-DMC, LL Cool J, the Fat Boys, and Sheila E — which was the first major hip-hop film and served as a promotional vehicle for Def Jam's early roster.
Documented and promoted the first wave of hip-hop entrepreneurship on film — showing the Def Jam story and its artists to a mainstream audience — and was among the first mainstream media to present hip-hop culture as a subject worthy of narrative treatment.
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