![]() Fab 5 Freddy (later to become the first host of Yo! MTV Raps), and they started to dream up 1982’s Wild Style, a love song to the city’s graffiti artists and one of the earliest, most momentous portraits of hip-hop culture committed to film. It was at the Times Square Show that Ahearn met budding artist Fred Brathwaite, a.k.a. The young No Wave filmmaker Charlie Ahearn was there, too, screening his homemade super-8mm kung-fu feature The Deadly Art of Survival, which he had made with a group of young Black and Puerto Rican martial artists on the Lower East Side. An informal, grassroots exhibit bringing together more than 100 artists - some of whom, like Jean-Michel Basquiat and Keith Haring, would go on to become major cultural figures - it was a raucous, inclusive affair, featuring everything from painting to video art to fashion to music to performance, much of it created by relative unknowns. ![]() Held in an abandoned massage parlor on 41st Street, the Times Square Show of 1980 represented a pivotal moment in the rise of several New York subcultures. For more on rap’s best “process” documentaries, head here. In honor of hip-hop’s 50th anniversary, we’re republishing our 2020 review of Wild Style. Photo-Illustration: Vulture and Submarine Entertainment ![]() Charlie Ahearn and Fab 5 Freddy’s documentary-like film became an international cult favorite in the early 1980s.
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