Can you believe it - 30 years?
This piece of video history should be as revered in the hip hop connoisseur's dvd collection as much as say, Wild Style or Beat Street.
This was a great attempt at creating the world's first hip hop television show and featured such stars as Run DMC, Kool Moe Dee and Special K of The Treacherous Three, The New York City Breakers showing their carefully constructed moves as well as many others in the scene.
To commemorate this milestone, show creator Michael Holman wants to re-release a beautifully remastered version including a full-length documentary; Graffiti Rock: The Untold Story. There will also be many behind the scenes paraphernalia, photos, interviews, articles, press releases that until now have been locked away from the public.
The way this is all to be achieved lies with us - the good people of this culture. Michael wants to obtain a specific amount of cash to make this work - $50,000 to be exact - and he is doing this by creating a 'Kickstarter' campaign.
Go to the Kickstarter page here and you will see all the details of what will be yours if you contribute to this fantastic cause. Anything from a special Graffiti Rock postcard sent straight to you up to obtaining 'Executive Producer' status with your name in the credits including private dinner, personally signed special edition 7" vinyl by Kool Moe Dee and much more.
The way I see this is that $50,000 is pretty small potatoes when you're a big-name rap star such as Jay Z so he could peel off a couple of notes and make it happen in an instant.
The way these Kickstarter campaigns work is that they have only a specific amount of time to run before they end. At the moment there is only 8 days left to raise another 30k. Will it happen? I really hope it does.
I remember saying the exact same thing when Kool Herc was struggling to pay hospital bills, somebody like Jay-Z could, nay SHOULD, peel a few notes off from his vast millions and give back to the culture that brought him his wealth and fame. I never heard a mention of him donating any cash to Herc.
ReplyDeleteRemember, this is the man that stated in his lyrics... "i'm over charging the industry for what they did to the Cold Crush".
I seriously doubt he lives up to those ideals when the money grabbing parasite is swimming Scrooge McDuck style through seas of dosh in his mansion. Jay-Z can stick his music and his shit trainers up his arse, MEH!!!
Same goes to all these commercial, money grabbing, millionare Rappers.