Overview

Public Enemy’s Chuck D leads a cast of hip-hop icons and leading African-American and Latino cultural commentators as they chart the factors that led to the birth of the revolutionary art form of hip-hop in 1970s New York, as well as the creation of the seminal hit The Message. They evoke a picture of how, after the turbulence of the 60s and the civil rights struggles, desperate social conditions and the experience of countless dispossessed people of colour living in a city mired in crisis helped give birth to a new art form.

Cast

Chuck D

Self

KRS-One

Self

Grandmaster Caz

Self

Melle Mel

Self

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Abiodun Oyewole

Self

Nelson George

Self

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Hasan Kwame Jeffries

Self

Darryl 'DMC' McDaniels

Self [RUN-D.M.C]

Lee Quiñones

Self

Michael Holman

Self

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Douglas Colón

Self

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Rosa Alicia Clemente

Self