The Perfect Beat Street Hip Hop Analysis

One of the most important aspects in this module was showing that hip hop is a positive thing instead of a negative one like most perceive. The creation of the Hip Hop Culture helped black teenagers, as well as other minority teens to find something of their own in a country where they weren’t welcome by its other inhabitants. “Inspired by the DJs of the tenement blocks, black teenagers created hip hop, a celebratory subculture with its own language, its own music, dance, fashion and graffiti.” (Rap: Looking for the Perfect Beat, Shaw). Once I went through all of the documentaries and readings we did, I decided to correlate Beat Street and Rap: Looking for the Perfect Beat because they both were perfect examples of using a part of hip hop as a form of expression. The Hip Hop culture was a way for minorities to express themselves in a way that had never been done before it gave them something to be passionate about and overall, it helped the community and made other options to help solve problems instead of just murder.
Beat Street is a movie that motivates you to always do what you love and never let anyone stop you from doing it. The boys in the film are constantly expressing themselves, whether it is through breakdancing, graffiti or
“You had black on black crime, black on Latino crime, Latino on Latino crime, black on white crime, white on black crime. And we took the energies if the negative and try to change it around and bring the positive into the organization by giving you hip hop, by getting brothers and sisters to start rapping, to start break dancing, to start believing in themselves, to start having knowledge of self and knowledge of others” (Rap: Looking for the Perfect Beat, Shaw). Instead of murder, everyone was able to start a dance battle or a rap battle to solve their problems or just to have a friendly competition. Rapping, especially helped make competition a positive