30 Years of Hip-Hop

The documentary Freestyle shows Cool Herk driving through The Bronx with huge speakers in the back of his car in 1979.

In 2009, Rob Walker wrote about how hip-hop artists are rapping about getting drank and marketers are bottling it and selling it.

Has hip-hop been the biggest American cultural movement in the last 30 years?  Maybe the surf/skate Beautiful Losers movement?  The Hippie movement?  Something else?

There are great documentaries out there about hip-hop culture:

Graffiti – http://www.stylewars.com/

Graffiti – http://bombit-themovie.com/

Sneakers – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just_for_Kicks_(2005_film)

Basketball – http://www.gunninmovie.com/

Hyphy – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghostride_the_Whip_(film)

Bboy’s – http://www.planetbboy.com/

DJ’s – http://www.scratchworldwidemedia.com/scratch.html

Freestyle – http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0262424/

Clowns vs. Krump – http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0436724/