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EGO
TRIPPIN' 'BOUT GANGS In Can't Stop
Won't Stop, Jeff Chang's
excellent chronicle of the birth and rise of hip-hop, special attention
is given to the early South Bronx street gangs like the Savage Skulls
and Black Spades, whose ranks included many eventual young hip-hop
creators and whose social constructs affected the way the culture was
born.
Tonight the guys from Ego-Trip,
who are very well versed in hip-hop history themselves, are starting a
film series at The Maysles Cinema in Harlem, and they're kicking things
off with 80
Blocks From Tiffany's. The film
from 1979, six years after the birth of hip-hop, captures an era when
gang life had changed
significantly but was still part
of everyday life. After the screening, the director sits down for a
chat with Robert Werner, a detective who was featured in the film.
Maysles
Cinema // 343 Malcolm X Blvd,
Manhattan // 7.30p // $9 // more
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