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Style Wars Is Still the Defining Documentary of Early Hip-Hop Culture

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In our new weekly series, we’re revisiting some of our favorite music movies—from artist docs and concert films to biopics and fictional fantasies—that are available to stream or rent digitally.

Spoilers ahead. It’s 1982 and the 149th Street-Grand Concourse station in the Bronx is teeming with teenagers scribbling in notebooks.

They call themselves writers but they are really artists working across all forms of spray-paint graffiti—doing straight letters, doing throw-ups, doing wildstyles.

They tag and bomb hoping to go all city, or have their art run across New York via its train lines. Sometimes they sketch their nicknames and calling cards in an intricate form of calligraphy.

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