RAMO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

One reason I like watching Beat Street, is because it takes place in the mid to late 1980's, a time period when Hip-Hop and Rap were just evolving, with new artists like Public Enemy, Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, Beastie Boys, Run-DMC, Eric B. & Rakim, Young MC, Slick Rick, and N.W.A.  These Hip-Hop artists were so much better than the average rappers today (excluding Eminem, Kanye West, Jay-Z, and the select few good ones), because back then Hip-Hop was mainly political and from the heart, and brought up issues and problems in the lives of the poor living in bad conditions, and unfairness and racism that many had to deal with.  Also back then, MC's would make beats that were sampled form a multitude of songs, and then used great methods like scratching, and then all mashed together to make a catchy, widely popular sound, unlike today where many try to make their own, but they just aren't that good.  Hip-Hop artists also incorporated complex rhyme schemes into their music, so they could be taken seriously, and not just ignored, for example, in the song "Bring the Noise" by Public Enemy, Chuck D used a dactylic hexameter (a type of phrasing used in Homer's epic poems), and raps that Hip-Hop was a legitimate type of music, and was on the same level of complexity of Rock.  Because of these artists, rap today is a hugely sucessful and popular industry.