They buried us....so we became a flower. They gave us nothing... so we took power. They tried to break us...now we're the breakers. Such powerful lyrics.
@BLACK KNIGHT THIS REMARKABLE QUOTE has stuck with me since wat ching this at the cinema 🎥 from @1984!!!!!! DEF JAM TELLS YOU WHO I AM (REBEL WITHOUT A PAUSE PUBLIC ENEMY 1987!!!!!!!!!!) The revolution will not be televised,,,,,,, STEP,,,,,,,,
This movie is hip hop and I mean real hip hop. It defined an era, a culture and started a world wide phenomenon that was looked upon as a rebel movement. I love hip hop and the doors it open and walls it tore down for so many people in the world.
I represent Baltimore, yo I went to the movies to see it too with my cousin Curley who has passed on....the location is 33rd and Green mount on the Eastside.
I've wanted to watch this since i was a kid in the 80s, watched it for the first time a few weeks ago. Amazing. Don't know why I never got around to watching it, I loved breakdance 1 and 2
Crazy ahead from is time is lyrics is crazy dope for a young dude at that time I was a teenager at that time in the Bronx I never thought to be that smart like mel with those crazy dope lyrics he knew about history that never show me at school at all smart dude he is a legend way before run DMC n those other cats he be around since the 70s for what I remember word on the street at that time
I remember putting my little tape deck up to the tv speaker and recording these two songs when the movie was on, one night back in around 1987. It was getting late and I remember hearing my mum on the recording, in the background, telling me to go to bed. Good times :)
Arguably the greatest rap lyric ever written!!!.... A newspaper burns in the sand And the headlines say 'Man Destroys Man' Extra extra, read all the bad news On the war for peace that everybody would lose The rise and fall, the last great empire The sound of the whole world caught on fire The ruthless struggle, the desperate gamble The game that left the whole world in shambles The cheats, the lies, the alibies And the foolish attempts to conquer the sky Lost in space, and what is it worth? Huh, the President just forgot about Earth Spendin multi-billions and maybe even trillions The cost of weapons ran in the zillions There's gold in the street and there's diamond under feet And the children in Africa don't even eat Flies on their faces, they're livin like mice And their houses even make the ghetto look nice Huh, the water tastes funny, it's forever too sunny And they work all month and don't make no money A fight for power, a nuclear shower A people shout out in the darkest hour Sights unseen and voices unheard And finally the bomb gets the last word Christians killed Muslims and Germans killed Jews And everybody's bodies are used and abused Huh, minds are poisoned and souls are polluted Superiority complex is deep rooted Leeches and lices, and people got prices Egomaniacs control the self-righteous Nothin is sacred and nothin is pure So the revelation of death is our cure Dachau Auswich, Hiroshima A Vietnam Lenigrad Iwogima Okinawa, Korea, the Phillipines, Devastation death against the killing machine Peoples in terror, the leaders made a error And now they can't even look in the mirror Cause we gotta suffer while things get rougher And that's the reason why we got to get tougher So learn from the past and work for the future And don't be a slave to no computer Cause the children of Man inherit the land And the future of the world is in your hands So just throw your hands in the air And wave em like you just don't care And if you believe that you're the future Scream it out and say oh yeah (Oh yeah) Oh yeah (Oh yeah) Rrrrhaa!
Dieser Film ist und bleibt einer der schönsten Filme. Damals in der DDR war es der meiste gesehenste Film aller Zeiten. Ich selbst hab ihn mindestens 30 mal gesehen und kenne jede Szene auswendig??? Ich liebe ihn 🤩🤩🤩
Da haben Sie recht !! Ich komme aus Kuba aber bin dort damals gewesen..!! Habe Break Dance getanzt und viele sind verrückt geworden..!! Schöne Zeiten!!😂
Almost 40 yrs Later & Melle Mels WORDS STILL RING !!!!! AS OF THIS SONG WAS DONE A FEW WEEKS AGO !!!!! AMAZING WORDSMITH !!!!! THIS IS THE EXACT REASON WHY I LOVE OLD SCHOOL HIP HOP !!!!! THE WORDS HAVE SIGNIFICANT MEANING !!!!! QNS/NY STAND THE FUCK UP !!!!!!
Beat Street Breakdown, Raah! Hip Hop!Beat Street The king of the beat You see him rocking that beat from across the street And Huh Huh! Beat Street is a lesson too, because you can't let the Streets beat you!Well a picture can express a thousand words to describe all the beauty of life you give And if the world was yours to do over, I know you'd paint a better place to live Where the colours would swirl and the boys and girls can grow in peace and harmony And where murals stand on walls so grand as far as the eyes are able to see, Ha! I never knew art til I saw your face and there'll never be one to take your place 'Cause each and every time you touch the spray paint can Michelangelo's soul controls your hand Then serenades of blue and red and the beauty of the rainbow fills your head Crescendo of colours hang in tune, Man why oh why d'ya have to die so soon? Ashes to ashes and dust to dust, where the good die young it's all thy must 'Cause as life must live, death must die and the tear shall fall from the living eye, Huh! The teardrops fall for the state of mind of the beautiful lady that you left behind In love and alone, but now you're dead, and she still can't get you out of her head, Huh! More tears fall for all you've done, trying to be a good father to your only son But now who's gonna make sure that he's fed, put a shirt on his back and a roof overhead? Tell me who's gonna dream the impossible dream of the beautiful cities in the islands genes? When your works of art brought into being all that the ghetto stopped you from seeing Bums on the sidewalk, garbage in the streets, abandoned buildings, bricks of concrete The ladies on the corner are selling their bodies, and everybody wants a part in that party I'm hanging out tough, rocking late at night, running wild in the town of the neon light You either play some ball or stand in the hall Huh! You gotta make something outta nothing at all I'm sitting in the classroom learning the rules and it says you can't do graffiti in school They can't be wrong in the hallowed hall, so my notebook turned into a brick wall The heart of a lion and the courage of three, and the mind of a man much wiser than me You're the soul of the brother who won't come back Who died in my arms on the railroad track 'Cause I'm caught in the rat race, looking for my own space There's gotta be a better place for you and me There's pie in the sky, and an eye for an eye Some people gotta die just to be free You search for justice and what do you find? You find just us on the unemployment line You find just us sweating from dawn to dusk There's no justice, there's Huh, just us, Ha! Still life urban masterpiece, your trademark was written on trains and walls A million dollar gift only God released, and yet you got killed for nothing at all So after this there'll be no more hard times, no more bad times and no more pain No more chump change, none of that bull Just movies, museums and the hall of fame So all you Hip Hops get on up, and let's take it to the top where we belong 'Cause the age of the Beat Street wave is here Everybody let's sing along, now c'mon, say 'Ho!' ('Ho!'), Say 'Ho!' ('Ho!') And to let me know I'm rocking the microphone everybody say 'Ramo!' ('Ramo!') 'Ramo!' ('Ramo!') Raah!A newspaper burns in the sand, and the headlines say 'Man destroys Man!' Extra! Extra! Read all the bad news on the war for peace that everybody would lose The rise and fall, the last great empire, the sound of the whole world caught on fire The ruthless struggle, the desperate gamble The game that left the whole world in shambles The cheats, the lies, the alibis And the foolish attempt to conquer the skies Lost in space, and what is it worth, huh? The president just forgot about Earth Spending multi billions, and maybe even trillions The cost of weapons ran into zillions There's gold in the street, and diamonds under feet And the children in Africa don't even eat Flies on their faces, they're living like mice And the houses even make the ghetto look nice, Huh! The water tastes funny, it's forever too sunny And they work all month and don't make no money A fight for power, a nuclear shower And people shout out in the darkest hour Of sights unseen and voices unheard And finally the bomb gets the last word Christians killed Muslims, and Germans killed Jews And everybody's bodies are used and abused, Huh! Minds are poisoned and souls are polluted Superiority complex is deep rooted Leeches and lice's, and people got prices Egomaniacs control the self-righteous Nothing is sacred and nothing is pure So the revelation of death is our cure Hitler and Caesar, Custer and Reagan Napoleon, Castro, Mussolini and Begin Ghengis Khan and the Shah of Iran Mixed with the blood of the weaker man The peoples in terror, the leaders made the error And now they can't even look in the mirror 'Cause we gotta suffer while things get rougher And that's the reason why we got to get tougher To learn from the past and work for the future And don't be a slave to no computer 'Cause the Children of Man inherits the land And the future of the world is in your hands So just throw your hands in the air And wave 'em like you just don't care And if you believe that you're the future Scream it out and say 'Oh yeah!' ('Oh yeah!') 'Oh yeah!' ('Oh yeah!') Raah! Read more: Grandmaster Flash - Beat Street Lyrics | MetroLyrics
My dad made me watch this movie,i spent the majority of it going "this is rubbish,I don't care" yet I cried like a baby when it got to the end,this is now mine and my dads special movie as no one else in my family has watched it with him,everytime we see a train we go "beat street"
This is when I fell in love with hip hop cool hurk Kurtis blow Grand Master flash and the furious 5 Dougie fresh slick Rick and my favorite song the bridge is over God bless every ledgend like LL cool j run dmc thank you the bestie boys still Loving my music in 2018 forever
That is one of the greatest songs ever written. Grand Master Mellie Mel's Beat Street breakdown, White Lines, The Message and New York, New York certifies him despite his recent missteps in his 60's on social media.
3 guys like Ramo have died 3 days ago in Portugal. There is people like Ramo nowadays who keep thé hip hop real and they paid that even with their blood. The real Hip Hop continues !
When I first watched this ending scene as a kid it truly blew my mind and I didn’t want to leave the movie theatre…it had everything and even now as a grown man it gets me
I LOVE "old school" rap. I remember as a teenager replaying this song so much I remember the words by heart 30 plus years later. Props to those who started a revolution in music and culture.
Good old days! 80s was da bomb 0:10 I danced my heart out all thru the 80s, 90s til 1999! Had a great time with all my favorite artists all Legends in their own right!
One of my all time favorite movies! I can still watch it from beginning to end to this very day! This movie is a part of the essence of my youth and Hip Hop!
The best movie of my life in the 80s the best movie the average break dance style New York the bronze and I was very young in Chile until I arrived in New York when I was older I couldn't believe it
Beat Street the king of the beat they see you rocking beat from across the street an HAHA beat street is lesson to becoza you can’t let street beat you
Wow gracias por darnos estos hermosos recuerdos de nuestros tiempos de nuestra niñes como bailaba en ese tienpo y a mis 43 años aun bailo y los chicos quedan asombrados si genial gracias bendiciones
Real message, real people. There are almost no more rappers today.. °°*°*°* It's so sad to see todays StupidPhone-Zombies, that I've moved into a forest. Used to be on the streets dancin' to a ghetto blaster every free minute after I had watched Wild Style and Breakin'.
4:05 "Egomaniacs control the self-righteous.." 4:32 "Don't be a slave to no computer..." dude this genius predicted Trump and the social media shit world we live in lol
