I have been fascinated with hip hop culture for as long as I can remember. Early in high school I thought this meant I had to start dressing like a 'wigger'. But as you get older you realize you can separate the music and culture you identify with and the style and dress you wear. In the post-emo world, many people will quickly realize this. Anyways... as I got older I did what I do best and geeked out on all things 'Hip-Hop'. I started listening to the 'underground' and 'indie' scenes, not really knowing what I got myself into. It quickly became an obsession, I began devouring music. And it quickly turned to other genres of music spilling into the indie rock scene that I had despised years before. While I was 'geeking out' on hip-hop I started watching documentaries based on the culture. Doug Pray's "Scratch" and Tony Silver's "Style Wars" were the mainline to the culture that I had missed, being too young or too sheltered to experience first hand, I had to digest it within the safety of my suburbian life. "Bomb It" is a modern day international version of "Style Wars". Silver's film focused on the early grafitti movement where as Reiss' film offers a brief intro to grafitti and then spans the globe searching out the movements all across the world. The interviews are good but there is no specific story or stories within the documentary, the film tries to cover the world, where it seems it would have been better served to focus on a specific city and delve deep into that story. I need to see Pray's "Infamy" to see if he's able to bring more story to this subject than Reiss did.
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Lebron James is the man. Why? Because he lived up to the hype. Barack Obama has got some huge hype shoes to fill.
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