Most of the cast starring in Krush Groove is known to the hiphop aficionado. We got Kurtis Blow, Run DMC and the Fatboys, all of them playing themselves. There is Rick Rubin, playing a character named Rick. On the female side we got Shelia E. as herself, acting as the female counterpart. None of this people mentioned above is a good actor, but after all they are good performers, which gives some sugar to the movie.
Pretty much the own person who doesn’t play himself is Blair Underwood, the protagonist of the story. He plays a made up character named Russell Walker, running a record label with his friend Rick. Form there on it’s all drama. Russell & Rick are broke, have no money to produce the new Run DMC album. Russell falls for the same women than Run. Or was it DMC? The situation gets even more tense, when the obviously shady maior labels step up the game and offer Run-DMC a contract worth 20000$, which Run can not decline in his present situation. Is this gonna end well? And what do the Fatboys have to do with all this. Watch the movie and find out.
Although this is a classic Hiphop Semi-Documentary and certainly a monument in time, it never received the cult status of Wildstyle or Style Wars. This is partly due to the fact that these two movies where documenting an underground culture, where in ’85 the oldschool was over and Hiphop had massive success already. On the other hand Krush Groove is basically Def Jam celebrating themselves, which gives the whole thing a strange aftertaste. However, the performances of so many great artists makes this even.
Year: 1985
Imdb Rating: 6,5/10 (August 2014)
Superflicks Rating: solid 8,1/10
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