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Honors.

Hip Hop Happens” (1979)

Above The Law
Pump Up the Volume (Soundtrack)


1990 
Living Colour Time’s Up
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Hip-Hop w/ Living Colour
The Original Sugar Hill Rhythm Section
a mostly overlooked contribution to cultural change.

And You Don’t Stop: 30 Years of Hip-Hop
five-part documentary series
directed by Richard Lowe
Dana Heinz Perry
written by Bill Adler,

The series recounts the development of Hip-Hop culture from its 1970’s birth in New York City, through its explosive growth into a global phenomenon.

music writers
Danyel Smith,
In a review for The New York Times, television critic Virginia Heffernan wrote:”And You Don’t Stop stands out among the crisp, heavily graphic offerings usually on MTV and VH1, and it does a more thorough job than any film of collating 30 years of history given by hip-hop’s DJ’s, MC’s, rappers, critics and fans.”Phil Gallo of Variety described the series as ““a rather remarkable overview, free of narration and ivory tower posturing…that is weighted carefully and accurately, full of fabulous grainy footage of the music’s early days.”Don Kaplan of the New York Post asserted that, with And You Don’t Stop, “VH1 does for rap what PBS did for the Civil War.”In 2012, Complex.com’s Shanté Cosme counted it among “The 25 Best Hip-Hop Documentaries.