The movie was shot in the summer and released in November 1984. It made 64 million dollars and the soundtrack sold 4 million. You can’t sell that many copies without making a hit smash movie!
The whole talk on the set was getting the movie done before Beat Street.
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Beat Street was probably done but the producers from Breakin were moving so fast they out beat them. Besides the music and the dancers that was a big reason why the movie was a major success
I consider this one of the reasons why the east coast hated us because Beat Street was East Coast.
From LL Cool J beefing with Ice T because everybody felt that LL sounded like Ice.
I ran into LL at the fox hills mall at the troop store. We squashed it from there. Bobcat was a west coast dj/producer that made LL Cool Js “Hard as Hell” album so it was easy to kill the drama
It was so much of a success that part 2 was done right away.
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I just turned 22 when the movie dropped. We was all kids. We were making so much money it was ridiculous.This was my first paying job so i knew right from the jump that movies get you way more paid than any other industry so this was where i wanted to be.
