How Batman Mirrors Hip-Hop’s Birthplace and Early Beginnings
This article has been handpicked to be included in our Hip Hop 50 collection as a noteworthy inclusion to the genre's rich and diverse narrative.In the 1994 film Fresh, the namesake protagonist, Sean Nelson’s character Fresh, and his childhood friend Chuckie, played by Luis Lantigua, navigate the harsh realities of inner city living in Brooklyn. In the film, Fresh is a 12-year-old chess-playing, drug-dealing prodigy trying to free his sister from the grips of a local drug lord played by […]