PODCAST #094 – JON 'RAMO' CHARDIET - BEAT STREET [ENGLISH]
For the global hip hop and graffiti scene, the year 1984 was a defining era. The movie Beat Street hit theaters and triggered an avalanche that keeps on rolling to this day. While in the West, documentaries like Style Wars or movies like Wild Style provided the blueprint, the reality behind the Iron Curtain looked completely different. In this episode, I have Jon Chardiet as my guest, who played the iconic main role of the graffiti painter Ramo in the movie Beat Street.
Why did Beat Street make such a massive impact especially in the East of Germany? While other hip hop movies were strictly…
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