As one of the first hip hop movies, this groundbreaking film, directed and produced by Charlie Ahearn, features a legendary cast of scene figures, including Adam “Ad-Rock” Horowitz, Fab Five Freddy, Lee Quiñones, Lady Pink, The Rock Steady Crew, The Cold Crush Brothers, Rammellzee with Shockdell, Queen Lisa Lee of Zulu Nation, Grandmaster Flash, and ZEPHYR.

Raymond Zoro (Lee Quiñones) doesn’t want to sell out like other graffiti artists who are taking hip hop culture to the masses and becoming part of New York City’s trendy art scene. But that’s pretty much just the basics that the story revolves around, as it is a ramshackle narrative that gets into dance, art and music, all elements of the scene. It’s a hangout more than a story.

Debbie Harry was going to play Virginia, which would have made the scenes of her driving around to Blondie’s “Pretty Baby” and the use of “Rapture” mean something more than they did. Chris Stein from Blondie also helped create the soundtrack, collaborating with Fab Five Freddy to produce the actual breakbeats used in the film, “an inspired decision that would provide a source of obsession among crate diggers for decades to come.”

The Arrow Video 4K UHD of this film has a perfect bound collector’s book featuring new and archival essays and articles, alongside an extensive collection of stills and artwork from the film, a reversible sleeve featuring two original artwork options, a double-sided foldout poster featuring two original artwork options, an exclusive mini-version of the Wild Style issue of Hip-Hop Family Tree comic book by Ed Piskor and three Wild Style logo stickers. There’s a new 4K restoration from the original 16mm negative by Arrow Films, new audio commentary with Jeff “Chairman” Mao and Andrew “Monk One” Mason, legacy commentary featuring director Charlie Ahearn and Fred “Fab 5 Freddy” Brathwaite, a feature on the soundtrack, a trailer and an image gallery, as well as interviews with most of the cast, panel discussions and exhibits from the anniversary event and videos, as well as a CD that has a Wild Style Megamix by Jorun Bombay, original radio commercials by Fab 5 Freddy and Queen Lisa Lee, rare alternate mixes of Subway Rap and Wild Style Theme, audio outtakes from the film and soundtrack and a 1983 radio interview with Charlie Ahearn. You can get it from MVD.