As director of the first hip-hop movie, “Wild Style,†Charlie Ahearn needed a fresh way to brand his indie film to appeal to a world that wasn’t yet hip to the cultural movement, born in the South Bronx 50 years ago. Aaron “Sharp†Goodstone, Charlie Ahearn, Fab 5 Freddy and photographer Martha Cooper — who shot the iconic hip-hop mural in Riverside Park — get their “Wild Style†library cards at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.
On Friday, the iconic “Wild Style†mural will be celebrated with a limited-edition New York Public Library card marking half a century of hip-hop. Read more