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Krush Groove, the Glossary

Krush Groove is a 1985 American musical comedy-drama film distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures that was written by Ralph Farquhar and directed by Michael Schultz (who also produced the movie, along with George Jackson and Doug McHenry).^[1]

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1980s hip hop films
Films directed by Michael Schultz
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A Love Bizarre

"A Love Bizarre" is a song recorded by Sheila E., and written by Prince and Sheila E. The song is a duet between both singers and it appears on Sheila E.'s 1985 album Romance 1600.

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AllMusic

AllMusic (previously known as All-Music Guide and AMG) is an American online music database.

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Andre Harrell

Andre O’Neal Harrell (September 26, 1960 – May 7, 2020) was an American record executive, media proprietor, and former rapper.

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Beastie Boys

Beastie Boys were an American hip hop/rap rock group from New York City, formed in 1981.

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Beat Street

Beat Street is a 1984 American dance drama film featuring New York City hip hop culture of the early 1980s. Krush Groove and Beat Street are 1980s hip hop films and new York City hip hop.

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Billboard 200

The Billboard 200 is a record chart ranking the 200 most popular music albums and EPs in the United States.

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Blair Underwood

Blair Erwin Underwood (born August 25, 1964) is an American actor.

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Bobby Brown

Robert Barisford Brown Sr. (born February 5, 1969) is an American singer and rapper.

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Car Wash (soundtrack)

Car Wash: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack is a soundtrack double album released by the funk band Rose Royce on the MCA label in September 1976.

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Chaka Khan

Yvette Marie Stevens (born March 23, 1953), better known by her stage name Chaka Khan, is an American singer.

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Chicago Tribune

The Chicago Tribune is an American daily newspaper based in Chicago, Illinois, owned by Tribune Publishing.

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Chris Rock

Christopher Julius Rock (born February 7, 1965) is an American comedian, actor, and filmmaker.

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City College of New York

The City College of the City University of New York (also known as the City College of New York, or simply City College or CCNY) is a public research university within the City University of New York (CUNY) system in New York City.

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Coati Mundi (musician)

Andy Hernandez (born January 3, 1950), better known by his stage name Coati Mundi, is an American musician, percussionist, notably playing the vibraphone, and a member of Dr. Buzzard's Original Savannah Band, then of Kid Creole and the Coconuts.

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Comedy drama

Comedy drama, also known by the portmanteau dramedy, is a genre of dramatic works that combines elements of comedy and drama.

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Compact disc

The compact disc (CD) is a digital optical disc data storage format that was codeveloped by Philips and Sony to store and play digital audio recordings.

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Contemporary R&B

Contemporary R&B (or simply R&B) is a popular music genre that combines rhythm and blues with elements of pop, soul, funk, hip hop, and electronic music.

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Darren Robinson (rapper)

Darren Robinson (June 10, 1967 – December 10, 1995), also known as Big Buff, Buff Love, Buffy, The Human Beat Box, The Ox That Rocks, and DJ Doctor Nice (among other aliases), was a rapper, beatboxer, and actor who was a member of the 1980s hip hop group The Fat Boys.

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Darryl McDaniels

Darryl Matthews McDaniels (born May 31, 1964), also commonly known by his stage name DMC (or D.M.C.), is an American rapper.

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Debbie Harry

Deborah Ann Harry (born Angela Trimble; July 1, 1945) is an American singer, songwriter and actress, best known as the lead vocalist of the band Blondie.

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Def Jam Recordings

Def Jam Recordings (also simply known as Def Jam) is an American multinational record label owned by Universal Music Group.

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Disco Fever

Disco Fever was a New York City dance club located in the South Bronx on Jerome Avenue and 167th street that operated from 1976 to 1986.

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Dogma (film)

Dogma is a 1999 American fantasy comedy film written and directed by Kevin Smith, who also stars with Ben Affleck, Matt Damon, George Carlin, Linda Fiorentino, Janeane Garofalo, Chris Rock, Jason Lee, Salma Hayek, Bud Cort, Alan Rickman, Alanis Morissette in her feature film debut, and Jason Mewes.

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Doug McHenry

Doug McHenry is an American film director and producer.

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Dr. Jeckyll & Mr. Hyde (group)

Dr.

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E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (or simply E.T.) is a 1982 American science fiction film produced and directed by Steven Spielberg and written by Melissa Mathison.

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Ernest Dickerson

Ernest Roscoe Dickerson (born June 25, 1951) is an American director, cinematographer, and screenwriter of film, television, and music videos.

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Feel the Spin

"Feel the Spin" is a 1985 song by the American vocalist Debbie Harry, featured on the soundtrack album for the film Krush Groove (1985).

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Force MDs

The Force M.D.s are an American R&B vocal group that was formed in 1981 in Staten Island, New York.

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Full Force

Full Force is an American music group of hip hop and R&B singers and producers from Brooklyn, New York.

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George Jackson (filmmaker)

George Jackson (January 6, 1958 – February 10, 2000) was a film director and producer.

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Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Original Song

The Razzie Award for Worst Original Song was an award presented at the annual Golden Raspberry Awards for the worst song written for a film in the previous year.

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Hip hop music

Hip hop or hip-hop, also known as rap and formerly as disco rap, is a genre of popular music that originated in the early 1970s from the African American community.

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Holly Rock

"Holly Rock" is a song written and produced by Prince and performed by Sheila E. who also received writing and production credits.

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House Party (1990 film)

House Party is a 1990 American comedy film directed by Reginald Hudlin.

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I Can't Live Without My Radio

"I Can't Live Without My Radio" is the lead single from LL Cool J's debut album, Radio.

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I Want You to Be My Girl

"I Want You to Be My Girl" is a song written by George Goldner and Richard Barrett and performed by The Teenagers featuring Frankie Lymon.

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Jam Master Jay

Jason William Mizell (January 21, 1965 – October 30, 2002), better known by his stage name Jam Master Jay, was an American musician and DJ.

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Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis

James Samuel "Jimmy Jam" Harris III (born June 6, 1959) and Terry Steven Lewis (born November 24, 1956) are an American R&B/pop songwriting and record production team.

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John Benitez

John Benitez (born November 7, 1957), also known as Jellybean, is an American musician, songwriter, DJ, remixer, and music producer.

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Joseph Simmons

Joseph Ward Simmons (born November 14, 1964), better known by the stage name Run, Rev.

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Kara Vallow

Kara Vallow is an American television animation producer who works with Seth MacFarlane on the four television series produced by Fuzzy Door Productions for Fox, Family Guy, American Dad! (now moved to TBS), The Cleveland Show, and Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey.

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Kurtis Blow

Kurtis Walker (born August 9, 1959), professionally known by his stage name Kurtis Blow, is an American rapper, songwriter and record producer.

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LisaGay Hamilton

LisaGay Hamilton (born 1964) is an American actress who has portrayed roles in films, television, and on stage.

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LL Cool J

James Todd Smith (born January 14, 1968), known professionally as LL Cool J (short for Ladies Love Cool James), is an American rapper and actor.

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Lonnie Simmons

Lonnie Simmons (December 12, 1944 – February 6, 2019) was an American record producer from Los Angeles, California.

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Manhattan

Manhattan is the most densely populated and geographically smallest of the five boroughs of New York City.

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Marble Hill, Manhattan

Marble Hill is the northernmost neighborhood in the New York City borough of Manhattan.

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Michael Bivins

Michael Lamont Bivins (born August 10, 1968) is an American singer, rapper, manager, and producer, and a founding member of New Edition and Bell Biv DeVoe.

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Michael Schultz

Michael Schultz (born November 10, 1938) is an American director and producer of theater, film and television.

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Musical film

Musical film is a film genre in which songs by the characters are interwoven into the narrative, sometimes accompanied by dancing.

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Nayobe

Nayobe Catalina Gomez, known professionally as Nayobe (born December 18, 1967, in Brooklyn, New York), is an American singer and freestyle dance-pop musician of Afro-Cuban heritage.

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New Edition

New Edition is an American R&B/pop group from the Roxbury neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts, formed in 1978 by singer/rapper Bobby Brown with Ralph Tresvant serving as the group's lead singer for over 40 years.

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New York University

New York University (NYU) is a private research university in New York City, United States.

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Please Don't Go (Nayobe song)

Please Don't Go is the debut single from singer Nayobe.

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Prince (musician)

Prince Rogers Nelson (June 7, 1958April 21, 2016) was an American singer, multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, record producer, and actor.

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Prince Markie Dee

Mark Anthony Morales (February 19, 1968 – February 18, 2021), better known by the stage name Prince Markie Dee, was an American rapper.

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Queens

Queens is a borough of New York City, coextensive with Queens County, in the U.S. state of New York.

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Ralph Farquhar

Ralph Farquhar (born September 19, 1951) is an American film and television producer and screenwriter.

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Ralph Tresvant

Ralph Edward Tresvant (born May 16, 1968) is an American singer, songwriter, and record producer, best known as the lead singer of R&B group New Edition.

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Richard Gant

Richard Gant (born March 10, 1944) is an American actor.

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Rick Rubin

Frederick Jay Rubin (born March 10, 1963) is an American record executive and record producer.

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Ricky Bell (singer)

Ricardo Bell (born September 18, 1967) is an American singer best known as one of the founding members of R&B/pop group New Edition, and the lead singer of Bell Biv DeVoe.

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Ronnie DeVoe

Ronald Boyd DeVoe Jr. (born November 17, 1967), is an American singer and rapper known as one of the members of the R&B/pop group New Edition, and the R&B/hip hop group Bell Biv DeVoe.

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Rotten Tomatoes

Rotten Tomatoes is an American review-aggregation website for film and television.

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Run-DMC

Run-DMC (also formatted Run-D.M.C., RUN DMC, or some combination thereof) was an American hip hop group from Hollis, Queens New York City, formed in 1983 by Joseph Simmons, Darryl McDaniels, and Jason Mizell.

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Russ Titelman

Russ Titelman (born August 16, 1944, Los Angeles, California, United States) is an American record producer and songwriter.

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Russell Simmons

Russell Wendell Simmons (born October 4, 1957) is an American entrepreneur, writer and record executive.

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Sal Abbatiello

Sal Abbatiello (born 1952) is an American music promoter and dance club owner.

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She's on It

"She's on It" is a song by American rap rock group Beastie Boys.

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Sheila E.

Sheila Cecilia Escovedo (born December 12, 1957), known under the stage name Sheila E., is an American singer and drummer.

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Soundtrack album

A soundtrack album is any album that incorporates music directly recorded from the soundtrack of a particular feature film or television show.

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Synth-pop

Synth-pop (short for synthesizer pop; also called techno-pop) is a music genre that first became prominent in the late 1970s and features the synthesizer as the dominant musical instrument.

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Tender Love

"Tender Love" is a song by Force MDs from their second album Chillin' (1985).

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The Bronx

The Bronx is a borough of New York City, coextensive with Bronx County, in the U.S. state of New York.

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The Fat Boys

The Fat Boys were an American hip hop trio from Brooklyn, New York, who emerged in the early 1980s.

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The Gap Band

The Gap Band was an American R&B and funk band that rose to fame during the 1970s and 1980s.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.

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The Source

The Source is an American hip hop and entertainment website, and a magazine that publishes annually or.

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The Village Voice

The Village Voice is an American news and culture publication based in Greenwich Village, New York City, known for being the country's first alternative newsweekly.

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Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums

Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums is a music chart published weekly by Billboard magazine that ranks R&B and hip hop albums based on sales in the United States and is compiled by Luminate.

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UTFO

UTFO (an abbreviation for Untouchable Force Organization) was an American hip hop group from Brooklyn, New York City.

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Variety (magazine)

Variety is an American magazine owned by Penske Media Corporation.

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Warner Bros. Pictures

Warner Bros.

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Warner Records

Warner Records Inc. (formerly known as Warner Bros. Records Inc. until 2019) is an American record label.

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Wild Style

Wild Style is a 1983 American hip hop film directed and produced by Charlie Ahearn. Krush Groove and Wild Style are 1980s hip hop films and new York City hip hop.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krush_Groove

Also known as Crush Groove, Krush Groove (soundtrack), Krush Groove Soundtrack, Music from the Original Motion Picture Krush Groove.

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See also

1980s hip hop films

Films directed by Michael Schultz

New York City hip hop

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