Breaktothebeat.com is primarily focused on Milton Keynes Hip Hop Culture and how it became established in this small UK city during Hip Hop cultures globalisation. It is also part of our mission to document an honour the achievements of our local practitioners. To put our research into context we would like to point our visitors to some additional resources in the form of the below documentaries that we feel will help further educate and give a broader understanding of UK Hip Hop culture, its roots, and its some of the practitioners that were active during these founding years. 

Electro Rock (1985): Electro Rock features a series of live performances from a wide selection of UK Hip Hop practitioners and was filmed in 1985 at the London Hippodrome. The documentary of the event gives a rare incite in to UK Hip Hop Culture during it’s founding years. 

Bad Meaning Good (1987): This documentary created by pioneering Hip Hop DJ Tim Westwood gives an incite in to London’s Hip Hop scene during 1987. The documentary features several UK Hip Hop recording artists around the time of their first releases and provides a great reference to the London Hip Hop scene at the time.

Bombin’ (1987): This documentary was filmed in Birmingham, Wolverhampton, Bristol and New York and provides a rare incite in to Hip Hop culture and some of its pioneering artists that helped establish UK Hip Hop culture in cities outside of London.

Rapping (1989): This documentary provides an overview of how young people in living in London and Herefordshire were contributing to an already established UK Hip Hop scene. By 1989 the first wave of UK Hip Hop recording artists were already established and the documentary shows how this generation were continuing the culture not just in the capital but in also rural areas.

And It Wasn’t A Dream (1991): This documentary was filmed in 1991 and follows the career of pioneering Hip Hop artists Ruthless Rap Assassins. The documentary gives a good oversite of Manchester’s Hip Hop scene, its roots, and some of the pioneering artists that helped establish UK Hip Hop Culture in the city. Ruthless Rap Assassins were among the first wave of UK Hip Hop artists to release Hip Hop Recordings.

The Pioneers (2000): This documentary was made during what is generally referred to a the second golden age of UK Hip Hop and features a selection of artists from various parts of the UK that were active during this period. The Pioneers provide a rare incite in to UK Hip Hop Culture during a time that it was being largely ignored by the mainstream media.