Is Anime the new Kung Fu in Hip Hop?
During the 1970s, in New York City, the cradle of hip hop, movie theatres were playing Kung Fu flicks and porn. Theatres had been experiencing a surge in prices from Hollywood so they went ahead and bought raunchy material and Chinese films for a fraction of the price, and played them on repeat from dusk till dawn. This artform made its way into the subculture that gave birth to hip hop, and in the 1990s, with the emergence of Toonami on Cartoon Network, a similar international artistic infiltration took a hold of the people at the forefront of today’s rap scene.