The Hippest Trip In America (2013) - Plot & Excerpts
the hit single off their debut album on the independent Streetwise Records. The five Boston adolescents (Bobby Brown, Ralph Tresvant, Michael Bivins, Ronnie DeVoe, Ricky Bell) were adequate, singers—at best—but they had a scintillating stage show that married aspects of old-school Temptations-style choreography with hip-hop-generation dance steps. It was a unique blend that mirrored the pseudo-soul tracks produced by their mentor, Maurice Starr, which contained rap breaks and some beat-boxing. Only the most visionary Soul Train viewers could have imagined that they were watching not only a highly entertaining performance but a band that embodied the immediate future of black music. Over the course of the next ten years, R&B music would be sonically and thematically absorbed by hip-hop. First it would just be rap breaks on otherwise typical R&B tracks. But soon a generation of producers, born into older black music traditions but who came of age in the 1980s, would fuse the beats and samples of hip-hop onto sing-along melodies.
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