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Beat Street's impact was felt internationally as well as throughout the United States.

In Germany, for example, movies such as Beat Street and Wild Style are credited with introducing the hip hop movement to the country.

Because movies are so easily distributed over borders, part of the importance of this movie lay in its ability to influence both East and West Germany, which at the time were still divided.

Beat Street was of particular importance in the East, where it is said to illustrate for young people the evils of capitalism.

Because the film focused so heavily on the visual aspects of hip hop, such as breaking and graffiti, these aspects had the heaviest influence on the emerging German hip hop scene.

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