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Meeklo you are again missing the point, and only reading what you want to read to support an argument in which you have nothing to base it on besides personal experience between yourself and your father.
I am not talking about hip-hop's affect on the movie's popularity in 1983. I am talking about the past decade (give or take probably closer to about 15 when it started becoming more prevalent).
The film became an underground phenomenon in the late 90's basically, and was only available on VHS while pretty much every movie was being transferred to DVD.
It wasn't even until 2003 that this movie was released on DVD and guess what it had with it ... a special bonus featurette on the movie's affect on hip-hop and vice versa.
It shouldn't detract from the movie itself, and in reality it doesn't.
There are just seemingly almost countless cases of how the two are now almost synonymous in American Popular Culture to a certain age demographic, which is the driving power behind the movie's recent re-surge.
Even video games bite the movie in the original Hitman (one of the bad guys in some jungle) and GTA: Vice City.