Prince in Space

The Fifth Element Is the Movie in Which Chris Tucker Plays a Galactic Princeby Charles MudedeWe must begin this brief line of thought on Chris Tucker's electric performance in Luc Besson's 1997 The Fifth Element with a little background on what I call the black elegance movement in black popular music. The moment for black elegance was from 1982 to 1988. It was formed by two streams that go back to the late '70s. Chic initiated the first stream, and Time initiated the second and stronger stream.