Hello Laura...i don't like to label other people's things...from my perspective..HipHop is a culture,& the dance SHOULD reflect that culture...what i do,teach,& live is a reflection of the culture..NOT just in NYC..but all of the USA...i can't speak on youtube stars...i've never seen or heard of any of the folks named in any cypha's,battles,video's,etc...only on youtube...peace
just watch buddah dance, see how he rides the music, feels it, plays with it, the beat, the pauses, the lyrics, everything.. If you dance to the music and let yourself be takin away. If your expressing what feeling, you don't rule out a single part. You dance to it all..like he does. Watch him dance, feel him dance, I don't understand what people don't get..
(Im a nobody,ill tell this know before someone decides to diss me, & imma express maself anyway!)
Why isnt lyrical allready a part of hip hop? "We" allready do it, only not allways, the thing is, someone in hip hop started to explore just one thing in it, like all the old schools started something by takin one caracteristic in the dance and exploring it!
Whats the crime? Calling it Hip Hop? Imma quote somone by sayin "People LABEL things they dont understand! So start understanding it first! ;)
HipHop is a culture. When hip hop ppl party they dance... the dancing steps they do became hiphop dance. And it was all about beat and passion.
And now, seeing a thing like "lyrical hiphop" Buddha tryes to tell us that there is a lot of meaning and history in "hiphop". You can't simply attach another word ESPECIALLY when "lyrical hiphop" is in not part of hiphop culture
Cool lyrical stuff. But not hiphop. Correct me if I am wrong!
Thank you buddha stretch for enlightening me, and helping me become a better person a better dancer and a better hiphop dancer :) - Ian from the philippines
Lyrical Hip Hop Dancing: The art of telling the story of a song through movement. The heart lies within the rhythm of the beat, and the soul lies within the lyrics. You either feel it or you dont, but you must acknowledge both parts of a song. Thats what I think anyway,
I'm pretty sure that lyrical 'hip-hop' definitely doesn't mean that you dance ONLY to the words. I've never seen anyone dance to only words. It just doesn't work like that. All lyrical hip-hop dancers that I know of dance to both the beats and the words whenever they're given a chance to interpret the words.
I don't get how people here try to tell Stretch to be more open-minded about "lyrical hip hop"!!! If ever there had been such a thing (but if you just take different accents in the music and ignore the beats, how is that a "new dance style"???), it would be on all the dancers to look to Stretch, Henry, Bobby and the whole of Dance Fusion as the founder of this dance!!! btw that "MY-HEART'S-BREAKIN etc" spasmic literal dancing is soo tired!!! LOL!!
but that's the thing, ppl don't have to be doing the moves in this video or moves like it. To my understanding hip hop is to move to the beat and etc. and lyrical hip hop does that bu moves to what the song says. You say ppl are 'insecur' and they are wrong what they said, BUT you should have said in da video not commenting just to explain yourself...
But i have to agree w/Buddha on the Lyrical HipHop. There is no such thing. There is Lyrical and there is HipHop. That is just a term that is given to a specific style of choreography. It is simply that ...."choreography". But I wouldnt go as far as saying that because someone chooses to dance to the Lyrics, that they cant dance to the beat. Its a matter of preference. Each person has there own tastes just like everything else. Respect to all! Jwrecks TSC!
I know when i dance I use every part of the music. The beat, Lyrics, every sound every instrument. Your movement should accent the music as a whole, in my opinion. I would never limit myself to just the beat.
Yes, learn the roots of hip hop. Respect that which has earned respect. But ignoring the potential of this new dance style and defaming it because it is different from yours makes you no better than those who did the same to "real" hip hop in it's youth.
WHAT'S REALLY SAD IS YOU *THINK* THAT LYRICAL HIPHOP IS NEW,& YOUR TRYING TO SPEAK ON AN ARTFORM THAT'S OLDER THAN YOU ARE...TALK ABOUT WHAT YOU KNOW!NO ONE'S DEFAMING ANYTHING!HIPHOP IS BUILT ON THE MUSIC 1ST...NOT THE WORDS!BREAKS= DRUMS...NOT LYRICS....YOU DANCE BCUZ OF THE MUSIC....THERE'S SIMPLY NO WAY AROUND THAT!
Stretch is not "defaming" lyrical, street jazz, or any other style of dance. He is saying know what is what, and to stop mislabeling dances for what they are not. If it's lyrical dance and not hip-hop, then call it lyrical! Or pop, or street jazz... call it for what it is. Stop lumping everything under the umbrella of hip-hop. Respect each style enough to call it by its name.
Every style has something to offer that the other style cannot. Lyrical has smthng unique to it that Hip-Hop doesn't have, so just call it for what it is. PERIOD.
STRETCH- Some ppl will argue that it's a fusion of 2 styles. So you're dancing in a hip-hop way of movement but you're telling a story according to the lyrics & w/ your movements, so it's a fusion of the 2. What would you say to that? I got some cats I'm arguing with about it haha. this is Kae btw, I was at Mop Top.
ALL DANCE IS FUSION...WHAT I WAS TRYING TO SHOW IS DANCE TO THE MUSIC,& USING THE LYRICS AS AN ACCENT...BUT PEOPLE ARE SO INSECURR' BOUT THEIR DANCE...THEY HAVE TO FEEL LIKE I'M COMING AFTER THEM!LYRICAL HIPHOP TAKES MANY FORMS,LIKE HUMAN BEINGS DO.....BUT FOLKS NEED TO LEARN THE "HIPHOP" PART,BEFORE THEY ADD THE LYRICAL..AGAIN..IMO!THANKS...PEACE
@BUDDHASTRETCH68 - Thank U! This is what I stay arguing w/ ppl within my dance realm... the flex dancers think they are lyrical but 4get how to actually dance to the damn beat! Thats FIRST! Lyrical as an accent is EXACTLY what I been telling them!
Much Respect to you & MTC from ENY, im from Bed-Stuy, history fa real!
Of course I respect what he's done here, but I think it's kind of sad that there's this undercurrent of resentment. When we disparage another dance form because it differs from ours, we shame ourselves as artists. Yes, Hip hop has been exploited, bastardized even, but there are lyrical hip hop dancers who genuinely use their style to express themselves... which is why we, as humans, dance.
LOL..RESENTMENT??THE PROBLEM LIES IN THE FACT THAT THE YOUTH AREN'T BEING TAUGHT TO DANCE!THEY'RE BEING TAUGHT WHAT BASICALLY AMOUNTS TO CHEARLEADING,& AEROBICS!DO SOME RESEARCH....HISTORY ALWAYS REPEATS ITSELF...BUT THOSE WHO *MAKE* HISTORY MAKE SURE IT BECOMES BETTER THE NEXT TIME AROUND!
This sounds a bit like history repeating itself. The younger generation will always rebel against the values of the previous generation; the young will always pick up where the elders left off, and usually the elders won't agree. I'm sure in it's youth hip hop dance wasn't considered "real" dancing either. Also, where the dance originates is about irrelevant as where it is practiced. I've heard plenty of bboys say they don't consider krump dancing real, even though it was born on the streets.
stretch and eszteca you said it:) finally a video on youtube that speaks real about true hip hop and what dancing really is. Your message should be heard by everybody: if you wanna dance now, you have to learn how they used to dance in the old days.
Much respect for the old school, for the real hip hop and people who keep hip hop alive.
Yo im from oakland thank you soo much fo bringing that back to light that is soo true. dont get me wrong i love the style when its done right but know kids think thats all dance is about and, i.e the wow factor,. folks forget about the connection with music and rythm
Every dance style has it's roots and culture etc. Put yaself into the culture of the style that speaks to u tha most ;)
but LISTEN!.. lyrical hiphop or what I call pop music dance! has NO true culture because the pop culture is just simply based on a money makin industry designed by (white) business people! don't get fooled by the flashy commercial dance styles! moves are stolen from the underground!!! Let's take Hiphop back so we can learn these youngstaz the essence of the dance!!!
Stretch says it! There ain't such thing as lyrical Hiphop! but there is a great pop urban influenced music stream that's taking over the whole music industry, the main reason why Hiphop music gets pushed out of the picture :( it's stupid tho.. these so called hiphop artists making POPMUSIC and spitting some rhymes to it pff sad, it's the inluence of this money makin industry that influences the dance, COMMERCIAL MUSIC IS COMMERCIAL DANCE!!! Hiphop is taken out of it's context so is the dance..
Here in the Netherlands 90% of the dancestudio's and danceschools are following the trendy "Lyrical hiphop style" and they call it "Hiphop or Streetdance" pfff, I've been in hiphop over more than 25 yrs. I rather call Lyrical hiphop dance 'Urban pop dancing!" Yeah that's what it is!! dancing to POP music! let's face it!
No disrespect to L.A style dancers, cuz these guys can groove too! but YES I believe that people in general first have to feel the groove and learn to DANCE to the beat! How can you not dance to a random beat and first have to wait for a song u know all the lyrics of!!??? ghehehe! Stretch says it! Peoples, learn to DANCE hiphop first and digg deep in it's roots before dancing with poethic movements to lyrics of what they call Hiphop music nowadayz??
you know what.. whatever dude.. i aint here to argue, just expressing my thoutghs.. i agree you have to defend your style, but to diss people dat try to change and innovate is wrong.. so narrow-minded man..
so is the point of the clip showing how to dance to the beat while still accounting for change in the pace of the lyrics? is he showing the correct way someone would go about doing "lyrical hiphop" by using hip foundation steps and accounting for changes in the lyrics while keeping his foot work on beat?
i think thats the point... someone tell me if i am wrong
Poppinkino: If you don't know who Buddha Stretch is, he's worth more than 19,000 views. Stretch is one of the pioneers of hiphop and respected worldwide. He IS worthy of being in front of a crowd even for a solo.
wow, pop, u sound like a turd. get that art school "lyrical" shit out of hip hop. hip hop is street dance movement and can only be accepted on those grounds.. proof that it doesn't belong is your condemnation of this sick OG dancer..
but if you can combine both then i think you will reach a sick level, i love hip hop dance but i also have respect for Lyrical hip hop, they are taking it to another level. Is good for us hip hop dancer to learn the technic from lyrical.
but was just a point of vue and i hope i wont make anyone mad out there.
I mean, You can always be on beat once You learn how to dance to it but lyrics... You can't dance to the lyrics unless You know the song.
Yes, You can dance to SONGS You don't know since their lyrics have melodic patterns You can follow but dancing to RAP lyrics You don't know is pretty much impossible since You always are going to miss something (or even most of it if You're not lucky).
tere are people tinking just like you and there are people that say they like to see or dance different styles of hip-hop. you want to call them or not,they are still divided.;) peace
I think is gd if we force ourselves out of comfort zone.. i mean yes we gotta dance to what we feel.. but if u only train on what you feel.. your nth compared to a normal guy who can feel music the way u can..
See ppl like Electric trouble.. They train their groove and basics till its untouchable.. and they add their feeling into it.. I feel that we should always train techniques and feelings together.. to match it up..
Hip hop has its foundations and its history. Link told me that there are no new moves in hiphop. Any "new" moves that are done now came from the foundations of hiphop. All of us have got to do more research. Bobby Mileage preaches for us to go out there and find that history cause we're living in the information era!
Firstly, i am here to say my perception towards dance. Different people have different way of feeling things. For example grooving. If we are all the same, then everyone would be the same. The word unique would not even exist. Yeah here and there, there would be techniques. Remember one thing, we can never force our body trying to do things that we are not comfortable at all
And you can see Elite Force (Stretch, Link, Terry, E-Joe, Bobby), Electric Trouble (Yokoi), etc. Their dance is not just express the beat or lyric only, their body first groove with the rhythm (real dance), and added in the move/technique, if you can't groove with music, you can't really understand what HipHop want to express actually; you just "showing" music or "showing" technique or "showing" acting)
Here's just my definition to Dance & HipHop. Peace out!!
It seems many people think "Dance to the music" means "using body to express all the elements come out from the music" and think this is great. Dancing is not like that.
New shool music nowadays has lots of elements inside it, melody, rhythm, beat, lyric, effect sound, etc.
Dancing to me is using body to "interpret" music, not to use body to "show" music.
(NOT lyric say ".... I Love you ....", then your dance has "heart-liked fingers" for the word "love"; "finger pointing to the audience" means "you", it might be, but not Real HipHop wants to express)
HipHop is not focusing on the word, HipHop is "Dance to the music", and at first, it dance to the "Rhythm", and Rhythm based on "Beat", is body groove with the Beat, not body hit the beat.
I dont have the feeling hes dancing to the word but I do feel he's dancing to the beat. I just dont get the point on where he is supposed to have danced to the lyrics???
ok, so my computer is actin' up so I had to watch it with no sound! I've never heard the term Lyrical Hip-Hop b4, so i'm gonna watch this again when my audio is working so I know what it is!
I started singing my own songs though while i was watching you kill it! I think around 2:01, I was saying "shake ya tambourine...." hahahaha
damn, in Singapore, everyone calls stuff "LA Hip Hop" and "Lyrical Hip Hop"... you the man, Stretch. it's another re-education session. thanks for all the information.
on a side note, man, that was pure SICK...
so clean!!!! respect!!
and peace to my homeboy Chris Su (Korea) for asking you about the Lyrical Hip Hop segment, that's him behind the camera right there!
dude is a nice bt not more den amit rudra ..
az67098 2 months ago
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MrHugoFUNK 4 months ago
pleaseeeeee name of song :(
boylagr 5 months ago
@boylagr Joe Budden - Fire
blindmarth 2 months ago
Souu fã..
giselecaamargo 9 months ago
Buddha I really admire you but what kind of style for you dancing Shaun Evaristo , Laura Edwards ...cuz they don't dancing hip hop for me
please answer me :)
LauraHipHop232 9 months ago
@LauraHipHop232
Hello Laura...i don't like to label other people's things...from my perspective..HipHop is a culture,& the dance SHOULD reflect that culture...what i do,teach,& live is a reflection of the culture..NOT just in NYC..but all of the USA...i can't speak on youtube stars...i've never seen or heard of any of the folks named in any cypha's,battles,video's,etc...only on youtube...peace
BUDDHASTRETCH68 9 months ago
@BUDDHASTRETCH68 Ok ..Thank you ;)
LauraHipHop232 9 months ago
who the fuck disliking ???
they are really don't know about real hip hop
MrKhaiKhaiii 10 months ago
just watch buddah dance, see how he rides the music, feels it, plays with it, the beat, the pauses, the lyrics, everything.. If you dance to the music and let yourself be takin away. If your expressing what feeling, you don't rule out a single part. You dance to it all..like he does. Watch him dance, feel him dance, I don't understand what people don't get..
smurk143 1 year ago 2
(Im a nobody,ill tell this know before someone decides to diss me, & imma express maself anyway!)
Why isnt lyrical allready a part of hip hop? "We" allready do it, only not allways, the thing is, someone in hip hop started to explore just one thing in it, like all the old schools started something by takin one caracteristic in the dance and exploring it!
Whats the crime? Calling it Hip Hop? Imma quote somone by sayin "People LABEL things they dont understand! So start understanding it first! ;)
apocalipse11 1 year ago
So much drama!
The thing Buddha tryed to tell us is:
HipHop is a culture. When hip hop ppl party they dance... the dancing steps they do became hiphop dance. And it was all about beat and passion.
And now, seeing a thing like "lyrical hiphop" Buddha tryes to tell us that there is a lot of meaning and history in "hiphop". You can't simply attach another word ESPECIALLY when "lyrical hiphop" is in not part of hiphop culture
Cool lyrical stuff. But not hiphop. Correct me if I am wrong!
TehDarth 1 year ago 3
Thank you buddha stretch for enlightening me, and helping me become a better person a better dancer and a better hiphop dancer :) - Ian from the philippines
iangandaaa 1 year ago 2
nice!
cgurasl 1 year ago
I thought that was really cool but I dont think that was a lyrical hip hop dance.
adibaby1979 1 year ago
@adibaby1979 You don't get it, don't you?
CrabY42 2 months ago
i think singers sing to the beat as well.
jimiefoxx 1 year ago
Lyrical Hip Hop Dancing: The art of telling the story of a song through movement. The heart lies within the rhythm of the beat, and the soul lies within the lyrics. You either feel it or you dont, but you must acknowledge both parts of a song. Thats what I think anyway,
aznluv3r 1 year ago
I'm pretty sure that lyrical 'hip-hop' definitely doesn't mean that you dance ONLY to the words. I've never seen anyone dance to only words. It just doesn't work like that. All lyrical hip-hop dancers that I know of dance to both the beats and the words whenever they're given a chance to interpret the words.
itstodahfcp 1 year ago
I don't get how people here try to tell Stretch to be more open-minded about "lyrical hip hop"!!! If ever there had been such a thing (but if you just take different accents in the music and ignore the beats, how is that a "new dance style"???), it would be on all the dancers to look to Stretch, Henry, Bobby and the whole of Dance Fusion as the founder of this dance!!! btw that "MY-HEART'S-BREAKIN etc" spasmic literal dancing is soo tired!!! LOL!!
ChockedBazooka 1 year ago
YOO Brother it simply class At us in Kazakhstan too dance under lyrical hip hop and C-walk Songs at busta rhymes class as refers to
Bahidza 1 year ago
but that's the thing, ppl don't have to be doing the moves in this video or moves like it. To my understanding hip hop is to move to the beat and etc. and lyrical hip hop does that bu moves to what the song says. You say ppl are 'insecur' and they are wrong what they said, BUT you should have said in da video not commenting just to explain yourself...
SamsonH92 2 years ago
THATS MY DADDY GETTIN IT !!!!
daedae1127 2 years ago
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bxdancer 2 years ago
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bxdancer 2 years ago
But i have to agree w/Buddha on the Lyrical HipHop. There is no such thing. There is Lyrical and there is HipHop. That is just a term that is given to a specific style of choreography. It is simply that ...."choreography". But I wouldnt go as far as saying that because someone chooses to dance to the Lyrics, that they cant dance to the beat. Its a matter of preference. Each person has there own tastes just like everything else. Respect to all! Jwrecks TSC!
Jwreckz 2 years ago 3
I know when i dance I use every part of the music. The beat, Lyrics, every sound every instrument. Your movement should accent the music as a whole, in my opinion. I would never limit myself to just the beat.
Jwreckz 2 years ago
dancer is sick. but daymmm - how about having good lyrics on good beats? lol thats the plan,
MagicE5 2 years ago
BUDDHA STRETCH ... true Inspiration
respect man 4 your dance and 4 your Knowledge.
nice video, it helped me a lot.
luv peace unity !!!!
CrimeHipHopCulture 2 years ago
Yes, learn the roots of hip hop. Respect that which has earned respect. But ignoring the potential of this new dance style and defaming it because it is different from yours makes you no better than those who did the same to "real" hip hop in it's youth.
tenyenlover 2 years ago
@tenyenlover
WHAT'S REALLY SAD IS YOU *THINK* THAT LYRICAL HIPHOP IS NEW,& YOUR TRYING TO SPEAK ON AN ARTFORM THAT'S OLDER THAN YOU ARE...TALK ABOUT WHAT YOU KNOW!NO ONE'S DEFAMING ANYTHING!HIPHOP IS BUILT ON THE MUSIC 1ST...NOT THE WORDS!BREAKS= DRUMS...NOT LYRICS....YOU DANCE BCUZ OF THE MUSIC....THERE'S SIMPLY NO WAY AROUND THAT!
BUDDHASTRETCH68 2 years ago 13
Stretch is not "defaming" lyrical, street jazz, or any other style of dance. He is saying know what is what, and to stop mislabeling dances for what they are not. If it's lyrical dance and not hip-hop, then call it lyrical! Or pop, or street jazz... call it for what it is. Stop lumping everything under the umbrella of hip-hop. Respect each style enough to call it by its name.
KyMace 2 years ago 2
Every style has something to offer that the other style cannot. Lyrical has smthng unique to it that Hip-Hop doesn't have, so just call it for what it is. PERIOD.
STRETCH- Some ppl will argue that it's a fusion of 2 styles. So you're dancing in a hip-hop way of movement but you're telling a story according to the lyrics & w/ your movements, so it's a fusion of the 2. What would you say to that? I got some cats I'm arguing with about it haha. this is Kae btw, I was at Mop Top.
KyMace 2 years ago
@KyMace
ALL DANCE IS FUSION...WHAT I WAS TRYING TO SHOW IS DANCE TO THE MUSIC,& USING THE LYRICS AS AN ACCENT...BUT PEOPLE ARE SO INSECURR' BOUT THEIR DANCE...THEY HAVE TO FEEL LIKE I'M COMING AFTER THEM!LYRICAL HIPHOP TAKES MANY FORMS,LIKE HUMAN BEINGS DO.....BUT FOLKS NEED TO LEARN THE "HIPHOP" PART,BEFORE THEY ADD THE LYRICAL..AGAIN..IMO!THANKS...PEACE
BUDDHASTRETCH68 2 years ago 13
Word, thanks Stretch.
KyMace 2 years ago
@BUDDHASTRETCH68 - Thank U! This is what I stay arguing w/ ppl within my dance realm... the flex dancers think they are lyrical but 4get how to actually dance to the damn beat! Thats FIRST! Lyrical as an accent is EXACTLY what I been telling them!
Much Respect to you & MTC from ENY, im from Bed-Stuy, history fa real!
*SnowNasty*
Bruk Up Style since 94'
SnowNasty 2 years ago
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ALEXTESKI 1 year ago
@BUDDHASTRETCH68 now it makes sense
coloazn1 1 year ago
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ALEXTESKI 1 year ago
Of course I respect what he's done here, but I think it's kind of sad that there's this undercurrent of resentment. When we disparage another dance form because it differs from ours, we shame ourselves as artists. Yes, Hip hop has been exploited, bastardized even, but there are lyrical hip hop dancers who genuinely use their style to express themselves... which is why we, as humans, dance.
tenyenlover 2 years ago 3
@tenyenlover
LOL..RESENTMENT??THE PROBLEM LIES IN THE FACT THAT THE YOUTH AREN'T BEING TAUGHT TO DANCE!THEY'RE BEING TAUGHT WHAT BASICALLY AMOUNTS TO CHEARLEADING,& AEROBICS!DO SOME RESEARCH....HISTORY ALWAYS REPEATS ITSELF...BUT THOSE WHO *MAKE* HISTORY MAKE SURE IT BECOMES BETTER THE NEXT TIME AROUND!
BUDDHASTRETCH68 2 years ago 13
This sounds a bit like history repeating itself. The younger generation will always rebel against the values of the previous generation; the young will always pick up where the elders left off, and usually the elders won't agree. I'm sure in it's youth hip hop dance wasn't considered "real" dancing either. Also, where the dance originates is about irrelevant as where it is practiced. I've heard plenty of bboys say they don't consider krump dancing real, even though it was born on the streets.
tenyenlover 2 years ago
this is a funky dude haha
KGARSH07 2 years ago
stretch and eszteca you said it:) finally a video on youtube that speaks real about true hip hop and what dancing really is. Your message should be heard by everybody: if you wanna dance now, you have to learn how they used to dance in the old days.
Much respect for the old school, for the real hip hop and people who keep hip hop alive.
ArchyZeeChris 2 years ago
GIGGIN THATS WHATS ABOUT
xone16 2 years ago
Yo im from oakland thank you soo much fo bringing that back to light that is soo true. dont get me wrong i love the style when its done right but know kids think thats all dance is about and, i.e the wow factor,. folks forget about the connection with music and rythm
xone16 2 years ago
Just dance.
Dance is feelin' it.
Dance is feeling the music.
CHEERS! (:
hongwanling 2 years ago
Every dance style has it's roots and culture etc. Put yaself into the culture of the style that speaks to u tha most ;)
but LISTEN!.. lyrical hiphop or what I call pop music dance! has NO true culture because the pop culture is just simply based on a money makin industry designed by (white) business people! don't get fooled by the flashy commercial dance styles! moves are stolen from the underground!!! Let's take Hiphop back so we can learn these youngstaz the essence of the dance!!!
eszteca50 2 years ago 2
Stretch says it! There ain't such thing as lyrical Hiphop! but there is a great pop urban influenced music stream that's taking over the whole music industry, the main reason why Hiphop music gets pushed out of the picture :( it's stupid tho.. these so called hiphop artists making POPMUSIC and spitting some rhymes to it pff sad, it's the inluence of this money makin industry that influences the dance, COMMERCIAL MUSIC IS COMMERCIAL DANCE!!! Hiphop is taken out of it's context so is the dance..
eszteca50 2 years ago 3
Here in the Netherlands 90% of the dancestudio's and danceschools are following the trendy "Lyrical hiphop style" and they call it "Hiphop or Streetdance" pfff, I've been in hiphop over more than 25 yrs. I rather call Lyrical hiphop dance 'Urban pop dancing!" Yeah that's what it is!! dancing to POP music! let's face it!
eszteca50 2 years ago
No disrespect to L.A style dancers, cuz these guys can groove too! but YES I believe that people in general first have to feel the groove and learn to DANCE to the beat! How can you not dance to a random beat and first have to wait for a song u know all the lyrics of!!??? ghehehe! Stretch says it! Peoples, learn to DANCE hiphop first and digg deep in it's roots before dancing with poethic movements to lyrics of what they call Hiphop music nowadayz??
eszteca50 2 years ago 3
you know what.. whatever dude.. i aint here to argue, just expressing my thoutghs.. i agree you have to defend your style, but to diss people dat try to change and innovate is wrong.. so narrow-minded man..
sauer1992 2 years ago
yeah, bit of insult for those who dance in the lyrics... ''cant dance to the beat''
OKAYY, haha, prefer shaun evaristo though..
sauer1992 2 years ago
SPOKEN LIKE A TRUE JAZZ DANCER!
BUDDHASTRETCH68 2 years ago
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ribenaholic 2 years ago
You're on the right track Blaowser
Stretch is showing "musicality" and how dancers should be using the music.
Notice how Link laughs after stretch speaks his mind.
If you watch the video, Stretch is dancing to the music, but throwing in accents on the expression of the lyrics.
thunderkatz 2 years ago
so is the point of the clip showing how to dance to the beat while still accounting for change in the pace of the lyrics? is he showing the correct way someone would go about doing "lyrical hiphop" by using hip foundation steps and accounting for changes in the lyrics while keeping his foot work on beat?
i think thats the point... someone tell me if i am wrong
Blaowser 2 years ago
i dont get it ? it looks like every day hip hop on da streets to me.
RhuggaRhugga 2 years ago
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poppinkino 2 years ago
yea and buddha stretch has been in hip hop game for like 30+ years....
FreshNoobDancer 2 years ago 3
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poppinkino 2 years ago
haha you say something against one of the real hip hop OG's
I think you don't know what real hip hop is!
SugaCookiz 2 years ago
Poppinkino: If you don't know who Buddha Stretch is, he's worth more than 19,000 views. Stretch is one of the pioneers of hiphop and respected worldwide. He IS worthy of being in front of a crowd even for a solo.
thunderkatz 2 years ago
wow, pop, u sound like a turd. get that art school "lyrical" shit out of hip hop. hip hop is street dance movement and can only be accepted on those grounds.. proof that it doesn't belong is your condemnation of this sick OG dancer..
Majesticon 2 years ago
that is the hip hoppppppppp nice video
YassTyle 2 years ago
it's really bug)))))
i was on you classes in Moscow, it was great!!!
maxstreamschool 2 years ago
For my point of vue if i might of course:
Lyrical hip hop = technic
Hip Hop = Skillz/power
but if you can combine both then i think you will reach a sick level, i love hip hop dance but i also have respect for Lyrical hip hop, they are taking it to another level. Is good for us hip hop dancer to learn the technic from lyrical.
but was just a point of vue and i hope i wont make anyone mad out there.
bless.
koukisweden 2 years ago
joe budden has no creativity
canibusLE2 2 years ago
Lyrical hiphop is kind of limited.
I mean, You can always be on beat once You learn how to dance to it but lyrics... You can't dance to the lyrics unless You know the song.
Yes, You can dance to SONGS You don't know since their lyrics have melodic patterns You can follow but dancing to RAP lyrics You don't know is pretty much impossible since You always are going to miss something (or even most of it if You're not lucky).
Insanityiscool 2 years ago
what is the music name?
musatutuneken 2 years ago
joe budden - fire
housepain2002 2 years ago
nuff said!
riddimshot 3 years ago
wow nice its time to do some real hip hop
funkian1989 3 years ago
Yeah i feel it. People put names into it so the y can sell it , BUT IM NOT BUYING IT!!!!
HIP HOP IS HIPHOP and DANCIN IS DANCIN!!
dont give it stupid names.. its all the same. just dance
davidgunz 3 years ago 3
tere are people tinking just like you and there are people that say they like to see or dance different styles of hip-hop. you want to call them or not,they are still divided.;) peace
GadgetVision 2 years ago
The beats is all we need to start moving =)
AvosTears 3 years ago
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Lyrical hiphop is getting more more popular , one day it will have to be reconize if theres a major population doing it
usher9876 3 years ago
Word Strech!!
Respect
P.fly
nexxlevel1 3 years ago
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AvosTears 3 years ago
I think is gd if we force ourselves out of comfort zone.. i mean yes we gotta dance to what we feel.. but if u only train on what you feel.. your nth compared to a normal guy who can feel music the way u can..
See ppl like Electric trouble.. They train their groove and basics till its untouchable.. and they add their feeling into it.. I feel that we should always train techniques and feelings together.. to match it up..
flairnation 3 years ago 9
Hip hop has its foundations and its history. Link told me that there are no new moves in hiphop. Any "new" moves that are done now came from the foundations of hiphop. All of us have got to do more research. Bobby Mileage preaches for us to go out there and find that history cause we're living in the information era!
thunderkatz 2 years ago
Firstly, i am here to say my perception towards dance. Different people have different way of feeling things. For example grooving. If we are all the same, then everyone would be the same. The word unique would not even exist. Yeah here and there, there would be techniques. Remember one thing, we can never force our body trying to do things that we are not comfortable at all
botol21 3 years ago
And you can see Elite Force (Stretch, Link, Terry, E-Joe, Bobby), Electric Trouble (Yokoi), etc. Their dance is not just express the beat or lyric only, their body first groove with the rhythm (real dance), and added in the move/technique, if you can't groove with music, you can't really understand what HipHop want to express actually; you just "showing" music or "showing" technique or "showing" acting)
Here's just my definition to Dance & HipHop. Peace out!!
bxdancer 3 years ago 4
Damn hell your right =) finally someone who has the same point of view with me =)
AvosTears 3 years ago
It seems many people think "Dance to the music" means "using body to express all the elements come out from the music" and think this is great. Dancing is not like that.
New shool music nowadays has lots of elements inside it, melody, rhythm, beat, lyric, effect sound, etc.
bxdancer 3 years ago
Dancing to me is using body to "interpret" music, not to use body to "show" music.
(NOT lyric say ".... I Love you ....", then your dance has "heart-liked fingers" for the word "love"; "finger pointing to the audience" means "you", it might be, but not Real HipHop wants to express)
HipHop is not focusing on the word, HipHop is "Dance to the music", and at first, it dance to the "Rhythm", and Rhythm based on "Beat", is body groove with the Beat, not body hit the beat.
bxdancer 3 years ago
we need to send this all around the world!!!
please stop fucking lyrical hip hop...
rastarella 3 years ago 8
I dont have the feeling hes dancing to the word but I do feel he's dancing to the beat. I just dont get the point on where he is supposed to have danced to the lyrics???
Hes just plainly on base!?!??
Good shit tho
popingtim 3 years ago
what he means is just feel the music..dance to the beat... maybe becos the lyrics ryhmes with the beat?..
AvosTears 3 years ago
Its called musicality!
All them LA Dancers can't freestyle like that.
It's not musicality for them. Its music memory!
thunderkatz 2 years ago
joe budden - fire (ft.busta rhymes)
TW19 3 years ago
Thank you very much ^____^
seanjohn081068 3 years ago
Can anybody tell me the song name of Stretch's solo ? thanks a lot ^___^
seanjohn081068 3 years ago
SO TRUE!! We gotta dance to the beats... Its what real hip hop is about!
AvosTears 3 years ago
Correct me if I'm wrong but u're mostly usin' the foundation here, right?
Watched it about 15 times now, luuuuuv the way u do it!
QRageFTB 3 years ago
ok, so my computer is actin' up so I had to watch it with no sound! I've never heard the term Lyrical Hip-Hop b4, so i'm gonna watch this again when my audio is working so I know what it is!
I started singing my own songs though while i was watching you kill it! I think around 2:01, I was saying "shake ya tambourine...." hahahaha
Peace :o)
Charlene.
DanceChi 3 years ago
the real dopeness
era3572 3 years ago
cool.....i love you
seven777 3 years ago
I always wondered WHAT THE HELL WAS LYRICAL HIP HOP - MOP TOPs Rule
bigswa 3 years ago
damn, in Singapore, everyone calls stuff "LA Hip Hop" and "Lyrical Hip Hop"... you the man, Stretch. it's another re-education session. thanks for all the information.
on a side note, man, that was pure SICK...
so clean!!!! respect!!
and peace to my homeboy Chris Su (Korea) for asking you about the Lyrical Hip Hop segment, that's him behind the camera right there!
psyk 3 years ago
sick!!!!!!!!!!
KRAZYLEGthe1 3 years ago
fuckkkkin siiick!
Niluos 3 years ago
oh yeah. these words are saint
sambaradom 3 years ago
Aloha Stretch!
I haven't heard anyone use the term "Lyrical Hip Hop" yet but I'm glad you cleared that up before the misinformation hit.
FuManChu 3 years ago
that's how you boogie son. Do your thing Sretch
crunk617 3 years ago
maaaaan...
pure groove! luved it! n tyina learn from it as well!
thnx a lot!
QRageFTB 3 years ago
dope
Iiskanderr 3 years ago
uhhh WOW! that shit was hype! yo da man stretch, hope to see you at the conference. peace ...shabazz
shabazzakataino 3 years ago
stretch rules
GrassMonkey 3 years ago
TRUTH BOMB!!!
FOXHOUSEDANCER 3 years ago
Stretch you da man!!! so fresh so clean!! Mop Top for life!
thunderkatz 3 years ago