If anyone is interested about learning more about the b-boy culture, and hip-hop as well, I suggest watching this documentary called "The Freshest Kids: A History of the B-Boy". It has interviews with a bunch of the b-boy pioneers. Go check it out and you'll have a better understanding of the culture.
Wow could you pick a worse song? I respect some of the moves. But the song made it seem like it was about to bust into a show toon filled gay porno. Anyone agree?
@MegaGio44 haha sure i dont mind adding you, but I dont know too much on the murder all I know is what I told you there really isn't much info on how they were killed sadly.
I went to school upper westside of Manhattan near the douglas projects where a lot of these kids lived. Ken Swift (I think it was) worked at this art store where I used to go to hawk spraycans and markers. He knew I was a graffiti writer and he had this vinyl on him when I came in. He was pretty proud of it. If it is this album it had a dope Doze character on it. This was in what? 84? details are hazy, but good memories none the less. Im proud to have been around in those early days of hiphop!
Crazy Legs,Ken Swift,Doze & Baby Love are still alive. After the media told everyone that breakin was dead there was no more money for RSC so Buck 4 & Kuriaki got involved with drug dealing & unfortunately paid the price because they both were murdered.
Growing up in the Bronx I definitely remember this never being played on anyone's boombox....Rock Steady Crew WERE and ARE pioneers of when hip hop first started but this song was NOT a classic. I think even they would admit that BTW if anyone here wants to see the true Crazy Legs look up Silent Morning Live by Noel.....he's the guy in the beginning with the blue shirt.......HILARIOUS!
hip hop is not a matter of colour.... As long as you bring a tight flow and some nice moves doesnt matter if you are black brown white or yellow..... if you dont belliev that ten yo surely got isues....!!!!
Wow i cant believe someone actually came in here and said this sucked....YOUR LUCKY THIS STUFF WAS AROUND!! Or your gay ass rap that you listen to now wouldnt be around...This song here is one thing and thats CLASSIC!! Much respect and love from Los Angeles to REAL Hip Hip also please check me out!!
Of course the song sucks, it's Malcolm McLaren, not really by the RSC. Although Buffalo Gals, and Hey DJ were ok, the rest of his stuff sucked... Still good to to see stuff I never seen before.
"ehi you, The rock steady crew, show 'em what you do..make a break, make a move! hey, you, The rock steady crew,,b.boys , breakeres and electric boogaloos! "
lol my ex told me she bought an old tape of this song and a while later actually met some of the Rock Steady Crew members at RSC anniversary. She asked them to sign the tape and they couldn't believe she kept it. They were laughing at her. Even they thought their stuff was corny years and years later.
@ciolamorta They did make this song for money. They didn't want to make an album because they weren't rappers. But a record label saw an opportunity to make money from hip-hop and they were promised a lot of money. The song was a big hit but they got screwed and got hardly anything.
This is when original hip hop was not yet so mainstream. Originally both black AND latino where part of the image. But after hip hop got exploited and over commercialized in the 1990s the latino side got dropped, and suddenly hip hop became "black only" in image. So now you got the baggy jeans, gangsta image and baseball cap pointing sideways style. The 90s! LOL. Give me back the 80s!
It's true, I knew some RSC guys back in the 80's ( TC5 ) was part of the graffiti branch. Lots of Puerto Ricans like crazy legs. But now it's bigger than the Bronx and is international.
This video seems pretty dated now. I was around from the beginning, and used to battle at the roxy . But this old stuff does look a little goofy. But that's a grown up perspective, and you have to remember this is for kids. Most of all, it should be fun!
The whole practicing capoeira and hiding it, happened in Brazil, where Portugal ruled them as a colony, so Brazilians practiced it undercover to train for combat.
Dude, you're telling me do my homework, and you're naming totally wrong countries.
And what are you saying? I never said blacks didn't create bboying, so what are you disagreeing with me about?
omg it was started with the Ghetto kids period! same with graf writers etc and most of them just happened to be Black it was and never will be a one race event its the movement of the youth and a cherished part of Hip Hop history for the old"ahem" and new school
I guess one of my comments did not post. I was saying that there is no single black culture. There are so many sub-cultures within the black community. There are for, for example, regional differences within the hip hop culture.
In fact, in some cities there are other forms of music besides hip hop that are popular among black youths and started in those cities or are just very popular only in those cities. For ezample, Go Go music is a genre of music that started in DC, and there's a whole culture behind it. Look up Backyard Band, Rare Essence, or Junkyard Band on youtube and you'll get a taste of Go Go.
This female told me it's more puertoricans in new york than in puerto rico..I think that might be a big reason why you gonna see so many of them doing it (if its true). But kids started rocking to old hardcore BLACK SOUL breaks and thats it's origin as opposed to some other music from elsewhere. They obviously observed what the brothers was doing, especially if they were in the same neighborhoods. Oh yeah RSC used to be known as Rockwell and The Disco Kids after that each had different members
Well some of those moves are in capoeira, an African art form of dance and martial arts. As far as the breaking we familiar with,the way it was explained to me is puertoricans picked it up while black kids were abandoning it in the 70's for the "hustle" and the "freak" and shit like that. Latino kids never dropped it and they did it into the eighties
Brought by Africans to Brazil where it was developed into a martial art and eventually used against european spainiards. It was illegal to practice it for a long time. The Angolan style in Africa still exists today. I should've clarified that.
some original bboy moves might resemble Capoeira, but i tell you this, the original bboys never saw Capoeira or even heard of it back then. It was just a coincidence. So when you hear people trying to say Bboyin' came from Capoeira, that is just discreditting the "ghetto". BBoying was invented in the bronx, period!
Well that wasn't what I saying...Matter fact I didn't make that claim at all. I associated the MOVES with each other. And since capoeira was out before any funk or disco record you can't really say them kids were the first to do EVERYTHING associated with B-Boying neither..Aint nobody discrediting them or what "ghetto" kids did..I'm smart enough to know the difference..And the poor doing capoeira in Brazil was just as "ghetto" as them boys in the Bronx. THEY WAS ALL YOUTH DOING THEY'RE THING
You're right deechillah. Capoeira was started by Africans brought over to Brazil as slaves. I dont think it had any influence on bboying, but there are similarities.
Hell you can even see elements of uprock/floor rock in the old dances from the jazz era right here in the states..EVERYTHING IS cyclical and reinvented at some point when it comes to ANY art..
And I'll bet you their pop's and grandaddy's were telling them that WHILE THEY WERE SPINNING ON THEIR BACKS..Better yet I bet they NEVER heard the end of it from them (well at lest the Black kids)..We still spinning records and looping 30's 40's 50's 60's and 70's jams.. I mean come on dog REALLY tho.
I am Peruvian, I would say I am the only hispanic girl who is into this lol. :) I am proud to be into this, instead of listening to that dumb shit thats outhere. I can b-girl a little. Hispanics and Blacks, were basically together in this, but Blacks started everythin.
you have to remember what you get on mtv and bet are artists who's companies pay any where from $10,000-30,000 to get there music spun , i know couse im a dj and i make mix cd's and a lot of good artist who i put on my mixtapes have told me about this
The first time I met puerto ricans was when they came to london when i was a young kid in the 80s they were over doing performances and got me into the whole thing. Respect to you guys for showing a kid how to do some moves and getting me in it
steshaw - not quite sure what you're on about but how many niggas do u see in the two crews who brought breaking to the world: nyc breakers and rsc - answer 2 in nyc and these were input by their jew manager to try and give them a more crossover look as the jews seems to love the niggas for some reason. i was around nyc in these early 80s days and virtually all the top breakers were puerto ricans so dont talk shit about something u obviously know nothing about.
i never said i was from nyc dickhead - i said was in nyc in the early 80s when breaking was big...so get some education to understand english u dumb fuck....
bullshit bboying was started by blacks...im not racist or anything but when i was growing up it was mixed by blacks and the puerto ricans..and most of the puerto ricans were better than most of the blacks...and i was one of the few mexicans doin it back then
i love EVERYTHNG about the old school bboying except for the Toprocks and clothing. i can't complain anything about the clothing cuz fashion trend was obviously different but their toprocks crack me up xD
The strange thing was that Hip Hop used to be all black them they let the Latinos in and then the Media Machine only marketed the Latinos to be more cross over I guess.
eternal - i am neither black nor hispanic but it was the hispanics that got me into breaking, they were way cooler than the blacks in my opinion. they had style and class - they way they moved and their whole demeanour. what do we get from the blacks - shitty rap crap: gangstas, whos and bitches. what the fuck is that shit about. i hate the rap shit today but good luck to the blacks if they can make a living out of this bullshit and fool to all the wiggers who buy this shit, fucking idiots!.
But there are lots of blacks who feel the same way you feel, about commercial rap music, and they are against that, and are involved in the underground hip hop scene. The underground hip hop scene is strong, and it's not about the bling bling, but all about acceptance, unity, poetry, and respect by your dancing/mcing, not your color.
The rap you see on MTV is not black or hip hop culture, it's mainstream pop culture. True hip hop
What are you guys talking about. Black people started hip hop; they started breakin, period. Puerto Ricans got into it, but later. It's just like how the music industry had some people actually believing that white people started rock n roll.
Are you replying to me? The only thing I said, was that the majority of bboys in America, are latino, and that MTV rap music, is not a real portrayal of real black or hip hop culture.
I didn't say blacks didn't start it, yet my email says you're replying your comment to me.
No, you probably have not heard of Go Go. You don;t really know anything about black people. It's great that you have an appreciation for bboying. But it's not popular among blacks anymore because we have moved on. It's the story of African american culture.
?? Dude, do you know how many black bboys there in the world? Not just America, but in France, you look at some bboy teams, mostly blacks.
What do you mean "we" moved on, dude, your'e making like you guys all do the same thing, and are in to the same things at the same time. You're stereotyping yourself.
Blacks never "moved on" from bboying, there's more black bboys in the world now, than there was in the 70's and 80's. The way you speak, is as though, you're the voice for the entire African American community, "we have moved on" come on man, that's ridiculous. You're nowhere near MLK Jr., who spoke for a large part of the African American community, and even he had a counter-group with differing ideals, with
I've got a magazine interview from 1984 with Grandmaster Flash and it's stated that the Hip Hop/Break scene began underground in the '70s, but continued to evolve into the early '80s. I suppose it's like hippies and flared trousers in the cutting edge '60s, being the widespread culture of the early '70s?
People are always borrowing or imitating black culture. Whether it was the "hipster" jazz culture, to Elvis copying black style and dress, to hip hop. And, of course, black people started virtually every popular form of music (or the root of the genre) in the past century. Jazz, blues, rock n roll (i.e., juke joint music and blues), doo wop, gospel, raggae, ska, funk, R&B, house music, techno, disco, etc.
very true, alot of dance or music is inspired by blacks. But blacks are the only one's that have to bullshit and say everyone is "immitating" them. Every culture has brought some invention to the table, and it is shared amongst all races. For instace, Asians brought martial arts, but you dont hear them saying everyone wants to "immitate" them. If every other race didn't support "african american culture" so much, black music would not be where its at today.
Actually, that's not true; black people are not the only one's saying someone's immitating them. There are Asian people who have a bias against Westerners performing martial arts. Second, black music genres that went mainstream would have been better had they not gone mainstream. That's also true with any form of music. When things go mainstream, they get watered down or otherwise less creative. . . .
far as we can remember, blacks have complained they dont get recognition for what they do. But when you get recognition, you complain about it? Tell me how that makes any sense. And to get mainstream you have to cross over to get an overall audience to enjoy it. If you keep it "raw" not as many people will relate to it. And sure, there are asians that are bias'd about westerners doing martial arts. But they don't complain about it every second, like blacks do.
That's just a retarded statement. We complain when we get recognition? No, I'm saying that black culture has been exploited. That's different from receiving recognition. Also, do you really here black people constantly complaining? Look, I'm black, and I've been around plenty of black people throughout my life. And I got to say that I haven't heard black people constantly complaining about black culture getting recognition. And making music so that everyone can relate does not mean . . .
that you have to make it less creative or expressive, which is what has happened with respect to many forms of black music. Maybe folks should try to relate to it instead of music be adapted to be palatable by a wider audience. Plus, many non-blacks do appreciate "raw" black music. And many people of all races can't relate to the themes in some of the mainstream stuff, especially nowadays with hip hop. So I think you're point is not valid.
I said you complain when you DONT get recognition.......but bottom line is, you cant
t make people "relate" to anyting, it is what it is. If you want that wider audience, you have to cross over in some way, otherwise it wouldn't be an issue, right? And you talk about exploitation, blacks exploit the shit out the most basic stuff, then turn around and say its "their" culture. So I think your points are very unrealistic.
I mean to say "don't get recognition." I understand what you were saying initially. But now I don't. We dont always complain about getting recognition, but it is true that we have at times not received recognition for the things that we pioneered. Rock n Roll is a great example of that. And can you give me an example of blacks exploting "the most basic stuff" and then passing it off as our culture? And how are my points "unrealistic"? None of my points turn on any level of realism.
Actually, that's not true; black people are not the only one's saying someone's immitating them. There are Asian people who have a bias against Westerners performing martial arts. Second, black music genres that went mainstream would have been better had they not gone mainstream. That's also true with any form of music. When things go mainstream, they get watered down or otherwise less creative. . . .
@maze70 I'm English, and I often wonder whether Rap music would exist, if it hadn't been for our beautiful language, which, by the way, has the biggest vocabulary of any language in the world.
Okay...yeah, I agree, I never said once that bboying, hip hop, or anything else you named, didn't come from blacks, NOT once did I say that, so again, what are you talking on about?
Okay again, who are you replying to? I never did disagree or say black people didn't start breaking, or hip hop. All I said, is that nowadays the number of latinos in bboying has grown, and that MTV rap music, is not black culture, but just commercial culture. The black mc's who rapped about real issues in their lives, and culture, like KRS One, and others, yeah,
that could be a part of black culture. But when guys came out with catchy hooks rapping only about how much gold they have and how much bacardi they have, in EVERY song with bling bling bling, this is not hip hop man, that's songs being made to sell records, for big corporate record companies to make money.
And with that, why do you keep responding with "black people invented hip hop," yes, and I agree with you, so what are you on about? You're replying to me based on nothing I said.
culture which all races are involved in, is underground.
As for hip hop, the blacks and latinos started djing, mcing, bboying, and graffiti. That's all four main elements of hip hop. Yes, the latinos added things in bboying and those elements as well.
And the bling bling gangsta rap style, that came from L.A. and the South, whereas the blacks mainly from New York, the South Bronx where hip hop was born, never brought out that gangsta bling bling nonsense.
I keep it real. B-Boying was created by the African American community. Cool Herc is the Godfather of Hip Hop. The latinos came in and adopted the Moreno style and the Media marketed them only and left the blacks out which I thought was a disgrace. I am latino and black so I can say this.
the blacks started some elements of hip hop but not all so get your facts correct. if it was not for the puerto ricans popularising the bboy thing then todays black rappers would not be giving it their stupid bling bling...u hardly ever see any latinos in the hip hop world today, why dont u make a fuss about that. i only got into breaking becos of the hispanics, they were obviously the best at breaking at the time and enuff respect to them. i dont really like black hip hop culture.
Yes, they popularized bboying in the 80's, but bboying was around since the 70's, it was only in the 80's, that the media got attention of it.
And majority of the hip hop world, is latino, you're confusing the hip hop world, with the "rap MTV world," which is not even considered hip hop by the hip hop world. The hip hop world is underground, and it's mostly latinos in America involved.
okay holyfiremikey - you make some fair points. pity we dont see the latino side of this so called underground bboy phase. hopefully its not all noisy bullshit like most of the so called mtv rap that you talk about. i have heard some underground stuff before and it really was shit. just total noise and garbage, no rhythm, nothing. yet the guys spouting the trash thought they were cool...more like fools... for me hip hop is about two things: breaking (aka bboying) and electro music. no rap bull!.
It's not a "phase," because underground bboying has been happening and remaining since the 70's, it's not a phase, it's a movement that didn't die out.
And I would like to know, who were the underground artists you heard, because lots of cats claim to be underground but aren't, and some are underground, but they might be wack or not that good either. Because underground hip hop is all about rhythm, lyrical skill, poetry, talking about real issues,
philosophy, and large amounts of wit and art combined.
And as for you saying hip hop is all about electro music, tells me everything you know about hip hop was what the media showed in the 80's, so you only got exposed to what the media showed you, and not the real thing. Breakers originally danced to funk music, James Brown and the like, and it's from
that music, that they danced to and created their styles. The way you saw bboys move in the 80's on tv, came from guys in the Bronx, listening to funk music, and dancing what they felt to that music.
I'm not saying electro type music wasn't used later on, but just that the movements you saw mostly were created based on funk music, the "good foot" by James Brown.
I encourage you to put "Ken Swift Interview" in to the search, and click the first vid to come up, guy in white tank top. Ken Swift was in the Rocksteady crew in the 80's, he was in the movie beatstreet, and he's even in this video we're commenting on. In the beginning, they're holding hands and doing a wave, he's the third part guy doing the wave.
Watch that interview vid and he goes in to explaining some things about hip hop that you might like to hear.
kuriaki & buck4 were righthand mans,,,not related. they lived in the same block, crotona ave...183rd BX were t.t.f. crew was at... wus good flex,,flex is buck4 older brother...FREE FLEX...1
crazy legs is sexy, were he and babylove lovers, and was babyloves ken's sis? so were kuriaki and buck 4 related? and wat about devious doze, is he related to one of them?
I will admit that I have not looked "up-close" at her technical skills, but when I take the 30,000 foot view, it looks like she just does not fit. She's not as solid. It's distracting.
I agree bgirl bubbles from uk, was way ahead of baby love then. Bubbles had some crazy powermills back in 80's. check out her clip with wolverhampton bboys.
If anyone is interested about learning more about the b-boy culture, and hip-hop as well, I suggest watching this documentary called "The Freshest Kids: A History of the B-Boy". It has interviews with a bunch of the b-boy pioneers. Go check it out and you'll have a better understanding of the culture.
finenyg 3 weeks ago
Shame Buck4 & Kuriaki died by the hands of each others brothers in a deal gone wrong......
Great video though
juicedupmedia1 3 months ago
hey you de baksteen koe
thelilfck 4 months ago 2
This is not corny, this is hip-hop!!! Be schooled you newbies!
royalsteven 4 months ago
hey you, the baksteen koe
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What it is name of this singer? Please.
koggoo 6 months ago
Wow could you pick a worse song? I respect some of the moves. But the song made it seem like it was about to bust into a show toon filled gay porno. Anyone agree?
SemperFi1324 6 months ago
Hey you, de baksteen koe!
MrAnnonniem 8 months ago 10
Synchronize your feet...
Get down on the rhythm & hop on the beat!
MikuZee 9 months ago
wow this is so cheesy. i dont know why i came to this video. what were they all fucked up on cocaine? probably...
freddiebarry93 10 months ago
hey joep de baksteen koe
jorderikus 11 months ago 4
there were 10 yr olds in this werent they? Or am I imagining it? Mayb 12 or 13 at least.
Springamatul 11 months ago
@britneystakes oooh nooo... another retard.
MusicDushan 1 year ago
foundation of dance and hip hop
teddy89pony 1 year ago
May Kuriaki and Buck 4 rip, they did not deserve to be murdered, they were too good of dancers.
conzalez94 1 year ago
@conzalez94 how where they killed
MegaGio44 1 year ago
@MegaGio44 They were tortured and murdered in their garage over a drug deal, on separate days though.
conzalez94 1 year ago
@conzalez94 but y???
MegaGio44 1 year ago
@MegaGio44 I believe it was over an unstable drug deal, something must have pissed those dealers off, I dont know exactly.
conzalez94 1 year ago
@conzalez94 so they were involed with drugs wow!!! :0 add me and tell me more about it
MegaGio44 1 year ago
@MegaGio44 haha sure i dont mind adding you, but I dont know too much on the murder all I know is what I told you there really isn't much info on how they were killed sadly.
conzalez94 1 year ago
hey joep de baksteenkoe!
poepal1996 1 year ago
Hey you, de baksteen koe :D
jadebordeau1 1 year ago
kuriaki is great but crazy legs and ken rocks
DarkSkysify 1 year ago
RIP Buck 4
SAMKREATOR 1 year ago
Check out the disco audience! Clap clap, stomp stomp, oh YEAH!!!
All the while flashing the chest hair and gold chains, and smiling like idiots.
At least the song spins the floor!
tepporocks 1 year ago
This song sucked back then.
rexboogie 1 year ago
Hey...You....The Rock Steady Crew.....When The Hell You Gonna Learn Something New?
Solowizard 1 year ago
thx ...
GuBoring 1 year ago
Hey you, de baksteenkoe !
tinyke3 1 year ago
Hey joep, de baksteenkoe !
tinyke3 1 year ago
awesome old school :D
superopsi 1 year ago
is kuriaki the turtle master?
rayzor46 1 year ago
Nah that's Buck 4
finenyg 1 year ago
@rayzor46 kuriaki was known for his power moves especially his windmills
finenyg 3 months ago
baby love broke her neck doing a head spin?
Watakesan 1 year ago
I LOVE IT!!! :D
michael5buddy 1 year ago
HEY YOU
this is cool
i can that not!
THE ROCK STEADY CREW!
sjig1 1 year ago
I went to school upper westside of Manhattan near the douglas projects where a lot of these kids lived. Ken Swift (I think it was) worked at this art store where I used to go to hawk spraycans and markers. He knew I was a graffiti writer and he had this vinyl on him when I came in. He was pretty proud of it. If it is this album it had a dope Doze character on it. This was in what? 84? details are hazy, but good memories none the less. Im proud to have been around in those early days of hiphop!
drstrange629 2 years ago
youre right on man. PCE
1uneek 1 year ago
look crazy legs
luisgalvn 2 years ago
hey you rock steady crew! old school yeah! :D
Shecklerboy95 2 years ago
love it! old school yeah!
CIIIIC1978 2 years ago
Baby Love
Romarinho89 2 years ago 2
THATS hip hop! thats cool music in my opinion and bboying at their BEST.
Fabscher19 2 years ago
Rock Steady didn't really want to make this record because they considered it to be a pop song. I think its cool though :)
ROCK STEADY!
SKteknik 2 years ago
R.I.P Buck Four & Kuriaki...
This is such a long time before..omg, I get old...;)
But it's an awesome track and an amazing performance!!
I love it !!
EvilWoman888 2 years ago
Id like to ask, who is still alive out of the original group? And what happened to the others?
johnnyjayramone 2 years ago
Crazy Legs,Ken Swift,Doze & Baby Love are still alive. After the media told everyone that breakin was dead there was no more money for RSC so Buck 4 & Kuriaki got involved with drug dealing & unfortunately paid the price because they both were murdered.
funkman70 2 years ago 2
r.i.p buck four and kuriaki.
GODZILLA1998FILM 2 years ago
It reminds me the videogame Scarface.
Nice song.
RolandoJosue618 2 years ago
Growing up in the Bronx I definitely remember this never being played on anyone's boombox....Rock Steady Crew WERE and ARE pioneers of when hip hop first started but this song was NOT a classic. I think even they would admit that BTW if anyone here wants to see the true Crazy Legs look up Silent Morning Live by Noel.....he's the guy in the beginning with the blue shirt.......HILARIOUS!
MonkeyBarz179 2 years ago
hip hop is not a matter of colour.... As long as you bring a tight flow and some nice moves doesnt matter if you are black brown white or yellow..... if you dont belliev that ten yo surely got isues....!!!!
proletar7ooo 2 years ago
Wow i cant believe someone actually came in here and said this sucked....YOUR LUCKY THIS STUFF WAS AROUND!! Or your gay ass rap that you listen to now wouldnt be around...This song here is one thing and thats CLASSIC!! Much respect and love from Los Angeles to REAL Hip Hip also please check me out!!
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Supermusicgroup33 2 years ago
when hip hop started dying.
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Of course the song sucks, it's Malcolm McLaren, not really by the RSC. Although Buffalo Gals, and Hey DJ were ok, the rest of his stuff sucked... Still good to to see stuff I never seen before.
cecilecancer 2 years ago
"ehi you, The rock steady crew, show 'em what you do..make a break, make a move! hey, you, The rock steady crew,,b.boys , breakeres and electric boogaloos! "
STEFANOPACINI 2 years ago 6
hey youp de baksteen koe
attilagoijra54 2 years ago
This song sucks? ... Obviously you don't know much about hip hop. What is done today is just money, nothin' else. This is pure style.
ciolamorta 3 years ago 30
lol my ex told me she bought an old tape of this song and a while later actually met some of the Rock Steady Crew members at RSC anniversary. She asked them to sign the tape and they couldn't believe she kept it. They were laughing at her. Even they thought their stuff was corny years and years later.
bboyStuntZ 2 years ago 2
@ciolamorta They did make this song for money. They didn't want to make an album because they weren't rappers. But a record label saw an opportunity to make money from hip-hop and they were promised a lot of money. The song was a big hit but they got screwed and got hardly anything.
mrblondnyc 1 year ago 2
This is when original hip hop was not yet so mainstream. Originally both black AND latino where part of the image. But after hip hop got exploited and over commercialized in the 1990s the latino side got dropped, and suddenly hip hop became "black only" in image. So now you got the baggy jeans, gangsta image and baseball cap pointing sideways style. The 90s! LOL. Give me back the 80s!
haikousei 3 years ago 5
It's true, I knew some RSC guys back in the 80's ( TC5 ) was part of the graffiti branch. Lots of Puerto Ricans like crazy legs. But now it's bigger than the Bronx and is international.
This video seems pretty dated now. I was around from the beginning, and used to battle at the roxy . But this old stuff does look a little goofy. But that's a grown up perspective, and you have to remember this is for kids. Most of all, it should be fun!
kagyu1 2 years ago
that shit was very entertaining! imagine all the crap shit boring stuff they have nowadays, YEARS LATER
Da1337ed 3 years ago 4
What show is this?
smwebb82 3 years ago
man this jam is going back right here. back when hip hop crews didn't have to act "real", they were REAL.
RuuudeBwoyNo1 3 years ago 3
aherm black and puerto rican..
angiegarcia31 3 years ago
LOL! I remember this one. I may be dating myself but who cares.
mishsamuels 3 years ago
This shit is tight! Original School!
D I G I T A L !
watch?v=6ahs0YP_qZU
killwize 3 years ago
????
Holyfiremikey 3 years ago 3
lol, dude, capoeira didn't come from Africa.
The whole practicing capoeira and hiding it, happened in Brazil, where Portugal ruled them as a colony, so Brazilians practiced it undercover to train for combat.
Dude, you're telling me do my homework, and you're naming totally wrong countries.
And what are you saying? I never said blacks didn't create bboying, so what are you disagreeing with me about?
Holyfiremikey 3 years ago 5
"Sorry" i thought that's what you said. In west africa they have martial art forms very similar to capoeira.
mereach9 3 years ago
The colony in Brazil was made up of black slaves. Who came from Africa.
thestranglers 3 years ago
Not only the black from Africa!
The white european come to colonize the South and the Japonese for São Paulo!
Brazil is a "melting pot", you find all kink of people, races and cutures!
josieldeassis 3 years ago 2
Great Man!
We, brazilian, are very pround to know that there are people like you who know our history correcty!
josieldeassis 3 years ago 3
Coooooooool.....great 80's
ROYALTY001 3 years ago
omg it was started with the Ghetto kids period! same with graf writers etc and most of them just happened to be Black it was and never will be a one race event its the movement of the youth and a cherished part of Hip Hop history for the old"ahem" and new school
gdamage 3 years ago
I guess one of my comments did not post. I was saying that there is no single black culture. There are so many sub-cultures within the black community. There are for, for example, regional differences within the hip hop culture.
ciscokiddynamo 3 years ago
In fact, in some cities there are other forms of music besides hip hop that are popular among black youths and started in those cities or are just very popular only in those cities. For ezample, Go Go music is a genre of music that started in DC, and there's a whole culture behind it. Look up Backyard Band, Rare Essence, or Junkyard Band on youtube and you'll get a taste of Go Go.
ciscokiddynamo 3 years ago
I actually saw them live in 1981 and they were out of this world.This is where it ALL started
tantalumdom 3 years ago
which one is crazy legs
Not2Shaby 3 years ago
i wonder where are they all now...mad propz!
pejorore 3 years ago
This female told me it's more puertoricans in new york than in puerto rico..I think that might be a big reason why you gonna see so many of them doing it (if its true). But kids started rocking to old hardcore BLACK SOUL breaks and thats it's origin as opposed to some other music from elsewhere. They obviously observed what the brothers was doing, especially if they were in the same neighborhoods. Oh yeah RSC used to be known as Rockwell and The Disco Kids after that each had different members
deechillah 3 years ago
We got a black and latino debate on bboying?
Well some of those moves are in capoeira, an African art form of dance and martial arts. As far as the breaking we familiar with,the way it was explained to me is puertoricans picked it up while black kids were abandoning it in the 70's for the "hustle" and the "freak" and shit like that. Latino kids never dropped it and they did it into the eighties
deechillah 3 years ago
Blacks returned in like 78-80's
Thats how it was broken down for me
deechillah 3 years ago
correction. capoeira is brazilian.
AznninjaRAWR 3 years ago
Brought by Africans to Brazil where it was developed into a martial art and eventually used against european spainiards. It was illegal to practice it for a long time. The Angolan style in Africa still exists today. I should've clarified that.
deechillah 3 years ago
some original bboy moves might resemble Capoeira, but i tell you this, the original bboys never saw Capoeira or even heard of it back then. It was just a coincidence. So when you hear people trying to say Bboyin' came from Capoeira, that is just discreditting the "ghetto". BBoying was invented in the bronx, period!
maze70 3 years ago
Well that wasn't what I saying...Matter fact I didn't make that claim at all. I associated the MOVES with each other. And since capoeira was out before any funk or disco record you can't really say them kids were the first to do EVERYTHING associated with B-Boying neither..Aint nobody discrediting them or what "ghetto" kids did..I'm smart enough to know the difference..And the poor doing capoeira in Brazil was just as "ghetto" as them boys in the Bronx. THEY WAS ALL YOUTH DOING THEY'RE THING
deechillah 3 years ago
You're right deechillah. Capoeira was started by Africans brought over to Brazil as slaves. I dont think it had any influence on bboying, but there are similarities.
ciscokiddynamo 3 years ago
Hell you can even see elements of uprock/floor rock in the old dances from the jazz era right here in the states..EVERYTHING IS cyclical and reinvented at some point when it comes to ANY art..
deechillah 3 years ago
And I'll bet you their pop's and grandaddy's were telling them that WHILE THEY WERE SPINNING ON THEIR BACKS..Better yet I bet they NEVER heard the end of it from them (well at lest the Black kids)..We still spinning records and looping 30's 40's 50's 60's and 70's jams.. I mean come on dog REALLY tho.
deechillah 3 years ago
I am Peruvian, I would say I am the only hispanic girl who is into this lol. :) I am proud to be into this, instead of listening to that dumb shit thats outhere. I can b-girl a little. Hispanics and Blacks, were basically together in this, but Blacks started everythin.
early90slova 3 years ago
R.I.P Wayne "Frosty Freeze" Frost +April 03 2008
tassoss1 3 years ago 3
in white shirts:
Baby Luv,Ken Swift,Crazy Legs
in black:
D.DOze,Buck4,Kuriaki
marasfox 3 years ago
Hey You The Rock Steady Crew...^^
guiniask 3 years ago
you have to remember what you get on mtv and bet are artists who's companies pay any where from $10,000-30,000 to get there music spun , i know couse im a dj and i make mix cd's and a lot of good artist who i put on my mixtapes have told me about this
javy125 3 years ago
The first time I met puerto ricans was when they came to london when i was a young kid in the 80s they were over doing performances and got me into the whole thing. Respect to you guys for showing a kid how to do some moves and getting me in it
ZClipze 3 years ago
Damm right you look at the Rocksteady crew 95%of them are Latino baby, it's about time we got credit for this shit!!!!
Aircholo 3 years ago
lol the Rock Steady Crew second generation (the ones in this video) were all Puerto Rican. for some reason, there were so many Puerto Rican breakers.
oidancinboy 3 years ago
I THINK UR COMMENTS Are completly bullshit UTTER COMPLETEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
BOLLOCKS , HOW MANY SPIKS WERE BBOYIN IN BRONKS U TWAT
steshaw 3 years ago
steshaw - not quite sure what you're on about but how many niggas do u see in the two crews who brought breaking to the world: nyc breakers and rsc - answer 2 in nyc and these were input by their jew manager to try and give them a more crossover look as the jews seems to love the niggas for some reason. i was around nyc in these early 80s days and virtually all the top breakers were puerto ricans so dont talk shit about something u obviously know nothing about.
Jay1898 3 years ago
ur fucking from china land
STFU you retard
You're not from NYC, damn loser.
GameRemix 3 years ago
i never said i was from nyc dickhead - i said was in nyc in the early 80s when breaking was big...so get some education to understand english u dumb fuck....
Jay1898 3 years ago 2
zula nation baby
jsuhdtg 3 years ago
The Freshest Kids I ever did see!!
i was born '86' and must say b-boy/girls made da 80's look good.
RESPECT!!!!!peace
aotearoablossom 3 years ago
Why we don't see anymore breakdance on Hip-Hop music videos? Oh,yeah, I forgot about them B*****Z! Wake Up Hip-Hop!
Soulchildsoul 3 years ago 3
because that shit on BET and MTV is not hip hop. MC's are a rare commodity in this soulja shit "rap" era.
namir91 3 years ago
bullshit bboying was started by blacks...im not racist or anything but when i was growing up it was mixed by blacks and the puerto ricans..and most of the puerto ricans were better than most of the blacks...and i was one of the few mexicans doin it back then
wugame1 3 years ago
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THE GOOD OLD DAYS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
niguel355 3 years ago
i love EVERYTHNG about the old school bboying except for the Toprocks and clothing. i can't complain anything about the clothing cuz fashion trend was obviously different but their toprocks crack me up xD
leoris87 3 years ago
The 80s and RSC rocks. Good memories! I even had a piece of this song as a digital sample on my Commodore 64. Dang, i miss those times.
ballebanan 4 years ago 2
The strange thing was that Hip Hop used to be all black them they let the Latinos in and then the Media Machine only marketed the Latinos to be more cross over I guess.
ETERNALLYHANDSOME 4 years ago
eternal - i am neither black nor hispanic but it was the hispanics that got me into breaking, they were way cooler than the blacks in my opinion. they had style and class - they way they moved and their whole demeanour. what do we get from the blacks - shitty rap crap: gangstas, whos and bitches. what the fuck is that shit about. i hate the rap shit today but good luck to the blacks if they can make a living out of this bullshit and fool to all the wiggers who buy this shit, fucking idiots!.
Jay1898 3 years ago
But there are lots of blacks who feel the same way you feel, about commercial rap music, and they are against that, and are involved in the underground hip hop scene. The underground hip hop scene is strong, and it's not about the bling bling, but all about acceptance, unity, poetry, and respect by your dancing/mcing, not your color.
The rap you see on MTV is not black or hip hop culture, it's mainstream pop culture. True hip hop
Holyfiremikey 3 years ago
What are you guys talking about. Black people started hip hop; they started breakin, period. Puerto Ricans got into it, but later. It's just like how the music industry had some people actually believing that white people started rock n roll.
ciscokiddynamo 3 years ago
Are you replying to me? The only thing I said, was that the majority of bboys in America, are latino, and that MTV rap music, is not a real portrayal of real black or hip hop culture.
I didn't say blacks didn't start it, yet my email says you're replying your comment to me.
Holyfiremikey 3 years ago
No, you probably have not heard of Go Go. You don;t really know anything about black people. It's great that you have an appreciation for bboying. But it's not popular among blacks anymore because we have moved on. It's the story of African american culture.
ciscokiddynamo 3 years ago
?? Dude, do you know how many black bboys there in the world? Not just America, but in France, you look at some bboy teams, mostly blacks.
What do you mean "we" moved on, dude, your'e making like you guys all do the same thing, and are in to the same things at the same time. You're stereotyping yourself.
Holyfiremikey 3 years ago
Blacks never "moved on" from bboying, there's more black bboys in the world now, than there was in the 70's and 80's. The way you speak, is as though, you're the voice for the entire African American community, "we have moved on" come on man, that's ridiculous. You're nowhere near MLK Jr., who spoke for a large part of the African American community, and even he had a counter-group with differing ideals, with
Holyfiremikey 3 years ago
I've got a magazine interview from 1984 with Grandmaster Flash and it's stated that the Hip Hop/Break scene began underground in the '70s, but continued to evolve into the early '80s. I suppose it's like hippies and flared trousers in the cutting edge '60s, being the widespread culture of the early '70s?
happylad65 2 years ago
leaders like Malcolm X, so who are you to say, "we moved on?"
Here's some of African descent, who are right now, HUGE names in bboying and are still competing and winning.
Bboy Kmel, Alien Ness, Kirk, Machine, Iron Monkey, Ajax, Junior, Nemesis, Gassama, Twixx, Kareem, etc, etc.
Holyfiremikey 3 years ago
How is it not popular with blacks, when the majority of the bboy community in the U.S., are latinos, blacks, and now asians?
If blacks are part of the majority, then....yeah man, you don't make sense.
Holyfiremikey 3 years ago
People are always borrowing or imitating black culture. Whether it was the "hipster" jazz culture, to Elvis copying black style and dress, to hip hop. And, of course, black people started virtually every popular form of music (or the root of the genre) in the past century. Jazz, blues, rock n roll (i.e., juke joint music and blues), doo wop, gospel, raggae, ska, funk, R&B, house music, techno, disco, etc.
ciscokiddynamo 3 years ago
very true, alot of dance or music is inspired by blacks. But blacks are the only one's that have to bullshit and say everyone is "immitating" them. Every culture has brought some invention to the table, and it is shared amongst all races. For instace, Asians brought martial arts, but you dont hear them saying everyone wants to "immitate" them. If every other race didn't support "african american culture" so much, black music would not be where its at today.
maze70 3 years ago
Actually, that's not true; black people are not the only one's saying someone's immitating them. There are Asian people who have a bias against Westerners performing martial arts. Second, black music genres that went mainstream would have been better had they not gone mainstream. That's also true with any form of music. When things go mainstream, they get watered down or otherwise less creative. . . .
ciscokiddynamo 3 years ago
far as we can remember, blacks have complained they dont get recognition for what they do. But when you get recognition, you complain about it? Tell me how that makes any sense. And to get mainstream you have to cross over to get an overall audience to enjoy it. If you keep it "raw" not as many people will relate to it. And sure, there are asians that are bias'd about westerners doing martial arts. But they don't complain about it every second, like blacks do.
maze70 3 years ago
That's just a retarded statement. We complain when we get recognition? No, I'm saying that black culture has been exploited. That's different from receiving recognition. Also, do you really here black people constantly complaining? Look, I'm black, and I've been around plenty of black people throughout my life. And I got to say that I haven't heard black people constantly complaining about black culture getting recognition. And making music so that everyone can relate does not mean . . .
ciscokiddynamo 3 years ago
that you have to make it less creative or expressive, which is what has happened with respect to many forms of black music. Maybe folks should try to relate to it instead of music be adapted to be palatable by a wider audience. Plus, many non-blacks do appreciate "raw" black music. And many people of all races can't relate to the themes in some of the mainstream stuff, especially nowadays with hip hop. So I think you're point is not valid.
ciscokiddynamo 3 years ago
I said you complain when you DONT get recognition.......but bottom line is, you cant
t make people "relate" to anyting, it is what it is. If you want that wider audience, you have to cross over in some way, otherwise it wouldn't be an issue, right? And you talk about exploitation, blacks exploit the shit out the most basic stuff, then turn around and say its "their" culture. So I think your points are very unrealistic.
maze70 3 years ago
I mean to say "don't get recognition." I understand what you were saying initially. But now I don't. We dont always complain about getting recognition, but it is true that we have at times not received recognition for the things that we pioneered. Rock n Roll is a great example of that. And can you give me an example of blacks exploting "the most basic stuff" and then passing it off as our culture? And how are my points "unrealistic"? None of my points turn on any level of realism.
ciscokiddynamo 3 years ago
Actually, that's not true; black people are not the only one's saying someone's immitating them. There are Asian people who have a bias against Westerners performing martial arts. Second, black music genres that went mainstream would have been better had they not gone mainstream. That's also true with any form of music. When things go mainstream, they get watered down or otherwise less creative. . . .
ciscokiddynamo 3 years ago
@maze70 I'm English, and I often wonder whether Rap music would exist, if it hadn't been for our beautiful language, which, by the way, has the biggest vocabulary of any language in the world.
bugstrut 1 year ago
Okay...yeah, I agree, I never said once that bboying, hip hop, or anything else you named, didn't come from blacks, NOT once did I say that, so again, what are you talking on about?
Holyfiremikey 3 years ago
Okay again, who are you replying to? I never did disagree or say black people didn't start breaking, or hip hop. All I said, is that nowadays the number of latinos in bboying has grown, and that MTV rap music, is not black culture, but just commercial culture. The black mc's who rapped about real issues in their lives, and culture, like KRS One, and others, yeah,
Holyfiremikey 3 years ago
that could be a part of black culture. But when guys came out with catchy hooks rapping only about how much gold they have and how much bacardi they have, in EVERY song with bling bling bling, this is not hip hop man, that's songs being made to sell records, for big corporate record companies to make money.
And with that, why do you keep responding with "black people invented hip hop," yes, and I agree with you, so what are you on about? You're replying to me based on nothing I said.
Holyfiremikey 3 years ago
culture which all races are involved in, is underground.
As for hip hop, the blacks and latinos started djing, mcing, bboying, and graffiti. That's all four main elements of hip hop. Yes, the latinos added things in bboying and those elements as well.
And the bling bling gangsta rap style, that came from L.A. and the South, whereas the blacks mainly from New York, the South Bronx where hip hop was born, never brought out that gangsta bling bling nonsense.
Holyfiremikey 3 years ago
So instead of blaming the blacks for it, you can't, because it was a California style of rap, the blacks in New York didn't start that.
Holyfiremikey 3 years ago
I keep it real. B-Boying was created by the African American community. Cool Herc is the Godfather of Hip Hop. The latinos came in and adopted the Moreno style and the Media marketed them only and left the blacks out which I thought was a disgrace. I am latino and black so I can say this.
ETERNALLYHANDSOME 4 years ago
That is not true. Heck BEat STreet and Breakin had African Americans as the lead characters.
MARZOSIRUS 3 years ago 4
the blacks started some elements of hip hop but not all so get your facts correct. if it was not for the puerto ricans popularising the bboy thing then todays black rappers would not be giving it their stupid bling bling...u hardly ever see any latinos in the hip hop world today, why dont u make a fuss about that. i only got into breaking becos of the hispanics, they were obviously the best at breaking at the time and enuff respect to them. i dont really like black hip hop culture.
Jay1898 3 years ago
Yes, they popularized bboying in the 80's, but bboying was around since the 70's, it was only in the 80's, that the media got attention of it.
And majority of the hip hop world, is latino, you're confusing the hip hop world, with the "rap MTV world," which is not even considered hip hop by the hip hop world. The hip hop world is underground, and it's mostly latinos in America involved.
Holyfiremikey 3 years ago
okay holyfiremikey - you make some fair points. pity we dont see the latino side of this so called underground bboy phase. hopefully its not all noisy bullshit like most of the so called mtv rap that you talk about. i have heard some underground stuff before and it really was shit. just total noise and garbage, no rhythm, nothing. yet the guys spouting the trash thought they were cool...more like fools... for me hip hop is about two things: breaking (aka bboying) and electro music. no rap bull!.
Jay1898 3 years ago
It's not a "phase," because underground bboying has been happening and remaining since the 70's, it's not a phase, it's a movement that didn't die out.
And I would like to know, who were the underground artists you heard, because lots of cats claim to be underground but aren't, and some are underground, but they might be wack or not that good either. Because underground hip hop is all about rhythm, lyrical skill, poetry, talking about real issues,
Holyfiremikey 3 years ago
philosophy, and large amounts of wit and art combined.
And as for you saying hip hop is all about electro music, tells me everything you know about hip hop was what the media showed in the 80's, so you only got exposed to what the media showed you, and not the real thing. Breakers originally danced to funk music, James Brown and the like, and it's from
Holyfiremikey 3 years ago
that music, that they danced to and created their styles. The way you saw bboys move in the 80's on tv, came from guys in the Bronx, listening to funk music, and dancing what they felt to that music.
I'm not saying electro type music wasn't used later on, but just that the movements you saw mostly were created based on funk music, the "good foot" by James Brown.
Holyfiremikey 3 years ago
I encourage you to put "Ken Swift Interview" in to the search, and click the first vid to come up, guy in white tank top. Ken Swift was in the Rocksteady crew in the 80's, he was in the movie beatstreet, and he's even in this video we're commenting on. In the beginning, they're holding hands and doing a wave, he's the third part guy doing the wave.
Watch that interview vid and he goes in to explaining some things about hip hop that you might like to hear.
Peace
Holyfiremikey 3 years ago
Battle of the year. every goddamn year! B-boying never died ;)
juliansan 3 years ago
mt eden in the house
cirus101 4 years ago
kuriaki & buck4 were righthand mans,,,not related. they lived in the same block, crotona ave...183rd BX were t.t.f. crew was at... wus good flex,,flex is buck4 older brother...FREE FLEX...1
UNIQUEBEATZ 4 years ago
this is how bboy was raped in the 80's :D
Gistatic 4 years ago 4
exactly, now hip hop is seen as being "gangsta" - everything it wasn't supposed to be! LOL
maze70 4 years ago
best foundation video i ever seen
wbonsai 4 years ago
crazy legs is sexy, were he and babylove lovers, and was babyloves ken's sis? so were kuriaki and buck 4 related? and wat about devious doze, is he related to one of them?
early90slova 4 years ago
I reckon Baby Love adds a certain spark or something but i couln't imagen her not being there abd she was Crazy Girl and Swift sis
Thunda1986 4 years ago
how could baby be related to prince?
oidancinboy 4 years ago
nah i got it wrong
Thunda1986 4 years ago
The singer in this vid, was she a breaker too?
aotearoablossom 4 years ago
Baby?? .. not really
Whatsxinxaxname 4 years ago
Yeah her.
aotearoablossom 4 years ago
I remember there used to be a breakdance team at our school, they were good. (Not as good as RSC though). Hmm, those were the times. :)
ballebanan 4 years ago
winnar.
SinisterStyles 4 years ago
Damn Right. That was music i love when i was a kid.
Miguelito174 4 years ago
I thought the girl was Brenda K star. I use to see her at the Roxy hanging out with rocksteady. is this her in the video?
StarlightRoller 4 years ago
I can never miss those old days.
ATRevolution 4 years ago
Wat nou Jeckl & Hyde? Dit is dansen met zijn allen op het het podium!!!
cornpit77 4 years ago
my first. everything. I loved it and always thought said said 'Hey, you, Sebastian Coe!'
daflunda 4 years ago
I will admit that I have not looked "up-close" at her technical skills, but when I take the 30,000 foot view, it looks like she just does not fit. She's not as solid. It's distracting.
glengarryleads 4 years ago
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florosolo 4 years ago
Babylove brother was in rocksteady and he got her intobreakin she did ballet for some big company in new york true story
Thunda1986 4 years ago
How do you know this information? just askin'
dancecrazeV 4 years ago
wikipedia
Thunda1986 4 years ago
Who's girlfriend is she? She clearly can't dance the way the boys in the crew can.
glengarryleads 4 years ago
I agree bgirl bubbles from uk, was way ahead of baby love then. Bubbles had some crazy powermills back in 80's. check out her clip with wolverhampton bboys.
ak4142 4 years ago
1983
Selda01 4 years ago
hallau...what are u talking about?. there is notbing wrong with the video - it is pure class!.
Jay1898 4 years ago