One of the reason I got into hip hop the influence of crazy legs and rocksteady crew … being Latino and arriving in the us in 1980 gave me something to relate too… mad love and respect

FBA never said PR was not part of hip hop they said PR didn’t create it and it’s black American culture, “which it is”. You people comprehension level is at an all time low and you hear what you wanna hear.

SALUTE, Crazy Legs. Great interview. What up, Thoro? Bboy Poise1, CSB/WREK TECZ (PARRIS). 904....

Great interview. I like how he talks about the origins of hip hop. And it’s refreshing to get a dancers perspective. I believe the dance influences the music creator just as the music creator influences the dance. It makes sense that just as you can’t point to one person as the creator of hip hop dance and music, you also can’t point to a specific year…A period (circa) makes more sense. That’s just how the evolution of any human creation works. I think our understanding of the history & origins has to be just as fluid & open as the music and all its aspects itself. Appreciate that brotha’s insight. It has solved a lot of my own questions regarding the origins and history. 🙏🏾✌🏾✊🏾

I have to disagree with some of the things crazy legs said for one rock steady wasn't the the best break dancing crew they were the most commercial he was their best dancer the rest were average at best ya'll hardly mention Ken swift and doze and legs never gives his rivals their props what he said about Mr wave was bullshit whether he followed a pop locking blue print or not he was a fucking beast then and now no one in rock steady or any other crew could fuck with him

Great interview and shout out to Legs for acknowledging the Peppermint Lounge in N.J.

NYC Breakers don’t get the honor and respect they deserve. I grew up across the street from Lil Lep, he was more like an uncle than anything,our families were always together,always at each others house and my family is black. We all were together,my closest brothers are Jamaican,Puerto Rican,Dominican l, Italian,Cuban,Irish,Asian,African we all grew up on Kingsbridge BX and it wasn’t about ethnicity at all,everyone was welcome in everyone’s home and hiphop was shared by all of us. Who cares about who was/was’nt the creators the culture is Universal. I heard some creepy stories about crazy legs though. I met a Puerto Rican girl that told me she was dating him and we were just cool at first but after a while she heard something about him and stopped talking to him and me and her did our thing. There definitely were stories floating around The Bronx about him but his contribution to the culture can’t be denied.

1:01:30 This guy Crazy Legs is so full of BS back pedals everything. He literally outed himself on social media, but now it's not himself, but everyone else that's at fault? Yeah right!!!???...... Cannot stomach this guy.

Crazy Legs will always be obe of my favorite break dancers/b-boys... I really appreciate his contributions to hip hop culture

That beef was A Tribe Called Quest/Zulu Nation vs Wreckx N Effect & Teddy Riley's crew Posse Deep.

25:44 - 25:50… With all absolute due respect Crazy Legs, Mr. wave in that Roxy battle was the absolute SH-T! 🔥 That move he did was the main reason I went to see the movie in theaters. That whole scene was brilliant but Mr. wave was freakishly good there (tick/spin move) and THAT cannot be denied.

Damn i was all agreeing with everything Crazy Legs was saying as i was there in the early scenes those days growung up as a kid & experiencing Oldskool Hip Hop as we know it with my own eyes and ears but when he said he "INVENTED THE WINDMILL" all my hope of him spitting more truth went down the drain! One of Rock Steady's fearfull B-Boy crews they battle in the early days which where 100 times & better than Rock Steady as many others were (Zulu Nation, Magnificent Force, Floor Masters, etc.) perforning amazing powerful B-Boy moves and synchronized chordiograshed street dancing was no other than the amazing "Dynamic Rockers aka Dynamic Breakers that became later on. Dynamic stated clearly that when they "surprised" RSC in their battles , some Dynamic b-boys would drop the "Helicopter" aka Windmill on Rock Steady before any of the them RSC memers knew how to even execute the move and lose the battles cause of it! Watch the early movies "Style Wars 1982" & "Wild Style 1983" and see no one from Rock Steady Crew doing any "windmills"! 😂 In 1983 there was a huge televised Breakdancing constest & the winner would be featured in the 1984 movie "Beat Street" and to no surprised the Dynamic Rockers won it all. But later do to their ego's and disagreement and the fearing that if they did the movie other crews around other areas would see it and "steal their moves"! So they declined being in the movie (huge regret) and so Rock Steady Crew was asked to replace them and be showed cased in the movie against another better and more powerful breakdancing crew the "Floor Masters" which later became the New York City Breakers! You Lying Crazy Legs! RAP = Rhythm And Poeting First Rapper = MC Coke La Rock First DJ since 1970 = DJ Grand Master Flowers from Queens Bridge p.s. While DJ G.M. Flowers was DJaying, Nobody knew who was Kool Herc & Grand Master Flash was a young B-Boy not a DJ yet. It is Flowers that inspired Flash to become a dj & that's how Flash got his "Grand Master" name after Grand Master Flowers!!!

One person is not big enough to destroy the breaking movement but the scene is big enough to get rid of him. Notice he has not been heavily involved since his dirt got exposed. He clings on to rappers, actors and comedians to stay relevant. He has not hosted, judged or really been involved in breaking. If he was innocent Red Bull would still be working with him. This dude made a confession online then gets on here saying it was for his girlfriend. He then said he was getting help. Sorry but getting help doesn't fix you overnight. Master manipulator wanting sympathy saying he thought about offing himself. The guy told on himself then turns it around that he is innocent. He left a social media trail that he made. Nobody else. You can easily see the bullshit here

He made up the windmilll 😂

This Crazy Legs interview was great. I listened carefully and I think Crazy :Legs expressed himself well. I have closure on Frosty Freeze being let go by Rock Steady although it is still painful being that Frosty was a friend and someone that I admired. We need to love and forgive one another and not be so quick to judge and condemn aven though I felt anger and disappointment when I heard the allegations against Crazy Legs. SPHINX=SALSOUL BROTHERS ©✝

No one ever brings up Prince Ken Swift. How come?

Great interview. Crazy Legs is a legend. Salute ✊🏽

What I personally observed was a lack of defense on behalf of the CHI/ SKY whenever it came to these Uncontested layups and at one point in the game I watched ANGEL REESE grab her own rebound back to back to back Under the rim and she could not make that shot after 3 attempts, Now, maybe it was fatigue but the way I see it you can't miss such an easy shot after 3 tries and be respected as one of the best players in the WNBA. She has to become a better player around the basket when it comes to footwork and shot placement bc I watched her on a fast break and there's no way with her height and speed that anyone should be able to get a hand on that ball but thing is that she has this habit of underhanding the ball towards the backboard instead of taking advantage of her size by going at the rim and using an over hand Layup that way the ball will be more protected and She will more than likely finish the play with an and one...

Wow I was around both cru rock steady and dynamic rockers

WHAT DUPED LATINOS SHOULD KNOW ABOUT CHRONOLOGICAL BLACK AMERICAN CULTURAL HISTORY: Hip hop came directly out of The Black Power/Black Is Beautiful/ Black Arts Movement of the 1960's &1970's. This was the most culturally and politically active era in African American history. The teen contingent of the movement played out as presented on Soul Train produced by Don Cornelius beginning 1970 when the show was nationally broadcast from Chicago from 1970 to the end of 1971. He moved the show to LA, but he took several of his teen dancers with him to ensure the dance quality of the show would remain the same after the move. The TV show became our most powerful Black teen cultural influence for 36 years. Soul Train hit American popular culture like a cultural tsunami. It instantly eclipsed Dick Clark's American Bandstand in international popularity. Chicago is the capitol of African American Blues and Gospel Music. Chicago due to The Great Migration is Mississippi once removed. Chicago developed the best social dancers in Black America. Michael Jackson comes from that dance enclave. Because break dancing had been a part of the Chicago dance lexicon since the 1950's, most likely influenced by the Black dance crews seen on TV variety shows in the 1950's, the Chicago teens on Soul Train showcased break dancing as part of their dance repertoire. For the first time in or cultural history we had a national stage to spotlight Black music stars, show-off old and new Black dances, and to premiere new Black talent. Teens across this nation copied the break dancing seen on Soul Train, including The Black Spades. They sang James Brown's (who was a frequent guest on ST) "Soul Power." They personalized it by singing "Spade Power! They put their influence on break dancing to make it uniquely their own. James Brown's "Say It Loud, I'm Black and I'm Proud" was the Black teen national anthem. Those who recognize James Brown as the Godfather of hip hop, rarely mention the Black Power aspect of what he was promoting, along with other Black Protest stars like Curtis Mayfield (Movin' On Up sold 2M in 30 days), Nina Simone (To Be Young Gifted and Black), and Marvin Gaye (What's Goin' On album sold 2M albums in 30 days) among many others, that sparked the impetus for Black teen heightened involvement. The Black Arts Movement elevated rhyming Black Protest poets like H Rap Brown, Amiri Baraka, Sonia Sanchez, Don L. Lee aka Haki Madhubuti, The Last Poets, and Mari Evans among others, to the forefront as the rapping voices of Black Power that politicized Black American teens. This Black teen cultural revolution was televised. Neither Puerto Ricans nor Jamaicans were singing, dancing, rapping about, nor identifying with our Black Is Beautiful/Black Power/Black Arts Movement. They still don't. Their great jealousy grew out of the international excitement generated by Black American teens dancing on national TV that did not include them. Because the broadcast came out of Chicago, not NYC, it singularly showcased Black American teens only. Soul Train is the genesis of the NYC PR and Jamaican great cultural jealousy. The emergence of The Black Spades Black Power gang culture gave PRs in the Bronx a local Black cultural expression they could cosplay in their jealous quest to leech the Black American teen international pop culture spotlight. Their desire for the same fame that Black teens had, is the reason NYC PRs in mass set aside their long-standing antipathy towards NYC African Americans in order to surreptitiously enter their ranks to gain acceptance so they could cosplay Black American dance, music and style. Five plus decades later Latinos have delusionally convinced themselves that they actually created what they effetely copied. Anyone who speaks about the development of hip hop and doesn't mention the worldwide influence the Black Is Beautiful/Black Power/Black Arts Movement or the impact of Soul Train, they don't know what they are talking about. The 10 years following the assassination of MLK, Black America was politically and culturally ablaze. Hip hop grew directly out of the tenor of those times. No immigrant group was powerful enough to influence Black American teen music, dance, nor style during that Black Power period, no matter where they were located. All other teens, white American teens and white college students, American immigrant teens in and outside of NYC, and teens around the world copied the powerful music, dance, and political colloquialisms (like "Right-On" and "Power To The People!") presented by African Americans from various regions across this nation. Contemporary self-aggrandizing cultural history revisionists like Colon and certain descendants of island immigrants have chosen the most active, the most vocal, and the most recorded period in Black American history to try and hijack. All their ever-changing revisionist folklore narratives are continually being debunked by authentic Black Americans, because they have no visual or journalistic documented evidence to support their delusional wishful claims, nor do they present acceptable reasoning that ratifies Puerto Rican/Jamaican bizarre demands to force their way into African American culture that resists their irrational intrusions.

Let get the History right

Crazy Legs RSC 100%

For correction the argument is not where they around it’s the hat element did they create ! DXT for correction claims he found out he was half rican at 60 years old he knows nothing about being rican

thank you all, including Crazy Legs for giving us in L.A. our propers...I wished that the Chicanos in L.A. would listen tot his...they claim that Mexicans were pop and locking in L.A. before Black people and they claim Hip-Hop because they know they know that Puerto Ricans were there (in hip-hop) from the beginning.....but that's Puerto Ricans....not Mexicans....anyway thank you for sharing the knowledge!

Did anyone have took noticed of the person that created airborne windmills ? in which i was the only one in the early 80s when i couldn't do the windmills rolling off the head....come Holla at I'm that person

Upper west side , YCB

Ken swift

OUT WEST WE CALLED THEM "STRUTTERS" -- FROM RAWKING

What's bad about the Olympic situation is that they're no B-boy crews from the Bronx, NYC, sad!

Crazy Legs let me down in this interview. It’s not 💯

These guys asked some poignant questions. Things I’ve always wondered about RSC and Beat Street as well. Good job. 👏

Fba all the way

I was in the Graf sector killing it at the Ghost Yard, C's and D's layups.....Hip Hop was a Puerto Rican/Black creation !! Shout out to TNB, WS crews....TATS Crew still holding it down too

Why is it so hard for everyone to agree the creation of Hip Hop was a collective effort ? It's hard to nail down an exact time and day when it was created because at the time it was everyday life . History has a way of looking like everyday life. Hip Hop is the culture with may elements . Rap Music DJing Breakdancing Grafffiti Art Fashion Jewelry Shoes. 50:50 I thought I was the only one questioning that back then ? 51:04 the old man he's referring to was in the Original " Night of the living Dead " George Romero .

I dont know if i wana see breakers in the Olympics. Its bad enough the red bull judges dont judge well. Just fix the judging in red bull bc and keep it internation as it is.

King vulture

Mad Child is Canadian Rock Steady!

See? This what I'm talking about. You've got all of these gamers (Tariq Nasheed) from the West Coast fronting on the Boricuas about this Hip Hop movement. Saying we weren't a part of the foundation of Hip Hop. And we Puerto Ricans were right there way back in the 1970s up in Harlem, and the Bronx, NYC. I don't like that!

Checkout the graffiti in The Westside Story movie that was filmed in 1960 and then debut in theaters in 1961. Cornbread would be 7 years old in 1961. The play was created in 1957, which would make cornbread 4 years old. Now ask yourself how many people were inspired to write on walls after watching that movie.

West africans and Spaniards made the Latin american by also mixing with the red american indian thay were already here. Just say it like that. Thats how you dedunk the centricts & not leave anyone out in the hip hop culture. Much luv mr. Crazy legs you inspired us. #radiotronbboys #tongvatribe

Now Puerto Rican’s where watching soul train the lies continues

Puerto Rican’s didn’t create any part of hip hop

I can't believe you said that there is no such thing as Poplocking? I'm sorry Crazy Legs but your wrong. I'm an OG Poplocker from LA, and I was in the movie Breaking 2. You should not say shit about our history if you didn't know the facts brother. The fact is that Poplocking is just gangster/ robotic flavor of popping that can't outta Compton & LA. Long Beach CA definitely started popping and boogalooing first but always had there Fresno flavor. So please homie learn the truth. Btw, they called me OG Ace Rock back in the day.

i never liked MR waves style …..

He’s contradicting himself all the first rap songs on sugarhill recirds including the first rapper delight we’re on disco beats. Good times. Plus he can’t hold a candle to chino float tiny Duce if u know u know

hes full of shit... he didnt invent the windmill. he invented the windup to the backspin and thats it. dont believe the hype.

Everything he saying cap the word hip hop didn’t even exist then