B-BOYS A HISTORY OF BREAKING, 1 ROCK STEADY CREW / THE ORIGINS

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Crazy Legs / Rock Steady Crew

9 жыл бұрын

Current and past members of Rock Steady Crew talking about some of the history of Breaking (b-boying / B-girling)

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@great567 8 жыл бұрын

Hip Hop will never be this pure again.

@kristallmenschkristallwolf1969 Жыл бұрын

thats facking right so this stays for pure rappin

@matthawes4395 Жыл бұрын

Hip Hop has lost its roots Such a shame

@robertvargas7004 Жыл бұрын

Factsssss our Era was the shit our music,culture will never ever be duplicated

@raymondjblaze7761 6 ай бұрын

It def will once breaking enters the Olympics 🤦🏿‍♂️

@Black_unity597 4 ай бұрын

Man that wasn’t hip hop in its purest form are you kidding me go look at sasa and Trixie this was the 80s that rolled in the gangster rap the shit we have now these guys were t really bboying they don’t dance to beats the core of bboying is dancing to the beat that’s not what these kids Latinos started to do the are doing acrobats with no music how can you be a bboy with no music!

@joeljones5613 Жыл бұрын

Ahh, I get chills remembering these days 🔥🔥🔥

@edgardosoto4193 9 жыл бұрын

Men those times..back and forth from the island to NY, bringing back the fresh new records, the fresh new moves , the fresh new kangols and colorful LEE pants back to the island..cardboards, boombox with homemade equalizers put on them. The L'tigre shirts, fat shoelaces. The innocent jaranas or day partys, the cans of spray to make pieces of fresh beauty on the walls..nothing and no one can take that away from me and many of us. Seeing these documentaries make me wanna get down one more time to the floor.

@andrewjones2133 Жыл бұрын

Yes sir. I’m 52. Born and raised in Washington Heights. I remember see Crazy Legs and the Rock Steady Crew battle up on 189th street and Audubon Ave. Don’t forget the old english letters on the sweat shirts.

@BoricuaNyc Жыл бұрын

@@andrewjones2133 I remember being in Roxy’s in Chelsea, NYC🗽and seeing crazy legs and the Rock steady crew and African Bambatta

@rbgalldayeveryday 2 жыл бұрын

When I was 5 or 6 I used watch my older brother do some breaking in the military base in Germany back in 1984.

@billscott6819 Жыл бұрын

Break comes from the break in a disco record, mixed back to back to make a hip hop beat. Dance to the break

@bmxbandito9 Жыл бұрын

Nothing better than a battle in a bronx basement

@rodareego7019 2 ай бұрын

"why is my brother throwing himself on the floor, and embarrassing my family " 😂😂😂😂😂😂😅😂😅😂😅😂 so funny!😅😅😅

@shiningstardance22 Жыл бұрын

Best memories from age 13-15 dancing in the underground clubs when the djs would come down from New York

@killerpretty 8 жыл бұрын

Damn just found out bboy take 1 past away in august 2015. Smh. RIP TAKE1. IT MIGHT HAVE NOT BEEN BBOYING WITHOUT YOUR PRESENCE

@vicg5323 3 жыл бұрын

All the cats that were members of the New York City breakers lived in the north Bronx, area called Kingsbridge. There were no abandon buildings there. I know, I was there. I lived in the building across from Noel. Let's get the story straight yall.

@CrazyLegsRSC 4 ай бұрын

You have your experience and others have there's based on which part of the Bronx and which year's we're talking about.

@vicg5323 4 ай бұрын

@@CrazyLegsRSC 1980 to 1984. 187 University Ave. Where do you live in Isabella? I live in Aguadilla. Lunch on me!

@Bori-Domi-24 8 жыл бұрын

B-boying or breaking, also called breakdancing, is a style of street dance that originated primarily among African American and Puerto Rican youth, many former members of the Black Spades, the Young Spades, and the Baby Spades, during the mid 1970s

@ironmike-putsallkindavideo7840 3 жыл бұрын

AFRICAN AMERICAN's were the very first, then the PUERTO RICANS came right after and brought it to the next level

@biggalaxy9102 Жыл бұрын

@@ironmike-putsallkindavideo7840 Puerto Ricans are American & we are of African descendent.

@aferrer74 Жыл бұрын

@@ironmike-putsallkindavideo7840 you are right that's a better way to put it👍🇵🇷 u are the first person that said that , alot of black brothers keep saying they created breakdancing and that Puerto Ricans had nothing yo do with this 😂 Read this 👉👉If] you talk to Grandmaster Flash, Kool Herc or Afrika Bambaataa or any of the early DJs they all talk about the breakers, who in the ‘70s and ‘80s were mainly Latinos, and keeping them happy on the dance floor. If you talk about some of the famous break crews who really broke through and got known by the early ‘80s, the majority were Latino dancers like Rock Steady Crew’s Crazy Legs. So if the idea of the Hip Hop DJ is predicated on keeping dancers dancing, then the Latino aspect is crucial. Their aesthetic, their taste, their ability to dance, all affected what was played and how it was played.”🇵🇷🇵🇷🇵🇷🇵🇷✌️☝️👍🎵🎶🎤🎧🎚🎛

@aferrer74 Жыл бұрын

@@biggalaxy9102 🇵🇷🇵🇷☝️👍✌️

@Tashaten Жыл бұрын

@@biggalaxy9102 ...Really! Alot deny and act racist!!!

@foxy2348 4 жыл бұрын

Why is my brother throwing himself on the Floor and embarassing my whole Family?! I laughed so hard! Golden!

@millsbomb007 3 жыл бұрын

that's what my brother says nearly every weekend, to his bro (me) at the age of 45.

@losprimoslpbreakersandpaul808 2 жыл бұрын

Los mejores los masthers los n 1 Rock steady crew 🇵🇷❤️🤝🏽🫂😭

@barryschwarz 7 жыл бұрын

Crazy Legs was the first B-Boy name I ever heard, and I always liked his clean style and the good vibe. Breaking changed my life in 1984, Adelaide, South Australia. RS performed at the Old Lion in my home town and I went and soaked it up. Boogaloo Shrimp and Poppin' Taco were also idols. Thanks, guys.

@millsbomb007 3 жыл бұрын

he was 2nd gen bboy

@balle733 2 жыл бұрын

@@millsbomb007 Crazy legs would be 3rd generation technically.

@gaffle7646 2 жыл бұрын

I think Crazy Legs was the dopest b-boy/breaker up until about 1983. After that, seems like the others caught up and surpassed him. When it comes to the culture overall… he’s easily the absolute legend!

@BoricuaNyc Жыл бұрын

@@balle733 He started in 1977 in the park jams and became famous in the 80’s

@balle733 Жыл бұрын

@@BoricuaNyc nah 79.

@rodneyprescott5796 21 күн бұрын

Yesss that's what I'm talking about the hardcore bboy reprezentin Oxford from 1980 - 2024 and beyond it's the hip hop culture

@sreyna3000 Жыл бұрын

Breaking has advanced to superior levels around the world ….but it will never ever again have this soul or spirit

@malik87breaker Жыл бұрын

I don't know about if it's superiour. I guess it's just too sterile today

@bettodeabreu9990 Жыл бұрын

Isto sim é o meu tempo 80 e 90 era uma loucura quando apareceu no meu bairro fomos dos primeiros em Portugal 🇵🇹 a dançar.... U.S.S MOITA Portugal 🇵🇹

@MrBubyV 3 ай бұрын

🫡 We were the New York Breakers ✊🏽

@shiningstardance22 Жыл бұрын

Love this

@anthonygranuzzo268 Жыл бұрын

B BOYS FOR LIFE 💪💪💪

@kristallmenschkristallwolf1969 Жыл бұрын

that speach from Crazy Legs ist that what i knew bout the Roots of Hip Hop Rap and Break Dance and not that Bullshit of today - the Possiblity of Social Meating that was Breaking and Battles

@fantomenace302 Жыл бұрын

Who'd of thought that the kung fu movies help mold breaking.

@bboy-kv6pd 10 ай бұрын

Props to the bronx boys...

@lisaburch7077 Жыл бұрын

This is when Hip Hop was 🔥🔥🔥🔥

@khmerxbxboi Жыл бұрын

Bruce Lee and a few Kung Fu movies help inspire also .

@CrazyLegsRSC Жыл бұрын

As much as I was a Bruce Lee fan, he didn't influence my dancing. I was a huge fan of Martial Arts films, but it was Frosty Freeze who was really pushing the idea of using elements of Drunken style into breaking.

@thomasoreilly6358 14 күн бұрын

thank you

@Goldskool 11 ай бұрын

i knew a lot of b boys before Crazy legs : Trac II its one of the first i used to watch him, footwork outside of Roosevelt High like in 78 before it was called breaking in 81 ,,,,i also got down ,,in my block used to see the early pioneers crews like Salsoul & crazy commandos ..before the media stage before the Rock steady crew was even known anywhere,

@somebody71172 9 күн бұрын

I’m an Arizona girl, I remember being 12 and thinking the perfect guy was a bboy from the Bronx. 😊

@joebmx9154 Жыл бұрын

Amazing

@StretchinBack 9 ай бұрын

At 6:32 was a big favorite hip hop track. Rockin' It by The Fearless Four. Anyways, I really enjoyed this documentary. Such great times were had from way way back.

@AMOKIAN 8 ай бұрын

We can’t thank them enough. Geeeez.

@chief69oner 9 жыл бұрын

Dope

@ahmadmoore4737 Жыл бұрын

Hey does anyone know the name of the song that is playing during the ending credits?

@booblikon Жыл бұрын

très bien, merci

@randee4550 3 жыл бұрын

Pretty dope

@tanchitoro2125 4 жыл бұрын

We all miss you Crazy Legs w Rocksteady . B-Boys & B-Girls 4 Life .

@jorgelouis709 2 жыл бұрын

He's still in the game also as judge for BC one

@Bacalao2929 Жыл бұрын

The first B Boy was Little Lep😊

@marcusnunez8763 6 жыл бұрын

Hip-hop will be pure.

@brianglade848 4 ай бұрын

Ramo!!!

@djsupermanslaughter 2 ай бұрын

What's the song at the end 8:43?

@candycane9264 Жыл бұрын

Break dancing was a bridge that brought blacks and browns close

@idiotu668 Жыл бұрын

They were segregated at first until Black Americans created it. Then they wanted to look cool .... This is still happening to this day from other races

@CrazyLegsRSC Жыл бұрын

As well as other things. Thanks

@aferrer74 Жыл бұрын

@@CrazyLegsRSC I heard that Trixie was the first bboy in the world?

@BoricuaNyc Жыл бұрын

@@aferrer74 Where’s his footage because I remember Trixie being on drugs not breakdancing 🤔

@BoricuaNyc Жыл бұрын

@@CrazyLegsRSC Your the best since I first seen you in Roxy’s 🔥🗽🇵🇷💯💐

@BrothaWill 2 жыл бұрын

What video is show at 4:26

@kristallmenschkristallwolf1969 Жыл бұрын

My Time to learn about that was the 80s in my School Time and that interviews remaining of that was this means to that Youth in that Ghetto USA that Time

@hadynnlegros4759 11 ай бұрын

Hard out so miss these days it’s how u settled shit and shook hands after I was in a Brisbane crew called fragil rocks 🪨 we’d head city 🏙 town with our huge folded card board to lay out and challenge on in our bright silk green track suits white shoes 👟 and the fragil rocks on our backs we Fucn rocked actually bring that shit back

@Juggy113 3 жыл бұрын

I need that song around 3:48 please

@bossmanjack1169 2 жыл бұрын

Did you find out? I would like to know also

@Juggy113 2 жыл бұрын

@@bossmanjack1169 no

@oldskoolfool141 2 жыл бұрын

@@Juggy113 kzfaq.info/get/bejne/rduZdtp2mM_coWQ.html about 19mins in

@RCLaROCK1 Жыл бұрын

R I P FROSTY FREEZE My Dykman brother .. 1976 ..@3:53. my stomping ground then use to practice on the courts

@dimviesel Ай бұрын

7:55 track name plz🥰

@mister-kha 7 жыл бұрын

what song 4:30 pls !!!

@jesus755serrano 7 жыл бұрын

Kha Fly just begun Jimmy castor band

@aferrer74 Жыл бұрын

DJ Kool Herc’s main innovation that contributed the basis of Hip Hop is called ‘breaking’ aka the ‘merry go round’, which is combining and repeating instrumental breaks in order to make a rhythmic base.If] you talk to Grandmaster Flash, Kool Herc or Afrika Bambaataa or any of the early DJs they all talk about the breakers, who in the ‘70s and ‘80s were mainly Latinos, and keeping them happy on the dance floor. If you talk about some of the famous break crews who really broke through and got known by the early ‘80s, the majority were Latino dancers like Rock Steady Crew’s Crazy Legs. So if the idea of the Hip Hop DJ is predicated on keeping dancers dancing, then the Latino aspect is crucial. Their aesthetic, their taste, their ability to dance, all affected what was played and how it was played.”🇵🇷🇵🇷🇵🇷🇵🇷🇵🇷🇵🇷

@gsomethingsomething2658 Жыл бұрын

A large % of the graffiti artists were Latino also.

@heidyalvarado6017 3 жыл бұрын

WHats the first song in the begining?

@dasfreshyo 3 жыл бұрын

"Scorpio"- Dennis Coffey you're welcome

@heidyalvarado6017 3 жыл бұрын

@@dasfreshyo Before that one. thanks

@skeelo69 Жыл бұрын

Fortunate to have met Crazy Legs, the knowledge about B-Boying and breaking! , thanks for signing my HiP HoP Files Book, Peace !

@UKBreakz Жыл бұрын

Roxy! Beat Street!

@paulosantos2658 7 жыл бұрын

wuepaaaaaa

@garygulliver4015 3 жыл бұрын

Ready 2 BATTLE BREAK

@andrewdunston7479 3 жыл бұрын

Holy reading, may I knowingning.

@tasanogutzmore8768 2 жыл бұрын

07:17 that n@#$a landed on one foot OMG !!!!!!!

@BoricuaNyc Жыл бұрын

Crazy Legs a LEGEND🤴🏼🇵🇷🗽🔥❤️

@McGruph Жыл бұрын

Is that Lee Q that sez breaking started a freeze's house❓️❓️

@chizmwizm1846 9 ай бұрын

...maybe Lenny ..?

@killerpretty 9 жыл бұрын

what ever happen 2 bboy Take 1 ?

@jesus755serrano 7 жыл бұрын

rico dakid take passed away a couple of years ago close to 10 yrs

@alanperez7657 2 жыл бұрын

Doze😎😎

@davideboi6664 7 жыл бұрын

the start hip hop in radio Rai ,start the programma radio Rai stereo notte Planet Rock .this the moment start my Person of cultura hip hop ,Davide start breakin, popping,locking, in the street on Cagliari my crew Hot Foot Rockers.

@johnanon6938 2 ай бұрын

They forgot the other 50% and without women watching and encouraging then this was another dead end music style. But I'm old and I recall uprocking and how all this started before 1970s. The real question is did B-Boys mean bronx boys, break boys or Battle-Boys. Doesn't really matter since it was a way to get the energy out without resorting to physical gang violence, although the times its still broke out should be mentioned too.

@carmeoneday8730 8 жыл бұрын

Someone can tell me the final song title please? Peace.

@tyronepalmer30 4 жыл бұрын

Rock steady back in the 70s

@jesusjustiniano8494 Жыл бұрын

I come from the Bronx the root of breakdancing ok 183where buck4and kuriaky flex crazyleggs is really original from man I'm cujo from the Bronx yes the original one little Alex old partner from the new york city breakers yes good person Alex my brother and his brother Ritchie good people's man I love those good days the old skaykey yes ...

@shiningstardance22 Жыл бұрын

I used to sneak into clubs here in Florida underage and break pop lock n win dance contests...

@DjMikeiam Жыл бұрын

Will there something that Will be bigger than hip hop? #NEVER

@aaronskylark8818 Жыл бұрын

Imagn arts aryta owta ina stick arts rythm movment

@mastakilla6340 6 жыл бұрын

yo, 6:38 anyone ? 10x

@funkflex5144 10 ай бұрын

“Bronx keep creating it, Brooklyn keeps on taking it”. KRS One.

@LocoMenteClaraOne Жыл бұрын

Goes to show that Latinos have been in the HH game since day ONE!!! Viva

@kanarcydalive1579 8 ай бұрын

Only Puerto Ricans and those were the few that were around blacks.

@LocoMenteClaraOne 8 ай бұрын

@@kanarcydalive1579 Ok sure. But by that "logic" then ONLY the FEW NY Black Americans from the Bronx that were originally in the game qualify as being eligible to claim Hip-Hop as well then, amigo. Agreed? Probably not.