Ken Swift is a humble dude he doesn’t drink his water first he hands over a glass to crazy legs first - loyal dude always watch for signs
@JUSLOFI4 жыл бұрын
To this day.
@onthegrind75253 жыл бұрын
Exactly Ken always came across as a real down to earth humble guy, Crazy Legs on the other hand total opposite
@ALFA89023 жыл бұрын
Classic tale of the Scorpion and the Frog!!!
@javila63412 жыл бұрын
🤣🤔Hold on...he was just being live on national television..you gotta play nice always ..besides that's pure elementary being civilized ..Don't hate on Crazy Legs🇵🇷💯👍
@TheCrowzZz2 жыл бұрын
@@onthegrind7525 I don't understand why judge if they are children
@Scotty-P3 жыл бұрын
I love that David Letterman introduces this so sincerely.
@Scotty-P3 жыл бұрын
@@juniorjames7076 Oh, you were going so well 'til you went down that route. Just how do you think that the various media; including television, exist at all? Now, New York City and several other American cities were indeed very dangerous in the 70's and 80's - BUT! - we could safely cherry pick the elements of musical and cultural expression which we could appreciate which were emanating from them, for real. I'm Australian, and here they've been recreating a similar socio-cultural/demographic scenario as existed in those areas then - actually, much worse though - except we're engulfed in it, and nothing of any 'pop' cultural merit can come from it because everything's already been done!
@QuicksFlicks15 ай бұрын
2 legends considered to be the best breakdancers ever! This was right before they appeared in the classic movie Beat Street. These are the guys that should have been judging the Olympics, along with some of the other 80’s & 90’s legends that created the style that we know as breakdancing.
@MikeCee74 ай бұрын
was one of guys, the one that did the final scene in Flashdance? (wearing a wig, of course)
@QuicksFlicks14 ай бұрын
@@MikeCee7 they were in a brief scene in flashdance where they were in the park breakin’. I remember hearing that one of them stood in for Jennifer Beals w a wig on for a particular scene but can’t remember who it was.
@veronicajackson20254 ай бұрын
I AGREE!!!
@MikeCee74 ай бұрын
@@QuicksFlicks1 no, I know officially from some documentary way back in the 1980s. That the person who did the break dancing at the end of her dance routine before the judges, was a male wearing a wig. (i.e. it wasn’t Jennifer Beals) so I was just wondering which one of these guys was the guy that did the final scene in her dance evaluation?
@themonsterbaby4 ай бұрын
Crazy Legs shouldn't have. You can acknowledge being a predator and then be at the Olympics as the face of Breaking.
@barryschwarz Жыл бұрын
Rock Steady Crew came to Adelaide, South Australia about 1985 or86, and I went to the Old Lion to watch them. Breakdancing changed my life, and I was thrilled to see my heroes in the flesh.
@billclemons55932 жыл бұрын
LEGENDS STILL! BBOY ROYALTY!
@BrandonNeuschafer5 ай бұрын
Who's here after the 2024 Olympics thinking these guys are still better? In 40 years, the greatest olympians couldn't make this better, sad.
@FAMCHAMP5 ай бұрын
Yeah
@Anthony_D_3335 ай бұрын
It sure isn't what it used to be
@SoKrayzie5 ай бұрын
Subjective
@trogdortheburninator81495 ай бұрын
I came after Raygun had me wondering if the problem was her, or the sport. Spoiler. It’s not the sport!
@pascalvalorazonefunkgroove5 ай бұрын
́no best breakdancers rock steady crew ❤the createurs
@koolkeithultra17155 жыл бұрын
Cleanest version i've seen of this footage, classic.
@britdragster2 жыл бұрын
I remember seeing Crazylegs and his crew in London back around 82-83. Electro, Breaking and Body Popping was still a relatively new thing here in the UK back then. I also saw Afrika Bambaataa and the Soul Sonic Force in a college hall in my local town around the same time.
@aliciapitterson20104 ай бұрын
Watching them 40 years later is magical
@HVelez647 ай бұрын
I laugh when people say that we Nuyoricans did nothing for the culture, remember we live next to you guys 🇵🇷🇺🇸🤦🤦🤦
@aprodutube7 ай бұрын
As a black guy I know the importance of Nuyoricans in disco and Hip Hop culture. Disco was invented in the black and Puerto Rican clubs of NY and Philly. Don’t listen to the naysayers.
@RafaelGarcia-ik9le6 ай бұрын
I'm Mexican and I respect your spot in this culture. We also have a place, but you guys are part of the foundation. Much respect.
@rallobang6 ай бұрын
Name something
@NewyorkRican21915 ай бұрын
Respect!!!@@RafaelGarcia-ik9le
@skillet68704 ай бұрын
Contribution and "being there doesn't equate creation and innovation.
@Robocoppat3 жыл бұрын
These guys define the word Breakdancing. Very professional. I could watch them dance all day long
@kariblack298 Жыл бұрын
They don’t define they just was in the right place at the right time he’ll people better then them that didn’t get the chance
@krystiankrysti13968 ай бұрын
@@kariblack298 100% true and crazylegs maiontaned same ass 5months progress bboy skill to this day, dood never learned anything more since the 80s and he has tendency to shit on people who do lot of powermoves, sure he was where he was at the beginning but come fucking on... how long can you ride that wave without progressing
@PaulPaid Жыл бұрын
Dave is the consumate professional. He knew the Brothers were young and steered the conversation nicely.
@goohee22 Жыл бұрын
These 2 men are the Originals. The Goats . I remember watching this Live. Great stuff man
@lasvegasloner46212 жыл бұрын
I'd almost forgotten how important this performance is-- before the countless acrobatics were invented based off these guys (and a few others), and the more and more complex techniques all came from standing on shoulders before them, it had to start somewhere. Watch how smooth they footwork is. You are witnessing floor rocking in it's first form, and how they were already dissecting how they could improve it even without anyone having invented the outrageous stuff we eventually saw later. True pioneers right here.
@marcosgomez8618 Жыл бұрын
They did not call it floor rocking There was uprock
@Violinistic11 ай бұрын
Exactly..and Down rock. Their 2nd single titled just that. Up Rock. kzbin.info/www/bejne/oqDTaHVrhtp5r80si=_lD1L7ChGVNBG2k5
@lifendeathchzlife51593 жыл бұрын
Break dancing changed my life. I saw an episode of the new dance in the early 80s. I'm not sure what show it was on, but I wasn't impressed. Then later, my mom took me to see beatstreet. Mind you, I didn't ask to see it, I didn't even know what it was about. And man, when they hit the Roxy, I was blown away. I didn't want them to stop. I went home, moved furniture, and I learned how to windmill that night. I was hitting my ankles on the leg of my bed and everything. That was a fun time in my life. Cars would stop and watch us. We danced at halftime at our middle school basketball game. I was in the 7th grade when beatstreet hit the theaters. Fun times. At 50 I can still swipe and backspin, but I can't windmill that good lol.
@robertwolfeii6152 жыл бұрын
You too. Me too. Times were great in the 80s. Now I am 51 and remembering memories. I used to go to my basement and used cardboard boxes.
@lasvegasloner46212 жыл бұрын
So you weren't impressed the first time you saw breaking, then you didn't know what Beatstreet was going to be about but went in to see the movie? AND learned windmills that night?? Something kinda smells here, and it ain't us.
@thislazylife2 жыл бұрын
I was a popper back in the day. I'm 54, and will stop pop if you get me drunk enough.
@ericbaptist7842 Жыл бұрын
@@thislazylife😂😂😂
@ericbaptist7842 Жыл бұрын
At 51, the only windmill I can do now is windmill cookies!😅
@The_whimsickal_artist11 ай бұрын
These 2 are the best from their crew👍🏻💯 I miss the 80s
@ohpopshop Жыл бұрын
Damn, I miss this Letterman era. Great that all the hiphop/dance crowd here now remembers these gents as legends, but the fun thing for me is remembering what it was like at the time when Letterman would occasionally/often just feature something that at the time was still just a curiosity but it caught his show producers' attention and he said, "Sure, let's have them!"
@lynneacevedo6641 Жыл бұрын
Yup! I'm 31 and he's kind of before my time but I LOVE his interviews for this exact reason ❤also something about seems not condescending like the ones now. Just genuine questions!
@luiscruz97384 жыл бұрын
Love crazy legs, but prince ken swift is one of the best to ever do it.
@uthman99793 жыл бұрын
No face tattoos no gangster posturing speak in correct grammar. Talent. Legends
@MrMitchell129962 жыл бұрын
Just say you’re a racist, get it off your chest.
@michaelmoezpoor2651 Жыл бұрын
Well, no face tats or posturing, at least...
@arturogamboa149811 ай бұрын
Man these dudes would smoke you on the floor and then run ya pockets. They was stickup kids, a lotta young HipHop dudes was sellin or stealin sum so they could eat. Just the fact of life. They still deserve their props and respect regardless.
@David-h4z2s7 ай бұрын
Ken Swift Poetry In Motion 🤸🦸👍
@leowashington89912 жыл бұрын
I'm 50 years old right now and I used to do this when I was Young, I need to Practice this moves
@thislazylife2 жыл бұрын
Three weeks later, you get your windmill back? Or did you break your back? 🤣
@johnnybiggunz11412 жыл бұрын
Lmaoooo, he's in the hospital with a broken back 🤣🤣
@rosiea.26052 жыл бұрын
You'll break your neck now! 😂🤣😆
@stevenlopez7230 Жыл бұрын
Amazing an phenomenal by this guy's an letterman💪💪💪🇵🇷🇵🇷🇵🇷🇵🇷
@rianperle2585 жыл бұрын
Great quality and so nice to see the whole interview. Thanks for sharing!
@DamonHodgesOfficialPagePlus3 жыл бұрын
2021 and still here these memories will last forever :-)
@Quantum3695Ай бұрын
Crazy Legs and Ken Swift are the two of the best pioneers of breaking . The dance has evolved so much since then with today's breakdancers performing some of the most incredible dance moves ever seen since the 80's. The breakdancing levels are much much higher now thanks to the early pioneers who set the trends.
@gangsterofluv29903 күн бұрын
You’re lost FBA was doing this back in the 1940s!!!SMH
@dimosraikoudis7 ай бұрын
It's great to see this performance again and again. They were so young and shy at that time. Certainly... They have changed a lot today ! Excellent 💯👍✊🤜🤛
@MikeCee74 ай бұрын
This is really incredible to watch. What baffles me is: Q What’s your breakin’ name going to be? A. = “Crazy Legs” Q. & how about you young man? A. = “Ken Swift” (what a brilliant dope breakin’ name)
@carlramsamugh11703 жыл бұрын
Phenomenal!
@brandonGCHACHU10 ай бұрын
These dudes are both alive and well today here in Feb 2024 but its sad they dont like each other and haven't got along in years
@krystiankrysti13968 ай бұрын
cause crazylegs is and asshole, thats obvious when you hear him talk, this dood should resign many decades ago
@flufycat2748 Жыл бұрын
So good! Timeless!
@RockScissorsRock2 жыл бұрын
Freaking Legends
@강태권-k2j3 ай бұрын
This is great!
@gaffle-4113 жыл бұрын
It was either this, Flashdance or a That's Incredible show (I think) that was my first introduction to Break Dancing...
@Malouco3 жыл бұрын
This was good times!!!
@ironmike-putsallkindavideo78404 жыл бұрын
2 black dudes from the BRONX called the (NIGGA TWINZ) were the first ever B BOYS who invented BREAK DANCING back in the early 70's
This was monumental they got a chance to sit down and talk about their dance n share their thoughts. Usually if you had a manager or representative they would speak unless you were an actor, comedian, or public figure. Before I think “Shabba- Doo” from “Breaking” movie 1984/ The Lockers dance group in the early- mid 70’s of Soul Train n Robert Shields of “The Clinkers “ San Francisco Street performer were the only street dancers/ movers of 70’s n early 80’s that were able to speak on the couch about their original movement n dance.
@kenyanthornell9717 Жыл бұрын
Thank you for this @SkillzOne !!! I saw a clip of the dance performance on KZbin b4 but not the interview as well. Supa cool to hear the interview as well.
@David-h4z2s7 ай бұрын
Fantastic stuff 👍🌠🌠
@El_Colion5 ай бұрын
I had to watch this to get that aussie taste out my mouth
@Conky7695 ай бұрын
Also.
@isabellacuentas3480 Жыл бұрын
❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
@30sandrita13 жыл бұрын
My husband dances like this! Hi Sascha! ♥
@jamjam4050 Жыл бұрын
Awesome 💯💯💯🔥🔥⭐⭐💥💥💥👌✌️✌️🌎
@felixleibas53593 жыл бұрын
Dope!!
@philluppocketz82902 жыл бұрын
Dope.
@GordonGartrell272 жыл бұрын
The greatest American art form
@terrinyc2918 күн бұрын
That's the "Moreno Style"
@GenesisEych4 ай бұрын
Ken Swift is so good! And so cute!
@AMOKIAN Жыл бұрын
How many did we rewind that Flashdance VHS snippet before we got Wild Style on VHS?
@Lerf8 Жыл бұрын
2 Legends
@johnnyjensen88054 ай бұрын
Pioneers
@eastbee10315 күн бұрын
Nope
@keliishaine3 жыл бұрын
💯Legends
@ericsred54404 жыл бұрын
Classic.
@reneeshoregirl3 ай бұрын
My man was a part of Rock Steady Crew at one time.❤
@SNAP-bc15 ай бұрын
KEn Swift true pioneer !
@leevarmc26013 жыл бұрын
Off the chain legends of the game
@ellisjahfinelcraddock4 ай бұрын
Hey raise your hand if y'all here because of Crazy Legs calling out RayGun. ✋🏿✋🏿✋🏿
@tamaitioleloleula_mutiatele014 ай бұрын
“If you don’t know what you doing then don’t try it” good word of advice from the originator.
@mexicannena75634 жыл бұрын
Crazy Legs And his Friend is Cute😂❤️😜🤑😝😩😜
@thunorwodenson4 жыл бұрын
Break dancing comes from when djs would extend the break in a song and make beats out of the break in a song. Break dancing is dancing to break beats.
@funkworthrollin49594 жыл бұрын
Duh...
@thunorwodenson4 жыл бұрын
@@funkworthrollin4959 I only said it because crazy legs didnt know and made up a definition on the fly.
@funkworthrollin49594 жыл бұрын
Word. I don't fuck with Legs. I'm a SWIFT cat.
@Tripleseis883 жыл бұрын
@Libertad PatriaMOST DEFF ,,, CRAZY LEGS , 🇵🇷
@kinkiesse77362 жыл бұрын
@@thunorwodenson Actually before DJs, it was drummers aka "drumboys" who were extending the 10secs drum breaks in a song before DJs started doing it (1971)
@marlonflores50774 жыл бұрын
DOPE ASF! RRREEEEAAAAALLLLLL
@Aktion-fq9cj2 жыл бұрын
Ken Swift should have hit the floor no less than twice in that Beat Street Battle, He's THe Best
@gtedwards Жыл бұрын
The actual battle between NYC Breakers and Rock Steady crew for Beat Street lasted 30 minutes, but it was edited down to the 5 minutes used in the movie, so it's highly likely that Ken Swift came out more than once.
@thislazylife Жыл бұрын
Track is the break from Pleasure's "Let's Dance."
@Sagefrakrobatik3 жыл бұрын
I was born that year
@disneyboy25722 жыл бұрын
The break dance like a vibration around the whole world at that time suspected to be the first time it ever be done that way the footwork swipe into baby Freeze
@johnjones4424 ай бұрын
🔥🔥🔥🔥
@MikeCee74 ай бұрын
Does anyone else notice that the guy holding the boom mic, it’s getting into like 50% of the camera shots.
@kaiverse95682 жыл бұрын
Crazy legs's prime years
@lenevee49254 ай бұрын
Folks from the hip hop community already know about Crazy Legs and his crew. If only RG watched this first.
@FunkyChild7182 жыл бұрын
So funky.
@johnd14663 жыл бұрын
So today first time I’m seeing this 31.3. 2021, it’s from 1983, looks like Prince Ken Swift is 5 years younger between this & Beat Street being filmed I presume between November 83- Feb 84?
@GhostVapeKIlla4 жыл бұрын
Sucker's break like TURBO and OZONE! ❤
@kaykayjohnson94272 жыл бұрын
Sad how the originators, BLACK SPADES, never got the true credit of the creators of Break dance , Bronx Boy , BBOY style. Salute to BronxDale and DJ Mario.
@gixxer750cc2 жыл бұрын
Shout Out to Trixie, Sasa and the Ni**a Twins!!!
@lynnm22272 жыл бұрын
Breakdancing? They are not dancing. This is gymnastics with music playing in the background.
@gaffle-411 Жыл бұрын
@Kay Kay Johnson… well maybe because they (the Black Spades) were too busy $elling dope, using dope, had no passion or business sense, or kiLLing one another to push the art form into a career. 🫵🏾 Don’t blame the w̴h̴i̴t̴e̴ Puerto-Rican man for taking the art form to stratospheric levels around the world. Do better… 👊
@RandomFlavor Жыл бұрын
Disco King Mario introduced me to Hip Hop at his infamous Rosedale Park Jams in The Bronx during the late 70's alongside Tex DJ Hollywood & Grand Wizard Theodore.
@emiljunior6 ай бұрын
kzbin.info/www/bejne/o2eYY4J7nNBpbrMsi=m1uTb4nwQvigq93C original break dance from África
@frankieanthony19047 ай бұрын
Puerto Rican Style 💯👍🏽
@gangsterofluv29903 күн бұрын
Black style!!!
@daskinder2 жыл бұрын
Crazy Legs!!
@anthonyaitken2283 Жыл бұрын
" Legends...."
@juniorjames70763 жыл бұрын
At that time, mainstream White media was so Cringe whenever they were covering something "new and amazing" happening on the "dangerous streets of NYC or Philly", but in the early 80s it was the few times you could see Black & Latino culture at all on television. I think at that time Letterman was on practically after midnight, which was the zombie hour for me. I don't know how i was able to sneak back into the living room to watch this footage when I was in the 6th grade in 1983. My parents would have killed me, but i had to see them once I heard they were on Letterman! There was also an episode of Ripleys Believe It Or Not that featured the New York City Breakers that EVERYBODY was talking about in school the next day when it aired!!! Haaaa haa. Such innocent days.
@thislazylife2 жыл бұрын
I was 16 in '83, so my parents didn't care. I stayed up just so I could video tape it. Lost that tape years ago, so I was stoked to find this clip.
@gaffle-411 Жыл бұрын
My first time seeing breaking was either THIS, That’s Incredible, or Flashdance.
@krystiankrysti13968 ай бұрын
racist much ? Dood, its a coincidence what color you are and what color any dancer is
@beachlover9705 Жыл бұрын
All hail Ken Swift , his moves are some of the most complicated neva duplicated ever. Why isn't there a doc about him?
@jullienromano20094 жыл бұрын
I wish I was born In the 80,s 😪 I could have break danced with people and not be made fun of for breaking
@thislazylife2 жыл бұрын
If you were born in the 80's you'da been like two years old. That woulda been kinda dope, though, little two year old bustin headspins.
@anitamartinez9309 Жыл бұрын
Find a group on Facebook
@BK2dafullist5 ай бұрын
Two solid dudes, as is the whole crew. Shout to Zulus
@lakagadillagonzalez65174 жыл бұрын
Puerto rican the best
@BoricuaNyc2 жыл бұрын
Ya Tu Sabe🇵🇷🔥🇵🇷🔥💯
@makeuthink212025 күн бұрын
They had their time back in the day.
@knaledge62073 жыл бұрын
If yall like this and all of its essence go check out k solo riker island stories its definitely a backdrop to the essence of this particular culture REALITY aight
@rottnlove Жыл бұрын
The songs volume was so quiet except for the beat it sounded like the Vengaboys we like to party at first.
@eduardodavid10215 ай бұрын
Queremos a Australiana das Olimpíadas ❤😂
@BoricuaNyc2 жыл бұрын
Hip hop culture🇵🇷🗽✊🏿💯🗽
@jeanniepetrov9934 Жыл бұрын
Wepa 🇵🇷
@jasonwilliams7902 Жыл бұрын
The Legendary Rock steady crew
@beachlover9705 Жыл бұрын
Why do I feel like listening to RUN DMC 's "My Adidas "
@nmahangu4 жыл бұрын
The Bronx was the most gang infested neighborhood on earth in '83
@funkworthrollin49594 жыл бұрын
Glad I was born there. 81' Can't you dig it???
@joshuameza6574 ай бұрын
Who knows the name of the artist of this song? Never knew of this older version. I know it's named dance but i only knew of the boys from the bottom version of this song.
@sterlingturner54202 жыл бұрын
Black youth created breakdancing.
@BoricuaNyc2 жыл бұрын
And NewYorkRicans🇵🇷🗽are bringing it to the Olympics
@Dutchyyyy74 Жыл бұрын
They the same thing. Only difference is us Puerto Ricans got fucked by the Spanish in the 1400s before all that n got mix u see all shade in Puerto Ricans if u know then u know we the same frfr we jus got good hair 😭😂
@snieves48 ай бұрын
It was a multicultural effort between caribbeans, african americans and others. Hip hop is for everyone.
@omarcaban99178 ай бұрын
It was a hood thing period !
@negroantonio286 ай бұрын
@@snieves4stop the divide 👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿
@richardsden3 ай бұрын
I was friends with Crazy Legs before they blew up. Showed up so many times on my block put cardboard on the pavement and away he and others would go
@beverlywaits76634 жыл бұрын
😁👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾💯💯💯💯💯
@Sandra-Ross Жыл бұрын
Showing my kids where the history is.
@tookeetalaska1387 Жыл бұрын
Boricua baby!!!!
@John-eg3gy6 ай бұрын
🎂
@Malouco3 жыл бұрын
They were swiping these guys styles back then
@KY-YE2 жыл бұрын
It’s crazy how Latinos don’t get credit for being part of hiphop from the beginning & creating it… it started in the BRONX… like that’s Latino as it gets!! & at that same time created Salsa & Reggaeton… but I’m one them people who looks at black & latino as same.. not all but most.. also.. gotta give credit to Fat Joe for bringing up this topic to the mainstream.. heard him say this a few times..
@johnnybiggunz11412 жыл бұрын
I wouldn't even say Latinos. I would say New York Ricans. If you get my drift.
@javila63412 жыл бұрын
@@johnnybiggunz1141 100%
@ConquerWealth.network2 жыл бұрын
Because they wasn't' they are second generation' not the creators' they came ten years later' That is why' They get credit for contributing and helping to evolve breaking' That is the credit that they deserve'
@sterlingturner54202 жыл бұрын
They didn't create hip hop or breakdancing black people did back around 1971 or 72. Ricans actually called it "jungle music"..but when it gained popularity and breaking was dying with black youth in 1978,they picked up the dance and kept it going. So they get credit for participating later.