How to Pop Lock - Compton

This is a video I had in an old vhs tape with a bunch of break dancing clips, this is a good video with a good song in the backround, The Guy in the suspenders is the best, I heard this is somewhere in Compton out here in California.

[@uhurus2]

Please dont ever take this video down!! This is part of west coast history!!

[@Ozone_aka_Oz1]

💯💯💯

[@LakeKyle_]

Hip hop history, sending west coast love too 🤲🏾

[@jimwhite5726]

Kinney Shoes....ijs

[@rosedavis9003]

Be good safe free peace postive😮😮😮😊😊

[@insmileyfacemur4242]

Nobody cares

[@killaskrilla5320]

Jheri Curls was immaculate

[@BGinsz1709]

This looks like they were tapping into a higher level of conciousness and manifested it physically. Its bigger than just dancing. They also were at peace and radiated positive energy.

[@DJ-uc8mk]

Most things that the african does at a high level is when the african taps into that endless source of power. We just dont realize it.

[@katrielisrael7262]

@@DJ-uc8mk Israelite bro, not African.

[@DJ-uc8mk]

@@katrielisrael7262 Nah bruh.. The Hebrew Israelites feel the same way about Africans as racist Europeans do. The old testament bible is just as anti African as the slave master. Im African homie.. My DNA takes me back to West/Central Africa.. I'm not a descendant of 900 year old mythological men.

[@Dang3rMouSe]

Getting into that zone, just feeling it, letting it flow & running with it. The youth need similar positivity today. Both negativity & positivity are highly contagious. Too much focus on the negatives will stifle the spirit of growth & development. Positivity is like sunlight & fresh water for the soul leading to beautiful things.

[@erikawright8134]

Professor Griff and Bobby Hemmitt broke this energy down. They said the records or music back then vibrated on a high frequency unlike todays music. He said that high frequency or high vibration of the music hit the chakras which is energy or vibration that spins and that's where you got the creation of breakdancing. That's some powerful stuff. Bobby Hemmitt even said the records back then healed cancer and other sickness but only if you played the old music on a record player only. He also suggested we only stick to or listen to music from the 70's/80's on back. He said this era of music is bad frequency. He claims that's why the powers that be got rid of soul music.

[@CrowdPleeza]

People should know that the west coast is where Popping started. That's different from Breaking or Break dancing that started in NYC(dancing on the ground).

[@nzwaywish]

Nah not true. I know OG Shaka La been popping and rocking since the 70s

[@controlyourlife346]

And rap first rap group and rap artist where watts profits but New York just made it famous

[@lifepaththirteen2776]

Negative...

[@edsalais1263]

West coast Locking before popping aswell , mime robot moon walk. Backsliding camel walk incorporated aswell from shields and yarnell and the mime greats which became pop locking bugaloo leaning backsliding moonwalk camel walk waving etc , then the east coast boys come up with ground work the turtle ,up rock , egg rolls windmills crazy legs ,one arm spin , head spin , great times indeed but these new b boys of today hav taken up a notch incredible moves

[@CrowdPleeza]

@@nzwaywish Did he first see popping on Soul Train(L.A show)?

[@clydie7006]

big shout out to uploader im sure to convert this from vhs and upload it took forerver

[@bcreighton]

On God ! 🙏🏽

[@CreativeCooley_]

Crazy to see my actual dad Darrel (boogaloo) Cooley at a young age 🤯

[@chaideelove1819]

He was nice.....he was not arrogant he was just good...and he did what he did well....

[@oldskoolfunk71]

Brings back memories when I was a B Boy in my crew street style rockers. Poppin, Lockin, Break Dancing, Graffiti Art, was my life keep the roots Oldskool. B-Boy for life.

[@Loveisthylaw777]

BBOYS FOR LIFE! DON'T STOP THE BODY ROCK

[@dragonballsuper1519]

Michael Jackson sitting on the top of the world, Mario and Luigi about to slay the game industry, Arnold dominating hollywood, the 80s were a simpler time.

[@notavailable9113]

They were dressed beautifully what a great time to be alive 🥰 I was born ‘89 and I always say I missed the party !

[@temporarilyimmortal795]

Artists and athletes

[@alesiawesley9441]

Back in the day's when everyone and their Mama had a Jerry curl

[@staceybishop5944]

Ain't no shame I used to wear the expensive kind billy dee williams used to advertise lol I forgot what name it was called

[@1stone379]

Pops still has Oil Sheen...😂😂😂😂

[@iiRun2uz]

slick backs for the mexicans

[@seancomeaux]

back when ppl used to bring their own uniqueness to each dance, not a time when everyone was a copycat. Loves it!

[@mitchellcowan945]

True to this day. Heard of tic tok?

[@wavezz2038]

@@mitchellcowan945 pls stop

[@rbst5154]

Fr everyone is trend followers nowadays

[@MusicFan.....]

@@mitchellcowan945 Tik tok dances are unorginal,Uncool and Boring.Popping and Locking(Breaking)is Unique,Cool and Iconic.

[@a.c.6475]

Hmm!....back in the late 70's to early 80's every region of Cali had their own specific styles aside from just straight poppin! We took pride in developing our styles, never even thought about copying/biting someone else's style! Back then, you had to travel to different cities to see different styles, when poppin became mainstream is when all the copycats jumped on the bandwagon!

[@islandbee]

Man, I hope these brothas are still in good health and pop lockin'. I was only 8 when Breakin' and Beat Street came out and watched both at the theaters. Those were the days! If only we had mp3 technology back then, it would save a brotha's budget when it came to batteries to power our ghetto blasters.....yup haven't used that term in 30 years...lol

[@teelee3084]

islandbee Now you know a couple of them were victims of gun violence

[@pisswizard]

@@teelee3084 bummer. They weren’t the most articulate people but this seemed like they were possible of doing something worthwhile.

[@CrowdPleeza]

To those interested in the music. The first song in the intro is: Looking For The Perfect Beat by the Soul Sonic Force. The second song is called I.O.U by Freeez.

[@montrosewilliams3183]

I remember one my friends moved to Detroit from Inglewood Cali and another from the South Bronx in 1981. We had a crew with multiple skills in high school. Man oh Man how time flies.

[@samo222]

much love to you og

[@-Dr.J]

damn, them young cats are good. its amazing what can happen, when kids can aquire a hobby on their own and not have it forced on them. respect to these guys.

[@PRIMOCITY]

Real OG break dancers

[@babyboom64]

They were mentioning the ABC market on Manchester, If they were in that neighborhood, this is L.A. near where Manchester Av. intersected with Hoover St.

[@erikduque9539]

That dude in the All white and the Big C suit was masterful!’ 👏🏽👏🏽 🎶🎵

[@bigcurt011]

I remember my uncle started the keystone poppers in compton and my other uncle was from the truckers poppin at its finest

[@derrrick7759]

Love the Poppin culture with the West Coast Funk. 🔥❤️💯

[@drstew1]

It’s incredible how this moves around the globe because very old Ethiopian tribes do something similar when they dance chest shoulders ticking. Beautiful. I used go see battles and see moves that blew me away.

[@glenfordgreen3277]

Yo this is nice. Have you noticed that people from the Hood, inner cities are very creative, respect to America for developing this art form

[@jesse3229]

That’s awesome. I remember ABC market right at the corner of Manchester and San Pedro. That was grocery market to shop for food. Good times..

[@dwightthementor]

Right. Eastside. This is not Compton.

[@jaysonwastell2602]

This look like 83/92 Hoover neighborhood, that ABC store was off Manchester and Hoover

[@mdcool3487]

Mr. Cooley used to kill it at the halftime football games at lock high school back in the day.

[@ltajda]

Yea he’s my dad

[@samo222]

@@ltajda that’s really cool. Much love to you your pops and your family

[@samo222]

based

[@1stone379]

"I practice from about 10 in th morning til about 5 oclock" Hear that?? Real b boy shit.

[@RuffhouseNC]

Facts

[@nursebank]

So much better than the today new school salah bull crap.. The new school has lost its charm.. I love oldschool

[@alohawg]

Agree, back in the day was raw and honest free style art, and ofcourse for the love and fun of it.

[@nader91]

i couldn't agree more

[@loupino]

Definitely the 80’s, pop locking in the 70’s was all over LA, man miss those simple times. No hate just love for music and enjoyment from all over LA.

[@AdverbsAndNouns]

These were the golden years

[@mentaltreats5783]

Talented kids they were!

[@Nortekman]

Those Jheri Curls are still dripping from that Soul Glo

[@robertbrown3515]

i went to compton high went john an tic alot 80s. tic alot live around from me in compton tic alot is still alive pop locking i dont what happen to john they was the real deal when came popping from og Ricc Rocc es cpt

[@kidkully]

Robert Brown did you know Jerome coulter?

[@MosesHightower]

Darrel "Boogaloo" reminds me a bit of Mr. Wave from the NYC Breakers.

[@daniellimas7446]

Dam he said ABC market wow i remember that. ..

[@chip12424]

Darryl Cooley, Locke High School Saint Class of 1985!

[@maxwellndlovu4461]

Wow this is heart warming. I seen Tic A Lot in one of the resent Poppin video and he is still killing it.

[@slLLyhumans]

Thgis is classic early 80's , just before crack cocaine hit....it was a very innocent time of people dancing and listening to music .

[@Phlexxon]

Thank you for putting this stuff up man.

[@tinarm9384]

The song is I.O.U. By Freeez

[@roastpickle2172]

Ha! Those are my high-school classmates!❤🔥👍🏿

[@bobbyweiss2583]

Class of 84 Rulz!

[@ginogarcia8730]

amazing piece of dance history

[@august5films]

This takes me way back. Thanks for sharing.

[@PennyRed1]

Our HISTORY OUR CULTURE BLACK POWER, BLACK PRIDE

[@DARKCHILD1313]

Best type of dancing ever

[@ladderboyz602]

I’m here in 2020 watching pop lock vids

[@andremackey370]

It was filmed on 107th.street on Normandie and budlong..Los Angeles CA...Darrell Boogaloo Cooley...thank you for all the kind words...God bless 🙌

[@jaimedeleon8900]

great video.

[@trevinhickman9022]

What's unique about pop lockin is looks eerily similar to Egyptian wall paintings of Egyptians in different poses....

[@dingane0039]

That's why a certain move is called Tuttin

[@trevinhickman9022]

@@dingane0039 interesting huh

[@erikawright8134]

Yeah the ghetto or inner city called that Vogueing with the hand popping movements. Madonna copied the dance everyone was doing in the hood and did the song "Vogue". That has been going on since the 70's or earlier with black folks.

[@Bubbles-bq3vr]

This is really good stuff.

[@jaoftochniet]

I love it. This is exactly what you need to succeed in live.

[@AmericanBornGrappler]

Great to see this video truly old-school popping

[@kioshi-]

I’m so glad my dad showed me the movie Breakin, I wouldn’t be pop lockin now if I have never seen the movie. My dad was a breakdancer in 80s in Puerto Rico

[@NFRMRY]

Hella dope!

[@BidenHarris-fc7ld]

I dunno but this makes me cry...TEARS OF JOY!

[@CrenshawCush]

Poppin Lockin was before breakin: This like 80-82. A gang big homies took their dance names over into the gang bang era happening at the same time.

[@Ozone_aka_Oz1]

Always respect to the roots, represent that all over, from my country to the world 🙌🏽✨💯

[@DocLock]

This was TOO DOPE!!

[@swishersweets787]

They some straight crips 😂😂😂

[@kimc2662]

We did make a documentary about Dr. Dre and music producer Jimmy Iovine. The pop locking portion was a small part about Dre’s beginnings. It’s called The Defiant Ones and its on HBO.

[@jd1ify]

*old school feels innate because it was so new around this time that it was super authentic! now the moves and rhythm i could say is better* *but its doesn't have what this vid is giving me even the other crazy animation vids with millions of views*

[@sirpoppinchuck]

I see that shoulder drop hit!!!! Single shoulder double shoulder drop .Lots of people used to do that back in the day! Tick-a- lots Jeri curl on poplock!!!!! 🤣🤣🤣Such a cool lil clip.

[@glow7272]

Hope these guys are doing well!

[@TheCiskoKidd]

If you remember ABC Market , you’re and OG ..

[@aazablue]

I just been blessed 🙌 🙏 😌

[@40datboysha]

These types of videos represent West Coast popping. Not that corny movie from the ‘80s BREAKIN’. That movie had us looking like clowns.

[@dimviesel]

JEHRI CURL!!! follow the drip follow the drip

[@alvidama151]

popping was the ting and come from the old days of drum beats by the blacks and first nation ,, the raw form off it was country dance , my grandday had a dance from traditional and it was the same popping movement !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@BigHitMan_]

1996 AFS CREW CHICAGO CHAPTER 2 BBOY COMET I LEARNED HOW TO POP WITH THIS VID ON VHS IN CHICAGO AS A KID!!!!

[@moogeleban8838]

Timeless classic

[@ucan810]

Thank you on the upload and sharing! this footage is a jewel in the nile. Cheers once again ;)

[@beng.555]

Miss those days popping in your deecee khakis and those black knit kicks...big ups to blue city lockers, midnight lockers ez lockers, heckle and jeckle from carson..boogaloo shrimp from wilmas..pookie and mantan from harbor city..sir camelot from pedro and fish from compton..the innovators

[@feelinfroggy1733]

A million times better than Tiktok!!!

[@mfumobaloyi5252]

Whos still here in 2020🙋🏿‍♂️🤖🔥🔥

[@gg-jr5lo]

Damn I miss the Jheri curls

[@errolwatler923]

Yea are group was remote control breakdown from the 80's! The L.A TWINS ERIC AND ERROL ,JEROME HAYES AN FRED ,ONE OF THE BEST GROUPS OF ALL TIME$!! YEA PEOPLE FOR GOT ABOUT US WE MOVED TO TEXAS IN THE 80'S

[@tyreejosey1137]

COMPTON CALIFORNIA WOW THIS IS HISTORY

[@CoreyChambersLA]

Awesome dance artists!

[@ROLLIN-DUB]

Long Beach in early 80’s OMG was so fun- yeah we was bangin but we always had time to pop cuh lol

[@missbliss4life]

Good quality upload. Thanks.

[@papaknocks64]

2020 vision👊

[@fonzieskatesurf]

They're all dressed so nice too

[@eliciajones7676]

Rip John Jr I miss you bro

[@soulburst]

Thats how we do it on the west coast south central LA

[@laker4life616]

This is classic....real og shit...fuck what color the skin is...i respect this ....wished i knew how to poplock back in high school...shit was tight...

[@rebelfountain85]

I can smell all that jheri juice like it was yesterday

[@daniellimas7446]

This guy said ABC market!

[@eliciajones4955]

Rip John john

[@kimc2662]

We are trying to track down any of the original members from this video. For a documentary. It's the Mysterious Dance Co. Darrel Cooley "Boogaloo" John Riggs "Electricmo", Micheal Dolberry "Touche" or Jerry Hall "Tic-a-lot". Does anyone out there know of any way to contact any of these guys?

[@rodneycaldwell1310]

+Kim C i'll get back to you playa! I can get you in contact with them!!

[@rodneycaldwell1310]

+Kim C contact Kool boy OG Poplocker on Facebook he has all of their contacts he's will be expecting a message from you

[@kimc2662]

Hi Rodney, thanks for getting back to me.. we were actually able to track it down but thanks again!

[@rodneycaldwell1310]

contact kool boi on Facebook he's friends with them

[@pimpinpimpin9630]

Kim C I C TIC A LOT ALL THE TIME. I JUST SEEN HIM LIKE 2 WEEKS AGO ON 43RD AND CRENSHAW

[@Khultan]

Damn!!! Never seen this. They're really good.

[@cartierbrown9143]

THESE ARE THE FOUNDERS WEST COAST FO SHO

[@oso8146]

Back in those days everybody was slim now everybody is really chunky

[@heavystarch100]

Ah memories!! Reminds how much I hate today's un masculine dancers!!

[@TheEnglish1966]

Thank you for uploading..

[@alfredomenavasquez2994]

Shout out to Robert Perez, Aka "Wizard" whom since 1988,passed away, but put Huntington Park on the Los Angeles Pop circa of the first pioneer of that time, showing out, to the likes, of Boogaloo shrimp, taco, and others in Hollywood Blvd, much love

[@Ninopahtia]

Notice the end. The neighborhood is watching from the side and across the street.

[@pistorelo]

West coast pop locking

[@antdogg2946]

Good Times 1984

[@Kawatcho]

Freeez - I.O.U.

[@claysoggyfries]

Jerry curls galore