Larry's Dance Theme - Grandmaster Flash

[@SMC799]

I was an 11 year old little girl, living in Bronx, NY and this song was BIG! Wouldn't changed growing up in NY during these years for nothing! We just about wore our sneaker soles out doing the Rooftop dance to this!

[@kenya4907]

I was 11 in Brooklyn!! I just sat down next to a weird guy on the A Train and then he blurted out, “La La La La Larry..”. (11/2022) I was like hold up….popped in my headphones 🎧 and put in the KZbin search bar -La La La Larry and boom 🤯- here I am!!! A blast from the past I never knew I needed!!! 💿

[@teemoluciano2426]

I’m from LA and we would do the same thing we saw y’all doing on the east coast! I was a junior in high school when I heard this.

[@firing_reyes]

Here in Paterson, NJ we were bopping and break dancing on the blocks! Damn, how times fly, but I’m living it up every day! Mad props to you, girlfriend ❤

[@marioesqueda9534]

Heard this in late 80s with my brother BONES bumping it! I fell in love with Hip Hop with this track among many others! It’s 2024 and will bump Old School till I’m gone! This is underground and this is where I find my Heaven while y’all find y’all hell at! RIP GURU

[@billyclub9733]

Was a 12yr old Bronx white boy rocking out to this one! I was a 1 (&9! IYKYK!) kinda guy. STILL remember every word to this even though I can't remember what I had for breakfast this morning 🤣😳😭😜

[@ajtowin]

Hip Hop culture was NEVER better, FOREVER BLESSED to be an 80s teen growing up in NY!!!! 🗽🗽🗽🗽

[@Bamfism]

FACTS...💯!!

[@finley821]

This Song will never get old. ✊🏿

[@ajtowin]

Neva dat

[@marioesqueda9534]

Classics will only get better as time goes on like this joint!

[@yusufmhassan]

the memories are so deep it brings tears to my eyes

[@Matthew-j9l5e]

Yes mines too

[@Bamfism]

Co-sign!! We used to go crazy when this joint came on 🤓

[@marioesqueda9534]

It’s our modern day Time Machine! What better than classics like this! Much love from Fresno Ca! 559!

[@marioesqueda9534]

@@BamfismI’m grateful for this! Much love from the 559!

[@AveryCovert-ic4hw]

I herd this when i was 5. My big brother had this on vinyl that was 1985 in NC. Blew my young mind hip hop forever

[@MrJames07111]

i love how you can here the small poppin noise from the needle and record...especially at the end of the record.

[@micksterminator3]

It's big poppin noise lol. This is a dirty, dusty ass record 😅

[@garymclean1679]

...still sounds good to this day.

[@kennyking8016]

Yes indeed, Still make me move and groove.

[@biginpittsburgh]

You can bet that these guys and many of the artists back in the day weren't hanging out in the studio for weeks and months at a time trying to get it "perfect". They went in, did their thing and got it down...they got it right.

[@BiZmOeT]

Still gives me goosebumps!!

[@BeckyPoC]

Summer 1985 - the R&B station from Indy played this every morning about the same time. Reminds me of summer at IU. Thanks to whoever put this up.

[@mannish72]

POWER 105.7FM WTLC! Naptown, Baby! #317

[@MRantsL]

im 43 yrs old and this song and a few of whodini's song got me into hiphop when i was 15/16 yrs old, i still love hophop,mostly oldskool . Hiphop always alive

[@RandalWinegarden]

I'm 40 and also love it

[@tonyorob]

So many great memories from those days.

[@sandboxmafiayoyo1477]

Remember waiting on this to come on the radio...so I could record it...on my tape..

[@tommytuckerable]

yes

[@phillyphil1513]

JVC boomboxes, Maxell cassettes, RECORD button pushed.

[@winstonjohnson2340]

That's how My Dj Lie started. Pause/Reocrding mix tapes and then bringing them in to school to show the few b-boy mans in the yard during break the "new tunes" that they'd never heard. I'm gladly still a DJ still to this day 40 years later Brotha

[@greggrant42088]

i miss the Golden Era

[@mrlencho7686]

2021 at 50yrs young still my jam most of my homies I would pop with that jammed this one for me have passed on great memories.

[@sirresebethea]

Same here at 55 boy this took me way back to my high school days

[@howardwilson5181]

Would love to have those days back!

[@erickstanford519]

I would, all day

[@patrickheidelberg8104]

Same here

[@stevecollierk1859]

Still here son and Kelly

[@londonkycosub1383]

Me too bro me too

[@crazycutz8072]

So you don't think that life is better now? Because the hardship of these rappers actually helped us to understand the downside of the US government and their racist throw Down on black ppl

[@larrylloyd9234]

this song is my national anthem

[@larryyoung1103]

Larry Lloyd yours too?

[@mikecason952]

This song was in my head all day so I played it in my car LOUD and couldn’t get out until I heard it about 5 times took me back to the days 😎

[@mrlencho7686]

Yup Lencho is aka Lawrence aka Larry Word

[@hellowellallen]

You’re lucky. I just missed it. My name is Harry 😂 I need to create Harry’s theme 💡😮💡!!!

[@RyanJohnson-ox3py]

Takes me back to my breakdancing days when hip hop and rap sounded better than today's rubbish

[@sirresebethea]

Real Talk 💯💯💯💯

[@Bamfism]

💯💯💯!

[@rhondamadosh8429]

It's made into the music, the pops and crackles. think it adds to the awesomeness.

[@ladoshawright]

This was the jam back in the day.... la la la larry o!

[@sirresebethea]

RDT Cares yessss 85 back in my high School Days

[@geegod9122]

Larry love not O lool

[@user-qu1iv1cx6k]

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[@pepdogg513]

This group is one of the corner stones of Hip Hop / Rap, and even though it was somewhat new to us back in the day, it was done with style, finesse, class, and most importantly, you could understand the words and meaning of the song. These guys were the foot soldiers of the Hip Hop / Rap world, and I say that because it was raw lyrical talent, and the mixin' and scratchin' was all hands on talent as well. Can't nothin' mess wit dat ol skool.

[@liteskinnedbobbybrown6256]

Their chemistry was awesome!All of these brothers could rhyme & they adjusted from the basic early style of hip hop,to a more current style of that mid 80s golden era.I used to listen to their show in hot 97 back around 94 and their freestyle ability was off the chain! #salute to one of the greatest groups to ever do it!!

[@HaitiXchange]

I've been looking for this song for months! It's not on Spotify or anywhere else! Thanks for posting it. La la la la la Larry!! LOL!!!!

[@ESD3X]

i literally cried when my tape of this popped because I played it so much-hip hop was so new and pure then, the breakdown at 1:50 is timeless!!!

[@cornutus11]

The master turntabilist along with the brothers who can work that harmony as they rap. Thanks for posting this video.

[@ADR.Hi-Gain]

OMG- I grew up listening to this!!! What memories.. Thank You for posting.

[@AcClay44]

Even the static at the end of the record is tight!!!

[@Sanjulo1]

No fronting at at all ! True love and fun for the Original Hip Hop Culture ! 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@leapfrog4561]

Still in a class of its own.

[@johnhammond2773]

I miss the old records when you spinning this it brings me back to to those memories of old albums hearing that static when that needle touch that Groove thanks you Grandmaster Flash

[@fazebrown9442]

I met Larry Love working for the Parks DEPT in NYC. Back in 1991. Probably retired now

[@pepper5224]

this brings back memories. Warwick hotel after prom 1985

[@hgaston66]

You are clearly from Philly. We went to the Warwick after prom in '84

[@treyman8064]

ode to all the real break dancers!!! MUCH LOVE!!!

[@rorydory1983]

so cool i never thought i would hear this song again!

[@tobyduvall74]

Yo this song is in my veins the 1st time I heard it on kiss with Red I was blowed away literally.

[@teemoluciano2426]

I heard it in 1984 or 85 on 1580KDAY am in LA

[@MrLarryDallas45]

Same here brother!

[@aubreyboyd4066]

WBLS all day!!!!!!

[@mikeypolstein272]

@@aubreyboyd4066 NY I believe it 107.5 fm

[@Samlol23_drrich]

@@aubreyboyd4066Frankie Crocker?

[@Doobie1975]

just heard this on Music Choice's "Hip Hop Classics" station and it still blows me away.

[@MrReggiereg54]

i mis those days

[@williamtorres8641]

This was our Jam in Bushwick , Greenpoint and Willamsburg Brooklyn Shit 💯80's 🇵🇷 👍💪

[@tjonesauto]

I'm 52 and I woke up thinking about this song for no reason. Glad I found it! My kids are gonna love it!!!

[@101Rakkasan4life]

Man this song brings back some good memories!

[@mr.orisha52]

From 8th grade to 9th grade. Super memories. peace from South Carolina

[@chunkybacker]

This is classic 80's rap -- the best!

[@HonestAdonis2]

There was nothing like this in it's day.. not that I remember.

[@jayt1104]

When his hop was about "Peace, love and having fun!"

[@ricardor973]

This was on my boombox. The one with the red dot alarm in the middle. Man! Wish I could go back in time.

[@Oldschool4evr]

A True Hip-Hop Classic, Pumas with the Fat Laces,Lee Suits,Name Belt Buckles, and Kangols Couldn't tell us we weren't Fly.....

[@sirresebethea]

Still rocking it in 2024

[@lovangels55]

Wow, it's been a long time since I have heard this song, thanks for sharing.

[@freethoughtmc]

Working out on the treadmill to this right now......brings back memories of my breakin' days. LOL, I also saw larry love while watchin' BEAT STREET on cable a few days ago. Greatest breaker ever......

[@lennylenz]

I remember hearing the instrumental first then just before they were due to perform in Baltimore I heard this version. Being an old B-Boy myself i wasn't impressed when I saw Larry dance, but hearing this live was the greatest! They didn't rap over tracks back then. They didn't run out of breath and hold the mic to the audience to fill in whle they huffed and puffed either unless it was call and responce like with the birthday Rhyme.

[@crazycutz8072]

I think you are thinking about those old cats still performing.. because the new rap acts don't do that

[@sheenanyc]

Completely different from the short album version....This was earlier? Never heard this before- it's glorious!

[@bklyngutta]

DAAAAAMN!!!!! A true classic!!! I remember skating at Empire Roller Rink to this!!! BROOKLYN STAND UP!!!!

[@SCMAN42]

Thank u for posting one of my all time favorites.

[@GiselaNYC1]

This was the jam back in da days & remember Roxy's... they always played this jam there. Grand Master Flash & the Furious 5 had many jams starting in the late 70's... awesome jams

[@kiwanishinton9410]

this was the song, good hiphop without the filth of today

[@erickstanford519]

You feel me

[@tyronehamlette7786]

@@erickstanford519 @1

[@erickstanford519]

@@tyronehamlette7786 all day

[@mikeypolstein272]

Really check out song" "Veronica" 1985'...gotta remember the track "I want some P***y"1986 by 2 live crew... The time wasn't that innocent!

[@mookeychase0907]

I was always amazed at 4:08 Flash scratched "Aint no half Steppin" backwards, Step step step step step step step step..Half half half half..no no no no..aint aint aint aint...Yo this was 24 years ago when nobody else was doin this kinda sh*t Flash was always innovating thats why he's the best ever beside the fact that he invented cuttin and scratching, and when Jazzy Jeff and the younger Cats came he still stayed right at the top for a looong time.

[@juanshaftpatel7488]

but hes still broke

[@cockatootledo]

@@juanshaftpatel7488 Money does not buy happiness. I bet he is happy he made this amazing track to pave the way for other artists.

[@juanshaftpatel7488]

@@cockatootledo i bet hes unhappy eating sardines for dinner... you must be a poor too

[@cockatootledo]

@@juanshaftpatel7488 at least people know who he is noone knows you dude. And I am not poor but, I do not need things because when you die they don't come with you. Sorry you are so angry for no reason.

[@calebsdad0315]

@Juan Shaft Patel, keep flipping burgers bro

[@xavstarclp]

First heard on WHBI 105.9 FM in New York. Mr. Magic's Rap Attack Show, Phil Barry's Real Radio Show, & The Awesome Two show.

[@bernaebeatty3462]

Wow my old 🏫 mix hip hop jam way back in the day my favorite stuff LARRYS. 💘

[@tdefurio]

I first had this song on cassette back in the day. It was on a Jive records Battle of the DJS east vs west coast, or something like that. Loved it for the start...hoping to find a clean copy to be able to put on a old school mix cd.

[@herdHistruth]

The record poppin brings back mammories 🤔😏

[@davidmoody718]

It was 1986 when I was 18 in high school with my gazelle glasses and my Addidas sneakers and a red flat top . At that time this was a big hit on z100fm radio. And speaking of radios I had more than one boomboxes back then.

[@GiselaNYC1]

OMG...this was the jam...love it...thank u Vicky...I still have this on a cassette...LOL wow back in da days...I think I use 2 go 2 Roxy's when this came out.

[@tsaunders71]

I saw Grand Master Flash and The Furious Five back at the old Charlotte, NC Coliseum perform this jam. Larry had on a red boxer type cape doing his thing. Those where the days!

[@uthmanamoni]

I served Larry when he came to The Nati with that whack dancing style. Where is he now a days?

[@Juan321C]

Now that's that shit!!!! Been trying to find this for so many years! Thanks for the post. Taking me way back to the cardboard and linoluem days, carrying baby powder just to make sure we slide more. Oh yeah, and Hip Hop had absolutely NO FORMULA! Just heart and desire, now that's ART!!!

[@miker122st]

kick it larry....kick it

[@kennethjones5827]

the beat is still sick!!!!

[@deejayb72]

Yes absolutly incredible. First Dope use of the sampling keyboard.

[@insubordinatenyctv3627]

This is the first rap song I ever fell in love with.

[@bigjohnfury5662]

keef cowboy...the real McCoy

[@marcusjohnson2179]

I remember they use to bump this & the instrumental all the time!! The good ol days!!

[@prophecyjackson184]

Had to listen to this wanted to be brought back to a special time

[@GiselaNYC1]

I love this jam... I remember I had moved to the BX at this time. Love it

[@mrwink6481]

Yooo.. I must have went through hundreds of raegae and Jamaican songs to find the name of this jawn!! The Bass BE Bangin !!(RIBBIT)!! JUMP TO JUMP DO IT I MOVE YOUR BODY!! THIS IS WINK from uptown Philly (WADSWORTH AVE)!

[@GiselaNYC1]

I hear u Jimmy, I didn't have to wear glasses either, my sister rocked Cazal's cause she felt like it she needed them for reading. LOL. But I was always rocking fresh gear and breaking out the cardboard box too...LOL

[@ajtowin]

Miss deez dayz in NY, 80s was So much fun!!!🔥🔥🔥😃

[@SoulLegendsRadio]

Used to rock this outside Belfast City Hall back around '85

[@stephenclose2468]

Now yer talkin. Best days 🎶🎶🎶😎

[@chinita41]

i think it was roxy's or latin quarters dayummm what memories ;)

[@dianaandolini7440]

I used to dance this in the Devil's Nest in the Bronx

[@Magnum-qw8su]

Palladium till 5 a.m. w/two Latin ladies, columbian ND puerto rican, I was the man (my twisted opinion being a pasty face) that night, now it's just one of the many memories I have that make me smile ND ppl thinking loca in the cabasa 🤪, idgaf, Jesus Christ is #1 ND everything else is secondary (Romans 10:9-13 kjv, get proper knowledge and represent (james 1:21 kjv), (1 Corinthians 6:19 kjv < some call it guilty conscience 👍🙏✝️ listen to: audio book of enoch on you tube, God gave us our whole lives, have eyes to see, ears to hear, and a mind to understand and retain His word, God's word is true, God is true to His word, you're only as far away from God as your knees are from the floor (Steven denun), we are all sinners, but God always gives a way out (biblical), repent(change), and give your heart, mind and life over to Him, ALL sins are forgiven EXCEPT blasphemy of the Holy Spirit (biblical), we are not perfect (the spirit is willing but the flesh is weak-biblical),we will sin again, just continue to repent, thank Him for chastisements (God chastises the son He loves - biblical), don't go to Him just when times are bad, give thanks daily to our Creator. (Stuff just flows out like I'm not doing it anymore🤣 🤔✝️

[@curtismackjr.6108]

Epic!!!

[@stopstella]

the first time I heard this it was a bootleg tape from New York City...the cassette tape itself had weird tags on it! loved it! great stuff ...early 80's

[@Silo-Ren]

@SMC799 holy shit....me and my boy E were thinking of the roof top dance while we were listing to this...thinking no one would remember the roof top dance...then we read your comment.... Nice to know we were not alone. :)

[@victoriablackburnc]

i love this, and you, thank you for posting! i am enjoying.

[@bi-ni-guatu928]

wow......what a classic!!!!!

[@Doobie1975]

love this song, it sure makes me feel happy and goofy!

[@AngelArtists]

We only had the edited dub version here in the UK. And that was on the album.

[@stephenclose2468]

That's the version I remember as well. So this is brand new to me. Result 😎

[@MrReggiereg54]

old skool all the way

[@luizeduardonascimentoluize4924]

Reggie Pierce

[@brianindy1]

I remember when I first heard it on 89.3 in indianapolis it was a after school radio station Ben Davis high school at that time that's where you was getting ur rap music couldn't wait to get my tape deck ready to record some shit

[@windwalker316]

Roller skating

[@mookeychase0907]

The beauty and authenticity of a record...

[@bernardsmith2351]

Grandmaster Did out block party on the 80's in Brooklyn at time it was the Badeded D.j in out area.......

[@ajtowin]

Respect to the Originators of Rap/Hip Hop music. 80s best decade all time den d 90s.

[@oh10brwngrl]

CLASSIC!! Used to skate to this on Sunday's. Lock lock lock lock lock it lock it lock it

[@pamelascott1130]

i remember doing that dance

[@hellowellallen]

This is one of my all time faves still to this day.

[@antoniogambardella785]

this is rap classic 💣🔥

[@chunkybacker]

in the high school parkin' lot fter school with the speakers blasting!! It don't get any better than this.....

[@TheAstroKid]

This was one of my favorite song on Pirate radio back in the 80's

[@gilwood7530]

Dude did the crab walk when I saw them years ago...TOO COOL

[@chinita41]

wow what a classic,i forgot all about this song, thanks vicky.

[@benjaminrobles32]

The Boogie Down Bx. Kingsbridge Rd.. Jerome Ave.. Grand concourse! St. James park..

[@jozimperial9140]

196 kingsbridge jhs45 ..dr joz

[@XTRABIG]

Grand Concourse. 149th St

[@mookeychase0907]

Im glad you got the picture of Melle Mel Dannt Dan,(Kid creole) Raheim,Cowboy and Scorpio(Mr Ness) Cuz this is my fav Group def deserve to be in the R&R Hall of Fame. I loved the track but I was a lil sad cuz during this time they had broke up Mel took Cowboy and Scorp with him and added King Lou Clayton Savage and Vicious Lee was their DJ while Flash took Creole & Raheim and added Lavon. They took a shot at Mel & them "instead of steppin off you might can step on" I aint like the static.

[@yaoblack3579]

I remember when this was the BANGER!! laaaaaary!

[@ajtowin]

Mann when this hit the radio airwaves in NYC OMG!!!🗽🗽🗽🗽