Popping Legends: Boogaloo Shrimp and Poppin Taco

[@MiRi-zi4wp]

Michael Chambers and Bruno Falcon ushered in this New and Unique Urban style of dancing back in the 1980s on the streets of LA. Two of the best to ever do it. Period.

[@eliasdiaz3639]

Great dancer's shimp and taco! The best breakdancers! Boogalo too!

[@DeanDyer2000]

WATCHING THIS FOOTAGE OF BOOGALOO SHRIMP & POPIN TACO BRINGS BACK MEMORIES AND IS VERY UPLIFTING TO ANY NEW COMER TO THE POPING SCENE. THESE TWO ARE FANTASTIC AND STILL BRILIANT TO WATCH

[@yaknow11]

80's miss ya

[@Maher890]

These two are my favorite pop style dancers. They embodied the Rhythm so well.

[@homeso9009]

Both of them. Are amazing specially michael chambers

[@powerbad696]

Most of this footage I've never seen before!!!WOW.Shrimp and Popping Taco are THA BEST breakers EVER!!! Then and NOW!!!!AWESOME.

[@MilitantX1]

No one can touch these boys! No one! Pure legends!

[@shadyganley8877]

I'm 51 years old and this video just made me break into the windmill! I've been in the hospital now for 3 weeks and I'm starting to get some feeling back in my legs the doctors say with some Rehabilitation I should be able to walk in 6 to 8 months right now the only difficult thing is trying to get around with this colostomy bag

[@jacklandaupresents]

GenX, the only true generation. Best wishes for a continued recovery 👊🏻

[@tonytay4320]

How did Rehab go hope you windmilling and pop-locking

[@mysteryof7]

Both of these guys were cold as ice back then. Two different styles but both on point when it came to executing each movement precisely.

[@jackieantares7937]

RIP POP N TACO ♥️♥️♥️♥ Love you forever ️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️ Love you too Boogaloo ♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️ You're the best in the world 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

[@emgee2022]

Turbo was the man. I grew up in Wilmington Ca in the mid 80's. Every body talked about him and this kid name coco. It was special to us cause they was from our infamous town. Everybody was pop locking thanks to them. Great memories.

[@aaandrade5]

I used to visit my cousins in Wilmas in that time but only during VAcations because I am from mexico.

[@toddk8150]

Shrimp and Taco were the best poppers of all time. Hands down. Precision moves and great execution..

[@GekoPish]

Well I knew people who were as good if not better than these guys. They won numerous cups too. But these guys had Movies to promote their faces. That doesnt make them the best. They are great for sure.

[@DJObiSmalls]

@@GekoPish Go sleep bro. Shrimp... you can train and be like... Taco, you can't be taught that. That's God-given talent.

[@shadyganley8877]

Yo talkin poppo

[@the_trooper_72]

​@@GekoPish listen... Taco inspired a whole nation.. Same as shrimp..!!! That makes them the best!! 😎👌🏻💯

[@RenzoPeterson153]

​@@DJObiSmallsyou have that backwards

[@OriginalKingPython]

Love the video! Great job Ice T! Taco & Shrimp (my homies) are tight! They represented.

[@Airwrek1]

Nice job! Great compilation of footage & right choice of music

[@stephenschlachter6990]

Michael I want to say you are my idol you are the reason I wanted to learn how to Break Dance😎! Thank You!

[@alltruenatural]

I agree. Still poppin and lockin, Old school had and still has a great vibe, it doesn't quit.

[@sejlali1704]

Can't tell you how much we loved poppin taco and boogaloo shrimp in England in the early eighties! I would have killed for the jacket that taco had in the "breakdance" movie. Old skool,respect.

[@MikeDiack]

True indeed. Breakin blew our minds here in summer 84

[@BottomOfThaBay]

look, plain and simple, these two are THE greatest poppers ever, during their period and even to this day. They're legends in their own right. and none of the kats that have come along since can hold a candle to them. 80's owned the breaking lifestyle. im glad to have been lucky enough to grow up during these times!

[@Taino963]

After all these years cant think of anyone that is better than Popppin Taco and Boogaloo Shrimp!

[@JerryJonesstepdown.]

Pop and Taco was my cousin's teacher in long beach .. the garbage down to the driveway was filled with students. I was visiting my cousin that weekend in 1982. Watching it all. I had no idea I was in the presence of a legendary dancer who help MJ do the moon walk Now can anyone confirm the talk that pop and Taco learned the moon walk from turbo /boogaloo shrimp?

[@bigdeal6336]

​@@JerryJonesstepdown. the moonwalk was created in the early 1940s by Bill Bailey thats who inspired MJ to preform it and a lot of his footwork

[@kidbean1]

These two make the film. They were untouchable !!!

[@quackinggee7500]

Thet did but compete against eachother

[@tlovesunshine2761]

Big Ups! Thank You for this video, perfect song. Thank You!

[@1980Triumph]

These two were the best out of all the dancers during the mid 80's. They were Michael Jackson's favorite dancers from the era.

[@djxn_]

awesome i’ve seen michael done some of these dances

[@marquisclay6985]

More like early 80s. 83 n 84

[@earthboundPSI]

my fav two characters

[@711marvel]

Boogaloo shrimp aka turbo was and still is the best. He inspired so many.

[@joeljuarezrip]

711marvel Taco taught MJ a lot of moves.

[@loweni7460]

@@joeljuarezrip And Jeffery Daniels and Michael Boogaloo Shrimp Chambers taught MJ a lot of moves and perfected his moonwalk

[@gkgkjghiguggg527]

Taco smokes Shrimp!

[@78758nate]

Aka Urkel Bot

[@TboneTenEighties]

When i first seen the movie Breakin,i always knew there was something special about Chambers and Taco. The scene in this vid when there dancing together in the barber shop is freakin amazing!.

[@obeahuk]

Some rare classic footage. Thanks for the upload ;-)

[@billford5553]

The Best ever was these guys

[@BrianNuccio]

Dope video man. Chambers is probably the best dancer that has ever existed.

[@alonzoshell4222]

Best popper. Not dancer. Mike has that title!

[@josephodiase174]

These guys are better than Michael

[@troysmauldon3669]

Boogaloo Shrimp's forward and backwards float walk also mind- blowing🤯 just look of the reactions from the Asian kids who witnessed it all live and in person 💯🔥🏆🐐

[@ryno6040]

Poppin Taco is one of the best to ever do it.

[@TheCmgcharles]

Super super great!!! Great job!!

[@megajamluisnjaz]

Thanks for posting this amazing video....smiled from beginning to end. AMAZING!!!!

[@ramonluna1885]

Soy MOMAN'S BREAKER actualmente tengo 53 años y en😂seño Break dance en mí ciudad (Concordia Entre Ríos en Argentina).....Para las generaciones actuales y futuras ...el Breaking no morirá jamás.!!!

[@4aflores]

hell yeah, it's been 25 years since I heard this jam, one of my favorites. Man it takes me back and I miss those good ol days. Thanks for posting this jam, videos not too bad.

[@djgeeter]

thanks so much for this!! damn ICE T is old hahahaa its funny cuz hes even older than me and Im 37 been with this scene most of my life ! these guys are PROPER dancers, they started most of ...everything !

[@USCBeastmode]

Simply the best ever💙💜💜💙 RIP Taco

[@markchonajr8938]

Grew up watching these two dance icons. To date in my 50s I can still do all those exact moves, with precision.

[@rayquelleruggs4080]

bugaloo/turbo/chambers was the best of all time.. Both men represented both cultures well..i loved it back then.there was no sides.we just wanted to see them dance..they were awesome.

[@rayquelleruggs4080]

bugaloo isolation locks was crazy .taco never lift his leg fully to execute certain moves...

[@jaguar400pk]

they where both the dancers who got my attention back then in the movie Breakdance.For me they got the best moves from all the dancers in that movie.simple as that!!!

[@MrMmafan111]

Well done for puttin that together and puttin it up.Total class man!!Im also 40 and popped and animated threw the 80's/early 90's,original hip hop is coming back guy's,true art indeed,proper moves,executed well not jumping around like ur drunk like many stand up streetdancers today.They were so original and the best!!Tacco and shrimp forever...

[@topgeezer-g3m]

what a tune!!! dont think i have listened to an extended version of this track before....amazing tune!!. still so tight all these years later!!!

[@cecimartinez1777]

TACO , LOLLIPOP, MICHEAL CHAMBERS ADOLFO QUIEÑONES... NO WORDS!!FRICKIN ICONS!!🥰🥰🥰

[@joshlevy3480]

You can't beat the original old school!!!

[@mauriciocarrasco9239]

Quien lo sigue disfrutando a full en este penoso 2024?

[@carlvinmyers6442]

After all these years it's still raw, today's generation just don't know what they missed, we were truly blessed to experience this! 🤗🤭🤫😅

[@BIGDJCUZOSMOKE]

CMON MAN!! CHECC SHRIMP AT 2:42-2:52!! TELL ME HE WONT STILL SERVE ALOT OF THESE CATS TODAY!!

[@jonjonharreld5774]

Dope...Dope...Dope...One Love Fam...

[@keithianlocke]

Taco, Shrimp, and Baby legs made the Breakdance movies legend.

[@Toesucker242002]

They are legends in old school poppin

[@rodneybrimer1712]

I can remember when family took us to see footloose. I was about 12 and hated the movie except the short scene with the sidewalk breakdancer. Back then with no internet we got the boom box and watched breaking on VHS stop pause rewind play lol. My best friend and I would hit high schools talent shows damn good times.

[@alpha01able]

Wow those were the days, I remembered during 6th thru 8th grade we would bring our own card board and beat box's and called out fools we thought we can smoke, but we got that shit handed to us I mean we were ok we even went against our enemies when we lost we shooked hands end up coming together and naming our self's the 4th Street locker's in San Jose CA not only that we got our beat box's taking away got detention, I'm trying to say we suck and yet we had the best times of our lives nothing could not take that from us...

[@greg1503]

Hearing you mention no internet , and VHS rewinding certain scene over and over again reminds me of similar things . When Flashdance came out I was in 10th grade . There was /is a massive mall down the street from my old high school and Macy's department store had a tv in their clothing section and it was playing a continual loop of the breakdancing scene from the movie featuring the Rock Steady Crew . We would go there everyday after school and watch it . It was a big deal...everyone in school...Hey ! Did you hear they're playing the Breakdance scene from Flashdance at Macy's ?? Then I remember Rod Stewart's Young Turks video had one scene of a white popper busting some moves for a minute or so . I'd watch the video just to see that popper . And Robert Plant from Led Zeppelin came out with a song in the early 80s called In the Mood that featured two young black poppers if I recall . I loved that video and song . Thought it was VERY cool a rock God / legend such as Robert Plant had the insight and vision to put a popper in his video . He knew that shit was fire !! 🔥💯❤️

[@geezerparadox]

I was thought how to break dance by these two guys personally they made such a huge impact on my life when I was 9. Hope whatever they maybe up too these days it is good. Cause they where amazing young men whom always had time for all the little kids that would crowd them.

[@edwardsnowden171]

Poppin taco was a beast 2

[@franciscojaviersahaguncisn2209]

80S THE BEST TIMES

[@TheCmgcharles]

Thank you very much for posting this video. It's great for any dancer.

[@derrickjones4483]

All that brings back good ole memeries when I used to breakdance back in 86'...GOOD TIMES,GOOD TIMES ......RIP to SHABBA-DOO.....big ups to BoogaloShrimp ..ps what ever happened to Poppin Taco?✌️

[@nuracaicedo2632]

When I was like 12 years old I had a big crush on turbo

[@AlexGonzalezElsheidy]

Really good dancers whom inspire many.

[@bryantwilliams4027]

Ozone was holding both of these dudes back with that same as routine they always performed....

[@joesoyuno1]

Yea, i was 8 years old and dancing in the streets of oakland. 1984. It was incredible i can't wait for time travel so i can say good bye to this non sense present!!!

[@ddbreakdancer]

Perfect editing of these clips. A true Popper uses the beat as his weapon and @ 1:56 you killed it. Gave me chills!

[@dontworrybehappy8080]

I don't know how many times I'd go to the drive in's with my friends to watch Break'n. Then when it came out on VHS, it was like $80, and I paid the price. One of my personal cult fav's.

[@tabithahicks2926]

Wtf!! Yall just gave me life!! Luuuuuv it

[@cyclops1092]

this is a super cool video thanks for uploading!

[@RICDirector]

Grew up in the 80s....and had no clue this existed! Wowsers! What control and absolute precision.

[@gaffle-411]

James Brown, these two, and Bob Fossee were hands-down the biggest influencers of Michael Jackson’s dance moves.

[@serene1275]

If I could go back to any decade it would be the 1970s. That's when hip hop, rapping and break dancing started. Than live through it all again into the 1980s!!

[@jaguar400pk]

the speed up dubbledance peace from 6.03 was fantastic,i saw it maybey 50 times:-)))

[@crisdaviangiamez356]

old school poppin my time

[@BIGDJCUZOSMOKE]

MAN 6:27-7:05, SHRIMP RIDICULOUS WITH DAT FLOATIN!! ONE PUSH OFF AN HE ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE ROOM!! THEN THAT MOONWALK SAME WAY!!

[@doester423]

Yeah, them boys are FRESH, they look better when they dance together.

[@AntwonDavis-j1b]

Poppin Taco was the illest of all time

[@Knightmare_SmurfENT]

I hope to someday be half as good as these guys! Holy God that was awesomeness in its purest form!

[@militantx0660]

I got much respect and love for Taco. But Shrimp is the man! Once he danced in the movie Breakin' with that broom outside the store on the sidewalk....and...did that "tick-walk" with it...Maaaan! It was over!!! lol!!

[@paulavery8862]

militantx0660 I guess the superiority lies in the fact that he got the main role and taco got the supporting role. I guess that's the way it goes.

[@ThatVAFranchise]

Not necessarily! It all boils down to one's "personal preference". Taco is a beast that is for sure! Not taking anything away from that Legend! But, Shrimps movements just spoke to everything in my being back then so much that it inspired me to develop many of his moves as a base to mine (waaaaaaay back in the day...lol).

[@bluulima8069]

This two dancers are some of the West Coast every got to offer every area in California got their own stories Polynesian and Asian dancers were new to the seen, black dancers were the first kats who brought out that dance only thing with those kats their heads were bigger then what they got to offer..back then and still today

[@ellenrichardson8701]

Agreed, a million times over!!!

[@joeljuarezrip]

militantx0660 Taco taught MJ a lot of moves that’s legendary

[@asheonam]

take me back to the 80's..

[@ibrahimalrajeh-p4d]

Boogaloo shrimp influenced most the popping dancers from the movie brakin 1 and brakin 2 and Michael Jackson learned new moves from boogaloo shrimp and pop n taco he took most of his moves from Jeffrey Daniel but he was good in robot dance and he has his own dancing moves he was smooth in his dance but I respect the originals rip mj rip pop n taco

[@myronsmith2114]

The Japanese we’re looking at Shrimp like he was a God

[@LINDACOSTA-fu7ku]

BEAUTIFUL ❤❤❤

[@AdrianBroadnax]

1:07-1:10 is MIND BLOWING!

[@gaffle-411]

Yep, that was a dope move. Gotta find the original now...

[@pedroportalatin6751]

Those days were better than whats going on today

[@ptrco5]

Great post!

[@deelghtfll]

this sooooo cold straight lovin it

[@BIGDJCUZOSMOKE]

SHRIMP INFLUENCED ME AN MY WHOLE CREW BACC IN THE 80'S!! I MEAN WE WOULD PAY TO SEE THE MOVIE, AN WE WOULD STAY IN THE THEATRE AN WATCH BREAKIN LIKE 5 TIMES A DAY, TRYIN TO LEARN SOME MOVES!! THOSE WERE THE BEST TIMES AS A YOUNG KID THAT GREW UP WITH AN IN HIP HOP FROM THE START, I FEEL SO HONORED TO BE STILL HIP HOPPIN TO THIS DAY!! I JUST ASK THAT YOU YOUNG KIDS UP YA GAME WITH THE MUSIC, CUZ BACC THEN EVERY RAP SONG THAT WAS MADE, WHATEVER COAST IT WAS FROM, IT HAD REAL CONTENT, MEANING, AN SUBSTANCE, AN TODAY YOU KIDS ARE JUST TAKIN RAP FOR GRANTED BECAUSE WE LAYED THE FOUNDATION FOR YALL TO BE ABLE TO BE A PART OF THIS MONUMENTAL MACHINE THAT TOOK OVER POP CULTURE, AN YALL DONT KNOW WHAT HIP HOP MEANS TO PEOPLE WHO WERE INVOLVED WITH IT FROM THE START!! WE VALUE IT, MORE THAN MAKIN MONEY OFF OF IT!! AN THATS WHY THE QUALITY OF TODAYS MUSIC COMPARED TO BACC THEN CANNOT COMPARE!!

[@Variateeeeee]

I hear you bruh but to be clear HIP HOP started in 1971.

[@michelgarcon8457]

@@Variateeeeee hip hop without funk influence actually started after Planet Rock in 1983

[@ThatSmoothOperator]

How the hell does Boogaloo Shrimp make his slides so smooth on concrete wearing goddamn Nikes? DAMN!

[@HawkinsAcademy]

I never figured that out! LOL

[@Thunda1986]

lifts his feet is my best guess

[@barryschwarz]

Me and my brother got very smooth glides in similar Nikes by shaping a flat piece of 3-ply to keep the sole rigid. Toe spins were also easy to do with rigid soles.

[@gaffle-411]

Here he is doing the all-time ULTIMATE GLIDE at the 1:56 mark: kzbin.info/www/bejne/mHKmfH-NZp6Lmqc

[@motocross03087]

Man oh man, these guys and gals were every bit as good as I thought they where 20 years ago.

[@ezdiyilmaz80]

amazing,,if i see this i am so proud on thiss people .that is history .the music is classicc ,special forr thiss video .oh my good ,somthing move in me

[@blancarodriguez2051]

I can't believe I still remember the words to this music 🎵🎶❤️💜👻

[@ramslucas5140]

One thing all OG poppers know is doing your style with finesse!

[@Northcliffevassenger]

you are a beast turbo and taco damnnnnnnnn this is breakdance.

[@arronh02]

Breal I also grew up in WIlmas around that time and remember these guys. I played for the PILOTS with COCO and remembered everyone talking him being in the movie.

[@yaknow11]

Damn these were the days.

[@lorenhooke8986]

Wow amazing

[@trekoobgrier4406]

awesome those were the days

[@thegee001ify]

That forward glide that shrimp did. Wearing green shirt. Fucking amazing. I've never seen anyone do that move before and I've been watching pooping and dance comps a long time.

[@streetfootball81]

Shrimp since wjhs. The Best.

[@ikegrizzly3293]

ice t been around from the beginning, zulu king

[@seriestvgilflorez797]

Que grandes recuerdos,, me dejo el BREAK DANCE,, en los 80s,, en Cali /Colombia,, thanks ✌️😀👍.

[@johnharreld6580]

Coldblooded...Dope...Fam...One Love Fa'Sho...

[@Confidential619]

I like that costume at 3:29 shìts hella badass, reminds of that old tv show "el zorro" from like the 40's maybe or 50's

[@Confidential619]

An those Asians in the background look all surprised an shit like they never seen anything like it before haha.

[@Cakkkes]

omg taco is amaing i 'am so i agree! well he taught mj i totally do fr real!♥ i agree to the enlightenment Woww!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@Eric_Stegall]

Man good video man, one if the best ive seen. Good editing. These two are legends well respected

[@geraldbenavidez8955]

Forever&ever ever