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

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

[@joeljones5613]

Ahh, I get chills remembering these days 🔥🔥🔥

[@rbgalldayeveryday]

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

[@Bori-Domi-24]

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]

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

[@biggalaxy9102]

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

[@aferrer74]

@@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]

@@biggalaxy9102 🇵🇷🇵🇷☝️👍✌️

[@Tashaten]

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

[@vicg5323]

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]

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]

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

[@great567]

Hip Hop will never be this pure again.

[@kristallmenschkristallwolf1969]

thats facking right so this stays for pure rappin

[@matthawes4395]

Hip Hop has lost its roots Such a shame

[@robertvargas7004]

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

[@raymondjblaze7761]

It def will once breaking enters the Olympics 🤦🏿‍♂️

[@Black_unity597]

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!

[@AndrewChiOsbourne]

I'm the same age as Crazy Legs, I'm an old school B-Boy from the uk, I was was 14 when I started Breaking 🙏🏽☯️🙏🏽

[@coldcrush9]

Nothing better than a battle in a bronx basement

[@billscott6819]

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

[@killerpretty]

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

[@Fashionhustler]

Hiphop went viral before the internet. It’s Gods gift to our generation.

[@fantomenace302]

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

[@kristallmenschkristallwolf1969]

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

[@foxy2348]

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

[@millsbomb007]

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

[@edgardosoto4193]

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]

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]

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

[@losprimoslpbreakersandpaul808]

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

[@khmerxbxboi]

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

[@CrazyLegsRSC]

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.

[@StretchinBack]

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.

[@shiningstardance22]

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

[@sreyna3000]

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

[@malik87breaker]

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

[@tasanogutzmore8768]

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

[@Goldskool]

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,

[@rodareego7019]

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

[@Bacalao2929]

The first B Boy was Little Lep😊

[@hadynnlegros4759]

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

[@a.garcia7127]

Puerto Rican🇵🇷..Dominican🇩🇴..Cuban🇨🇺.. legs said it. Breaking has our flavor...

[@Ch3rishtheday]

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

[@rodneyprescott5796]

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

[@johnanon6938]

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.

[@kristallmenschkristallwolf1969]

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

[@RCLaROCK1]

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

[@DjMikeiam]

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

[@bboy-kv6pd]

Props to the bronx boys...

[@bettodeabreu9990]

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 🇵🇹

[@BoricuaNyc]

Crazy Legs a LEGEND🤴🏼🇵🇷🗽🔥❤️

[@barryschwarz]

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]

he was 2nd gen bboy

[@balle733]

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

[@gaffle-411]

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]

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

[@balle733]

@@BoricuaNyc nah 79.

[@ColmDooley-ri5wx]

Respect from Ireland 🇮🇪

[@anthonygranuzzo268]

B BOYS FOR LIFE 💪💪💪

[@shiningstardance22]

Love this

[@UKBreakz]

Roxy! Beat Street!

[@djsupermanslaughter]

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

[@dimviesel]

7:55 track name plz🥰

[@MrBubyV]

🫡 We were the New York Breakers ✊🏽

[@NuYorka13]

Zup Richie!!! I remember hanging out back in the day at “the goat” RSC Park - (Lived on 99th street -Salsoul baaaby! ) watching the neighborhood kids and friends dance - You, Kenny, Wayne, Kippy, lil Norman before all the fame. They brought breakin to the world! PEACE ✌️

[@LocoMenteClaraOne]

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

[@kanarcydalive1579]

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

[@LocoMenteClaraOne]

@@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.

[@MarvluzAllTheTime]

Nah definitely not there since day one

[@lisaburch7077]

This is when Hip Hop was 🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@jesusjustiniano8494]

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 ...

[@zee688]

Liar Liar Liar

[@thomasoreilly6358]

thank you

[@snlawton18]

EXCELLENT!

[@candycane9264]

Break dancing was a bridge that brought blacks and browns close

[@idiotu668]

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]

As well as other things. Thanks

[@aferrer74]

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

[@BoricuaNyc]

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

[@BoricuaNyc]

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

[@McGruph]

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

[@chizmwizm1846]

...maybe Lenny ..?

[@randee4550]

Pretty dope

[@AMOKIAN]

We can’t thank them enough. Geeeez.

[@ahmadmoore4737]

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

[@John-eg3gy]

🎂

[@davideboi6664]

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.

[@Juggy113]

I need that song around 3:48 please

[@bossmanjack1169]

Did you find out? I would like to know also

[@Juggy113]

@@bossmanjack1169 no

[@oldskoolfool141]

@@Juggy113 kzbin.info/www/bejne/rabMdKp7aM6rp5I about 19mins in

[@chief69oner]

Dope

[@paulosantos2658]

wuepaaaaaa

[@marcusnunez8763]

Hip-hop will be pure.

[@brianglade848]

Ramo!!!

[@aaronskylark8818]

Imagn arts aryta owta ina stick arts rythm movment

[@andrewdunston7479]

Holy reading, may I knowingning.

[@tanchitoro2125]

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

[@jorgelouis709]

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

[@skeelo69]

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

[@shiningstardance22]

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

[@NoahMills-443]

What video is show at 4:26

[@mister-kha]

what song 4:30 pls !!!

[@jesus755serrano]

Kha Fly just begun Jimmy castor band

[@joebmx9154]

Amazing

[@heidyalvarado6017]

WHats the first song in the begining?

[@dasfreshyo]

"Scorpio"- Dennis Coffey you're welcome

[@heidyalvarado6017]

@@dasfreshyo Before that one. thanks

[@garygulliver4015]

Ready 2 BATTLE BREAK

[@funkflex5144]

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

[@aferrer74]

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]

A large % of the graffiti artists were Latino also.

[@killerpretty]

what ever happen 2 bboy Take 1 ?

[@jesus755serrano]

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

[@zairehammonds3826]

Calw

[@mastakilla6340]

yo, 6:38 anyone ? 10x

[@alanperez7657]

Doze😎😎

[@carmeoneday8730]

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

[@tyronepalmer30]

Rock steady back in the 70s

[@hjillumi880]

oh gawd not fucking beards and limp bizkit styles

[@KY-YE]

We are a *special people

[@daniellimas7446]

We gen X baby!!!!

[@ShitJitsu]

just wait till the kids start hitting the walls again....it will happen hip hop is going to change again as it has and will do repeatedly

[@booblikon]

très bien, merci