April 12, 2009 • 4:00 pm 0
We were creating these moves, trying to get what nobody else had cause when we went out there, we wanted to be different. We didn’t wanna be like anybody who went to clubs, looked to see who was doin what, then went home to bite it. Nowadays, you got these video bandits that wait for you to do a move on video, then they do it
Kid Freeze
April 12, 2009 • 1:54 pm 0
Anybody that thinks they are Bboys are very excited about the lifestyle and kind of like models them selves to somebody. So somebody has made this young men or young lady want to be so bad a Bboy and they dress it and they Break it, learn everything they can about it, but a lifestyle of a Bboy or a Bgirl is very simplified but it’s intense. You need to understand the whole philosophy and mind state of the art to become a Bboy. Bboy is a lost art, lost terminology because everybody calls themselves a Bboy. And it’s a cool word but that doesn’t mean you are. The way you dress, they way you dance. They are so much involved to it with the lifestyle and I can say that because when I was 12 or 13 years old, I was living the lifestyle. Not knowing that I would be sitting here right now. So it’s okay to everybody wanting to call themselves Bboys, but at the same time always understand that you always have to be a student and the more you research( Bboys tradition, New, Old) you get more information, the more you might get closer to become a real Bboy. Because a lot of people aren’t Breakers, they call Breakdances and that’s okay because Breaking is about understanding the history, understanding music, the way you dress, the way you approach the dance to it, they way you approach your Toprock and they way you approach your text, the way you finish and the way you leave, you have it all day. Just put on a Bboy hat and then go home and put the pop corn hat on and put your stripe socks and then next week you got your House shirt but.. a Bboy is only a Bboy. A dancer is a dancer, I consider myself a Bboy that I dance the style of Bboy, I don’t consider myself really a dancer. A Bboy is a dancer but I don’t do all the dance styles. I think a person that Locks today, Pops tomorrow Boogalooes next day, Breaks, Uprocks; that’s a great dancer because you can go and put on any hat and do any dance. I never had that ability. The only dance I ever lived and always studied is Breaking. So I see myself as a Bboy, I don’t have an identity crisis. I’m not trying to like I don’t know who I wanna be, I know who I wanna be. It’s okay to dance all the styles, but that’s not me. In order to be a Bboy, you have to live it everyday. Break Life!
Ken Swift
April 12, 2009 • 1:33 pm 0
You think that Toprocking is the introduction, but you make a big mistake! Because Toprocking is the dance, the real dance. It’s not the introduction. Footwork and Toprocking is the real dance. And the thing very important for B-Boys is that B-Boys gotta shock you. B-Boys come from nowhere. All moves. When you see the dancers make their moves and you understand what they gotta do next it’s like you lose the feeling with the dancers.
Maurizio
April 12, 2009 • 11:19 am 1
ok
for starters, putting the word “bboy” in front of your name was never the case back in the days.
it wasnt even bboy, it was BEAT boy, but when you speak fast with a bronx accsent it sounds like bboy.
noone everr put the title infront of thier names in any elemnet (bboy, dj, mc)
the first people to do that was promoters
when promoters first started booking djs, it was the promoters who added the dj part to the front of thier namesso the people woulld know it was a dj playing at the venue. before hip hop, only bands, musicioans, and singers got pics and names on flyers and posters for parties and events, so this was the promoters way of letting everyone know it was a dj playing and not a singer for example. and the trend stuck by the early 80’s but only the dj did so, noone else.
it wasnt until the late 80’s that the most corniest most commercial rapper decided to put the title infront of the name and mc hammer was born. to alot of us al school cats it was corny just to hear his name before we even heard his music because he put mc in front of his name, years later he learned from old school nyc mcs who moved to cali (melle mel, caz, whipper wip etc) how corny it was to do that, so he eventualy droped the mc, and just droped records as hammer.
not sure who started putting the bboy in front of his name, but to this day i still think its corny.
when im hired, i always make sure the promoters dont put bboy in front of my name on flyers, and make sure the hostdont call me bboy alien ness.
whan people refer to me as a bboy, i always say im not a bboy, bboy is what i do.
besides
bboys dont exist anynore but thats another post.
on another note, another new trend in breaking is choosing your own name, especialy when it doesnt suit you. in my generation, your pears or a mentor gave you your name acording to how they say you, not how you see yourself, cause most times we see ourselves in a diffrent way then what we really are.
the only time peeps gave themselves names is when they used thier real names and just added a hip hop type word to it and always real names or initials
norman scot chose norm ski (its his name with a typical hip hop word attached to it.
my name is robert, befoe ness, freinds just called me robbiie d (d at the end of your name was popular back in the days)
hope that answered your question
Ness
April 11, 2009 • 6:52 pm 0
My advice to aspiring b-boys: Don’t do everything you see. Once you’ve learned the basics, CREATE. Don’t do what you see in videos, do what you DON’T see. For many people, the hardest thing to do is create. The top b-boys didn’t get to the top with a monkey-see, monkey-do attitude (although they probably started out with that attitude). They got to
the top by distorting the preconceived notions of what breakdancing is, thus creating their own unique styles and signature moves, making a name for themselves.
Kujo
April 11, 2009 • 6:49 pm 0
April 11, 2009 • 6:48 pm 0
Well, a break dancer, is gonna probably have no style, no originality. But they probably gonna have some real incredible dynamic shit that people can’t do. Cuz they practice so hard. A B-Boy, ain’t gonna really care about a dynamic move. They gonna care about dynamic styles.
Kmel
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