I'm 52 now, from Philly, but spent some time with family up in NY in those days when I was a kid. That was back when no one cared what your skin color or politics was. You hung out with who you hung out with and that was it. I miss those days. Good times man.
Hi ! I'm 42 years old, I lived through the 80's and grew up in the 90's. Before the internet, cell phones, flat TVs... Video games were lousy, we read magazines, but we were happy. I regret certain things... But I also love our era where everything is possible! Travel is more accessible (prices, reservations, making human connections on the networks to meet them on site when they arrive in the country) Some young people are great, motivated and can do great things, access to music, culture video archives like this one for example are simpler, many things we change, some are less good, but others open up a lot of possibilities. For example, I met Mr Freeze from the Rock Steady Crew on messenger, well I saw him in real life 2 years later, now as soon as he comes to France we see each other, he's my friend, he introduced me to other people, without the internet I would never have seen it for example, I am quite happy with this era where we have access to music in 1 mouse click. I have good memories of the past, but I am happy in my time too. Peace
Hi guys my name is Gordon from tippinham in England, I have been watching some this hippy hop music on UA-cam and think it is just super dooper, ! Do you guys also take drugs and get involved in fist fights ? Oh I think it is just wonderful
Respect to my forefathers - I keep these pioneers in my heart and soul every time I practice. Wish I could thank them them from the bottom of my heart for this artform. .
Rock Steady alway seemed to be in the right place at the right time. Love the Rock Steady Crew and real HipHop. Thanks for the great memories Rock Steady, it’s because of you brothers I got into being a B Boy , hailing from a small town Charlottesville, VA. The power of Breaking Dancing is Real.
I Miss them all , I remember all the good old times dancing in the clubs / house parties . Much Love / Respect to all and the ones whom are no longer with us ....Hugs
That club footage with the Graffiti and Bronx pieces was right off of Bedford Park Blvd on Jerome avenue (Across from the D yard) It was painted by Mitch 77, Crash, Noc167, Disco etc. It did not last long as a club and afaik the interior graffiti has not shown up anywhere expect this video (assuming this footage at the end is in that same club) Pretty awesome to see as I remember right when they finished painting it. Good times in the BX, Oh and Mr Freeze went to JHS 80 on Moshulu also Tiny Freeze and Baby Freeze.
I used to live right across the street from Rock City Park where they did Buffalo Girls I was actually there when they did it the video memories man most of all those guys there my shout-out to Lenny and rest in peace Frosty Freeze and Kenny I need all those guys Oliver on top D'Agostino's I went to p.s. 163 right next to Rock Steady Park if there's anybody out there that remembers me hit me up love to chat with you they used to call me Dusty
I've still got this on VHS. There were three tapes in the series, and I had two of them. I almost bought the third one on ebay, years ago, but I fell asleep and missed the end of the auction.
Ah no... You must have been disappointed to have missed the 3rd VHS! And suddenly you have the 2nd VHS, do you know if the video is on UA-cam? Do you know the title of this VHS? Thank you for all this information PEACE
@@basteo The videos were released by Bootleg Betty Productions, and I have the second and third tapes in the series. I remember Crazy Legs brought a load of them over to London in '98, when he came over to host the UK B-boy Champs. He mentioned them when he did a radio interview with Tim Westwood..
Great video. First time I saw the rock steady crew was on the video for buffalo gals by malcom mclaren back in 1982 here in england. Absolute legends 👌
To my knowledge no... I have journalists and an Archival Producer who contacted me on this subject, to find out if I knew who to film, who had the copyrights etc... I don't know, I I got this VHS from Mr.Freeze who gave it to F.Tribalat in the mid 90's.
@@titto2602 Nah the song is called “ Catch the Beat” the emcee freestylin never made a record he’s rhyming to the instrumental version of T Ski Valley’s song
Salute to Frosty Freeze to please!! Always dope to see a young Ken Swift Rockin the spot with da iLL flava, and Eddie Ed pushin the limits! Bronx Kids still da Flyest on the planet
I WAS THE FIRST ONE TO BREAK IT DOWN AND WRITE ON UA-camS COMMENT SECTIONS THAT PUERTO RICANS STARTED THE HIPHOP CULTURE. THE HIPHOP CULTURE IS NOT RAP MUSIC. MOST PUERTO RICANS DID NOT RAP. HIPHOP AND RAP ARE TWO DIFFERENT THINGS
@@eyebrowstj YES, IT IS A TRUE STATEMENT. YOU WERE LIED TO BY WHITE PEOPLE. MOST BLACK FAMILIES WERE AFFILIATED WITH THE “CHURCH AND MUSIC INDUSTRY…..NOT THE VIOLENT STREETS.” MOST NYC PUERTO RICANS LIVED WAAAAAY WORSE THAN THE AVERAGE BLACK PERSON AND FAMILY. THE PUERTO RICAN YOUTH HAD IT EXTREMELY ROUGH. MOST TURNED TO THE STREETS INSTEAD OF THE CHURCH OR EVEN THE MUSIC INDUSTRY. THATS HOW THE HIPHOP CULTURE WAS FORMED.💯💯💯💯💯💯
If the rap you refer to is rhyming on a drum beat then its not solely blk American, West Indians did also especially the elders would say a quick rap in folkloric, parables, tongue twisters and poetry. Stop the idolatry my crossed eye brother
@@nourdinh.1450 Yes, it's sad, but given the price of a camcorder at the time... It's already very rare to have images from the 80s then the 70s... Unfortunately it would be a real blow luck or a miracle... We are lucky to have some "reports" from the time thanks to professionals or television channels...
@@nourdinh.1450 I have Mr Freeze (rsc) videos here on my channel, but it's from the mid 90s... Before he didn't have a camcorder, the price was crazy for the time and for a kid from the Bronx it's way too inaccessible
Yo creo k todo el mundo . X lo menos todos lo k hacieron y hacen y todas la nuvevas generaciones deben de agradezcer a 👑Richard colon creasy legs piernas locas ..y a rock steady crew 🇵🇷 y aver motivado a millones de niñ@s y jovenes gracias por toda la información gracias ROCK steady crew Yo soy fan n1 de todo el mundo ..espero algún dia conocer a Richard colon B-boy creazy legs
Totally agree with you ! I had the chance to meet Mr. Freeze several times and we had a good time, I also met Mr. Wiggles once... But never seen Crazy Legs, I hope you will see it one day, PEACE
More people should also look into the history of the styles that started in California. Like Strutting from San Francisco and Boogaloo from Oakland. These styles became a part of Hip Hop. Strutting from San Francisco: ua-cam.com/video/no42Qsggygw/v-deo.htmlsi=qO9mOZGwxj7sdMJX Boogaloo from Oakland: ua-cam.com/video/-hm0VVhyc70/v-deo.htmlsi=WNgFLxU8B5T4RPm5
I never saw this in 1981 but a couple years later by chance I saw this PBS documentary on Channel 9 I had caught in the middle of later called Style Wars that mesmerized me but was still too foreign to understand because none of that was happening in California in the 1970s and early 1980s. One of the Rock Steady Crew members comments on about how the usual portrayal by the news and entertainment with regards to and let's be real about it these Democrat run cities and in this specific instance how the portrayal of such places as the Bronx and you can see it especially from movie industries as Hollywood or even Blackploitation flicks, you see only the criminal and seedy aspects but nothing else ever. That's why a culture that literally originated from NYC ghetto American children will never ever be something that can come from and be validated from universities and colleges nor from foreigner nationalities. The culture originated in NYC, USA in the Bronx and the other boroughs/districts. I will never respect movies like Breakin' and those cheap ass cash in that swooped in and produced hollow callous and insulting funky bullshit.
Thank you for this very interesting comment! We, in Europe, did not have access to this type of documentary... Flashdance, Beat Street etc... We are given access to culture, it's a blessing in disguise... I understand what you are saying mean, I agree with you
@@basteoI agree with both sides. It's clear that mainstream polluted what was essentially an underground movement with a very important message. Yet it was those mediums that spread the movement to the four corners of the world. I am from the UK for example.
Hey fla da shit man ,, taco de club style innit and the massive crew is in da area, and knows day that shit ain’t flyin in da face if anyone who knows the split like frosty and the midnight tokaz yol
8:18 THAT IS NOT HIPHOP. THATS RAP MUSIC. THATS NOT EVEN THE HIPHOP CULTURE. IT WAS ALL UNDER THE ...."NEWYORK INNER CITY YOUTH UMBRELLA" ONCE WHITE PEOPLE TRIED TO FUSE THE TWO
I'm 52 now, from Philly, but spent some time with family up in NY in those days when I was a kid. That was back when no one cared what your skin color or politics was. You hung out with who you hung out with and that was it. I miss those days. Good times man.
Hi ! I'm 42 years old, I lived through the 80's and grew up in the 90's. Before the internet, cell phones, flat TVs... Video games were lousy, we read magazines, but we were happy. I regret certain things... But I also love our era where everything is possible! Travel is more accessible (prices, reservations, making human connections on the networks to meet them on site when they arrive in the country) Some young people are great, motivated and can do great things, access to music, culture video archives like this one for example are simpler, many things we change, some are less good, but others open up a lot of possibilities. For example, I met Mr Freeze from the Rock Steady Crew on messenger, well I saw him in real life 2 years later, now as soon as he comes to France we see each other, he's my friend, he introduced me to other people, without the internet I would never have seen it for example, I am quite happy with this era where we have access to music in 1 mouse click. I have good memories of the past, but I am happy in my time too. Peace
Amen
@@basteo true good times 44 here
Hi guys my name is Gordon from tippinham in England, I have been watching some this hippy hop music on UA-cam and think it is just super dooper, ! Do you guys also take drugs and get involved in fist fights ? Oh I think it is just wonderful
Yo same here of course breaking hit the West a little later but in the 80s no one cared about color boys and grad artists we all different.
Respect to my forefathers - I keep these pioneers in my heart and soul every time I practice.
Wish I could thank them them from the bottom of my heart for this artform.
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That amount of subtle details that reflect flavor and personality is something that i hardly see nowadays.
It's often more technical, but less emotional, that's true.
Rock Steady alway seemed to be in the right place at the right time. Love the Rock Steady Crew and real HipHop. Thanks for the great memories Rock Steady, it’s because of you brothers I got into being a B Boy , hailing from a small town Charlottesville, VA.
The power of Breaking Dancing is Real.
I Miss them all , I remember all the good old times dancing in the clubs / house parties . Much Love / Respect to all and the ones whom are no longer with us ....Hugs
thank you for your message, or good memories of times, take care of yourself, peace and love!
That club footage with the Graffiti and Bronx pieces was right off of Bedford Park Blvd on Jerome avenue (Across from the D yard) It was painted by Mitch 77, Crash, Noc167, Disco etc. It did not last long as a club and afaik the interior graffiti has not shown up anywhere expect this video (assuming this footage at the end is in that same club) Pretty awesome to see as I remember right when they finished painting it. Good times in the BX, Oh and Mr Freeze went to JHS 80 on Moshulu also Tiny Freeze and Baby Freeze.
Wow, great anecdote, thank you for this information, respect. Peace!🙏
Great info man...I know the D yard ,,,
The good old days. I'm sure i was around there somewhere. Like a year after this footage, Everyone got SO MUCH better at Breaking.
oh great! If you have photos and videos from the time it would be cool to see them. Respect🙏
Thanks so much for sharing these videos. They are true gems... Priceless. I'm wondering would there be any way to have these restored?
Yes, but it’s very expensive! If one day I can have it restored, it will be done 👌
Met three of these guys in Paris 1983, great memories
Nooooo, ha fresh bro ! You are a Lucky man !
Thanks for uploading this footage. Great piece of history
I used to live right across the street from Rock City Park where they did Buffalo Girls I was actually there when they did it the video memories man most of all those guys there my shout-out to Lenny and rest in peace Frosty Freeze and Kenny I need all those guys Oliver on top D'Agostino's I went to p.s. 163 right next to Rock Steady Park if there's anybody out there that remembers me hit me up love to chat with you they used to call me Dusty
Historical Fly Shit. RIP to all them brothers that aren't here anymore.
I've been trying to figure out who all is gone besides frosty freeze can you tell me plz if you know
I've still got this on VHS. There were three tapes in the series, and I had two of them. I almost bought the third one on ebay, years ago, but I fell asleep and missed the end of the auction.
Ah no... You must have been disappointed to have missed the 3rd VHS! And suddenly you have the 2nd VHS, do you know if the video is on UA-cam? Do you know the title of this VHS? Thank you for all this information PEACE
@@basteo The videos were released by Bootleg Betty Productions, and I have the second and third tapes in the series. I remember Crazy Legs brought a load of them over to London in '98, when he came over to host the UK B-boy Champs. He mentioned them when he did a radio interview with Tim Westwood..
@@bubz3t136 Wow too loud! Thanks for the information. 🙏
@@bubz3t136yeah saw that live Brixton academy.
Che tempi cazz che grande emozione
Ah yes, that’s the base! Long live the Old School
I wish there was more footage of Lenny out there, he was the nicest in RSC by far
Great video. First time I saw the rock steady crew was on the video for buffalo gals by malcom mclaren back in 1982 here in england. Absolute legends 👌
Ah yes, I totally see this clip! I almost put it on my channel, but this video is known and has copyright, thank you for your comment. Peace!
@@basteo 👍
Man is there a better version of this documentary out there? I really watch it
To my knowledge no... I have journalists and an Archival Producer who contacted me on this subject, to find out if I knew who to film, who had the copyrights etc... I don't know, I I got this VHS from Mr.Freeze who gave it to F.Tribalat in the mid 90's.
@@basteo damn that's a shame. But thx for posting. At least we got to see it
@2:30 Frosty Freeze speaks on the crews history.
So dope!!! Thanks for posting. ❤❤❤
With pleasure ! 😉
Just think, there were no cellphones or internet.
Yes, I started Bboying in 1995, I knew hip-hop without the internet... Well the beginnings, the forums, My Space and UA-cam...
Rip ty and frosty
Somebody knows what's the name from the song at 8:00? When the MC is rocking with the bboys.
Catch the Beat ( T Ski Valley )
@@annur3432 thank you a lot! Let's rock!
@@annur3432nah I they don't sound the same. The song you requested is really nice but it doesn't match the lyrics of the mc in this video
@@titto2602 Nah the song is called “ Catch the Beat” the emcee freestylin never made a record he’s rhyming to the instrumental version of T Ski Valley’s song
That's true. I think is a guy from Cold Crush!
Vest Jackets were a clothing staple in the 80s
The good ole days
Merci pour le partage
Avec plaisir bro ! 😁👌
Pure hip hop❤❤❤❤
best times ever
Magic.
Salute to Frosty Freeze to please!! Always dope to see a young Ken Swift Rockin the spot with da iLL flava, and Eddie Ed pushin the limits! Bronx Kids still da Flyest on the planet
Yup , back in the days we were all known to be the Flyest and dopest ....ML&R to all from The Boogie Down South Bronx .
8:42 Is that the first recording of a crude windmill ?
Wow
I WAS THE FIRST ONE TO BREAK IT DOWN AND WRITE ON UA-camS COMMENT SECTIONS THAT PUERTO RICANS STARTED THE HIPHOP CULTURE. THE HIPHOP CULTURE IS NOT RAP MUSIC. MOST PUERTO RICANS DID NOT RAP. HIPHOP AND RAP ARE TWO DIFFERENT THINGS
But this is not a true statement. Blacks were doing this way before the 80's 😂😂😂
@@eyebrowstj YES, IT IS A TRUE STATEMENT. YOU WERE LIED TO BY WHITE PEOPLE. MOST BLACK FAMILIES WERE AFFILIATED WITH THE “CHURCH AND MUSIC INDUSTRY…..NOT THE VIOLENT STREETS.” MOST NYC PUERTO RICANS LIVED WAAAAAY WORSE THAN THE AVERAGE BLACK PERSON AND FAMILY. THE PUERTO RICAN YOUTH HAD IT EXTREMELY ROUGH. MOST TURNED TO THE STREETS INSTEAD OF THE CHURCH OR EVEN THE MUSIC INDUSTRY. THATS HOW THE HIPHOP CULTURE WAS FORMED.💯💯💯💯💯💯
If the rap you refer to is rhyming on a drum beat then its not solely blk American, West Indians did also especially the elders would say a quick rap in folkloric, parables, tongue twisters and poetry. Stop the idolatry my crossed eye brother
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This iS 1981 before WILDSTYLE and beat street and the press
I ask joe conzo WILDSTYLE started filming in 1981 i have never see Footage from the 70s like 1979 or 1978 its a shame nobody films or put it out🙄🙄😉😉
Hi ! I hadn't seen your message... It's 1981 you say? Great, I'll be able to write the correct date then, thanks for the information.
@@nourdinh.1450 Yes, it's sad, but given the price of a camcorder at the time... It's already very rare to have images from the 80s then the 70s... Unfortunately it would be a real blow luck or a miracle... We are lucky to have some "reports" from the time thanks to professionals or television channels...
@@nourdinh.1450 I have Mr Freeze (rsc) videos here on my channel, but it's from the mid 90s... Before he didn't have a camcorder, the price was crazy for the time and for a kid from the Bronx it's way too inaccessible
Ridiculously fluid...
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Name of the song from 8:05 to the end of this documentary?
Catch the Grease
Yo creo k todo el mundo . X lo menos todos lo k hacieron y hacen y todas la nuvevas generaciones deben de agradezcer a 👑Richard colon creasy legs piernas locas ..y a rock steady crew 🇵🇷 y aver motivado a millones de niñ@s y jovenes gracias por toda la información gracias ROCK steady crew Yo soy fan n1 de todo el mundo ..espero algún dia conocer a Richard colon B-boy creazy legs
Totally agree with you ! I had the chance to meet Mr. Freeze several times and we had a good time, I also met Mr. Wiggles once... But never seen Crazy Legs, I hope you will see it one day, PEACE
2:35 is that the DJ / Spade Charlie Rock?
I don't know at all, sorry...
Charlie Rock was never A DJ Maybe en MC
Yes, that Cholly Rock. Baby Spade Zulu King.
More people should also look into the history of the styles that started in California. Like Strutting from San Francisco and Boogaloo from Oakland. These styles became a part of Hip Hop.
Strutting from San Francisco:
ua-cam.com/video/no42Qsggygw/v-deo.htmlsi=qO9mOZGwxj7sdMJX
Boogaloo from Oakland:
ua-cam.com/video/-hm0VVhyc70/v-deo.htmlsi=WNgFLxU8B5T4RPm5
Ha thank you! I'll go watch the videos, Peace
Puertoricans were theare since the beginning. 🇵🇷🇵🇷🇵🇷🇵🇷🇵🇷🇵🇷🇵🇷🇵🇷🇵🇷🇵🇷🇵🇷🇵🇷🇵🇷🇵🇷🇵🇷🇵🇷🇵🇷🇵🇷🇵🇷🇵🇷🇵🇷🇵🇷🇵🇷🇵🇷🇵🇷🇵🇷🇵🇷🇵🇷🇵🇷🇵🇷🇵🇷
Here you go , proof thT Rock steady always gave the original kids from the Bronx , and even names Cholly rock by name …argument closed
SPINNING 🦉 OWLS
3:55 no you didnt 😅
Original
I never saw this in 1981 but a couple years later by chance I saw this PBS documentary on Channel 9 I had caught in the middle of later called Style Wars that mesmerized me but was still too foreign to understand because none of that was happening in California in the 1970s and early 1980s.
One of the Rock Steady Crew members comments on about how the usual portrayal by the news and entertainment with regards to and let's be real about it these Democrat run cities and in this specific instance how the portrayal of such places as the Bronx and you can see it especially from movie industries as Hollywood or even Blackploitation flicks, you see only the criminal and seedy aspects but nothing else ever.
That's why a culture that literally originated from NYC ghetto American children will never ever be something that can come from and be validated from universities and colleges nor from foreigner nationalities. The culture originated in NYC, USA in the Bronx and the other boroughs/districts.
I will never respect movies like Breakin' and those cheap ass cash in that swooped in and produced hollow callous and insulting funky bullshit.
Thank you for this very interesting comment! We, in Europe, did not have access to this type of documentary... Flashdance, Beat Street etc... We are given access to culture, it's a blessing in disguise... I understand what you are saying mean, I agree with you
@@basteo I'm giving my personal account as a San Franciscan going back as a child from 1970 into the 1980s.
@@Khultan But thank you very much! All the testimonies, different times and places are interesting.
@@basteo Thank you.
@@basteoI agree with both sides. It's clear that mainstream polluted what was essentially an underground movement with a very important message. Yet it was those mediums that spread the movement to the four corners of the world. I am from the UK for example.
Hey fla da shit man ,, taco de club style innit and the massive crew is in da area, and knows day that shit ain’t flyin in da face if anyone who knows the split like frosty and the midnight tokaz yol
Salute to the original B-Boys
No they were not the originals 😅
Dj mario
8:18 THAT IS NOT HIPHOP. THATS RAP MUSIC. THATS NOT EVEN THE HIPHOP CULTURE. IT WAS ALL UNDER THE ...."NEWYORK INNER CITY YOUTH UMBRELLA" ONCE WHITE PEOPLE TRIED TO FUSE THE TWO
The old culture vulures
You're nothing but a hater