I'm the firs Bboy generation in my small town Ngawi, Java, Indonesia. At that time, 80's breakdance is illegal. We have catch by police and send to jail one night just because dancing in the street. And nowday, 6 days ago my son got first place breakdance battle under 12 yo in Amsterdam. What a life!😂
I was 9 years old when I got the 'Breakin' soundtrack on tape way back in 1984. Amazing album, sadly mine was stolen in the late 80s. This track STILL sounds like the future! I remember playing this to my Granny and Grampy whilst frantically breakdancing in the lounge and trying to explain to them what 'scratching' was :)
Mine too. I used to clear the floor at the Barn night club in Penzance, Cornwall UK. Used to practice all my new moves in front of a full length mirror before I hit the clubs lol. This track is a legend 👌😎
I dont think still can stand up.If you re a fan of wild style electrofunk only.Old style beat.Scratces.Syntheziser thriller style.For me is fire ofcourse..
One of the best hip-hop songs ever IMHO. Why we say today's rap music is garbage? Listen to the production levels on this! The music. The rhythms. The energy. The SOUND!! And the scratching here was THE tuffest ever heard on wax at that time 1984. Guarantee the first time ya heard 2:43 mark your whole face screwed up like "AAAuuughhhhh!!"
Not gonna disagree at all. But I thought Renegades of Funk was Fire, "What is a DJ if ya can't Scratch?" and Grand Master Flash was also sounding like they came from the future. Especially 'What is a DJ (Egyptian Lover).
@@Jmjrogers1950 IDK. These days is pretty freaking bad with all the barred-out, sizzurp drinking mumble rappers that just talk about their hos and chains
@@markemsworth4235 Lmao what the fuck are you even saying What does this song having been a major influence for a popular artist have to do with the dawn of Hip-Hop?
Yes… but, no… ice might have wanted to sign dude but without Dre Nem wouldn’t have reached to level of fame… I loved (love) Ice T but, we have to keep it fold… T was regional famous N.W.A was crazy popular but when Dre switched up to the Row not only was they at the same level of status, they took it even further…So while you aren’t wrong about Ice wanting to sign Nem first and possibly caught wind of him first… Nem wouldn’t have reached the same level of success and popularity… These is facts… Shit, I bet Ice T would even say the same thing…!!! You know, that’s if we keepin it fresh and crispy like folded new note $$$(I put that dollar sign there in case some of y’all is brand new)…
...In 1984....things didn't "drop"....that's just a ridiculous Americanism - phased-out as an embarrassing term (roughly by Nov 2026)...think about "swell"...and you're almost there.
I’m so glad I was there too! I owe a lot to these people for steering me toward something I loved and for the excitement they injected into my creative process ❤️
You mean the rhythm with which it plays? Because that clap is the 808 drum machine's clap and it has been used for ever and is still havily being used.
Best song Ever!!! Used it in ball hockey, scored 80% of the goals. I had the worm the backspin, the hand spin. Breakdancing helped my hockey game, this song is Classic motivational song for me anyway. I consider myself maybe 7 in breakdancing. The guys who had the headspin, the windmill, these are your 8 9 and 10s. And the guys who contort their bodies like electricity went through their bodies, any they correagraph amazing entertainment.
Look up Nonstop, Poppin John, and Dytto for those who keep breaking going. Lots of videos on UA-cam. I was a top popper in the early 80s and still watch it to this day
I was 10 years 0ld watch break dance & heard this for the first time learnt every word & decided I wanted to become a rapper there & then . Probably the first in Newcastle at the time & have been writing everyday since …now that’s inspiration at its finest
I still have an electronic keyboard and it has all those old drum machine sounds on it. I still get on it every now and then and mess around. Lol it makes me miss the 80s. I was 11 when this song came out.
Diesen Song habe ich erstmals vor 30 Jahren gehört , wie schnell die Zeit vergeht ..ich höre es immer noch gerne und würde gerne Break dancen , kann aber nicht weil ich kein Talent dazu habe...danke
I took this song on cassette to play at "show and tell" in my 4th grade music class. Teacher, well she didn't get it at all and killed it after 30 seconds. I guess I figured then and there that my music tastes might be a little different than most! \m/
Remember going to the UA theater with about 10 other kids who were also in the 4th grade and seeing Breakin'. We stayed and watched it a second time. Got the soundtrack on vinyl and used to listen to this song and herbie Hancock's remixes on the soundtrack over and over and over.
Yes my man, 43 nearly 44 and I was pretty deadly on the lino when I was just a kid! E9 crew was decent back then, big Roger Ramjet and David Dooley! My Don's back
breakin,breakin 2 electric boogaloo,beatstreet definately helped spread rap around the globe in some of its earliest stages im in canada and they wher huge in my neighborhood wheni was 11 12 13 years old i never knew who ice T was back then.It cracked me up when i rewatched it just now!
TRUE TRUE TRUE.... I was there in the 80's poppin and lockin to it all. We were privilaged to have this. It was truly magic and from another planet for suuuure!!!
Thank you for posting that I had the breaking record when I was in grade school and I could never remember how I knew Ice-T's reckless, I used to spend this on a record player in the morning and do a little break dance make my parents crazy
Dang, this movie was a game changer. Before it came out, disco was cool. Everyone wanted to be John Travolta in the polyester suit. Then Breakin' was shown in the theaters and every high school kid went hip hop crazy. Hair gel, Hi cut Converse sneakers, suspenders and studded belts became cool. I remember cutting classes during high school with my classmates so we could go to the supermarket near the school and lay down cardboard boxes outside the entrance, turn the boombox on and challenge kids from the rival school to a dance off. Each of us had 1 breakdancing specialty. One could do the windmill, another the worm, one could do the backflip and another could handspin. I couldn't do any spins but I could pop and lock. We got caught by a teacher who saw us out once and got dragged to the principal's office for cutting classes. Man, those were the good old days.
I remember walking the streets with a piece of vinyl to spin on, Toshiba stereo loud as it would go, i was crap but good times. Now if Spotify would allow me to download this that would be great
We listened to this in 1984 , school , old portable tape recorder and it changed everything. Just nuts - Belfast 1984 - warzone and we were popping away to this. Sweet.
I was 14 when I heard this. We were at Griffiss AFB, Rome, NY. I learned to pop-lock off this song!! Then I used it when I played football that fall.....I used to tell myself to play reckless!!
Love this..."with s DJ named Rub, who reigned supreme, hes the hot table veggie of the hip hop scene".....so if youre into events, dont know no Scott guy named Pence.....rippa bippa yaw ot all ends with banquets.....
The glove and ice t were da bomb in this. Reckless what a track. Sounds better in the movie though superb. Still watch this in 2024 lol first watched it when it came out and Beatstreet, crushgroove ect lol
a damm cool hip hop rap track might of been ice t's very first track, and damm the scratching from chris the glove taylor is fucking awesome. wow this track is just so cool i love dj's who scratch records.
woww...finally found it.. feels like i'm in the early 80's...back to the break dance era..woohooo... i totally forgot the title...thanks to johniewalker23 for uploading this... what a music! he's reckless!!!
This cut and beat street my favorites when I was 12, I dont kno if I wanna cry because of the good memories or cry also because memories is all the is.
I remember back in 80s a friend of mine had a Chevy Blazer pickup, we used to get packed in the back and crashing parties doing break dance, so much good memories with this song , classic and still so fresh.
I remember watching him in concert in Leeds England 1989 power tour and he asked the audience what track they wanted him to do and someone shouted from the crowd do reckless and he just broke out in laughter saying man that’s going to far back…Darlene looked beautiful on that stage that night ❤🐐
I'm the firs Bboy generation in my small town Ngawi, Java, Indonesia. At that time, 80's breakdance is illegal. We have catch by police and send to jail one night just because dancing in the street. And nowday, 6 days ago my son got first place breakdance battle under 12 yo in Amsterdam. What a life!😂
mantab pakdhe... nurun neng anake. jmn2 breakdance aku msh SMP di Sby.
thats hilarious
I was 9 years old when I got the 'Breakin' soundtrack on tape way back in 1984. Amazing album, sadly mine was stolen in the late 80s.
This track STILL sounds like the future! I remember playing this to my Granny and Grampy whilst frantically breakdancing in the lounge and trying to explain to them what 'scratching' was :)
I was 9 when I first saw this movie in the UK, watched it over a 100 times
👌😂😂
@@skeennah1927 ....We'd get along! 😀
Was in 1st grade...
This album is on cd to buy
Watching Breakin and Electric Boogaloo now with my son..I'm glad I can give him the experience I had when I was around his age when this came out.
I did my best with this music. Now 53, the boys are left to cope
I highly doubt he liked them. Sadly they didn't age well
Best street !
This was my favorite song back in the day ! Man that was 40 plus years ago and it still holds up
Mine too. I used to clear the floor at the Barn night club in Penzance, Cornwall UK. Used to practice all my new moves in front of a full length mirror before I hit the clubs lol. This track is a legend 👌😎
I dont think still can stand up.If you re a fan of wild style electrofunk only.Old style beat.Scratces.Syntheziser thriller style.For me is fire ofcourse..
My favourite track back then too. It's still banging all these years later.
One of the best hip-hop songs ever IMHO. Why we say today's rap music is garbage? Listen to the production levels on this! The music. The rhythms. The energy. The SOUND!! And the scratching here was THE tuffest ever heard on wax at that time 1984. Guarantee the first time ya heard 2:43 mark your whole face screwed up like "AAAuuughhhhh!!"
...nothing ever came before....(or after)....especially.....2:11
Not gonna disagree at all. But I thought Renegades of Funk was Fire, "What is a DJ if ya can't Scratch?" and Grand Master Flash was also sounding like they came from the future. Especially 'What is a DJ (Egyptian Lover).
@@clarencejohnson2525 all from the same era/ couple years 🙌🏾
@@OKrepresent A-men brutha!
hip hop has changed so much over the past 30 years. i prefer this era
There is no "BAD" era of hip-hop . Evolution of music is great, you be you.
just enjoy the genre man, it's all good. just adjust your ears and don't live in the past
This hip hop had more of a electro/techno sound to it. That 808
@@Jmjrogers1950 IDK. These days is pretty freaking bad with all the barred-out, sizzurp drinking mumble rappers that just talk about their hos and chains
Yeh Electro and whole Breakdancing and Graffitti culture rocked!
I didn't come here because of Eminem. But because I fell in love with it in 1984.
Same here
Word!
WordUP! Fam!
Peace, Power Progression 1 ✊
Hear~Hear 👌
I didn't come here because of Eminem but i came here because of his uncle :)
Farq yeah this is song i didnt hear for 35 years , just hear it now and make me dance and every word i thrashed out like it was yesterday! 🎉🎉❤
I am here because I lived this shit Breakin’ in da 80’s shout out to all the people that lived this era showing your skills Breakin
My eldest brother used lock to this man it would bring him alive
lock till you drop...
I'm 52 now & bought 2 Technics SL-1200 MKII DJ turntables to spin & mix all my "old school" Rap/Hip Hop 12" vinyl singles
Thank Ice-T for this song, if it weren't for it... nobody may have ever known the name Marshall Mathers
I don't know what is worse....living without ICE-T....or having to live with Emma...M....or whatever his name is.
God only knows if you ever used the past 10 years to research the dawn of Hip-hop from 1979. Twat!
@@markemsworth4235 Lmao what the fuck are you even saying
What does this song having been a major influence for a popular artist have to do with the dawn of Hip-Hop?
Yes… but, no… ice might have wanted to sign dude but without Dre Nem wouldn’t have reached to level of fame… I loved (love) Ice T but, we have to keep it fold… T was regional famous N.W.A was crazy popular but when Dre switched up to the Row not only was they at the same level of status, they took it even further…So while you aren’t wrong about Ice wanting to sign Nem first and possibly caught wind of him first… Nem wouldn’t have reached the same level of success and popularity… These is facts… Shit, I bet Ice T would even say the same thing…!!! You know, that’s if we keepin it fresh and crispy like folded new note $$$(I put that dollar sign there in case some of y’all is brand new)…
@@markemsworth4235 I hope that the second part of your comment is not true!!
Em is just the fucking best!!!
Soundtrack to my youth. Bodypopping and breaking in Preston, Lancashire.
Golden era best days when this dropped glad I was there💪🏽 shout out to everyone that lived that life also💯
...In 1984....things didn't "drop"....that's just a ridiculous Americanism - phased-out as an embarrassing term (roughly by Nov 2026)...think about "swell"...and you're almost there.
I’m so glad I was there too! I owe a lot to these people for steering me toward something I loved and for the excitement they injected into my creative process ❤️
Damn...that song bring back mad memories
when you played this so many times when you was a teenager and still know the lyrics off by heart.... classic track
Exactly! And can still rap with it after not hearing it for years.
the piranhas - bustin' insanity moves
love that clap....that and the cowbell i's missing from today's tracks. Which is why I go back to real ol' skool...HIP HOP!
You mean the rhythm with which it plays? Because that clap is the 808 drum machine's clap and it has been used for ever and is still havily being used.
Best song Ever!!! Used it in ball hockey, scored 80% of the goals. I had the worm the backspin, the hand spin. Breakdancing helped my hockey game, this song is Classic motivational song for me anyway. I consider myself maybe 7 in breakdancing. The guys who had the headspin, the windmill, these are your 8 9 and 10s. And the guys who contort their bodies like electricity went through their bodies, any they correagraph amazing entertainment.
Look up Nonstop, Poppin John, and Dytto for those who keep breaking going. Lots of videos on UA-cam. I was a top popper in the early 80s and still watch it to this day
ua-cam.com/video/caf3ahpb7m0/v-deo.htmlsi=0UMI9G22FVf2FGdc
Memories of 84 Homeboy word real Hip Hop im getting teary eyed damn I miss 84-85
I was 10 years 0ld watch break dance & heard this for the first time learnt every word & decided I wanted to become a rapper there & then . Probably the first in Newcastle at the time & have been writing everyday since …now that’s inspiration at its finest
these hand claps still get me fired up
the rimshots are bananas
what a jam
44 now, and it reminds me of when I was 13
I still have an electronic keyboard and it has all those old drum machine sounds on it. I still get on it every now and then and mess around. Lol it makes me miss the 80s. I was 11 when this song came out.
Not to forget that bad ass intro..~Bongs~
And now your 50.
Probably a Roland 808 drum machine.
❤❤
em did NOT BRING ME HERE! I actually bought this at 14 years old! I experienced this first hand! ahhhhh memories!!!
Diesen Song habe ich erstmals vor 30 Jahren gehört , wie schnell die Zeit vergeht ..ich höre es immer noch gerne und würde gerne Break dancen , kann aber nicht weil ich kein Talent dazu habe...danke
80s changed the music game forever
I took this song on cassette to play at "show and tell" in my 4th grade music class. Teacher, well she didn't get it at all and killed it after 30 seconds. I guess I figured then and there that my music tastes might be a little different than most! \m/
dmharvest you are not alone
Classic. Show n tell...I totally feel you. I was 5 in 84. Had this on cassette too.
Your taste is 🔥 forget that teacher 🤗
🤣😭
Look at hop hop now.
As a kid living in Sacramento California I watched this movie everyday sometimes twice in 1 day
That was one of Ice-T early cuts....I'm glad that he chose to show us the real deal a few years later also.
This was my absolute favorite in Breakin' OST
MINES 2 I SEE THIS BATTLE WITH LOLLIPOP IM GOOD
Remember going to the UA theater with about 10 other kids who were also in the 4th grade and seeing Breakin'. We stayed and watched it a second time. Got the soundtrack on vinyl and used to listen to this song and herbie Hancock's remixes on the soundtrack over and over and over.
My friends and I loved to attempt our breakdance moves to this one, back in the mid 80’s.
A song where you can hear the literal auditory history and cultural origins of innumerable derivative genres, electronic, scratch, so many genres!🙇♂
First hip hop tune I ever heard when I was a kid. Was hooked since then
this got me into hip hop over 30 yrs ago
Ditto
Here too!
I bought this Album was I was 12 in 1984. I wanted to dance like Turbo but was more like a 1.1 Fiesta!
I was 15 when I bought the cassette....I still have it.....great album, killer track!!!! Fuck I'm old!!!!!!!
Do you remember the other movie after breakin? It came out about 1 or 2 years later
I think it was "Breakin' 2"...terrible movie. First one was way better.
I can't remember the songs were good though
+Steve Melkaq beat Street
When your bad ass song has a vibration of "scratches" in the music.....never gets old!!!
This is when rap music was good, had a good beat and lyrics.
For sure!
Yes!!! Love it memories from when I was about 12
Ice t brought us back to old school the 80’s music 🎼 was the good times this is way better than New school music
Only girl in my Crew back in day!! Still pop-locking to this today! No-one today could touch this shit ! Hip-Hop will never die!! XX
best break dance song ever
Defo 😀
It's amazing....
also, Hashim 'Al Naayfish' and Kraftwerk 'It's more fun to compute'
I'm in tears right now
probably reminiscing ? 😁😁 u miss ur past dont u ?
I love Chris Taylor's scratching
MAN I remember this song was hot in the streets right after the movie released
This got me into rap 'This high-powered music is truly unique✔️'
SHOT OUT TO ALL MY B BOYS, BREAKERS AND POP LOCKING FREAKS WHO WHERE THERE WHEN IT BEGAN. IM A 44 YR OLD MC,,,I MISS THE 80S SCENE.
I'm right there with you brother!
NO, I AM SPARTACUS ANONYMOUS What do you need help with?
Same here 43 old School b boy from the West coast. Wassup fam
Word up hommie 😂😂😂
Yes my man, 43 nearly 44 and I was pretty deadly on the lino when I was just a kid! E9 crew was decent back then, big Roger Ramjet and David Dooley! My Don's back
breakin,breakin 2 electric boogaloo,beatstreet definately helped spread rap around the globe in some of its earliest stages im in canada and they wher huge in my neighborhood wheni was 11 12 13 years old i never knew who ice T was back then.It cracked me up when i rewatched it just now!
Brings back old memories
Skyway, Torker, Mongoose, Haro, PK-Ripper.....was my memory of this time...RIP...1980s ♥️
THE GODFATHER OF ...GANGSTER RAP....PERIOD .YUP...ICE T..BEEN THEIR SINCE THE FUCKEN BEGINNING STRAIGHT UP ...
The best rap of all time....timeless 👍
What’s funny is all three people in the pic are stationary but I can see them dancing to this. Lol it’s great.
TRUE TRUE TRUE.... I was there in the 80's poppin and lockin to it all. We were privilaged to have this. It was truly magic and from another planet for suuuure!!!
I very briefly called myself 'Ice-T' in 1984, because I was so impressed with him in Breakin', before hitting upon my own B-Boy name of Cosmic Freeze!
My first love of music . Breakin in 83’
Old School Rules....Thank You Ice-T
guauuuu que recuerdosss, nos ibamos con los radioscasettes a todo volumen, a topeeeeeeee el breakdance
I wore my cassette out with this song. I'm this came on the radio now, people would lose their minds! Ah to be 12 again...
Giles Hawthorn It was awesome. I used to play this song on the crappiest little cassette player but I loved it.
Haha I was 7 when I heard it - on vhs. Loved it
Thank you for posting that I had the breaking record when I was in grade school and I could never remember how I knew Ice-T's reckless, I used to spend this on a record player in the morning and do a little break dance make my parents crazy
For sure! I loved this movie as a kid and it's my favorite soundtrack!
I had forgotten the best track on the album as by a young Ice-T.
Que tema por Dios!!!!!! Aunque pasan los años. me sigue poniendo la piel de gallina y a bailarlo!!!!!!!!
Wow this song...my energy growin up if I hear...RECKLESS...80's the best....
Dang, this movie was a game changer. Before it came out, disco was cool. Everyone wanted to be John Travolta in the polyester suit. Then Breakin' was shown in the theaters and every high school kid went hip hop crazy. Hair gel, Hi cut Converse sneakers, suspenders and studded belts became cool. I remember cutting classes during high school with my classmates so we could go to the supermarket near the school and lay down cardboard boxes outside the entrance, turn the boombox on and challenge kids from the rival school to a dance off. Each of us had 1 breakdancing specialty. One could do the windmill, another the worm, one could do the backflip and another could handspin. I couldn't do any spins but I could pop and lock. We got caught by a teacher who saw us out once and got dragged to the principal's office for cutting classes. Man, those were the good old days.
Can see how this influence Michael
Jackson
Track is on my phone playlist to this day !
Scratchin a long lost ART
DJ glove
Peerless 👑
I remember walking the streets with a piece of vinyl to spin on, Toshiba stereo loud as it would go, i was crap but good times. Now if Spotify would allow me to download this that would be great
We listened to this in 1984 , school , old portable tape recorder and it changed everything. Just nuts - Belfast 1984 - warzone and we were popping away to this. Sweet.
MAN, ICE T SHOULD HAVE BROUGHT YOU HERE!!!!
He did, I was 11 in 84 and this song blew me away. Been listening to rap ever since. My favorite era was 84 to 96.
Does it really matter what brings you to a song?
I was 14 when I heard this. We were at Griffiss AFB, Rome, NY. I learned to pop-lock off this song!! Then I used it when I played football that fall.....I used to tell myself to play reckless!!
Hip Hop History. Memories ' breakin' in the park'
new school need to go back to old school becos they lost it completly...they suuuck!!!
This is one of the best songs
Love this..."with s DJ named Rub, who reigned supreme, hes the hot table veggie of the hip hop scene".....so if youre into events, dont know no Scott guy named Pence.....rippa bippa yaw ot all ends with banquets.....
The glove and ice t were da bomb in this. Reckless what a track. Sounds better in the movie though superb. Still watch this in 2024 lol first watched it when it came out and Beatstreet, crushgroove ect lol
Never get tired of that 808
This use to be one my favorite songs
a damm cool hip hop rap track might of been ice t's very first track, and damm the scratching from chris the glove taylor is fucking awesome. wow this track is just so cool i love dj's who scratch records.
You jamming out today!
Breaking out with some that old school stuff.
Phillip Boyd yes
Ricardo Lara
ha ha i know man
Ricardo Lara
lol so true.
Ricardo Lara
ha ha cool
Ice T and the Glove kilt this omg I miss those days
OMG!!! I was 11 when this came out. I remember This song. Then a few years later "Rhyme Pays came out" This was the beginning...
woww...finally found it.. feels like i'm in the early 80's...back to the break dance era..woohooo... i totally forgot the title...thanks to johniewalker23 for uploading this...
what a music! he's reckless!!!
Im bout to break out my cardboard and do some windmillz in my dynimite kids footware that looked like Reeboks!!!
wicky wicky wicky!!!!
I love this comment so much hahaha
Saw Breakin in the theater when I was in 7th grade. Didn’t become an Ice T fan until 6 in the morning though a couple of years later.
This was the first rap song I ever heard but had no idea it was called rap until I started to hear RUN-DMC. What a great time period that was!!
This cut and beat street my favorites when I was 12, I dont kno if I wanna cry because of the good memories or cry also because memories is all the is.
Great comment . So true
The song that gave us Shady. Should be put in the National Recording Registry for that alone! lol
No not for that . For what it did world wide
@@rODIUMuk There are more worldwide influential songs than this. The Message, Sucker MC's, Bring the Noise. This is mostly known for influencing Em.
The real old school tnxs for share ...
Some times i wish that this song never ending
Man those were the day's ....20 years later, they still can't recreate the magic ! POP AND LOCK FOOL!!!!
I'm here because I just saw Eminem say this song introduced him to hip-hop and I wanted to check it out.
damn I missed the best era of rap by like 26 years
this is a class old skool tune love it
LIKE THIS BETTER THEN THE 12'' VERSION. TRUE OLD SCHOOL!
42 and still poppin and lockin...welcome to the magic, its out of this world truly.
Hope you still goin brah
(Surabaya-INDONESIA) >> ICE-T -Reckless [ Break Dance ]
The club scenes with ice-t on stage were the best parts of this movie
Love this film...
I remember back in 80s a friend of mine had a Chevy Blazer pickup, we used to get packed in the back and crashing parties doing break dance, so much good memories with this song , classic and still so fresh.
cassette madness as a 7 year old and this track is still the bomb
I was 11 and I had it on vinyl. Lol
Thanks for uploaded of this video..I feel on 13 its cool an nice sound I heard before. Awesome
How that beat break dwn after Ice T second verse omg I play it back over and over again
I came cos i heard ems podcast! N i love this track man the turntable scratches n m like uuuuuhhhhhh
goodness!.. memories are made of this... believe it r not this movie breakdance - shabadoo etc were a big thing in kenya back in the 80s -
I remember watching him in concert in Leeds England 1989 power tour and he asked the audience what track they wanted him to do and someone shouted from the crowd do reckless and he just broke out in laughter saying man that’s going to far back…Darlene looked beautiful on that stage that night ❤🐐