Hi everyone, I just wanted to make something clear. This is not Breakdancing. Yes, the movie was called Breakin,' but that was not accurate. This is Popping. Popping is from California, Breakdancing (Bboying) is from New York.
it's both dancers (black and white) have been doing much of this in various ways since at least the 1930's (Jack Stanford) and probably before that.... most of us would start out with a popping routine then go into the groundwork, that's what breakdancing came to be by 1984 at least... check out "Origins of the Moonwalk" video... true most of this is popping and locking but "turbo" does some breaking too... but that all morphed into the same thing, most crews had 1 good pop locker and the rest different types of breakers, although I never heard of b-boy until this year and I was breakdancing in pre 1984 years in Illinois.
Beat street in 1984 is a bit closer to Breakdancing at the time. However the reason they often lumped break dancing, popping, locking, liquid, etc was for two factors. One they both originated around the same time and moves were very popular in the same acts and locations from a public awareness (The Campbell Lockers, Soul Train, etc really featured the start of both). Both kind of became really popular at Kool Herc’s merry do round dance parties. Two, both break dancing, popping and locking, and what was generally considered “street dancing” were having a very hard time getting recognition up to the point when major music like Micheal Jackson, and acts like Rock Steady started). A wall had formed around modern dance, and most of these artists were considered beneath professional dance. It was in fact these second generation dancers who finally broke through the barriers and started developing dance schools and groups.
@@LogicalNiko interesting to find out more about the history, I was doing breakdancing in the midwest in 1983 or 1984 but never could figure out what they were doing out in california when I moved there... I was more into the groundwork and they never did that stuff out in california... the way we would do it in the midwest was start standing then end up spinning...
@@VenturaIT yeah the concept of the circle really came from DJ Kool Hercs’s parties. He also coined B-boys and B-girls. He called them break boys, and break girls. The origin of the term “break dancing” was be cause Kool Herc was the inventor of the long drum break by looping swapping between two copies of the same recording’s drum break. This gave people time to all dance to the same beat. But as only people who went there saw new moves it wasn’t until things started showing up on TV did it really spread all over.
@@LogicalNiko quando você diz "dançarinos de segunda geração" você está falando de quem? Se refere aos dançarinos de Beat Street e de Breakin'? Então quem são os de primeira geração? Existe algum dançarino famoso da primeira geração?
Check out Clear by Cybertron, Fix in the Mix by Pretty Tony and Numbers by Kraftwork - total futuristic and still dope to break and pop too today! When I hear those jams/beats just makes my body and soul move. Miss 1580 Kday - traffic jam mixes were killer. Props to Tony G, Jammin Gemini and Greg Mack - Trail Blazers🔥🔥🔥 BTW “I need a freak” by Sexual Harassment that joint still be popping but you need to have some good bass to make it live lol
RIP Bruno “Pop N Taco” Falcon. You and your style made a huge impact in the hip hop world, will always love the way you popped my man❤️🙏❤️🙏❤️🙏❤️🙏❤️🙏❤️🙏❤️
Im going on fifty seven and I remember those days. Lol. Today welp I'm older now and I'm climbing those Smokie mountains. Still kicking it but in a different way now. Thanks for that video brings back soooo much memorie.
Dance today ????? Who have you seen dancing lately??? REAL Rap/Hip hop is long gone - these dummies can’t dance with skin tight jeans on now a days - they will drop their guns out of their jeans and bust a split in the jeans trying to dance now a days - you had to be physically in shape to break dance at a high level like this - ain’t no dancing going on when your lungs about to collapse from smoking, drinking lean, popping pills and smoking synthetic weed - it’s a whole new ball game involving dummies mumbling while trying to rap and hold their purse at the same time ( yea dudes with purses ) y’all saw it 😳😳
Indeed! I'm 52 and that's the first time I've ever seen that move. Also, I feel like we missed something when Boogaloo Shrimp slid forward on his knees, but the camera man was mesmerized just like us and didn't pan back enough.
Good times.... The 80's, really were a blast! Unfortunately, the only "Breakin" and "Poppin'" I do, these days, involves the noises, made by my back and knees.... Lmbo! 💕🤗💕🤗💕
Yes there are a lot of routines and moves that people still do today as their fundamentals and base, but popping today (even as far back as 10 - 15 years ago) have evolved some. You won't find it on mainstream media. It's all underground battles from the real popping scenes in the US and internationally, and it's not all routine either. Poppers have always improvised based on the music. The ones that only stick routines don't get far in competitions. People think popping died out and started to come back recently. The truth is popping was always alive, but not mainstream like the 80s.
There is nothing new under the sun. Most people who did anything just did it slightly different from someone before them, and many times without knowing. Biting is one thing, but inspiration is another. These body movements have been around for a very long time. Way before the 70s and before the 1900s most likely.
80's and 90's WERE a time OF REAL INNOVATION... can you imagine SEEING THIS FOR THE FIRST TIME!!! Some of these moves were actual INVENTIONS, new, actual pioneers....
Being alive long enough for this to happen in my lifetime, sadly the only thing that I can pop is my back, knees and shoulders. This one is a rare UA-cam algorithm win!!
Yes Sir!!! Ace Popping What they Don't have Now. They can talk Blue actor's computer noise makers, Have Nothing on Those who graced the 80,s decade. We were not the world,But also included the 70,s Disco Era! We left a MARK that's WILL never be Replaced as ours were the Last of the History Era's in America. Cheer's to Us we were our Own HEROES.
But I seriously used to see much better pop locking than this out behind the gym at Manuel Arts High School. Not trying to be funny, but that's a fact.
@@_Bat-Man_ Seriously, there are dancers of that caliber (and likely even better) today. I don't know who are the "anyone" this guy is actually referring to.
I'm 50 and I was breakin' when I was 10 years old, so I love 80's break dancing. The dancers today are WAY better than we were back in the day, there is no comparison. The guys today are like Olympic gymnast meets professional dancer. It wasn't a massive world-wide competition back then either. Today there are 100 times more guys doing it.
I can remember being about 6 years old when my mom took me to the theater in the '80s to see the movie break dancing. It was a wrap after that! 🔥🔥🔥 I was hooked 💕
They’re all excellent, 1st guy especially was awesome, this is my era, I’m so proud of our innovative teen generation. We must never underestimate how important the music was, and inspired by the genius of legendary bands like Kraftwerk and YMO and their US based electro disciples. They were a critical influence in this early 80s hip-hop generation. 40 years later nothing as revolutionary as 1st wave breakdancing has hit the streets, this legendary era seems so much more special as the years roll by.
Lol what u know about Kreftwork?!?! Lol U r Spot on! I still Listen to Kreftwork today! They’re on my Spotify list! I listen to others too. Africaboombada!? Planet rock etc!
@@orlandojohnson5742I came across Kraftwerk when I was a kid in England, they appeared on a BBC TV science program called Tomorrow’s World in 1975, even then they were regarded as something special because these dudes built their own electronic music kit, with really cool drum machines! ua-cam.com/video/sl46bxHuyR8/v-deo.html Nobody heard this music before. We thought they were just a bunch of nerdy German musicians struggling to make themselves heard in the music business. But when I heard Autobahn I was mesmerised, then I heard trans Europe Express and was transfixed, then after I heard Computer World... I followed them like a religion ua-cam.com/video/OE5eS6t5MPI/v-deo.html. Shortly after I was blown away by the music of their US electro disciples: Afrika Baambaata Soul Sonic Force, Juan Atkins, Hashim, and many others, including Run DMC then later with the Detroit techno sound Carl Craig, Derek May, Kevin Saunderson. We had no idea they would impact music the way they did and influence Early hip-hop, electro, synth-pop, post-punk. Nearly all derivative music genres today owe something to Kraftwerk if not their existence.
As an 80s kid, this just brought back so many happy memories. I broke a couple of ribs and joints doing this! I'm 50 today and if I tried this, I'll be in the upper room faster than the speed of lightning! Good times!!
I'm 47 and I remember having dance-offs at recess in elementary school till one of the teachers would make us stop out of fear someone would break a limb. 80s was the best time to be a kid!
Just turned 50 myself a few days ago! I remember my friends bringing cardboard to school so we could break during lunch. No smartphones, no social media, just a boombox and your friends hanging out.
I remember growing up as a kid in these days, the vibe in the air was so electric.. everyone could feel really amazing things were going on and the music and dancing is a true reflection of all that.. 80's forever!
Ya but a lot of this stuff grew out of earlier stuff from the 1970's. Check out Donna Summer 'I Feel Love' (1977) and Kraftwerk 'First Techno' (1970). Funny enough, I just checked out that Donna Summer video, and it now has 60 million views! It was barely on the radar in 1977.
I just figured it out. During their championship era, the Chicago Bulls always played it thru the sound system of their home stadium while introducing their opponents. Tune from 1977, still futuristic in 1998. And yeah, she even did the robot while singing it
My childhood memories from then, we idolized those guys along with the NYC BreakDancers from Beat Street. That summer of '83 we spent the entire summer breakdancing in Chicago. Great childhood memories.
This brings back memories, I grew up in the 80s and stuff like this would happen at local parks and there'll be no fights and no shootings. Nowadays it's expected and exalted by the hip hop music industry
The hip hop music began to incite violence and the "grunge" music on the 90s and much of the rock in general was made to cause depression, apathy, and drug addiction. It was all by design and a big part of why the world is in the mess it is in now.
Michael Jackson knew his name....I guess that's about as good as it gets. Who else needs to know his name? - lol (He was Michael's choreographer/dance instructor) Notice how his moves look familiar.
@@jasonito23 ??...Who else needs to know his name??? How about millions of people who would pay to see him in live shows and on the screen? Michael Jackson knowing his name isn't getting any bills paid. You sound ridiculous.
Bro i swear i lived more than one life im 25 and i love and acknowledge pop lock as one of the best if not the best dance art in the world and i feel like i was apart of it somehow in another life
@macho13us If you had been born in the 80’s then you would have missed all this, genius. This was ‘83. Even if you had been born in 1980 you would not have been old enough to appreciate it at age 3 you dumbfuq. 70’s kids experienced this, not 80’s.🙄🤦♂️🤦♂️🤡🤷♂️
I was a child back in the 80s...as a teenager in the 90s was gangsta rap...my god how short life is...i can't stop thinking of how other LIFE forms are out there doing what they do...
@@jacobjohnson6766 I highly doubt that my friend...ive witnessed things that science can't explain...we have physical LIFE forms on earth and we have these things called ghosts....until you see them for yourself don't keep a closed mind...just look at how big the universe is...
@@jacobjohnson6766 can you prove it? Our world is being run by something that's not human. The angels from the Bible are aliens...thres other life out there just not the same as we know it as...
Most of the crew in these films didn’t end up having massive touring careers in dance groups. What they did do however was influence a lot of people in Hollywood in film and music, and setup many of the first schools and troops for today’s modern dance. It had evolved a lot from Don Campbell and his Original Lockers.
When I was in middle school we would all get down at the playground with our pop locking, tick and break dance moves. We’d bring an old cardboard box, open it up and flatten it out and go to work. Great days to live in
Hmm!....Pop n' Taco was waaay ahead of his time, Back then Mexicans didn't pop, break or rap! In Cali it was just the brothers, Samoans, Filipinos and Cambodians who got down!
Before, in breakdancing, everyone had their own style! Each dancer was unique, and now everyone dances the same way (((80s forever !!! This is the best time of mankind !!!
No they don't dance the same way. You haven't watched enough of todays dancers if you think that. This type of complaint is like 20 something years old. You would think the newer generation would listen by now. Well guess what? They have, and not only are breakers original now but they are taking moves and combos that have been done to new and crazy levels. Adding new variations, doing moves cleaner, faster, more rotations, breaking world records, the list goes on.
@@bboyStuntZ ‘Breaking world records’? This way of life was never about performance metrics, where does that fit in? it was about love of the music, expression in dancing and art. I witnessed this revolution in pop culture, as it all came together beautifully by Summer 1982.
Maravilhoso... Sou fã break dance, sou dessa época 1983!!! Prá vocês de hoje aproveita essa maravilhosa expressão corporal que é de arrepiar!!! Bay bay?
If you grew up and you just happened to be a good break dancer it was like damn near getting initiated into a gang , I'll never forget I got called out by a grown man one time to battle when I was a youngsta🔥💯
They came to our Boys Club around that time. Shabadoo too. Tustin, CA. I was there with Cuba Gooding Jr. I had the big box with 4 woofers and 2 tape decks. Lol. Good ol days.
Right???? Back when they called our music "n!&&er" music and hiphop culture "that head ache stuff, its just a fad" etc etc and now look hoe things are. Spread out around whole world.
Man I miss the 80's. I was sitting in my recliner when I came across this video and it put a smile on my face watching it and brought back memories of trying to breakdance on cardboard 😁👍
Shrimp was dope, but Taco hit way harder. Skeeter Rabbit, Mr. Animation, and Chuco all hit harder than him. But he was fluid as hell, I'll give you that.
Man, Bugaloo looks like he's still way young in this Video. If someone hasn't mentioned it yet, Bugaloo played the character of "Urkel-Bot" in the TV show Family Matters.
Played Urkel-Bot..... that's just a side note on his iconic resume. Dude Michael " Boogaloo Shrimp" Chambers is LITERALLY the guy who taught M.J. how to Moonwalk 🌒. It doesn't get anymore LEGENDARY than that. I once heard Michael say that he learned some of his greatest & most dynamic dance moves from some street kids, but I had NO IDEA that he was talkin about *Turbo*!!!
Boogaloo tells the story in an interview how him and poppin taco after the lionel richie video all night long video was asked to show him moves and moonwalk.
For those of you who doesn't know, the topless guy with the black shorts on his back is his friend Michel Qissi (Tong Po). They both go to America to pursue their careers.
DJ GaFFLe lol ikr. yeah I think it's clear who won that one. But they both are incredible. It's just that Turbo is probably one of best breaker/pop lockers in the WORLD.
Was this like an audition demo for Breakin/aka Breakdance movie? Better showcase of skills from the dancers than what they exhibit in the actual movie.
this is true break dancing from back in the day!! this is how they settled street wars, not guns and knives, but street battling by dancing and then by rapping soon thereafter. nowadays, it's guns and knives, violence of any kind, no more break dancing and using your voice to show ur competition up! that's why the 80s were far better than 2021. Of course, dancing has come a long way, but this is where it began... the 50s hop trotting or whatever was great for that time era, but this is true, dancing in the streets with boom boxes and bandanas, leg warmers, and cut off muscle shirts lol. cars that dads and sons worked on, or muscle guys and they made huge sounds, impressed everyone, and just weren't these daddy-bought pieces of aluminum foil you find for 600x the price of our strong cars back in the day!
This is cool. When I was growing up on the southside of Chicago a friend of mine from California taught me how to do the Electric Boogie and Pop in 1979. I still do it for my wife and daughter and I'll be 50 this year.
Hi everyone, I just wanted to make something clear. This is not Breakdancing. Yes, the movie was called Breakin,' but that was not accurate. This is Popping. Popping is from California, Breakdancing (Bboying) is from New York.
it's both dancers (black and white) have been doing much of this in various ways since at least the 1930's (Jack Stanford) and probably before that.... most of us would start out with a popping routine then go into the groundwork, that's what breakdancing came to be by 1984 at least... check out "Origins of the Moonwalk" video... true most of this is popping and locking but "turbo" does some breaking too... but that all morphed into the same thing, most crews had 1 good pop locker and the rest different types of breakers, although I never heard of b-boy until this year and I was breakdancing in pre 1984 years in Illinois.
Beat street in 1984 is a bit closer to Breakdancing at the time.
However the reason they often lumped break dancing, popping, locking, liquid, etc was for two factors. One they both originated around the same time and moves were very popular in the same acts and locations from a public awareness (The Campbell Lockers, Soul Train, etc really featured the start of both). Both kind of became really popular at Kool Herc’s merry do round dance parties.
Two, both break dancing, popping and locking, and what was generally considered “street dancing” were having a very hard time getting recognition up to the point when major music like Micheal Jackson, and acts like Rock Steady started). A wall had formed around modern dance, and most of these artists were considered beneath professional dance.
It was in fact these second generation dancers who finally broke through the barriers and started developing dance schools and groups.
@@LogicalNiko interesting to find out more about the history, I was doing breakdancing in the midwest in 1983 or 1984 but never could figure out what they were doing out in california when I moved there... I was more into the groundwork and they never did that stuff out in california... the way we would do it in the midwest was start standing then end up spinning...
@@VenturaIT yeah the concept of the circle really came from DJ Kool Hercs’s parties. He also coined B-boys and B-girls. He called them break boys, and break girls. The origin of the term “break dancing” was be cause Kool Herc was the inventor of the long drum break by looping swapping between two copies of the same recording’s drum break. This gave people time to all dance to the same beat.
But as only people who went there saw new moves it wasn’t until things started showing up on TV did it really spread all over.
@@LogicalNiko quando você diz "dançarinos de segunda geração" você está falando de quem? Se refere aos dançarinos de Beat Street e de Breakin'? Então quem são os de primeira geração? Existe algum dançarino famoso da primeira geração?
The 80's man... What a time to be alive...
It was like nothing else
Aids crack and gangs and Reagan, yeah what a time the 8os was smdh
@@jarreauforney8107 And now? What is better today?
jarreau forney what was the best time?
jarreau forney 8os? Is that a new phone?
This was 40 years ago but somehow the music still sounds futuristic 😂
I concur. 🔥💯
yeah because some1 scratching on a record player sounds really futuristic aye
it sounds like fart and blowjob. 40 yrs. later and it still sounds like fart and blowjob..
Check out Clear by Cybertron, Fix in the Mix by Pretty Tony and Numbers by Kraftwork - total futuristic and still dope to break and pop too today! When I hear those jams/beats just makes my body and soul move. Miss 1580 Kday - traffic jam mixes were killer. Props to Tony G, Jammin Gemini and Greg Mack - Trail Blazers🔥🔥🔥 BTW “I need a freak” by Sexual Harassment that joint still be popping but you need to have some good bass to make it live lol
@@David-fu5qb Lol, u are so right
The 80's were freaking awesome
Lol put the racist card away and dance like everyone else , jesus the 80s were great. Been there :)
@jam brown we Mexicans also :)(
@Z3r0 Hammerlock 🤔😂
jam brown you dumb fuck he is obviously Spanish his name is POPPING TACO fuckin fool
All I know is that robot walk by Popping Taco was sick at the end of his go!
I'm 59 and doing this moves for 30 minutes every day in the morning before going to work.
Lol! 😆
Good work out bro.. Im 48 and still cut a rug now and then to keep the blood going. Best
Today on "Shit that never happened"
63 and practiced all morning and afternoon today. I might be sore tomorrow. Great memories from the 80's and early 90's.
😂😂
THESE KID'S WILL NEVER UNDERSTAND THE LEVEL OF FUN WE 70S & 80s KID'S CAME UP IN! 💯 #DETROIT #CITYGIRL #313 #LOVE
Nah you 70s kids had weak weed...
Stranger things vibes
@@GATOxNORTE YEAH BUT FUN! 💯💗
@@GATOxNORTEyou proved exactly THE PR3TTY's original point.
Same as it was in the 80s 90s.
This is how they settled parking lot disputes back in the day. 💯
Geah
Moon light popa% to LATINO$Y4N
Exactly we danced..no fighting.
What if you had a dispute with someone who couldn't dance?
@@junodonatus4906 they would still try to dance an when they lost the battle they took that L...no matter what.. That's how it was.
RIP Bruno “Pop N Taco” Falcon. You and your style made a huge impact in the hip hop world, will always love the way you popped my man❤️🙏❤️🙏❤️🙏❤️🙏❤️🙏❤️🙏❤️
Aww man, I didn't even realize Bruno passed too.
@@tylerrue3108 oh wow. I didnt either.
He just passed like 2-3 weeks ago too.
@@G00gLe_was_my_idea989 yup so sad🙏
wow didn't know. rip. i follow kid boogie and occasionally catches a glimpse of the legend on instagram. always thought he was the coolest gramps.
Fantastic scenes of the 2 legendary talented Michael Chambers "shrimp" and Taco . Great friends who changed the face of dancing for ever.
1983... WOW !! Almost 40 years ago. These dudes feeling that beat!! Gotta love the 80s!!
Girl’s shirt: Coke is it
Yes it was apparently
The year I graduated
@@AngelaMay66 the year I was born!!! ❤❤❤
@@DoesItTho OKAYYY SKINNY LEG JEANS OF 2022 🙄
Every 10 years, everything changes somehow
Im going on fifty seven and I remember those days. Lol. Today welp I'm older now and I'm climbing those Smokie mountains. Still kicking it but in a different way now. Thanks for that video brings back soooo much memorie.
These guys are the Pioneers of Break Dancing! They paved the way for kids on how they dance today. Mad Respect ✊!
Watch goodie mob "they dont dance no more" and you will understand today. They went psychic on that one.
People today can’t dance. There are a few exceptions, but generally speaking
Dance today ????? Who have you seen dancing lately??? REAL Rap/Hip hop is long gone - these dummies can’t dance with skin tight jeans on now a days - they will drop their guns out of their jeans and bust a split in the jeans trying to dance now a days - you had to be physically in shape to break dance at a high level like this - ain’t no dancing going on when your lungs about to collapse from smoking, drinking lean, popping pills and smoking synthetic weed - it’s a whole new ball game involving dummies mumbling while trying to rap and hold their purse at the same time ( yea dudes with purses ) y’all saw it 😳😳
@@computerguy6264 you do realize that GOODIE MOB song was not about dancing right ??? 🔫🔫
@@tynaeadams3562 it's about many things.
Popping taco did the moon walk on his knees!!! And no one is going to acknowledge how dope that was!!!!
Real Talk 💯
Both were acknowledged too many times to count on all moves during that time.
@@Enochrry6024 I was talking about in the comment section, not at the time when it took place in real time
Yea that stuck out to me too, awesome.
Indeed! I'm 52 and that's the first time I've ever seen that move. Also, I feel like we missed something when Boogaloo Shrimp slid forward on his knees, but the camera man was mesmerized just like us and didn't pan back enough.
Why is this on my UA-cam feed...... Wait a second.... This is awesome. Damn it youtube, you know me better than I do.
Perfectly stated. My sentiment exactly. 👍
Lol I feel you , as a dancer myself am greatful 😁
Hey Ryan McNally..... Is Your Dad's Name, Rand?! Rand McNally, The Map Guy?! If Yes, I bet you NEVER get lost. If No, Are you lost Now?!
@@kevinthebassfelon1304 Ok
@@deadpoolthepsycho_________2428 ........ Ditto!! Check Yourself Dead-Fool.
Watching 80's break dancing videos never gets old. Good ole days.
When shrimp come out like that..it's over with.
Reminds me of super punch out
Shrimp was too damn good
Taco killed it
💯
what clip is this from?
Love it and it never gets old. If you came up in the 80's era, you're the shit. Nothing else compared ✊🏾
As a junior higher in the early 80’s, this was thee most exhilarating thing I’ve ever seen, and I cherish the memories I have.
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@@ismaeels705 😊
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To say that these brothers were amazing would be an understatement! RIP to Poppin Taco!!!!
Good times.... The 80's, really were a blast! Unfortunately, the only "Breakin" and "Poppin'" I do, these days, involves the noises, made by my back and knees.... Lmbo! 💕🤗💕🤗💕
Decades later the energy that day is still making people feel good 😊
It does! Certainly not "bad"!
Never could do that kinda dancing but I always admired the dancers that did. Excellent period piece! Thank you!
Track is "The Radio Crew - Breaking And Entering" for those wonderin...
Thanks!!!
Batting cages
Right on!!! 👍
Keep it Chrispy!
I'm curious, I'm going to check it out. ☺
80's, the best years ever! When the life was more happy and simple! No internet, no smartphone, but true emotions!
Cheers from Italy
cheers from Spain
THE 7O'S TOO
Taco and Boogaloo Shrimp were my favorite dancers!! RIP Taco and RIP Shabadoo
Wow, I didn't know they passed away, they were truly an inspiration to us all.
Probably by suicide. They won’t even say how Shabba Doo died.
헐 저 사람들 죽었나요?
@@mb-ms2mk yes, sadly they are
People don’t pop like this no more this is so pure
Yeah they do but, nowadays issa medical condition LoL, jk:-)
Just Trying To Tell You 😂😂😂 omgsh
Check poppin john and hyun joon
uhhhh Bluprint01 thank me later
Exactly what an old person would say.
The major difference between poppin then and today is back then the movements were more improvised today it's all routine.
Back then it was new. They weren't imitating anyone. James Brown and tap dancers had all that slippery footwork but poppin' was brand new.
Yes there are a lot of routines and moves that people still do today as their fundamentals and base, but popping today (even as far back as 10 - 15 years ago) have evolved some. You won't find it on mainstream media. It's all underground battles from the real popping scenes in the US and internationally, and it's not all routine either. Poppers have always improvised based on the music. The ones that only stick routines don't get far in competitions. People think popping died out and started to come back recently. The truth is popping was always alive, but not mainstream like the 80s.
Absolutely, and its also the same reused gimmicky routine they saw on "You Got Served"
Have you seen the Les Twins?
are Les twins considered poppers or straight up dancers? They are good though
In the 80s we were not copying anything...We were making it as we went.
We????
In Cali they were copying NYC ALLDAY LONG.
STILL ARE
that part!!!!!!!!!!!!
There is nothing new under the sun. Most people who did anything just did it slightly different from someone before them, and many times without knowing. Biting is one thing, but inspiration is another. These body movements have been around for a very long time. Way before the 70s and before the 1900s most likely.
@@acerkrt NYC was breaking and Cali was poppin and both styles merged.
Two O.G's in tha poppin game. This never gets old💯🔥
My two all time favorites, i love watching theses guys. Miss the 80s
My man just damn near did the Moonwalk (Backslide) on his knees yo.. *Masters of the craft*
pappagetti 2009 That shit was badass!
80's and 90's WERE a time OF REAL INNOVATION... can you imagine SEEING THIS FOR THE FIRST TIME!!! Some of these moves were actual INVENTIONS, new, actual pioneers....
Lol, it's dancing man. Calm down.
Lol a waste of talent and invention, look at where we are now? It's all over
The 80s yeah, but not much innovation happened in the 90s
Facts 💯
@Thomas Jefferson sorry I thought we were talking about dancing
Being alive long enough for this to happen in my lifetime, sadly the only thing that I can pop is my back, knees and shoulders. This one is a rare UA-cam algorithm win!!
No filters, no animated enhancing technology, no editing, all pure talent...
Point, Record, Pause, Save! Pure Raw Talent!
And no moving only the top half of their bodies cough cough tik tok
Yes Sir!!! Ace Popping What they Don't have Now. They can talk Blue actor's computer noise makers, Have Nothing on Those who graced the 80,s decade. We were not the world,But also included the 70,s Disco Era! We left a MARK that's WILL never be Replaced as ours were the Last of the History Era's in America. Cheer's to Us we were our Own HEROES.
@@lamonthamilton667 lol wut
Yes, and not copied, ORIGINAL talent
Oh god, the old school break dance crowd types like a bunch of geriatrics.
Poppin Taco was cold!
But, Boogaloo was just phenomenal!!!!
#LEGEND
Yep he was
Fact!
Boogaloo, the best to ever do it
poppin taco still breaks n pops . imo i always thought he was a little edgier.
At the time bugaloo was like Steph curry. It wasn't normal to do that...
It’s good to see TKO and Electrorock putting aside their differences and dancing together! 👍
Technically they did, Breakin' 2 Electrorock came at the end to dance to help save Miracles.
Ha!
But I seriously used to see much better pop locking than this out behind the gym at Manuel Arts High School. Not trying to be funny, but that's a fact.
🤣🤣
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This is the birth of hip hop . All the music the kids jam now , this was the start of it . Pioneers . No internet or tv playing it . All streets .
That would smoke anyone even today .... way ahead of their time that is insane level of control and so so so so clean and creative too.... wow
Settle down.
@@_Bat-Man_ Seriously, there are dancers of that caliber (and likely even better) today. I don't know who are the "anyone" this guy is actually referring to.
@@rapsta2255 A lot of people.
@@rapsta2255 He's caught up with all the trendy dancers and not looking at everything
I'm 50 and I was breakin' when I was 10 years old, so I love 80's break dancing. The dancers today are WAY better than we were back in the day, there is no comparison. The guys today are like Olympic gymnast meets professional dancer. It wasn't a massive world-wide competition back then either. Today there are 100 times more guys doing it.
I can remember being about 6 years old when my mom took me to the theater in the '80s to see the movie break dancing. It was a wrap after that! 🔥🔥🔥 I was hooked 💕
I still have my Breakin’ album from when I was a kid 😁
Do you pop, break, up rock and all that good stuff from the 80s?
They’re all excellent, 1st guy especially was awesome, this is my era, I’m so proud of our innovative teen generation. We must never underestimate how important the music was, and inspired by the genius of legendary bands like Kraftwerk and YMO and their US based electro disciples. They were a critical influence in this early 80s hip-hop generation. 40 years later nothing as revolutionary as 1st wave breakdancing has hit the streets, this legendary era seems so much more special as the years roll by.
Lol what u know about Kreftwork?!?!
Lol U r Spot on! I still Listen to Kreftwork today! They’re on my Spotify list!
I listen to others too. Africaboombada!?
Planet rock etc!
@@orlandojohnson5742I came across Kraftwerk when I was a kid in England, they appeared on a BBC TV science program called Tomorrow’s World in 1975, even then they were regarded as something special because these dudes built their own electronic music kit, with really cool drum machines! ua-cam.com/video/sl46bxHuyR8/v-deo.html
Nobody heard this music before. We thought they were just a bunch of nerdy German musicians struggling to make themselves heard in the music business. But when I heard Autobahn I was mesmerised, then I heard trans Europe Express and was transfixed, then after I heard Computer World... I followed them like a religion ua-cam.com/video/OE5eS6t5MPI/v-deo.html. Shortly after I was blown away by the music of their US electro disciples: Afrika Baambaata Soul Sonic Force, Juan Atkins, Hashim, and many others, including Run DMC then later with the Detroit techno sound Carl Craig, Derek May, Kevin Saunderson. We had no idea they would impact music the way they did and influence Early hip-hop, electro, synth-pop, post-punk. Nearly all derivative music genres today owe something to Kraftwerk if not their existence.
First guy wasn't as good as the second guy.
First guy is pop n taco
@@slimthickaz. not at all. But even close. Dude a weirdo for that statement. He definitely ain't black
People had more fun back then miss the 80s and 90s. Also everyone that was cool and alive back in those decades.
As an 80s kid, this just brought back so many happy memories. I broke a couple of ribs and joints doing this! I'm 50 today and if I tried this, I'll be in the upper room faster than the speed of lightning! Good times!!
I'm 47 and I remember having dance-offs at recess in elementary school till one of the teachers would make us stop out of fear someone would break a limb. 80s was the best time to be a kid!
Lol@ upper room🤣
Just turned 50 myself a few days ago! I remember my friends bringing cardboard to school so we could break during lunch. No smartphones, no social media, just a boombox and your friends hanging out.
“aye com on now Ray lemme hear about that boom boom room you was talkin about”
Lol loved the 80’s and 90’s.
This was how it went down in the school cafeteria each day.
with my ghetto box
🙌🙌🙌 yep!
When I was in 1st grade kids would bust out the cardboard when the teacher stepped out... Good times... 😊
I remember growing up as a kid in these days, the vibe in the air was so electric.. everyone could feel really amazing things were going on and the music and dancing is a true reflection of all that.. 80's forever!
Ya but a lot of this stuff grew out of earlier stuff from the 1970's. Check out Donna Summer 'I Feel Love' (1977) and Kraftwerk 'First Techno' (1970).
Funny enough, I just checked out that Donna Summer video, and it now has 60 million views! It was barely on the radar in 1977.
I just figured it out. During their championship era, the Chicago Bulls always played it thru the sound system of their home stadium while introducing their opponents.
Tune from 1977, still futuristic in 1998. And yeah, she even did the robot while singing it
Good times. We were all going to burn in nuclear hellfire so we just did whatever looked fun. And fun it was!
Cocaine was a hella of a drug lol
My childhood memories from then, we idolized those guys along with the NYC BreakDancers from Beat Street. That summer of '83 we spent the entire summer breakdancing in Chicago. Great childhood memories.
0_O - OG af.....even by todays standards. Those waves were 🔥🔥!
Tsunami
Poppin Taco still dancing and I think he better than back then. Now he looks like an old man but dances like a young man. He definitely leveled up.
This brings back memories, I grew up in the 80s and stuff like this would happen at local parks and there'll be no fights and no shootings. Nowadays it's expected and exalted by the hip hop music industry
The hip hop music began to incite violence and the "grunge" music on the 90s and much of the rock in general was made to cause depression, apathy, and drug addiction. It was all by design and a big part of why the world is in the mess it is in now.
Poppin Taco's name Definitely should 've been more known. He's a Beast. He and Shrimp should've had lead roles in a Movie.
Michael Jackson knew his name....I guess that's about as good as it gets. Who else needs to know his name? - lol (He was Michael's choreographer/dance instructor) Notice how his moves look familiar.
FYI he was Michael Jackson’s choreographer
Bruno was the shit back than...not so much now.☹️
Went to visit him with my boy Kenny Jones at his north Long Beach home. It’s kinda sad.
@@jasonito23 ??...Who else needs to know his name??? How about millions of people who would pay to see him in live shows and on the screen? Michael Jackson knowing his name isn't getting any bills paid. You sound ridiculous.
Bro i swear i lived more than one life im 25 and i love and acknowledge pop lock as one of the best if not the best dance art in the world and i feel like i was apart of it somehow in another life
MAN THIS WAS 1983! ITS STILL CRAZY FRESH!!!!
Word.
Rest In Peace Pop N Taco 😢
Taco was cold with his poppin. He had some of the hardest locks in the game. 💯
If you are watching this you just got served.
SHEEEESH they are tearing this floor up! Impressive. I wish these dances were still trending
Bro they both go hard af this takes me bak to my childhood
Let's battle.. lol
Absolutely!
Wtf it took me back to your childhood too!?
When your two uncles at the family reunion start arguing and you think they finna fight 😂😳
😆 🤣
Right! 😂
Lmao
My Junior Year Of High School We Watched Breakin And Entering At Least 4 Days A Week After School 1983-84. #vhs
I'm so glad I was born and raised in the 80's. This hits 🏡
Facts!!! #1983
I concur 1981
I agree born in 1980
@macho13us If you had been born in the 80’s then you would have missed all this, genius. This was ‘83. Even if you had been born in 1980 you would not have been old enough to appreciate it at age 3 you dumbfuq.
70’s kids experienced this, not 80’s.🙄🤦♂️🤦♂️🤡🤷♂️
To say that this was an incredible time in life is a pure understatement!
I was a child back in the 80s...as a teenager in the 90s was gangsta rap...my god how short life is...i can't stop thinking of how other LIFE forms are out there doing what they do...
@@jacobjohnson6766 I highly doubt that my friend...ive witnessed things that science can't explain...we have physical LIFE forms on earth and we have these things called ghosts....until you see them for yourself don't keep a closed mind...just look at how big the universe is...
@@jacobjohnson6766 can you prove it? Our world is being run by something that's not human. The angels from the Bible are aliens...thres other life out there just not the same as we know it as...
@@jacobjohnson6766 you absolutely have to be simple minded to think that.
Broooo facts. Some of the best years of my life and I didn't even realize it at the time 😆
Rest in piece pop n taco, you will never be forgotten !
OMG 😃 thank you for posting 🤠😸
Poppin & lockin. If you never experienced the 80s you missed out on the best decade.
You can deeply tell they was both in a zone......Great footage Rest in peace Pop N' Taco 1964-2022
Wow 58 years old. He died so young
It's amazing what human joints are capable of performing at their peak when one is young
And how those same joints turn aganist you as you age
My joints pop & my body locks a lot these days, but way different than like we used to do 👴🏼
Most of the crew in these films didn’t end up having massive touring careers in dance groups. What they did do however was influence a lot of people in Hollywood in film and music, and setup many of the first schools and troops for today’s modern dance. It had evolved a lot from Don Campbell and his Original Lockers.
When I was in middle school we would all get down at the playground with our pop locking, tick and break dance moves. We’d bring an old cardboard box, open it up and flatten it out and go to work. Great days to live in
I agree my brother those were the good old days
Poppin taco has always been my favorite from that time period.
Definitely! Still is one of my favourites today. His animation is unlike anything I've ever seen before. Taco is mind blowing!
Taco taught michael jackson you can see all michael moves in taco
@Original Man turbo 1st, then poppin taco.
@@swagsukeuchiha7599 bo4h sick dancers.
@@castolano stop lying
2019 and the music still sounds futuristic.
That's some Roland for you! TR-808 banging and some cool synths.
That's because everybody from the future has stole it so it sounds familiar!
This movie was EVERYTHING back in the DAY! And Still is!!!
Turbo is damn near impossible to Beat.
Taco all day but shrimp was dope!
Which one is turbo
@@flacoflaco1199 turbo is the black guy
Turbo is unstoppable
Hmm!....Pop n' Taco was waaay ahead of his time, Back then Mexicans didn't pop, break or rap! In Cali it was just the brothers, Samoans, Filipinos and Cambodians who got down!
Before, in breakdancing, everyone had their own style! Each dancer was unique, and now everyone dances the same way (((80s forever !!! This is the best time of mankind !!!
Verdade 😍👍👏
No they don't dance the same way. You haven't watched enough of todays dancers if you think that. This type of complaint is like 20 something years old. You would think the newer generation would listen by now. Well guess what? They have, and not only are breakers original now but they are taking moves and combos that have been done to new and crazy levels. Adding new variations, doing moves cleaner, faster, more rotations, breaking world records, the list goes on.
@@bboyStuntZ Yeah, it was still in it's infancy then, but this newer generation had built on what came before.
@@bboyStuntZ ‘Breaking world records’? This way of life was never about performance metrics, where does that fit in? it was about love of the music, expression in dancing and art. I witnessed this revolution in pop culture, as it all came together beautifully by Summer 1982.
Your spot on,They were very individual then 80S BEST TUNES BEST DANCING
I was popping and breaking in 1983 too. Started popping first in 1982, then evolved into breakdancing.
Best times huh ? 😁 Even tho I was born in 1990 lol , I started dancing in 1999 when I first saw Micheal Jackson
Ahhhhhhhhhhhh.....the good ole days!!!! Growing up in the 70's and 80's was the absolute best!!!!!!! This brings back so many memories!!!!! 🥰♥️
👀 let's talk about it Ms Parker, I'd invent a time machine just to talk to the 20 Year old you 😏
RIP Popping Taco (Bruno Falcon) Thanks for those _breakin' days_
Maravilhoso... Sou fã break dance, sou dessa época 1983!!! Prá vocês de hoje aproveita essa maravilhosa expressão corporal que é de arrepiar!!! Bay bay?
Gah...the memories tho! ☺ Beat Street. SPIT!!!! 😱🔥♥.
So glad I grew up in the 80's. #BestDecadeEver 👌🏽
Ladykyra101 breakin!
If you grew up and you just happened to be a good break dancer it was like damn near getting initiated into a gang , I'll never forget I got called out by a grown man one time to battle when I was a youngsta🔥💯
I grew up as a teen in the 80s, great memories, great dancing ❤️
They came to our Boys Club around that time. Shabadoo too. Tustin, CA. I was there with Cuba Gooding Jr. I had the big box with 4 woofers and 2 tape decks. Lol. Good ol days.
@SLY GXP I wish I had it. Trust me. I don't. Long time ago.
The TWO tape decks!!!!! Yoooooo. Much Love
Growing up and experiencing this was amazing. Breakdancing is an olympic sport now. lol
Right???? Back when they called our music "n!&&er" music and hiphop culture "that head ache stuff, its just a fad" etc etc and now look hoe things are. Spread out around whole world.
Man I miss the 80's. I was sitting in my recliner when I came across this video and it put a smile on my face watching it and brought back memories of trying to breakdance on cardboard 😁👍
Stop it boomer
I NEVER seen anyone pop as hard as shrimp. Every motion is a hard jerking snap and fluid at the same time.
Shrimp was dope, but Taco hit way harder. Skeeter Rabbit, Mr. Animation, and Chuco all hit harder than him. But he was fluid as hell, I'll give you that.
@@anonymouslakernerd7214shrimp is faster and creative taco is tactical and focuses I like shrimp more rip taco .
Man, Bugaloo looks like he's still way young in this Video.
If someone hasn't mentioned it yet, Bugaloo played the character of "Urkel-Bot" in the TV show Family Matters.
Played Urkel-Bot..... that's just a side note on his iconic resume. Dude Michael " Boogaloo Shrimp" Chambers is LITERALLY the guy who taught M.J. how to Moonwalk 🌒. It doesn't get anymore LEGENDARY than that. I once heard Michael say that he learned some of his greatest & most dynamic dance moves from some street kids, but I had NO IDEA that he was talkin about *Turbo*!!!
He was also the “Bill” robot in the second Bill And Ted movie!
BlackFire901 the one who taught MJ how to moonwalk was actually Jeffery Daniels of Shalamaar.
Keith The Faith People don’t know there are different styles of moonwalks with different techniques. MJ learned them all from street dancers.
Boogaloo tells the story in an interview how him and poppin taco after the lionel richie video all night long video was asked to show him moves and moonwalk.
The memories came rushing back. This is what I and my friends did in the mid 80s. Such cool times !
Yes, Good old times!
This was big back in the 80's, i'm now 57 from SAN DIEGO CALIFORNIA but the music never gets old.
@@jorrba3934 45 here, from Mumbai, India. Breakdancing was quite the thing, back then. We spent hours perfecting our moves 😅
its kinda sad we were the last cool generation IMO
the ones after have... issues..
@@ripvanwinkle2002 lol 😆
For those of you who doesn't know, the topless guy with the black shorts on his back is his friend Michel Qissi (Tong Po). They both go to America to pursue their careers.
Boogaloo shrimp was the man when it came to the dancing
My man Boog came out like a ventriloquist dummy 🤣 killed it!
Man Old School Boogaloo Killed it
It is real ANIMATION POPPING🤣🤣🤣
0:37 When you select your 3D fighter but the disc keeps skippin lol
0:37 - 0:43 ...if Turbo came out on me like that in a battle, I’d be moonwalking my way to the nearest exit!
DJ GaFFLe hahahaaaha
Lol.. you wuss... lol
Hahahaahah! Okayyy!
DJ GaFFLe lol ikr. yeah I think it's clear who won that one. But they both are incredible. It's just that Turbo is probably one of best breaker/pop lockers in the WORLD.
@@Estelle738l Tuff won that 1 brueno hard but tuff was on A different level that was on breaking and entering
Rip pop n taco 🙏🏿🙏🏿
Somebody show this to Raygun & Australia
I’m 28 and I grew up in a baptist since I was 9 in nyc. I can tell you as young person we got nothing on the older generation
When Times were Less violent and all races Had love for each other!!!!!
People, thanks for watching and for the awesome comments. The song title and title of the full documentary is in the description
Was this like an audition demo for Breakin/aka Breakdance movie?
Better showcase of skills from the dancers than what they exhibit in the actual movie.
What doc is this from?
Breaking & entering ft The radio crew song name
@@chasehadley5230 BBCTYBF
this is true break dancing from back in the day!! this is how they settled street wars, not guns and knives, but street battling by dancing and then by rapping soon thereafter. nowadays, it's guns and knives, violence of any kind, no more break dancing and using your voice to show ur competition up! that's why the 80s were far better than 2021. Of course, dancing has come a long way, but this is where it began... the 50s hop trotting or whatever was great for that time era, but this is true, dancing in the streets with boom boxes and bandanas, leg warmers, and cut off muscle shirts lol. cars that dads and sons worked on, or muscle guys and they made huge sounds, impressed everyone, and just weren't these daddy-bought pieces of aluminum foil you find for 600x the price of our strong cars back in the day!
Poppin taco killed that shit too!
Those vibrating moves omg !
I grew up during those time. When we had dance & rap battle. Now it’s all about gun battles
Aaaah! They both was mutha fun Ken funky fresh!!!...you dig...🤭😬😁😎💯
The Original Dj Scooter B I dig you jive ass turkey
@@marcozolo3536 LOL Old Skool 4EVA!
That authentic West Coast flavor!🔥🔥🔥💪🏾 Taco & Shrimp 👑👑
This is cool. When I was growing up on the southside of Chicago a friend of mine from California taught me how to do the Electric Boogie and Pop in 1979. I still do it for my wife and daughter and I'll be 50 this year.