This is not Kenya. These are acrobats from Ilorin in Western Nigeria performing at a festival in Kaduna in Northern Nigeria in May 1959. It's from a British documentary called "The North Rejoices."
@@PHlopheexactly! And now I’m thinking someone with African roots migrated and brought this here! We like to think Americans started it, but it’s clear it came from an immigrant, someone with direct ties to Africa! Or maybe it was some guy who studied this same video back in the 60s and the rest is history 🤷🏽♂️
@@drakesdadsmustachelol African Americans don’t have African roots? It just shows me that it’s in your DNA. It’s an ancestral thing. When you’re connected to your people it’ll always take you to your roots. Like, who said Americans created everything? Most ppl that say that just get mad when Black Americans are proud of their culture. Every other part of the diaspora gets to be proud except Black Americans…why?
facts and to Bronx New York with people of African decent black and 🇵🇷 no coincidence...Hmmmmmmmm makes sense....Give these people thier props for bringing it back and making in world wide....It's deep
To the guy that made this video >>>>>>>> this video actually was taken in 1978 not 1959... Break dancing started in the US and Africans took notice of it because so called African Americans are the light of the world. Africans have their own cultures be proud of that , don't try to claim something that African Americans started, you never see African Americans trying to claim anything Africans started except maybe Egypt.
@@aeiou9456Again, it comes from within our soul. We aren't imitating Africans, our ancestors were Africans. Get it! We didn't see these folks dancing like this in the 1950's and say let's dance like that! We got videos going back to the 1930's and we were doing "floor work". Dancing to a break beats to a record is not part of any continental African cultural heritage. No African invented the break beats concept in a song! Hip hop did not exist in Africa! It would have been smarter to write that break dancing is the RESULT of Black Americans ANCESTRAL memory and retention of some of our African ancestors dances, but to say a whole style of dancing originated in Africa without the music that originated in the USA is insane and a complete lie.
Holy shit!! They’re doing wrist spins, head spins, the bridge, hurricane, footwork, swipes, windmills, flairs, crab walk and the terminator X!!! No shit, this is EXACTLY WHERE TODAYS BREAKDANCING CAME FROM! 👏👏✊
The truth sets all free🎉 Would anyone have believed it if it wasn't filmed by Europeans. I heard my whole teenage life that rap and brake dancing is an African practice. We are a people obsessed with words and physical expression. It would only make sense.
I thought black Americans were already in America before the enslaved arrived and those original Americans came up with the break dancing we see today?
I can’t believe they are taking the breakdancing away from the Olympics… it so deserves to be there. People can do moves that gymnists can only dream of
What is even more crazy is there were no UTube, Facebook or Twitter, but unread 'history' books at the library 😮 just DNA, waiting for to "pop" out in front of the World. 😊
Black Americans been breaking before Africans.. Africa follows what Black Americans do.. we can see this happening now with drill music.. they’re making drill in Africa and the UK which originated with Foundational Black Americans.. 😂
No, continental Africans need to stop taking credit for a dance style that originated from the descendants of enslaved African people in the USA. That's not break dancing. Break dancing requires you to dance to a break beat from a song with a break beat. Black Americans are descendants of enslaved Africans and we are the ones who retained the ancestral memory of our African ancestors and evolved and developed their dance styles and added new dances to create break dancing. Because those people in the video are not doing all the basic moves in break dancing. That evolution didn't happen in Africa just like hip hop and funk ain't from Africa either. Africans need to stop stealing the creation and ingenuity of people of African descent in the diaspora. It's disrespectful to steal and lay claim to musical styles and dances you did not create for some clout. Stop divorcing Black Americans from their African roots and ancestors as if this didn't exist in our lineage. No, break dancing is Black American, not continental African. Africans did floor work to drums, we evolved what our African ancestors did and did break dance, that looks much different from this, to funk and soul records with a break beat. Stop.
Yes, because black people have ancestors that come from Africa (West Africa) specifically. Besides, it's like cousins arguing about who had a common feature first when they share a common heritage.
Yes and Caribbeans are the black folks that adopted these traditions from west Africa and brought these traditions to the United States introducing it to black Americans after yte Americans erased their culture. This is the root of breaking, this is where it first evolved from. Rap is also a west African rooted tradition.
@@jmah5553 And no, Egypt was an african civilization before Arabization. Its 2024, no one is gullible. The info is out there, you have to be embarassed for sure.😂
@@jmah5553 So i suggest you study more history before acting like some sort of scholar on youtube. This is when I realized studying and research is so important, ignorant is showing from you.☠️ The INFO IS THERE😂😂😂😂😂😂
@@bobopatchnosuke229not just you there are more people existed but you don't study most of your people get free every thing from others tax payers you guys are free loaders did nothing just claiming other cultures
( you need to research more especially To the guy that made this video ) >>>>>>>> this video actually was taken in 1978 not 1959... Break dancing started in the US and Africans took notice of it because so called African Americans are the light of the world. Africans have their own cultures be proud of that , don't try to claim something that African Americans started, you never see African Americans trying to claim anything Africans started except maybe Egypt. PS .... this most likely was taken in West Africa but it was in 1978 research it.
@@ValueSeekerOnline Stop spreading lies, first this video was taken in north Nigeria and the date is 1959 ! Secondly, breakdancing ain't came from African american, it came from central African's Tribe !! What y'all call " Breakdancing " was a dance made for rites and not for show off like y'all are doing in america. We communicating with the spirits through this dance !
To the guy that made this video >>>>>>>> this video actually was taken in 1978 not 1959... Break dancing started in the US and Africans took notice of it because so called African Americans are the light of the world. Africans have their own cultures be proud of that , don't try to claim something that African Americans started, you never see African Americans trying to claim anything Africans started except maybe Egypt. PS .... this most likely was taken in West Africa but it was in 1978 research it.
It's good they brought this video to the public as proof that the elements used in hip hop culture (so-called breakdancing), truly has slave roots, tracing back to Africa. It was the slaves who truly brought the element known as b-boying or breakdancing to Africa-American dance culture. All of the elements accept graffiti, originated from black culture (descendants of the slaves), in the Americas especially the United States of America the birth place of the hip hop movement which was founded and coined by U.S, black culture with the acception of DJ, Cool Hurk, on of the many so-called godfather's of hip hop. Hip hop is truly black culture, but at the same time it's universal for everyone enjoy.
@@daviddrummond9386 the hip hop cultural movement was coined and founded by U.S blacks indeed, but some of the elements used in the hip hop cultural movement is deeply rooted in black culture that traces back to the African slaves that first arrived in the states during slavery is what I'm saying. Africans didn't invint hip hop but I do believe their is a long distance connection in terms of certain elements used in hip hop culture. Its one of those things that was passed down from generation to generation without being realized.
No argument here. Although the percentage of slaves that came to North America were indeed few. No matter where we are in the diaspora we should be happy that we have melanin.
@@RonaldWilliams-lp3bgAfrica created melanated ppl. You wouldn't have that much melanin in your skin right now if you weren't African. Blackness originated in Sudan
If the young afro americans that came up with breakdancing in the 80s in USA had never seen this, one can say that some kind of dance moves are ingraved in the DNA because it is too similar to be a coincidence...
Right black native Americans/ negros where around for thousands of years too. Everyone did not come from Africa I would say everyone came from the Americas.
How does that apply here? There are many cultures that have moves that are showcased in breakdancing, which aren't of African descent, prior to this footage being taken.
There was no acess to TVs during this era, people hardly had exposure to foreign culture so this is raw and organic. Yet I see moves that remind me of martial arts from the far East, break dancing from the USA, Capoeira from Brazil etc. African culture is slept on, and deserves way more exposure. And i'd like to see more of us incorporating our traditions into modern and popular culture. Because nowadays no one wants to be original we forget how creative we are and always want to copy foreign influences.
The first terrestrial television broadcast signals in Africa occurred on Saturday October 31, 1959 and belonged to the Western Nigeria Television Service (WNTS) Quote from @sorenschoff2669 These are acrobats from Ilorin in Western Nigeria performing at a festival in Kaduna in Northern Nigeria in May 1959. More than sure they were exposed to foreign culture just by the mere fact that Nigerians had tv's in their homes and the tv derives from a foreign culture from their standpoint. Jeez Louise.
@@jamesearlcash1758So you admitted that the very first TV broadcast occurred the same year this video was filmed, and yet you still act like it would have been widespread for Nigerians to have TVs in their home. Delusional
@@salj.5459 If you noticed I provided accurate information that derive from the Western Nigeria Television Service (WNTS) The fact of the matter is television existed in Nigeria in 1959. Whoever had or didn't have a tv it doesn't matter the fact that tv's existed in Nigeria doesn't make me as you say 'delusional' as you make it appear it just means ya can't comprehend what you read. Check ya head runner. ahahahaha
It’s in the DNA because a popular African American 1970’s dance called the “Bump” is an ancient African dance performed in Zambia when two people bump the side of their hips/buttocks while dancing.
Amazing , and I believe it because culture has to come from a source .everything about the video proves the origins of break dancing with the crowd encircling the dancer . Very little has changed . The beats might have changed rhythms from back then to now but it's all the same .
Actually so called African Americans/Blacks been doing breakdancing in the late 30s and 40s look it up. Its footage all about this,but we already known this for generations
Good observation. I think they are imitating moves used by FBA tap dances in the 1920s. Nonetheless to say we got it from them when we've never seen thembefore is nonsensical. FBA culture has been globalized since the early 1900s. I wouldn't be surprised if they saw old footage of us and just emulated that.
@CottonClubRadio2024 I guarantee you most of these people didn’t even have access to TV, let alone US programming. Even today Northern Nigeria is underdeveloped, poor and neglected. Not to mention that based on region, these performers are probably Muslim. Copying any type of Western dance from TV or wherever at that time and in this place would have been extremely taboo. These dances are likely generations old, possibly developed over centuries. Hence, completely normalized. Otherwise, there would be some major pushback.
Is there a word to use when African Americans do the same things their ancestors did? It’s incredible we still do this on another part of the world, more research should be done on this.
its just like twerking. Women in Africa danced like that before there was rap music. This culture is written in the DNA of African people. No matter where you place them on the Earth or how much you brainwash them. They will express what is inherent in themselves
You can take Africas out of Africa but you can never completely beat it out of us. In fact we will africanize things around us and you'll get addicted to whatever we touch! It's why we must keep certain hands off our treasures and creations because they always get ahold and corrupt it.
How did Africa originate break dancing? If Africa originated break dancing, then why didn't they popularize it? Where's the Breakdancing Icon in Africa? That influences the world? Where's the African Beat Street or African crushgroove.? Break Dancing is a foundational Black American creation, not African. Every time Black Americans' innovative creations get notoriety, here comes Africa shoehorning their way into Black American accomplishments getting false admiration they don't deserve 🙄 😒
No it did not and it's actually pretty racist to be claiming everything started in Africa It's a way that you black folk like to try to claim that you came first You're a bunch of racist by claiming this
Idk who created break dance moves. But There's recordings of African American doing break dance long before this footage. I'm talking about in the 1920s and 30s.
Bruh this is a 1950s poor VILLAGE these ppl weren't watching TV to see Americans do any dances. These are traditional tribal dances in their culture. Black Americans kept certain traditions through slavery it's not the other way around clown 😂
@@knstp04391 we ain’t keep know tribal dances through slavery 😂 you sound crazy.We past literally nothing down from Africa 😂. Black Americans one group not 800 tribes in one country beefing with each other while whites Arabs Indians an Asians take all y’all $h!t😂
Black American dance ,music and fashion changes an evolves we don’t do an wear the same thing for decades and centuries that’s why distain having booty scratch be saying anything. Hating on black Americans isn’t gonna make the world stop looking at y’all like fleeing tethers
I remember in the early 80s when break dancing was all over mtv and in the media. I remember seeing it done on floors, usually wood or concrete and a lot of times people laid cardboard down. These moves the people in the video are doing is hardcore, especially doing such moves on dirt. Never have seen it done on dirt.
You are correct!! The so called “Afro-American” or Foundational Blacks created breakdancing. This did not come from Africa. Neither did Rap. Here is a video from the 1940’s showing the Mills Brothers breakdancing: ua-cam.com/video/Iat62Ab87qs/v-deo.htmlsi=1N28_v9kjmLuXbRJ For Rap: This is the first rap song. It was by the Afro-American Gospel/Folk//Proto-Rap the Jubalaires. They created rap music. If you listen to their song “The Preacher and the Bear” you will see where “Rappers Delight” was stolen/sampled from. Noah ua-cam.com/video/Wx0oU1OnHf8/v-deo.html Preacher and the Bear ua-cam.com/video/XNzKZ7lJRUc/v-deo.html The Jubalaires en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Jubalaires
The crazy thing is that their is no denying Africans are the original ones 😂 I say this as a Dominican I would not be surprised if soccer football basket ball came from African
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Hell, I saw footage from maybe 30 years BEFORE this. It was some guys doing some type of breakdancing moves. Moral of the story: Ain't nothing new under the sun.
I danced at profesional level and can tell you i straight away recognise all steps and breaks u can see we made it even more commercial but the moves arent that far apart some are right how we do it some where adapted still u can see the hard roots of it this means breakdancing isnt found in 1959 but much earlier since this footage is the first video of it! I assume they had been doing this before the video meaning breakdancing can be hundred or maybe even thousands of years old because who showed them! U can do this !? Someone had to have shown it since these are already advanced moves i can attest that if u never have been doing this u cant all of sudden do this the ground turtle spinning i dont know the name of the move but i do know it takes a lot of strength and balancing practise to do that on one hand to give a picture some b boys practise one trick for 5 years just one or 3 years to just learn one and then u need to maintain it on top of that to not lose the muscular memory so what u see here could be way way older then 1959 since they also have a pretty big move set (not just one or 2 tricks ) so i dont know but it seems to me they been doing this for longer then that since the moves of modern day just sligtly or moderatly differ
We weren't break dancing like this in the '70's. We were not spinning on our heads and rolling all over the floor. We were not trying to get our clothes dirty. That all came later with the next generation.
In all respect, thats not true. The early 1970s was when the first bboys became a thing. You should look up Stomp Dance/Black Spades and the history of bboying. only if your interested. By the time television got its hand on the first breakers via flashdance, real people and thats incredible tv shows, Breakdancing was already becoming unpopular in NY. But the 80s changed that.
@@erikawright8134 You're preaching to the choir. We were breaking back then but we were not jumping on our backs getting dirty or spinning on our heads. We were not pop locking at parties. That was a soul train thing. The cats that came later started pop locking like the cats on the west coast. We were floor rocking but at the same time trying not to get our clothes dirty.
@@soulknob9991 "What's not true"? Unfortunately , very claim you made. As @beatrockers1 suggests, please see this superb documentary, "Hip Hop's Very First Break Boys/B-Boys" ua-cam.com/video/06bnBQRsE4I/v-deo.html. At the 21:27 mark, two original break dancers talk about the origins of break dancing circa 1975-1978 with the Black Spades street organization. (They started out as community protectors before succumbing to all of the typical forces to become a gang.) One mentions doing the helicopter (similar to what is shown in this vide @0:36 ) which is absolutely "on the ground/floor" and these break dancing pioneers repeatedly talk about doing all this before any cardboard. I found the video description to be particular helpful in summarizing the non-linear presentation of the history in the video.
But no alphabets or written languages, no farming or agriculture, no domestication of animals or horses, no wheel, no discoveries or inventions, no building of ships or sea faring, no metallurgy, no masonry, roads or monuments, no civilized burial rites, no civilizations whatsoever. Break dancing hunters and gatherers.
@@markmanning6542😂😂😂 europeans were savages before we taught you here in the Americas what Civalization is Your freemason education wont teach you that
@@afroman6172no it is not a handkerchief. 😂 It's solid. A solid rectangular object. Watch as he kicks it and then watch as he picks it up. If it was a handkerchief, it wouldn't keep its solid, rectangular shape as he grabs it. LMAO
@@YuShloe I watched the entire video, which showed it from a different angle.. It appears to be a notebook or envelope of some sort.. It's not a phone. And these are 2 different clips put together.. The first one was some sort of documentary filming ceremonies leading up to Nigeria's independence. So that one is for a fact legit. I forget what the other was for but I know its in Kenya - possibly just an exploration documentary.
@@goudagalindo1790 Obviously it was created in America. This video doesn't change history. It's probably not even real. Dude at the 35 mark had a phone.
This is not Kenya. Not even East Africa. The clothes and instruments can tell you that. I am Kenyan and I have archives from the 1800s through to colonial decades to postcolonial Kenya. This is def somewhere in West Africa. Not Kenya. Not East Africa.
The only problem is you have footage of FBA'S in the 1940s and that we had no contact with Africans at all to know what they we're doing one way or the other.
I think it just means that its always been in you. Its in your dna...when your people where taken, they took it with them. I don't think copy would be the word but its just in them
Remember, our culture been striped from us, we built our culture through the pain, struggles, and hardship that we were endurance. We knew nothing of African culture.
@@MrRottorobut yet and still they say that they're Africans when they're really not come on black people don't look like Africans nor do they talk like Africans so why would they even think that lol sometimes it just seems that they just fall for anything
@@MrRottoro So much of American culture actually came from African culture especially in the South. (e.g Africans were the ones who know how to season chicken, cultivate rice, cook greens, had unique music and dance traditions, etc.) The idea of a "blank cultural slate" or "tabula rasa" is a misconception. Why would someone leave their home (even if forced) and immediate forget their foods, music, beliefs, and culture? It doesn't make sense. Besides, many historians have disproven this theory and shown that there is so much African cultural retention in many forms throughout the diaspora in the Americas and the Caribbean.
Just watched another YT video and wow! It's all coming together and making sense. If you type in "The Panther Dance New Atlantis" this British dude is narrating a West African ceremony by a group called Senufo. The initiations symbolize the panther... doing combat moves, acrobats, spinning, etc. This culture resisted Islam and Christianity so the old traditions are intact. Them FBA cult folks? Listen and listen carefully: When them South Carolina plantation owners documented enslaved folks doing Sunday afternoon dances, naming ceremonies and other rituals what exactly were them enslaved groups doing? Hmm. The ignorant slave owners called everything "pagan" and started frantically banning drumming and certain moves that looked "threatening" to them. The enslaved were forced to adopt and ceremonial arts lost meanings over time but they were still resilient enough to retain certain moves though modified. Even the spiritual drama noted in Black churches didn't come out of nowhere. All those old film clips the FBA cult bring up are irrelevant. Those clips simply show how through resiliency, adaptation, evolution and creation of new musical forms it was reclassified as simply "entertainment" and that's it...the original ceremonies and meaning of moves long gone. In Brazil, those dance moves took a militaristic turn called capoeira.
EVERYTHING STARTED IN MOTHERLAND AFRICA, YOU NEED TO DO SOME RESEARCH ON DNA, THE FACT THAT THE IRISH OR ITALIANS HAVE ALSO BEEN IN AMERICA FOR A HUNDRED AND FOUR YEARS, THEY KNOW THAT THEY WILL ALWAYS BE EUROPEANS FIRST BEFORE BECOMING AMERICANS, AND THEY EVEN RECOGNIZE THAT THE BASIS OF SCIENCE COMES FROM AFRICA, THE GREAT GREEK PHILOSOPHERS STUDIED IN EGYPT. AND YOU, AN AFRICAN-AMERICAN, STILL MAKE THIS KIND OF NARRATIVE, REFERRING TO 350 YEARS, AS IF YOUR ANCESTORS WEREN'T AFRICANS? DO YOU THINK THAT AS SOON AS THEY LEFT AFRICA AND ARRIVED IN AMERICA THEY FORGOT THEIR ROOTS AND CULTURES, AND STARTED TO HAVE AN AMERICAN IDENTITY WHEN AMERICA IS THE NATIVE INDIANS, USE YOUR BRAIN, REASON, RESEARCH AND AVOID WRITING WHAT DOESN'T MAKE SENSE.
How can you "invent" something that already existed😂 This is the equivalent of Columbus "discovering" America, pure nonsense! Your ancestors didn't magically forget their cultures because they hadn't been in Africa for 350 years hombre...
This is not Kenya. These are acrobats from Ilorin in Western Nigeria performing at a festival in Kaduna in Northern Nigeria in May 1959. It's from a British documentary called "The North Rejoices."
Thank u 💓
Yes l’assuma style.
Why black people always lying?
The esans do it better tho
I am Ghanaian and was thinking these activities, the drums, the clothes, look more west African than East African. It makes sense it’s Nigeria.
the resemblance to breakdancing is uncanny, even the warmup before the big move.
Sufi weirdos contribution to mankind
Ayo, that is because it is exactly that
@@PHlopheexactly! And now I’m thinking someone with African roots migrated and brought this here! We like to think Americans started it, but it’s clear it came from an immigrant, someone with direct ties to Africa! Or maybe it was some guy who studied this same video back in the 60s and the rest is history 🤷🏽♂️
@@drakesdadsmustachelol African Americans don’t have African roots? It just shows me that it’s in your DNA. It’s an ancestral thing. When you’re connected to your people it’ll always take you to your roots. Like, who said Americans created everything? Most ppl that say that just get mad when Black Americans are proud of their culture. Every other part of the diaspora gets to be proud except Black Americans…why?
@@ayonibrahim9985 the ebb and flow of culture is often a terrible journey that leads to a beautiful place..
Now THAT would be some olympic gold right there!
And Raygun made a mockery of this!
We can see how Capoeira made its way from Africa to Brazil.
It was called Ngolo back then but it is the martial art
facts and to Bronx New York with people of African decent black and 🇵🇷 no coincidence...Hmmmmmmmm makes sense....Give these people thier props for bringing it back and making in world wide....It's deep
And don't forget samba also.
May be the kong fu origenated in africa😂
@@allanborrero2627 maybe who knows 🤷🏾♀️ might have to research that
This was filmed 63 years ago but I know that this dance is hundred of years old.
Lol "know"
Refuse to give our people the credit- look at all the new dance- hell look at all the dances - yeah wassup now ...
To the guy that made this video >>>>>>>> this video actually was taken in 1978 not 1959... Break dancing started in the US and Africans took notice of it because so called African Americans are the light of the world. Africans have their own cultures be proud of that , don't try to claim something that African Americans started, you never see African Americans trying to claim anything Africans started except maybe Egypt.
@@ValueSeekerOnline
Thank you!
@@ValueSeekerOnline "maybe" lolzz say it like you mean it, man!!!
They really have all the break dance moves.
yea because this was in 1978, not 1959, they was copying what they saw BLACK AMERICANS doing
If these dancers did the same moves today they'd be stars
@@NasinuWarrior85 they not Americans. so no they wouldnt
This is not break dancing..
@@noneexistent2781Davido, Burna Boy, Ayra Starr, Tems, Wizkid, Tyla, Rema.... None of these people are Americans and they're all stars
Our culture does not come from somewhere “out there”, but it comes from within our souls(Self).
So no external inspiration?
It's from Africa!
Periodtt✊🏿
You're reaching for those souls.
@@aeiou9456Again, it comes from within our soul. We aren't imitating Africans, our ancestors were Africans. Get it! We didn't see these folks dancing like this in the 1950's and say let's dance like that! We got videos going back to the 1930's and we were doing "floor work". Dancing to a break beats to a record is not part of any continental African cultural heritage. No African invented the break beats concept in a song! Hip hop did not exist in Africa! It would have been smarter to write that break dancing is the RESULT of Black Americans ANCESTRAL memory and retention of some of our African ancestors dances, but to say a whole style of dancing originated in Africa without the music that originated in the USA is insane and a complete lie.
I'm speechless. It feels like I'm witnessing time traveling. Oh my god.
Holy shit!! They’re doing wrist spins, head spins, the bridge, hurricane, footwork, swipes, windmills, flairs, crab walk and the terminator X!!! No shit, this is EXACTLY WHERE TODAYS BREAKDANCING CAME FROM! 👏👏✊
It´s unbelievable ain´t it? Direct copies of these African tribes.
So it's not purely Hip-Hop, it's tribal/traditional.
The truth sets all free🎉
Would anyone have believed it if it wasn't filmed by Europeans.
I heard my whole teenage life that rap and brake dancing is an African practice.
We are a people obsessed with words and physical expression.
It would only make sense.
It looks more like a traditional dance to them the way they follow the drums beat.
I thought black Americans were already in America before the enslaved arrived and those original Americans came up with the break dancing we see today?
This is pure Gold! WOW!
I can’t believe they are taking the breakdancing away from the Olympics… it so deserves to be there. People can do moves that gymnists can only dream of
There is meaning to .... there is nothing new under the sun ! These guys were first to get down and dirty ! ❤️ ✌️ 🇨🇦
Funny how crazy legs said noone was doing this before him 😆 🤣 😂 😹 😆 🤣 😂 😹 😆 🤣
His geography teacher must have shown this documentary to him and his friends a few times..😃
What is even more crazy is there were no UTube, Facebook or Twitter, but unread 'history' books at the library 😮 just DNA, waiting for to "pop" out in front of the World. 😊
Crazy legs didnt start a damn thing
But what's even crazier he even said himself the style of dance he did was called "Moreno dancing"🤦♂️🤣🤣
@ KemetBlack pd COURSE CUZ IT'S OUR SHXT WE INVENTED..BLACK PPL NOT. ANY OTHER RACE
Yeah I see elements of capoeira in there as well
The slaves in Brazil came from Africa.
uhmmm.... it's the other way around.
This I Kenya...Capoeira came straight from Angola !
Its all afrika thing capoeira is a fighting style but this is a dance so offourse they use the same almost the same technique
almost is doing a raiz at the end
Wherever we go, there we are✊🏽
Wow, the power, strength, originality and agility of the beautiful African peoples. Much love from your Indigenous relative here in Canada 🇨🇦 ❤
Black Americans been breaking before Africans.. Africa follows what Black Americans do.. we can see this happening now with drill music.. they’re making drill in Africa and the UK which originated with Foundational Black Americans.. 😂
NO, BLACK AMERICANS ARE indigenous TO AMERICA
If you think about it, all the humans on Earth are your relatives in some way. 🤔
@@Kurochanawincest
No, continental Africans need to stop taking credit for a dance style that originated from the descendants of enslaved African people in the USA. That's not break dancing. Break dancing requires you to dance to a break beat from a song with a break beat. Black Americans are descendants of enslaved Africans and we are the ones who retained the ancestral memory of our African ancestors and evolved and developed their dance styles and added new dances to create break dancing. Because those people in the video are not doing all the basic moves in break dancing. That evolution didn't happen in Africa just like hip hop and funk ain't from Africa either. Africans need to stop stealing the creation and ingenuity of people of African descent in the diaspora. It's disrespectful to steal and lay claim to musical styles and dances you did not create for some clout. Stop divorcing Black Americans from their African roots and ancestors as if this didn't exist in our lineage. No, break dancing is Black American, not continental African. Africans did floor work to drums, we evolved what our African ancestors did and did break dance, that looks much different from this, to funk and soul records with a break beat. Stop.
When those drums hit your soul
it's begin in Africa 🤸🏾♂️💪🏽👍🏾
this is in Kaduna, Northern Nigeria, not Kenya
These are Igbo people exhibiting in the North. Northerners and Yorubas don't dance like that or do acrobatics, or even dress like that.
Nigeria, Kenya, Liberia, South Africa, Morocco, whatever ... Its the same -> AFRICA
@@ScorpioSoundz It's not the same. Your statement is very ignorant.
@@dadeviare Europeans not all the same
@@dadevi OK, explain how Morocco and South Africa are not "Africa" please. I'm all ears for this.
That’s crazy 😂😂😂 Now it’s in Olympic game 😂😂😂
This almost made me cry. Thank you African ancestors for everything you’ve given us Black people. ❤️
Our African ancestors sold their own people into slavery all over the diaspora.
But yeah, thx africa for the sick dance moves🙄
Like what? Rounding you up, enslaving you and selling you to the white man for profit?
Damn shame when your ancestors are American
me and you both!!!! lmaoo 🤣
They gave nothing to black
Black folks are the inventor of Break dance
Now, is Jesus Christ Black or is Jesus Christ White? Many of us African-Americans need to know.
Yes, because black people have ancestors that come from Africa (West Africa) specifically. Besides, it's like cousins arguing about who had a common feature first when they share a common heritage.
Yes and Caribbeans are the black folks that adopted these traditions from west Africa and brought these traditions to the United States introducing it to black Americans after yte Americans erased their culture. This is the root of breaking, this is where it first evolved from. Rap is also a west African rooted tradition.
Congratulations?
@@zeroneutralthank you 😄
Not surprising...everything started in Africa!!
The big bang and the universe began in Africa too
@@st4r444We wuz creashuns and shieet
@@st4r444yes. Don't be confused
@@st4r444 Human life actually began in Africa. American ignorance tends to disregard every such claim out of sheer seethe.
@@orion7326 original dinosaurs were black aliens from africa
Real funny ....I see no New York Hispanics DANCERS influence AT ALL !!!!!! 😂 EVERY ONE WANTS WHAT WE ARE!!!!
Never been surprised, Africa has the most vast history on earth. We have existed for over 250000 years.
@@jmah5553 That is objevtively wrong. It has the most history. Stop using yt supremacist talking points ffs😂😂
@@jmah5553 And no, Egypt was an african civilization before Arabization. Its 2024, no one is gullible. The info is out there, you have to be embarassed for sure.😂
@@jmah5553 So i suggest you study more history before acting like some sort of scholar on youtube.
This is when I realized studying and research is so important, ignorant is showing from you.☠️ The INFO IS THERE😂😂😂😂😂😂
@@bobopatchnosuke229not just you there are more people existed but you don't study most of your people get free every thing from others tax payers you guys are free loaders did nothing just claiming other cultures
The pyramids were built 3000 years before Alexander conquered Egypt and he was 1000 years before the Romans were thought of
Amazing how African Americans kept our African Identity despite being separated for centuries. Some things just run through your blood
It's in the DNA
It's in our DNA we are FBA ok thanks
This dance is not inspired by Africa
I got a question. Why is this video in color. What year was this video made. The 1980s??
@@absolute7250 1950s
y1:06,07-You can see some capoeira there too!
Wow! This makes breakdancing in the mall look like tame. Very Powerful!
( you need to research more especially To the guy that made this video ) >>>>>>>> this video actually was taken in 1978 not 1959... Break dancing started in the US and Africans took notice of it because so called African Americans are the light of the world. Africans have their own cultures be proud of that , don't try to claim something that African Americans started, you never see African Americans trying to claim anything Africans started except maybe Egypt. PS .... this most likely was taken in West Africa but it was in 1978 research it.
@@ValueSeekerOnlineStop lying to people in here and link your sources u weirdo
Lies this video was made by British broadcasting in 1959.
lol
@@ValueSeekerOnline Stop spreading lies, first this video was taken in north Nigeria and the date is 1959 ! Secondly, breakdancing ain't came from African american, it came from central African's Tribe !! What y'all call " Breakdancing " was a dance made for rites and not for show off like y'all are doing in america. We communicating with the spirits through this dance !
Wow! I did not know this. A lot of real back history has been hidden away from people. True origins of civilization.
This was film actually in Nigeria in 1950s not in Kenya.
To the guy that made this video >>>>>>>> this video actually was taken in 1978 not 1959... Break dancing started in the US and Africans took notice of it because so called African Americans are the light of the world. Africans have their own cultures be proud of that , don't try to claim something that African Americans started, you never see African Americans trying to claim anything Africans started except maybe Egypt. PS .... this most likely was taken in West Africa but it was in 1978 research it.
@@ValueSeekerOnlineMan please shut up with the Africans are not Black crap..We are one people ..White folks damn sure wont see a Difference.
@@ValueSeekerOnline really very interesting 🤔
@@sorry11303he's lying he's one of those xenophobic obsessed weirdos who can't give Africans any credit for anything they do don't fall for it
@@ValueSeekerOnlineLies
It's good they brought this video to the public as proof that the elements used in hip hop culture (so-called breakdancing), truly has slave roots, tracing back to Africa. It was the slaves who truly brought the element known as b-boying or breakdancing to Africa-American dance culture. All of the elements accept graffiti, originated from black culture (descendants of the slaves), in the Americas especially the United States of America the birth place of the hip hop movement which was founded and coined by U.S, black culture with the acception of DJ, Cool Hurk, on of the many so-called godfather's of hip hop. Hip hop is truly black culture, but at the same time it's universal for everyone enjoy.
Nah hip hop is unique to blacks in America exclusively and the world just copied as with everything else we do
@@daviddrummond9386 the hip hop cultural movement was coined and founded by U.S blacks indeed, but some of the elements used in the hip hop cultural movement is deeply rooted in black culture that traces back to the African slaves that first arrived in the states during slavery is what I'm saying. Africans didn't invint hip hop but I do believe their is a long distance connection in terms of certain elements used in hip hop culture. Its one of those things that was passed down from generation to generation without being realized.
No argument here. Although the percentage of slaves that came to North America were indeed few. No matter where we are in the diaspora we should be happy that we have melanin.
@@daviddrummond9386 stop with the wabo talking points, everybody walking around have melanin 😂
You one of those angry black people claiming FBA. Blame everyone but yourselves for personal issues 🤣Lots of hypocrisy with you folks
This is amazing. My only complaint is that there's no sound recording, I'd have loved to hear what the band was playing.
I saw this video elsewhere and I came here because I wanted to hear the original context, the original sounds as well as the original dancing.
That would be really cool
That was amazing to watch!!!
They brought their culture to another country.
Break dance before 80’.
we call it Mama Africa for a reason.
Okay you have to be African because if you're a black person you're not an African so if you're black you're talking nonsense
@@RonaldWilliams-lp3bgAfrica created melanated ppl. You wouldn't have that much melanin in your skin right now if you weren't African. Blackness originated in Sudan
If the young afro americans that came up with breakdancing in the 80s in USA had never seen this, one can say that some kind of dance moves are ingraved in the DNA because it is too similar to be a coincidence...
AFRO AMERICANS invented BREAK DANCING in the early 1970's .......... Not in the 80's
@@anythinggoesvideospart-2242 You are right, my bad!
It’s all black culture
It's called Epigenetics
Dance, music and rhythm are inherently inborn to all Blacks since the beginning of time! Wherever they are and go,this gene can't be erased! 👌
Of course it did! All rhythm and dance originated from the cradle of man. Glory to God!
Did you know that Black people are also the true israelites of the bible.
Not factual. You should look into the many cultures that have much older dancing techniques that resemble breakdancing prior to this.
@@Swo76
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@@YuShloe How about a couple examples to steer us in the right direction?
@@jasonjames4254😂😂😂not gonna happen I bet.
We were doing break moves long before 1950s. The Mills Brothers are a notable source of that.
Okay so Africans started doing theirs in 1950 ?
Africans have been around for thousands of years. You been around 500
@@elijahlyrics3790 Do some research & get your information game up. You clearly have alot of work to do.
Right black native Americans/ negros where around for thousands of years too. Everyone did not come from Africa I would say everyone came from the Americas.
@@elijahlyrics3790 no we've been in America before Africa was called Africa
We are the indigenous peoples of America for hundreds of thousands years
I Always say AFRICA 🌍 Is The Mother 👩🏾 Land 💯💥🤞🏾✌🏾✊🏾👍🏾❤🙏🏾👊🏾💪🏿🤴🏿👸🏾
A mother land that you are not moving to
@@Thebrothaisback I don't have to live or move there to make a comment, and Africa is the MOTHER LAND
How does that apply here? There are many cultures that have moves that are showcased in breakdancing, which aren't of African descent, prior to this footage being taken.
MOTHER AMERICA, is the MOTHERLAND
@noneex 1:21 istent2781 Keep dreaming the hate is real, you'll be satisfied when nothing originated in Africa.
There was no acess to TVs during this era, people hardly had exposure to foreign culture so this is raw and organic. Yet I see moves that remind me of martial arts from the far East, break dancing from the USA, Capoeira from Brazil etc. African culture is slept on, and deserves way more exposure. And i'd like to see more of us incorporating our traditions into modern and popular culture. Because nowadays no one wants to be original we forget how creative we are and always want to copy foreign influences.
The first terrestrial television broadcast signals in Africa occurred on Saturday October 31, 1959 and belonged to
the Western Nigeria Television Service (WNTS) Quote from @sorenschoff2669 These are acrobats from Ilorin in
Western Nigeria performing at a festival in Kaduna in Northern Nigeria in May 1959. More than sure they were
exposed to foreign culture just by the mere fact that Nigerians had tv's in their homes and the tv derives from a
foreign culture from their standpoint. Jeez Louise.
black americans been doing this, we did not get this from no damn AFRICA
@@jamesearlcash1758So you admitted that the very first TV broadcast occurred the same year this video was filmed, and yet you still act like it would have been widespread for Nigerians to have TVs in their home. Delusional
@@salj.5459 If you noticed I provided accurate information that derive from the Western Nigeria Television Service (WNTS) The fact of the matter is television existed in Nigeria in 1959. Whoever
had or didn't have a tv it doesn't matter the fact that tv's existed in Nigeria doesn't make me as you
say 'delusional' as you make it appear it just means ya can't comprehend what you read. Check ya head runner. ahahahaha
Wow. Holy sheet. This is amazing. Love people who can break even more now. it may be a very old form of dance!
Wow! Love the dancing, and also the backing track. Those keyboard chords are lush.
That is not surprising. Such a great amount os stamina and energy
It’s in the DNA because a popular African American 1970’s dance called the “Bump” is an ancient African dance performed in Zambia when two people bump the side of their hips/buttocks while dancing.
Where’s your proof?
Please cite sources linking dance styles to a person's DNA.
@@CopperSkinTone Dancing is innate….there is your proof….just open your eyes.
@@ulusalani Goggle the bump dance in Gambia and 1970’s Bump dance in America
There is nothing new under the sun..
Raygun be real quiet since this dropped
This is mind-boggling...truly crazy
Amazing , and I believe it because culture has to come from a source .everything about the video proves the origins of break dancing with the crowd encircling the dancer . Very little has changed . The beats might have changed rhythms from back then to now but it's all the same .
We been true to hip hop for billions of years
You one dummmmmmmmb fk! 5 million max you foooool
Nah
😂
It's just runs in the blood lines I guess black Americans naturally dancing the way the ancestors did 😮
Facts.
Damn. No cardboard, no linoleum, nothing.
I've searched for this video forever 😅 and today out of nowhere 🎉. APTTMH
The multy talented black Africans ❤
Dynamic steady African breakers.....
Actually so called African Americans/Blacks been doing breakdancing in the late 30s and 40s look it up. Its footage all about this,but we already known this for generations
Ha ha 🤣 these dances are hundreds of years old and started in Africa another attempt of theft from the FBAs
@@adversarytfc9864 How can you steal something that's inside you. 😂
@@adversarytfc9864 The bitterness towards FBA roots is Real.
Good observation. I think they are imitating moves used by FBA tap dances in the 1920s. Nonetheless to say we got it from them when we've never seen thembefore is nonsensical. FBA culture has been globalized since the early 1900s. I wouldn't be surprised if they saw old footage of us and just emulated that.
@CottonClubRadio2024 I guarantee you most of these people didn’t even have access to TV, let alone US programming.
Even today Northern Nigeria is underdeveloped, poor and neglected. Not to mention that based on region, these performers are probably Muslim. Copying any type of Western dance from TV or wherever at that time and in this place would have been extremely taboo.
These dances are likely generations old, possibly developed over centuries. Hence, completely normalized. Otherwise, there would be some major pushback.
Is there a word to use when African Americans do the same things their ancestors did? It’s incredible we still do this on another part of the world, more research should be done on this.
its just like twerking. Women in Africa danced like that before there was rap music. This culture is written in the DNA of African people. No matter where you place them on the Earth or how much you brainwash them. They will express what is inherent in themselves
It's called "africanisms"
@@SOULAANI_ ok thank you
D.N.A
Day gots dat munky blud!
Everything comes Africa !incredible !
you sound dumb, we BLACK AMERICANS did not get this from AFRICA
Omg....I thought it originated from Australia called the kangaroo dance 😊
I bet the original breakers in NYC never even seen this footage, they just knew how to duplicate it naturally. It's in the blood!
Even worst if they didn't see it, means the powers that be did see this and filtered it to US to progress their US HIP HOP fake culture agenda.
Possibly.. Conjecture but possible.
What they did witness were the Black American acts that came before them, through various genres of dance that were before this 1959 footage
@@JerzCe73 This tradional dance goes back centuries in those tribal lands. Sweet sista can I get a hell yeah !
Nature over Nurture is the term you is looking fo bruvva !
You can take Africas out of Africa but you can never completely beat it out of us. In fact we will africanize things around us and you'll get addicted to whatever we touch! It's why we must keep certain hands off our treasures and creations because they always get ahold and corrupt it.
Those white boys, i tell ya always up to somethin silly
There's footage and history of non Africans with cultural dances that resemble many breakdancing techniques, prior to Africans in this video.
@@YuShloe lol
Omg! They really stole alot.
Dear Lord
That beat is nice. Sadly, nobody talks about how nice this fits their moves.
The background music isn't the actual drumming played, so it doesn't fit at all
How did Africa originate break dancing? If Africa originated break dancing, then why didn't they popularize it?
Where's the Breakdancing Icon in Africa? That influences the world?
Where's the African Beat Street or African crushgroove.?
Break Dancing is a foundational Black American creation, not African. Every time Black Americans' innovative creations get notoriety, here comes Africa shoehorning their way into Black American accomplishments getting false admiration they don't deserve
🙄 😒
Everything started in Africa.
No it did not and it's actually pretty racist to be claiming everything started in Africa It's a way that you black folk like to try to claim that you came first You're a bunch of racist by claiming this
Idk who created break dance moves. But There's recordings of African American doing break dance long before this footage. I'm talking about in the 1920s and 30s.
This video was recorded in the 1950s, that doesn’t mean they weren’t doing it before that🤷🏾♀️ so who knows
Bruh this is a 1950s poor VILLAGE these ppl weren't watching TV to see Americans do any dances. These are traditional tribal dances in their culture. Black Americans kept certain traditions through slavery it's not the other way around clown 😂
@@knstp04391 we ain’t keep know tribal dances through slavery 😂 you sound crazy.We past literally nothing down from Africa 😂. Black Americans one group not 800 tribes in one country beefing with each other while whites Arabs Indians an Asians take all y’all $h!t😂
Black American dance ,music and fashion changes an evolves we don’t do an wear the same thing for decades and centuries that’s why distain having booty scratch be saying anything. Hating on black Americans isn’t gonna make the world stop looking at y’all like fleeing tethers
Africans have been doing this for centuries. Part of traditional dance
I remember in the early 80s when break dancing was all over mtv and in the media. I remember seeing it done on floors, usually wood or concrete and a lot of times people laid cardboard down. These moves the people in the video are doing is hardcore, especially doing such moves on dirt. Never have seen it done on dirt.
The Mills Brothers Caravan in 1930 Started The break dancing Bro
You are correct!!
The so called “Afro-American” or Foundational Blacks created breakdancing. This did not come from Africa. Neither did Rap.
Here is a video from the 1940’s showing the Mills Brothers breakdancing:
ua-cam.com/video/Iat62Ab87qs/v-deo.htmlsi=1N28_v9kjmLuXbRJ
For Rap:
This is the first rap song. It was by the Afro-American Gospel/Folk//Proto-Rap the Jubalaires. They created rap music.
If you listen to their song “The Preacher and the Bear” you will see where “Rappers Delight” was stolen/sampled from.
Noah
ua-cam.com/video/Wx0oU1OnHf8/v-deo.html
Preacher and the Bear
ua-cam.com/video/XNzKZ7lJRUc/v-deo.html
The Jubalaires
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Jubalaires
0:53 Talks to the DJ about the beat he needs 😁
The crazy thing is that their is no denying Africans are the original ones 😂 I say this as a Dominican I would not be surprised if soccer football basket ball came from African
I believe soccer started in China.
Conversation OVER!
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breakdancing is amazing & beautiful i knew it came from somewhere i just didn’t know what. now everyone acts like its a new thing LOL
We have something like this in Nigeria too. Bata dance by the Yorubas. Ancient culture
Bro dropped the phone on 0:43
Hell, I saw footage from maybe 30 years BEFORE this. It was some guys doing some type of breakdancing moves. Moral of the story: Ain't nothing new under the sun.
It’s all African. ua-cam.com/video/IlqCatQj_hw/v-deo.htmlsi=cWRhASn05GV4BM3n
my favourite was the moonwalk that actually existed in 1920s already and through the 1940s. nothing new under the sun.
Of course it did!!
They were even doing something that resembled an Uprock before they got down.
Those are some amazing moves.
I danced at profesional level and can tell you i straight away recognise all steps and breaks u can see we made it even more commercial but the moves arent that far apart some are right how we do it some where adapted still u can see the hard roots of it this means breakdancing isnt found in 1959 but much earlier since this footage is the first video of it! I assume they had been doing this before the video meaning breakdancing can be hundred or maybe even thousands of years old because who showed them! U can do this !? Someone had to have shown it since these are already advanced moves i can attest that if u never have been doing this u cant all of sudden do this the ground turtle spinning i dont know the name of the move but i do know it takes a lot of strength and balancing practise to do that on one hand to give a picture some b boys practise one trick for 5 years just one or 3 years to just learn one and then u need to maintain it on top of that to not lose the muscular memory so what u see here could be way way older then 1959 since they also have a pretty big move set (not just one or 2 tricks ) so i dont know but it seems to me they been doing this for longer then that since the moves of modern day just sligtly or moderatly differ
We weren't break dancing like this in the '70's. We were not spinning on our heads and rolling all over the floor. We were not trying to get our clothes dirty. That all came later with the next generation.
In all respect, thats not true. The early 1970s was when the first bboys became a thing. You should look up Stomp Dance/Black Spades and the history of bboying. only if your interested. By the time television got its hand on the first breakers via flashdance, real people and thats incredible tv shows, Breakdancing was already becoming unpopular in NY. But the 80s changed that.
@@beatrockers1 What's not true?
In the 70's they were doing more pop locking than breaking, but they were still breaking.
@@erikawright8134 You're preaching to the choir. We were breaking back then but we were not jumping on our backs getting dirty or spinning on our heads. We were not pop locking at parties. That was a soul train thing. The cats that came later started pop locking like the cats on the west coast. We were floor rocking but at the same time trying not to get our clothes dirty.
@@soulknob9991 "What's not true"? Unfortunately , very claim you made. As @beatrockers1 suggests, please see this superb documentary, "Hip Hop's Very First Break Boys/B-Boys" ua-cam.com/video/06bnBQRsE4I/v-deo.html. At the 21:27 mark, two original break dancers talk about the origins of break dancing circa 1975-1978 with the Black Spades street organization. (They started out as community protectors before succumbing to all of the typical forces to become a gang.) One mentions doing the helicopter (similar to what is shown in this vide @0:36 ) which is absolutely "on the ground/floor" and these break dancing pioneers repeatedly talk about doing all this before any cardboard. I found the video description to be particular helpful in summarizing the non-linear presentation of the history in the video.
There is no other race as athletic and physical gifted with rhythm and balance as us in the world
But no alphabets or written languages, no farming or agriculture, no domestication of animals or horses, no wheel, no discoveries or inventions, no building of ships or sea faring, no metallurgy, no masonry, roads or monuments, no civilized burial rites, no civilizations whatsoever. Break dancing hunters and gatherers.
Whatever soothes your soul sensitive boy man, the comment wasn't even about you?
@@MMHoldingsInc My comment was definitely about you. Sure couldn't swim your way free, soothes my soul.
@@markmanning6542😂😂😂 europeans were savages before we taught you here in the Americas what Civalization is
Your freemason education wont teach you that
Black people have the Rhythm and voice!
OHHH my good God!
Thank you for this upload!
LOL at all you lames getting duped by this video. Dude has his phone fall out of his pocked at the 35 second mark.
A phone? Now that's LOL
That's not a phone. That's a handkerchief
@@afroman6172no it is not a handkerchief. 😂 It's solid. A solid rectangular object. Watch as he kicks it and then watch as he picks it up. If it was a handkerchief, it wouldn't keep its solid, rectangular shape as he grabs it. LMAO
@@YuShloe I watched the entire video, which showed it from a different angle.. It appears to be a notebook or envelope of some sort.. It's not a phone.
And these are 2 different clips put together.. The first one was some sort of documentary filming ceremonies leading up to Nigeria's independence. So that one is for a fact legit.
I forget what the other was for but I know its in Kenya - possibly just an exploration documentary.
This is a legitimaye British documentary from 1959 my guy...The educational system really failed some of you
Wow!🤔 look at those Nigerian Puerto Ricans 🤨😏
😂😂😂😂🪦😭
😂😂😂
I thought it was started by FBA in America. The narrative keeps changing.
@@goudagalindo1790 Obviously it was created in America. This video doesn't change history. It's probably not even real. Dude at the 35 mark had a phone.
@@slimthickaz.where?
Not only breakdance but every thing else originated from Africa. It is the land of giants.
Facts
Everything did not originate from Africa. This time research for yourself.
Not land continent of giants. That's everyone hate us so much. They are jealous always stealing from ur culture.
This isn't the origin of breakdancing. All types of cultures have dancing techniques that resemble breakdancing prior to this.
Totaly wrong.
Derrick Colon, Joe Conzo, Fat Joe and Crazy Legs punching air right now
Yep! Hispanics have NOTHING to do with break dancing! LOL
Ya’ll do realize there was a heavy African presence in Puerto Rico too right?
Well, no surprise there, pretty much most of modern music and dancing originated or has roots in Africa.
This is not Kenya. Not even East Africa. The clothes and instruments can tell you that. I am Kenyan and I have archives from the 1800s through to colonial decades to postcolonial Kenya. This is def somewhere in West Africa. Not Kenya. Not East Africa.
Foi aí que tudo começou 👍👏
Yep. In Nigeria not Kenya 😂
The only problem is you have footage of FBA'S in the 1940s and that we had no contact with Africans at all to know what they we're doing one way or the other.
What the footage is suggesting is that enslaved Africans took this with them to the new world. As it developed into other genres.
@@TheRealCompensatorthank you. Some people are so slow I swear😂😂.
Exactly. Foundational Black Americans created break dancing here in America with no outside influence and that should be acknowledged and respected.
@@joshuastephenson1334 Yes, people in general are slow.
I think it just means that its always been in you. Its in your dna...when your people where taken, they took it with them. I don't think copy would be the word but its just in them
Oh because you know every dance of every culture in history.
That is crazy to see now, they have all the moves
🤣😂🤣 looks pretty modern for 1959.
l knw white pple tried to lie to u bt behind the sceen was alway good
@@jessicanabifo8594 why come and interject race into my comment, Don’t you know that’s something only a racist would do!!
Ya
look up the word - "TECHNICOLOR" ................ And you'll get educated about your amazement of the film
The film is in color, which means it's a modern film. America was still using black and white tv until late 60s
0:35-He has a white Samsung cell phone and he drops it!
I just went re-watched and you are so right! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
@@tapiztree428 stop hating on african people boy
@@tapiztree428 cell phones came out in 1973 and you expect people in a poor african village to have a cell phone smh
@@tapiztree428 to have a cell phone 7 years later smh
@@tapiztree428 first phone in africa was 1993
You’ll hear certain factions in black America claim all the other African people draw inspiration from them.
Remember, our culture been striped from us, we built our culture through the pain, struggles, and hardship that we were endurance. We knew nothing of African culture.
@@MrRottoro yep. 💯
Men black people are not f****** Africans I don't even know why they even think that that is so stupid
@@MrRottorobut yet and still they say that they're Africans when they're really not come on black people don't look like Africans nor do they talk like Africans so why would they even think that lol sometimes it just seems that they just fall for anything
@@MrRottoro So much of American culture actually came from African culture especially in the South. (e.g Africans were the ones who know how to season chicken, cultivate rice, cook greens, had unique music and dance traditions, etc.) The idea of a "blank cultural slate" or "tabula rasa" is a misconception. Why would someone leave their home (even if forced) and immediate forget their foods, music, beliefs, and culture? It doesn't make sense. Besides, many historians have disproven this theory and shown that there is so much African cultural retention in many forms throughout the diaspora in the Americas and the Caribbean.
Just watched another YT video and wow! It's all coming together and making sense. If you type in "The Panther Dance New Atlantis" this British dude is narrating a West African ceremony by a group called Senufo. The initiations symbolize the panther... doing combat moves, acrobats, spinning, etc. This culture resisted Islam and Christianity so the old traditions are intact. Them FBA cult folks? Listen and listen carefully: When them South Carolina plantation owners documented enslaved folks doing Sunday afternoon dances, naming ceremonies and other rituals what exactly were them enslaved groups doing? Hmm. The ignorant slave owners called everything "pagan" and started frantically banning drumming and certain moves that looked "threatening" to them. The enslaved were forced to adopt and ceremonial arts lost meanings over time but they were still resilient enough to retain certain moves though modified. Even the spiritual drama noted in Black churches didn't come out of nowhere. All those old film clips the FBA cult bring up are irrelevant. Those clips simply show how through resiliency, adaptation, evolution and creation of new musical forms it was reclassified as simply "entertainment" and that's it...the original ceremonies and meaning of moves long
gone. In Brazil, those dance moves took a militaristic turn called capoeira.
So there ya go. Older dances and folk traditions travelling across oceans and evolving into popiular culture.
🤣😂 That’s not 1959 that’s 1989 after they watched beat street, wild style, & breaking 🤣😂
It's actually was in 1959. This is a nigerian trad dance
Naw thats some African voodoo dance from the 60’s. Black Americans can trace breakdancing back to the 1800’s on American soil.
All these talents come from the true God, the God of Israel.
@@Swo76Africans were doing this and RAPPING hundreds of years before America existed as a country. Accept reality
Nothing wrong with African voodoo ,my baba practiced it
@@753studios6 we don’t practice voodoo in America
@@chopitupradio4286 I live in America soooo yes ,we do.
My people had not been in Africa for about 350 years before we invent break dance in the USA.
EVERYTHING STARTED IN MOTHERLAND AFRICA, YOU NEED TO DO SOME RESEARCH ON DNA, THE FACT THAT THE IRISH OR ITALIANS HAVE ALSO BEEN IN AMERICA FOR A HUNDRED AND FOUR YEARS, THEY KNOW THAT THEY WILL ALWAYS BE EUROPEANS FIRST BEFORE BECOMING AMERICANS, AND THEY EVEN RECOGNIZE THAT THE BASIS OF SCIENCE COMES FROM AFRICA, THE GREAT GREEK PHILOSOPHERS STUDIED IN EGYPT. AND YOU, AN AFRICAN-AMERICAN, STILL MAKE THIS KIND OF NARRATIVE, REFERRING TO 350 YEARS, AS IF YOUR ANCESTORS WEREN'T AFRICANS? DO YOU THINK THAT AS SOON AS THEY LEFT AFRICA AND ARRIVED IN AMERICA THEY FORGOT THEIR ROOTS AND CULTURES, AND STARTED TO HAVE AN AMERICAN IDENTITY WHEN AMERICA IS THE NATIVE INDIANS, USE YOUR BRAIN, REASON, RESEARCH AND AVOID WRITING WHAT DOESN'T MAKE SENSE.
How can you "invent" something that already existed😂 This is the equivalent of Columbus "discovering" America, pure nonsense! Your ancestors didn't magically forget their cultures because they hadn't been in Africa for 350 years hombre...
@@j4genius961 TELL ´EM BECAUSE THIS PEOPLE ARE TOO LAZY.
@@j4genius961Exactly
Everyone knows Breakdancing is from the USA. I wouldn't listen to those other comments. They want you guys culture.