The summer of 84, I was back home in Philly when Beat Street was released...I'm so blessed to have grown up when I did and experienced the culture in a way that many of my friends didn't.
I remember like it was yesterday when the premier air in Puerto Rico 🇵🇷 I was 12 and remember it vividly because the actor the RSC and the NYCB where there in the theater. They even had a linoleum lay down for after the movie they did some battle with the locals. Good memories and since that day I fell in love with HipHop.
Wow. That's an historic moment right there. I was 8 when it came out here in England, and I had a little local movie theatre so close to my house that I was able to walk there. My older sister and my cousin, who were both 10, told me they were going to see it, and asked me if I wanted to go. I said...no, and didn't see the movie until 9/10 years later!! I'm still haunted by that decision to this day. I didn't even know people did graffiti on trains for all that time!
Wow Crazy Legs looks great God Bless him and those other Puerto Ricans and Blacks that are truly the beginning inventors and put breaking on the map that its already on the Olympics wow that's amazing and just to throw this out there, I was the voice that started at least 12 years ago to put Breaking in the Olympics and obviously people caught on and elevated the importance of dancing and bringing it to the Olympics as all countries are doing what the Puerto Ricans the Blacks created in the Bronx I think to substitute gang fighting and deaths to a dance that was just worth the try and hard enough to replace fighting as it was so amazingly showed in the movie Beat Street how that dance was so intense some just couldn't do it but backed off a fight. GOD BLESS THOSE FELLAS FROM THE HOOD THAT SHOULD GET A THANK YOU FROM ALL THOSE COUNTRIES AND DANCERS THAT HAVE SOMETHING TO DO AND PERFECTED WAY BEYOND MY IMAGINATION A DANCE CREATED BY THOSE THAT I MENTIONED THEY SHOULD AT LEAST ACKNOWLEDGE THOSE THAT CREATED IT.
People were calling for Breaking to be in the Olympics in '84. There's an old documentary about the New York City Breakers from '84, which should be on here, on which Chino is calling for it to be included in the LA Olympics, which happened later that year. Also, Crazy Legs himself said years ago that it was an urban myth that breaking replaced fighting. Oh, and lastly, the dance was created by blacks, not Puerto Ricans. Puerto Ricans definitely took it to new heights once they got involved, but blacks created it.
Love love love this! Beat Street is one of my favorite movies. Great historical film about some of the earlier hip hop elements. Glad to see Godrey getting fired up at the details
@@joseacruztorres977 What?!! That's not true at all. Legs and Ken Swift were both better than Kuriaki. Then there were people who weren't even in Rock Steady back in '80s New York who were better than him, e.g. Powerful Pexter from the NYC Breakers, a kid called Float - there used to be old videos of him on here - and a kid called German.
Such an iconic movie! Here in Portugal, in the 90's, i participated in several dance contests and i actually won quite a few (like the MTV dance contest and the National Dance Championship). Many of my moves i learn from watching Beat Street. You would see guys doing pop/jazz moves adn the ocasional splits, but i was the only one busting backflips and windmills. The judges seemed to be impressed and it worked in my favor. 🙂
Even here in New Zealand the opening night screening of Beat Street was a cultural event; breakin' & hip hop hit our shores & took over our lives the year before😂. Packed house of all teens from the neighbourhoods at our local cinema & it blew us all away, first time seeing a standing ovation by youngsters at the end of the movie
1) Excited for the full interview 2) Enjoying this new format of a preview then then full deal. 3) Shoutout to your team Godfrey. There’s a new energy here, love it. 4) Your excitement and nerdish knowledge is carving a new lane where it’s cool to know shit. Thanks!
I love this interview...because Richie shares some crazy stories about the movie scenes shot that I never knew about the movie and iconic scenes about one of my most favorite movies.
man that brought back great memories..I had to have that Puma sweat suit and Adidas shell toe with the fat laces back in the day when I was a breaker, Those scenes still get me pumped up
Yup, I loved this movie and know all the words to it, due to watching it a gazillion times when I was a kid! All the music hits at the right time especially on all the battle scenes! Me and Godfrey agree on that!
Have you seen 'Wildstyle'? 'Best Street' was really just a more polished version of 'Wildstyle', which came out a year earlier. It starred Fab 5 Freddy, from 'Yo! MTV Raps' The Rock Steady Crew were also in it.
I grew up in Inwood Heights and I used to go to JHS 22 on Broadway and Academy Street and I remember Richie Crazy Legs when he used to go to the same school and then we went to JFK high. Those were some crazy times. The Ballbusters fighting the Playboys and other gangs such as Familia and the Zulu Nations because they ran as a gang back then before they changed to a cultural movement.. What a time.
And to think I got clowned in middle school for seeing Beat Street in the theaters instead of Breakin'. Soooooooooooooooooooooooo glad I got to see this in theaters when it dropped.
Back in the DAY..1983-84..I COPIED move for move the ending with Crazy legs..The foot work, then windmill, high speed back spin, pose with the shoes off...GOSH..THose WERE some of the BEST TIMES of LIFE..This and M. Jackson's 'THRILLER' along with BREAKIN..was TOPS!!!
I've done some of my best dancing while on acid. For some reason it let's you tap into your inner soul and rhythm and you can do things you never thought you can do with endless counts of energy. Of course you crash, but it's awesome while it's going on.
I grew up on the other side of the tracks, not with up rockin or floor rockin or breaking or rapping, but bombing the trains! There were so many crews back in the day, I think even parents belonged to some crews back in the day.
Legs once described Kenny as the "epitome" of a Bboy. There was one other guy in New York back then, who was better than him, though. A guy called Bboy Float, who never got any fame, and spent years locked up in prison. There used to be old footage of him on here
I thought I was the only one who noticed that. Legs was acting like he didn't know Glide Master passed away in 1984, not long after Beat Street was released. He went to school with some of them but can never refer to members of NYC Breakers by their names.
Also when Crazy became a b-boy in the late 1970s , Breakdancing was already much dead for a few years already. Its because of this Electro funk/Boogie jams that brought Breakdancing popular back again in 1982 thanks to Man Perish & Afr8ka Bambaataa and the rest is history!
damm i used to have that BLUE PUMA suite back in 1984 in high school. THOMAS JEFFERSON HIGH SCHOOL IN BROOKLYN TO BE EXACT.......GOOD MEMORIES.... MY BROTHER MAY HE REST IN PEACE HAD THE RED PUMA SUITE......MEMORIES.....MEMORIES......MEMORIES......THAT'S ALL WE HAVE.......MEMORIES.......
I used to look up to crazy legs and the RSC. They used to come to the rink in nj back in them days and take all the jersey bboys out. I know I was one of them. But they taught us how to be dope. Just watching them made me better.
The DJ analogy is exactly it. If the record skips, you gotta recover and still be on beat, which requires improvisation. Same thing with breaking, if you screw up your move, you gotta improvise and still hit the "1" on time with an improvised move, which is what Crazy Legs is saying. Dancing is just a visual melody after all. You gotta be funky and on beat just like a DJ scratch or any other musical instrument.
I never knew that some of the Rocksteady Crew had appeared in "Flashdance;" I just remembered seeing the Rocksteady Crew vs. the NYC Breakers on "Beat Street"; other films: "Breakin'," "Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo," (featuring Ice T); "Wild Style" (Fab Five Freddy; the future host of "Yo' MTV Raps" show in the 1990's) and "Style Warz" (graffiti street artists).
I would come home from school, put on the after school rap attack on WRAP (still have some cassette recordings), then pop in my VHS tape of Beat Street. Even had both vinyl soundtrack records.
This was the essence of what the BBoy of Hip Hop is all about.... BEAT STREET showed everything that had to do with Hip Hop..... The battles maybe old but it doesn't get tiring to watch..... I still watch it here and there..... I didn't watch BEAT STREET or BREAKIN' & BREAKIN' 2: ELECTRIC BOOGALOO in the theaters, I had to wait till it came on regular TV which BEAT STREET did come on a few times but with BREAKIN' & BREAKIN' 2, it never did come out and even many years later in the 90s BREAKIN' was not on any of the cable channels when I started to have cable TV in the 90s after moving out from my old house in the beginning of the 90s and into the new house, the old owners had cable and I didn't even know that my VCR had cable ready connection so didn't need to get a cable box to watch basic cable TV, you only need the box for PREMIUM & PAY-PER-VIEW shows..... Also I didn't have a video rental card to rent movies and even if I did, the video store didn't have the movie in there catalog since it was already old..... When I finally found a copy of the BREAKIN' I bought the DVD & I got to watch it..... As for BREAKIN' 2: ELECTRIC BOOGALOO, it was hard to find till they but out THE BREAKIN' DVD COLLECTION BOXSET which consist of all 3 movies and a bonus DVD consisting the Hip Hop history..... The boxset is not the original movie poster that the movie had, it was more of the rerelease of the movie in the boxset or the Anniversary cover..... THE BREAKIN' DVD COLLECTION is the one that have to do with the 4 elements that have been made into a separate picture drawings of them also they have made them into figurines collectables many years later.....
It's like breakin, that second battle was performed to irresistible bitch by Prince but on the cutting room floor, they decided to dub it with Reckless, but with the lyrics to Body Rock (Ice T)..
Wait....now we all want to know what was the music playing while the battle went down. if it wasn't Arthur Baker.. crazy have some one add the music over the Arthur baker beat. so we can see it how it went down
Seems Crazy Legs loves to take credit for lots of things that didn't happened. That girl in the scene was Baby Love that performed with them all around & in their album hit songs "Hey You", "Uprock", etc ... Give her credit homeboy! He talks about he didn't have his best battle members for the movie....WTF!??? In 1983 there was the greatest Breakdancing contest ever at the famous Roxy were hundres of crews perform for the grand prize of being in the movie "Beat Street". You telling me that wasn't important to the crew when that movie put you on the map! Rock Steady wasn't supposed to be in the movie in the first place because the main winners of the contest that beat every crew was the greatest Dynamic Rockers! Dynamic opted out of the movie for a reason (that's another story of it's own) and Rock Steady was asked to sub for them! Even the better B-Boy crew that Rock Steady battle in the movie was the amazing and powerful "Floor Masters" put previously together by the best of New York B-Boys that had to offer and 1984 became the New York City Breakers & was feared by every crew. Rock Steady were bunk compared to the beautifully executed moves performed by the Dynamic Rockers. Even their home video recordings of Dynamic battleing Rock Steady showing Rock Steady getting beat in every battle! Crazy says he had lots of members in the crew but you always see about 6 of them and the weakest. Seems he always wanted the one to look good in the crew! 1983's The Big Breakdancing Contest battle of 600 kick ass B-Boy crews and not one was Rock Steady 🤔 and to be honest, Rock Steady was a mediocre crew at best they just knew how to market themselves well during that time that lead to exposure world wide. Hundresds of way better crews lived dufing that time and if you deep search you will find them in contest battles in NY clubs and in rare video recordings in photos as well in those 1980s early days!
“Mediocre at best” is pretty harsh when describing the crew that brought break dancing / b-boying to the 🌎 (Flashdance, WildStyle, Style Wars, David Letterman). I will say, the Dynamic Rockers blew it if they CHOSE not to be in this movie… They gotta be regretting that mo\/e to this day. 🌬️
Kool lady blue an English lady friend of Malcolm Mclaren was their manager, that's why they got so much attention & marketing she split the crew into 2 groups, giving the attention more to the 6 latinos that you always saw & the others just faded into obscurity.. NYC breakers were far superior crew.. real heavy hitters & power movers they were managed by Michael Holman
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Facts!!! I believe you. You can see in that beat street movie that NYC breakers were better than the Rock Steady Crew!!!
I love Crazy Legs, but i feel like he's wrong @2:44. Bgirl Baby Love aka Daisy Castro was indeed the RSC Main Bgirl. In fact she is the artist from the hit track when RSC went on tour for the song "Hey You RockSteady Crew". And that track came out in 83, 1 year prior to BeatStreat.
That battle at the Roxy was legendary
Hell yeah .. I still watch it to this day . Ramo will live forever . Its like a heartbeat
The summer of 84, I was back home in Philly when Beat Street was released...I'm so blessed to have grown up when I did and experienced the culture in a way that many of my friends didn't.
I was 4 years old (84') when I first saw this. At that point, this was the way. Grandma's kitchen floor was never the same.
Beat Street is one of my favorite movies
Saw it back in HS. Memories!
Beat Street is my favorite hip-hop movie
Literally changed the course of my life at age 8...
One of the best Christmas VHS rentals of all time lol I I think I was 12 or 13 back then 😊 happy times
I was 11 or 12. I wish we still rented vhs tapes. I'm 50 now and so grateful for my childhood. After that, not so much lol.
That last shot of the crew at the end should be on a poster... too hard...
I remember like it was yesterday when the premier air in Puerto Rico 🇵🇷 I was 12 and remember it vividly because the actor the RSC and the NYCB where there in the theater. They even had a linoleum lay down for after the movie they did some battle with the locals. Good memories and since that day I fell in love with HipHop.
Wow. That's an historic moment right there. I was 8 when it came out here in England, and I had a little local movie theatre so close to my house that I was able to walk there. My older sister and my cousin, who were both 10, told me they were going to see it, and asked me if I wanted to go. I said...no, and didn't see the movie until 9/10 years later!! I'm still haunted by that decision to this day. I didn't even know people did graffiti on trains for all that time!
Wow Crazy Legs looks great God Bless him and those other Puerto Ricans and Blacks that are truly the beginning inventors and put breaking on the map that its already on the Olympics wow that's amazing and just to throw this out there, I was the voice that started at least 12 years ago to put Breaking in the Olympics and obviously people caught on and elevated the importance of dancing and bringing it to the Olympics as all countries are doing what the Puerto Ricans the Blacks created in the Bronx I think to substitute gang fighting and deaths to a dance that was just worth the try and hard enough to replace fighting as it was so amazingly showed in the movie Beat Street how that dance was so intense some just couldn't do it but backed off a fight. GOD BLESS THOSE FELLAS FROM THE HOOD THAT SHOULD GET A THANK YOU FROM ALL THOSE COUNTRIES AND DANCERS THAT HAVE SOMETHING TO DO AND PERFECTED WAY BEYOND MY IMAGINATION A DANCE CREATED BY THOSE THAT I MENTIONED THEY SHOULD AT LEAST ACKNOWLEDGE THOSE THAT CREATED IT.
People were calling for Breaking to be in the Olympics in '84. There's an old documentary about the New York City Breakers from '84, which should be on here, on which Chino is calling for it to be included in the LA Olympics, which happened later that year. Also, Crazy Legs himself said years ago that it was an urban myth that breaking replaced fighting. Oh, and lastly, the dance was created by blacks, not Puerto Ricans. Puerto Ricans definitely took it to new heights once they got involved, but blacks created it.
Arthur Baker is a legendary producer. Produced classics like Planet Rock, Play at Your Own Risk and Who you Stealin From
Also, John Robie and Man Parrish.
@@makeuthink2120 Yes absolutely John Robie and Man Parrish as well.
Don't forget Mark Berry. The producer behind many Hip Hop and Electro tracks in the very beginning of the 80's.
@@Maurice572 the producer of Alisha?
@@makeuthink2120 Among others.
Love love love this! Beat Street is one of my favorite movies. Great historical film about some of the earlier hip hop elements. Glad to see Godrey getting fired up at the details
Crazy Legs is a living legend. 💯
Living rapist...🙄
The worst bboy of the 80s kuriaki was the bease
@@joseacruztorres977 What?!! That's not true at all. Legs and Ken Swift were both better than Kuriaki. Then there were people who weren't even in Rock Steady back in '80s New York who were better than him, e.g. Powerful Pexter from the NYC Breakers, a kid called Float - there used to be old videos of him on here - and a kid called German.
Crazylegs is the Break Dancing Legend's Legend
A Legend in the building and a God to Poppin’.
My Era!!!
My favorite movie everrr 💯💯🔥🔥.
Dam Godfrey was hella hype lmaooooooo true fan
Such an iconic movie! Here in Portugal, in the 90's, i participated in several dance contests and i actually won quite a few (like the MTV dance contest and the National Dance Championship). Many of my moves i learn from watching Beat Street. You would see guys doing pop/jazz moves adn the ocasional splits, but i was the only one busting backflips and windmills. The judges seemed to be impressed and it worked in my favor. 🙂
Even here in New Zealand the opening night screening of Beat Street was a cultural event; breakin' & hip hop hit our shores & took over our lives the year before😂. Packed house of all teens from the neighbourhoods at our local cinema & it blew us all away, first time seeing a standing ovation by youngsters at the end of the movie
Love the behind the scenes interviews. Wish there were more like this.
I used to watch Beat Street every day!
Same here
That’s the hardest move in that scene…..slippin off them shoes had us all like 😮😮😮😮😮😮🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
1) Excited for the full interview
2) Enjoying this new format of a preview then then full deal.
3) Shoutout to your team Godfrey. There’s a new energy here, love it.
4) Your excitement and nerdish knowledge is carving a new lane where it’s cool to know shit.
Thanks!
Where is the full version?
I love this interview...because Richie shares some crazy stories about the movie scenes shot that I never knew about the movie and iconic scenes about one of my most favorite movies.
The subway battle was hard ASF🔥
Puerto Rock Style ✊🏽Boricuas on the Set!
man that brought back great memories..I had to have that Puma sweat suit and Adidas shell toe with the fat laces back in the day when I was a breaker, Those scenes still get me pumped up
I hope, for your sake, you didn't rock both at once. Old skool rules say you have to match labels.
I always thought Lee was goin off. Not during the battle, but he's audition scene at the theater, he was hittin some stuff. 💯
1984 i was 16 beat street was everything to me growing up rock steady crew and new york city breakers ❤
Love Godfrey enthusiasm about breaking
Yup, I loved this movie and know all the words to it, due to watching it a gazillion times when I was a kid! All the music hits at the right time especially on all the battle scenes! Me and Godfrey agree on that!
HANDS DOWN THE BEST HIP HOP FILM OF ALL TIME!!!!!!!
Have you seen 'Wildstyle'? 'Best Street' was really just a more polished version of 'Wildstyle', which came out a year earlier. It starred Fab 5 Freddy, from 'Yo! MTV Raps' The Rock Steady Crew were also in it.
Born in '81
I watched that movie so many times i popped the tape.
How old were you when you first saw it?
I grew up in Inwood Heights and I used to go to JHS 22 on Broadway and Academy Street and I remember Richie Crazy Legs when he used to go to the same school and then we went to JFK high. Those were some crazy times. The Ballbusters fighting the Playboys and other gangs such as Familia and the Zulu Nations because they ran as a gang back then before they changed to a cultural movement.. What a time.
"Aye yo RAMO... when you gon teach me that style!"
Practice up on it
@@marvinsbprealty5760 I like you man. Kenny, why can't I go which you? cottonfield chants and hollers, very fresh!
And to think I got clowned in middle school for seeing Beat Street in the theaters instead of Breakin'. Soooooooooooooooooooooooo glad I got to see this in theaters when it dropped.
It should have been the other way around.
You from the west coast?
@@pvj2234 Nopers. I'm in the middle east ( The DMV ).
@@sinseers D.C, Maryland Virgina?
@@pvj2234 Yeppers. Baltimore MD to zone in even closer.
Robert Taylor is doing well, he’s a Facebook friend of mine. He still dances occasionally.
Yo, Godfrey calm down and stop interrupting when Crazy Legs is talking.
haha he fanboyed out just as bad as when Sara Jay was on lol
@@wkatc007 I hate when he thinks he knows stuff, but crazy had to put him in his place. 😆
Lmaoooooo
He does it every episode lol he doesn’t realize how his guests get so annoyed by it
Dude who the f. U. c. k. Are you? Get your own show if you wanna direct
Back in the DAY..1983-84..I COPIED move for move the ending with Crazy legs..The foot work, then windmill, high speed back spin, pose with the shoes off...GOSH..THose WERE some of the BEST TIMES of LIFE..This and M. Jackson's 'THRILLER' along with BREAKIN..was TOPS!!!
I met Baby Love of Rock Steady Crew who was in the Roxy battle. She is very sweet!
I've done some of my best dancing while on acid. For some reason it let's you tap into your inner soul and rhythm and you can do things you never thought you can do with endless counts of energy. Of course you crash, but it's awesome while it's going on.
Man God’s passion for hip hop culture is unrivaled
You can tell he from that era to enjoy it that much. 💪🏾
I grew up on the other side of the tracks, not with up rockin or floor rockin or breaking or rapping, but bombing the trains! There were so many crews back in the day, I think even parents belonged to some crews back in the day.
A great film, takes me back 😎
He is so fine❤
This interview made me subscribe. Good shit fam.
one of the fave films of my youth for sure, would have loved to heard more about acid tripping on the set though ;)
Ken and Kuriaki tore it up!
Factsssss
Legs once described Kenny as the "epitome" of a Bboy. There was one other guy in New York back then, who was better than him, though. A guy called Bboy Float, who never got any fame, and spent years locked up in prison. There used to be old footage of him on here
Beat street was a magical movie even the love song scene were amazing
I remember Hip Hip became part of me after this film. 40 years later and HIP HOP is STILL a part of me.
Crazy legs and kuriaki legend🎉❤
Even to this day, dude gives zero respect to the New York City Breakers! 👊🏽
I thought I was the only one who noticed that. Legs was acting like he didn't know Glide Master passed away in 1984, not long after Beat Street was released. He went to school with some of them but can never refer to members of NYC Breakers by their names.
lol
Kinda wack that Godfrey doesn't know about the NY city breakers or knows and didn't say anything.
Dude is arrogant asf.. he fell out with alot of his associates because of his attitude.
Word probably because NYC waxed them in the Movie!
What's bizarre is I woke today and watched battle cry. I thought I was tripping when I saw Godfrey had Crazy Legs on.
I really loved 'breakers revenge ' ...never mind
Also when Crazy became a b-boy in the late 1970s , Breakdancing was already much dead for a few years already. Its because of this Electro funk/Boogie jams that brought Breakdancing popular back again in 1982 thanks to Man Perish & Afr8ka Bambaataa and the rest is history!
damm i used to have that BLUE PUMA suite back in 1984 in high school. THOMAS JEFFERSON HIGH SCHOOL IN BROOKLYN TO BE EXACT.......GOOD MEMORIES.... MY BROTHER MAY HE REST IN PEACE HAD THE RED PUMA SUITE......MEMORIES.....MEMORIES......MEMORIES......THAT'S ALL WE HAVE.......MEMORIES.......
I used to look up to crazy legs and the RSC. They used to come to the rink in nj back in them days and take all the jersey bboys out. I know I was one of them. But they taught us how to be dope. Just watching them made me better.
WOW!!!!!!!
I wish you had footage when NYC Breakers Had footage at world on wheels
Did he say fur coat lol where is this host from??
But yeah Director Stan lathan killed it.
The DJ analogy is exactly it. If the record skips, you gotta recover and still be on beat, which requires improvisation. Same thing with breaking, if you screw up your move, you gotta improvise and still hit the "1" on time with an improvised move, which is what Crazy Legs is saying. Dancing is just a visual melody after all. You gotta be funky and on beat just like a DJ scratch or any other musical instrument.
Along with the Fat Boy movie and Rad it was dope!
Oh shit! RAD!
Amazing in 2024. Is there to this interview?
Crazy Legs a Legend 🎉
I never knew that some of the Rocksteady Crew had appeared in "Flashdance;" I just remembered seeing the Rocksteady Crew vs. the NYC Breakers on "Beat Street"; other films: "Breakin'," "Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo," (featuring Ice T); "Wild Style" (Fab Five Freddy; the future host of "Yo' MTV Raps" show in the 1990's) and "Style Warz" (graffiti street artists).
this video went best with "play at your own risk"
Thank you is all i have to say
I learned most of my moves back then from this movie
I would come home from school, put on the after school rap attack on WRAP (still have some cassette recordings), then pop in my VHS tape of Beat Street.
Even had both vinyl soundtrack records.
That Jacket he was wearing!!
Come on Katt!!😂
1000 Praises Godfrey for getting one of the pioneers of hip-hop on your a platform maybe get dj Charlie Chase next🎉
Legendary Crazy Legs!!
Gotta make your rounds, kidd!!!!
This was the essence of what the BBoy of Hip Hop is all about.... BEAT STREET showed everything that had to do with Hip Hop..... The battles maybe old but it doesn't get tiring to watch..... I still watch it here and there..... I didn't watch BEAT STREET or BREAKIN' & BREAKIN' 2: ELECTRIC BOOGALOO in the theaters, I had to wait till it came on regular TV which BEAT STREET did come on a few times but with BREAKIN' & BREAKIN' 2, it never did come out and even many years later in the 90s BREAKIN' was not on any of the cable channels when I started to have cable TV in the 90s after moving out from my old house in the beginning of the 90s and into the new house, the old owners had cable and I didn't even know that my VCR had cable ready connection so didn't need to get a cable box to watch basic cable TV, you only need the box for PREMIUM & PAY-PER-VIEW shows..... Also I didn't have a video rental card to rent movies and even if I did, the video store didn't have the movie in there catalog since it was already old..... When I finally found a copy of the BREAKIN' I bought the DVD & I got to watch it..... As for BREAKIN' 2: ELECTRIC BOOGALOO, it was hard to find till they but out THE BREAKIN' DVD COLLECTION BOXSET which consist of all 3 movies and a bonus DVD consisting the Hip Hop history..... The boxset is not the original movie poster that the movie had, it was more of the rerelease of the movie in the boxset or the Anniversary cover..... THE BREAKIN' DVD COLLECTION is the one that have to do with the 4 elements that have been made into a separate picture drawings of them also they have made them into figurines collectables many years later.....
Yeah man that panning shot
Ain't nothing like it
Wow … they edited perfect cause I never noticed it
That Rock the Bells Jacket thou kíllin shit
Everyone watched those VHS tapes until they snapped.
That is shine
Beat is still Gold Standard..
It's like breakin, that second battle was performed to irresistible bitch by Prince but on the cutting room floor, they decided to dub it with Reckless, but with the lyrics to Body Rock (Ice T)..
Noiz É BRAZIL....Vem....
They change music in movies all the time. They also still synch the dancing to the music so even if they change it it’s still in synch.
So glad Dynamic Rockers were fired lol Rock Steady made that battle legendary!
Wow never knew it was originally Dynamic Rockers casted .. 😮
Wait....now we all want to know what was the music playing while the battle went down. if it wasn't Arthur Baker.. crazy have some one add the music over the Arthur baker beat. so we can see it how it went down
Von Decarlo is so fineeeeeeeeeeee
9:57 Anyone knows the song/instrumental?
Seems Crazy Legs loves to take credit for lots of things that didn't happened. That girl in the scene was Baby Love that performed with them all around & in their album hit songs "Hey You", "Uprock", etc ... Give her credit homeboy!
He talks about he didn't have his best battle members for the movie....WTF!??? In 1983 there was the greatest Breakdancing contest ever at the famous Roxy were hundres of crews perform for the grand prize of being in the movie "Beat Street". You telling me that wasn't important to the crew when that movie put you on the map!
Rock Steady wasn't supposed to be in the movie in the first place because the main winners of the contest that beat every crew was the greatest Dynamic Rockers!
Dynamic opted out of the movie for a reason (that's another story of it's own) and Rock Steady was asked to sub for them! Even the better B-Boy crew that Rock Steady battle in the movie was the amazing and powerful "Floor Masters" put previously together by the best of New York B-Boys that had to offer and 1984 became the New York City Breakers & was feared by every crew.
Rock Steady were bunk compared to the beautifully executed moves performed by the Dynamic Rockers. Even their home video recordings of Dynamic battleing Rock Steady showing Rock Steady getting beat in every battle!
Crazy says he had lots of members in the crew but you always see about 6 of them and the weakest. Seems he always wanted the one to look good in the crew!
1983's The Big Breakdancing Contest battle of 600 kick ass B-Boy crews and not one was Rock Steady 🤔 and to be honest, Rock Steady was a mediocre crew at best they just knew how to market themselves well during that time that lead to exposure world wide. Hundresds of way better crews lived dufing that time and if you deep search you will find them in contest battles in NY clubs and in rare video recordings in photos as well in those 1980s early days!
“Mediocre at best” is pretty harsh when describing the crew that brought break dancing / b-boying to the 🌎 (Flashdance, WildStyle, Style Wars, David Letterman).
I will say, the Dynamic Rockers blew it if they CHOSE not to be in this movie… They gotta be regretting that mo\/e to this day. 🌬️
Thank you for acknowledging Baby Love. He spoke about her like she was nothing.
Kool lady blue an English lady friend of Malcolm Mclaren was their manager, that's why they got so much attention & marketing she split the crew into 2 groups, giving the attention more to the 6 latinos that you always saw & the others just faded into obscurity.. NYC breakers were far superior crew.. real heavy hitters & power movers they were managed by Michael Holman
Facts!!! I believe you. You can see in that beat street movie that NYC breakers were better than the Rock Steady Crew!!!
The funny part is, he himself wasn't that great. For me, personally, Ken Swift, kuriaki and Buck 4 were the heavy hitters of that crew.
Fire! 🔥
Dope!
I love Crazy Legs, but i feel like he's wrong @2:44.
Bgirl Baby Love aka Daisy Castro was indeed the RSC Main Bgirl. In fact she is the artist from the hit track when RSC went on tour for the song "Hey You RockSteady Crew". And that track came out in 83, 1 year prior to BeatStreat.
this is up there with the White Chicks Dance battle.
Lil Lep was the freshest out of all them.
He was very light in his feet
Did you know he played an elf in the video for run DMC's 'Christmas in Hollis'?
"All your moves ain't worth a bit, so what's up wit dat, pppPUNK?!"
"Roxy??"
"Roxy!"
:: hold on, let me fix my shoulder goggles :: ok ::
"Bet!"
Done On Acid...Dayumn 😳
the full video was taken down :(
Puertoricans helped develop hip hop 🇵🇷🇵🇷🇵🇷🇵🇷🇵🇷🇵🇷🇵🇷🇵🇷
no they didnt You have to create to develop....they did their thing though