The Freshest Kids Page #2

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Because I'd be taking the merry-go-round back and forth, giving you no slack

The break of the record, B. Break. We are the B. Boys.

The word Bboy orginated from Kool Herc

Bboy should really have stood for Bronx

Or really, Breaking Boys because you know when people be breaking at parties you know you're starting trouble

Bboys and Bgirls, Break, Beat, Break Boys, Break Girls

I could tell you straight up..

Breakin' comes from the street terminology

When people used to say "Why you breaking on me, why my moms breaking on me

Why you acting crazy, it really just meant doing sh*t above normal

The DJs used to cut breaks

And the Bboys would break to what? The Breaks.

So well you know, its just common sense man

You know when somebody get mad, yo hes breaking, stop breaking man

And when Kool Herc says it, its official.

Bboy, boys that break, it didn't come from breaks on the record

It comes from, "this man broke"

He went to a breaking point

You know what i'm saying? So we just used that exaggeration of that term

to the dancing, the Bboys, the Break Boys

Breaking goes back as far as I know, talking to, founders of the dance

No later than '73

And these are breakers who used to break mainly on top

It was like a whole new movement, just like a spontaneous thing that just happened at the parties

Certain styles of dances came out that you knew was the new dance, and did it.

But with breaking, burning and going off

Other people that liked it would adapt it and that became like that agenda

You knew how to do it you just come in, you know, do your little posturing and posing

And you know, and then you go down

And then like if you doing a good move people would gather around

So that you got a little circle, and somebody might get in there and challenge you

All back here was lit up

Lit up with music, and this is where a lot of them started dancing at

Put a speaker right out here..

And everybody having fun

All out, all out crazy stuff

Cuz you see all the sh*t come together

Then you got people like the Nigga Twinz, all of a sudden they're going down to the floor

He was one of the brothers that used to be down with Kool Herc

And he had like, a little spin move, where he would like

Do that little spin move

And that was actually the first time I've ever seen somebody, you know, go down on the floor

We saw people dancing and we wanted to dance

You know, and it's just that our style of dancing was not like anybody else's

The funny thing was that the Nigga Twinz used to always have straws in their mouths

The Nigga Twinz used to come in with cigars and trench coats

And they used to come in and split the place up

And act like Groucho Marx

And they just walking with the cigars and then meet up in the middle

When we used to go down on the floor

We didn't get dirty

And we didn't dance on linoleum

And we didn't dance on cardboards, we danced on the cement

Them was the real Bboys back in the days, you know what I'm saying?

The original Top Rock is in the Top Rock that they do now

They go like this

That was the original Top Rock

It wasn't like this, you know what I mean?

And there was the Indian Step that goes like this

Our Up Rock was straight up Bboy Up Rock

Like, yeah Like, yeah

Straight up, straight up Bboy

Bboying on the floor didn't come out until like maybe the ending of '74, '75

When people started actually started going down

And breaking on the floor

I don't know who did it, eventually somebody went down and stayed down

Uprocking, I brung it to the floor

You know? That's why I was so good cuz I was

From there on it just kept going and kept going through

Until someone brung it out of the Bronx River, and before you know it there was Zulu Kings

Word up!

It was really a combination of sweeps

CCs, which is the side to side movements when you are facing the front

And steps like the Russian

Which looked exactly like a Russian where you crossed your arms and kicked to the front

The steps were a lot more basic and it looked a lot more...

If there's a Bboy out there that I would compare Old Style to, the real Old Style

It's Frosty Freeze

When you see Frosty in like Flashdance and old footage of him

And sometimes he still does it today when you see his footwork it doesn't look complete

That looks more like what the original Bboys looked like back in the day

They used to do a style that I hardly see anyone do

Which is more like jerking type of..

It wasn't like a 6 step, you know, "this is how it goes"

It was a little more sporadic

And wild spirit like "Boom Bah Freeze and..." You know what i'm saying?

And then with the Godfather of Hip Hop myself, Afrika Bambaata

You have what you call the Zulu Kings

I grew up watching more like the Zulu Kings, Beaver, Beaver was like the biggest name in Bboying period.

I mean you couldn't find nobody better than Beaver until Spy came along

and blasted him with Trac2 and them brothers

Everything, all the breaking and stuff like that, it was considered undergound

Until Kool Herc brought everything out into the open

And that was like say '74, '75

All the underground stuff, all the in house, all the hallway dances and all the house party dances

Were brought out to the street

And the more they took it to the street

The more nationalities got involved in it

It was no longer an Afro-American thing

The Hispanics took to the dance

I know from fact that when I went to some parts

It was rare to see a Puerto Rican dancer Breakin

And when they did it was like "Oh sh*t you got a Puerto Rican Bboy!" You know?

A lot of people used to call it like

Yo, like you know, the Latinos you know

Moreno means black, you know, and they be like "Yo that's that Moreno style"

You know that's the original style of Bboying

Those black kids invented breaking as we know it, as we understand it

It was the Puerto Rican kids that put breakers on their back

Batch is, one of the first Hispanic breakers ever

"I'm funky and I'm 35 years old"

Salsoul was the crew where basically we all came out of

The first all Hispanic Breaking crew

After Salsoul, Batch started up the TBB Crew

And they were a big crew

We was one of the best Break Dancing crews out there

And I believe that, you know, up to today's date

If I wouldn't have kept going to jail

You know, and a lot of my people's getting killed

And going to jail as well, we could have probably been big in the industry out here making money

The swipes in the air you see Legs do

That was originated by my partner, Spy.

Who I consider the best breaker I have ever seen break

That's, undisputable

I mean whoever knows breaking, that name has to come up

He's one of the first Bboys ever!

And he was known as "The man with 1000 moves" and his name is Spy

So I want to bring him up here so y'all can see..Come on' Come on' up here man!

Spy was a legend to me because he was already called "The man with 1000 moves"

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