The Freshest Kids Page #7

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I talked to him 2 days right before it happened

And he was killed. And it took breaking away from us,

Gangbanging and dope dealing came in and that's when everybody from here know what that means

Wanna be a gangsta, wanna be a thug aspect, don't get too caught up in that

Always understand that this is entertainment, you know

You don't see, Robert De Niro trying to kill Al Pacino

You know what I'm saying? Or Joe Pesci, them is actors, you dig it?

Just like all these Rappers is basically actors!

Let's be for real here, I know!

"If I lay low and let the day go,"

"It'll slow my payroll, Aye yo"

"I'm a terrorize charge and slay shows"

"Ra slay flows go as far as the Barbados"

"On the turntable, sound like tornadoes"

"My style is performed like tropical storms"

"You're not to get on, the whole spot will get torn"

"I keep the metropolitan hollerin' and bring the dollars in"

"Keep the models followin', wise as king Solomon"

"Come slow through the jungle like an animal"

"Invade any land, I go like General Hannibal"

"From Long Island to Queens light up the New York scenes"

"All the way to New Orleans and everything in between"

"Left to go, bless a show in Mexico"

"Next thing I know it's extra cold, I see Eskimo's"

"It's time to rock, get it hot soon as I get in there"

"Spit in they ear, so flow they froze and I disappear"

You could go up to a business man and say.. '85

"You ever heard of Break Dancing?" "Yeah"

"You ever heard of Rapping?" "You mean wrapping a gift?"

And all of a sudden it just died out, Rap took over and sh*t..

The dancing was really what catapulted Rap music

Into, like, the media's eye

And it was really the media grabbing these Bboys and saying

"Hey, let's take these kids on tour, let's do shows"

And "Hey we want to bring these Rap artists.."

Rap has product

It had something they could sell

It had music, it had CDs, it had records

And it had something that one could take home

You can't take a breaker home with you

It lasted for a minute, we used have dancers for your stage show

Until after a while, it became more pop..

So, a lot of that phased out..

I think the MCs, the Rappers out there have not really recognized

What Bboying, how Bboying opened doors for them..

When they say "Yeah I do Hip Hop" It's like, you know..

What they are really trying to say is "I Rap"

The thing that really makes me represent

Is the thing that's not gonna let people forget, us and KRS-One of course..

Not forgetting about that time or that era where, the whole culture of Hip Hop was..

The music of Hip Hop, which is Rap..

The dance of Hip Hop, which was Breaking..

And the art of Hip Hop which was Graffiti, those things..

All were like 3 in 1, hand in hand

But once Rap became a Money Dollar Million entity

Those things fell off..

Break Dancing really didn't play out, per se

It's just that, you know, motherfuckers over here are too much of a B*tch

To understand what real Hip Hop culture is!

The music

I tell a lot of Bboys

Especially a lot of up coming Bboys

They just see a circle or they just want to get down and exploit their move

But, I always tell them listen to a certain beat

Because, that's important that when you go down

What you go down to

I have video tapes of guys in Germany dancing to, f***ing, Donna Summer's "Bad Girls"

And Brooklyn Rocking to it, how do you Brooklyn Rock to that?!

Many of my Bboys around here we always go down to the break beats

Like Apache was one of our favorite records around here..

That's a Bboy anthem!

This is it! James Brown or some "Just Begun"

You can be dressed in a tuxedo, if you're a real Bboy..

You gotta, I don't care if it's a little bit of Top Rock

You're gonna go, you're gonna do something!

All you had to do man was put that record on, man, that "Just Begun" joint!

And, um, that's when it was on, man, we got busy man

Every Funk is the music that we danced to. I mean if it was funky, we danced!

Although we could dance to a Waltz, okay!

Planet Rock!

That was THE Popping song!

It wasn't exactly THE breaking song, was it?

Because it didn't have that beat!

It could be a day that you feel like "I don't feel like catching wreck today.."

But play one of those records, and your mind would change really quick

Damn! When I first learned about the dance in '77

It was called Bboying, by the time the Media got a hold of it

In like '81-'82, it became "Break Dancing"

And I even got caught up calling it Break Dancing too..

Yeah, but you know why?!

That's our fault, kind of...Of course!

Because when Break Dancing went mainstream, and we started dancing and going on tours and all that..

And people would say, "Oh you guys are Break Dancers!"

We never, we never...

We had to reinvent ourselves

You see, we kept walking around calling ourselves Break Dancers

Like, "Ah y'all don't care, it's from the '80s, yeah man that sh*t's played out!"

But when we started calling ourselves Bboys, it was like, what, "This is some new sh*t!"

Bboy, that's.. that's what it is!

That's why when the public changed it to Break Dancing, they was just giving a professional name to it

But, Bboy, was the original name for it and whoever wants to keep it real will keep calling it Bboying

And the REAL Rock Steady is taking out these toys!

I used to watch Rock Steady in the park

You know, even when I had records out, they was still in the parks

And in the clubs, and um..

In "South Bronx," that's where I wrote..

"And the REAL Rock Steady taking out these toys!"

"..The Cypress Boys, The real Rock Steady takin' out these toys"

We would go to clubs, we would hear like "South Bronx" by KRS-One

And we would just start screaming "South Bronx! South South Bronx!"

Rock Steady became the image of all breakers everywhere

All serious breakers

That record means so much to me, KRS gave us a place that

No one can, you know like, like historically..

Everything springboarded from that

That, got us more in touch with the Hip Hop audience again

Bboy is dope, the original Hip Hop is dope!

Just when you think like, you know, the dance is just fading away..

Kids somewhere else picks up on it

Every generation has its creativity, and its energy to bring to the table

Its all good!

You talk to some of them OGs

Who first started dancing back in the day

And you show them clips of what's going on now

They'll be like, "Man! I never though it would of went to that!"

It's just who I am, this is what I do!

If I go in a circle and I automatically start tumbling,

It may not be a dance to you, but it's my dance!

With battling now, brothers got rockets up their asses!

Man these kids are doing some incredible sh*t!

I'm like "Damn! I'm glad I payed my dues already!" I'm 31, let these kids battle it out!

I look at them now and they doing a lot of beautiful things you know

A lot of creativity and you be like "Oh my God, yo he's nice, you see him spinning on his hands, like this, oh God yo!"

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