🤣🤔Hold on...he was just being live on national television..you gotta play nice always ..besides that's pure elementary being civilized ..Don't hate on Crazy Legs🇵🇷💯👍
2 legends considered to be the best breakdancers ever! This was right before they appeared in the classic movie Beat Street. These are the guys that should have been judging the Olympics, along with some of the other 80’s & 90’s legends that created the style that we know as breakdancing.
@@MikeCee7 they were in a brief scene in flashdance where they were in the park breakin’. I remember hearing that one of them stood in for Jennifer Beals w a wig on for a particular scene but can’t remember who it was.
@@QuicksFlicks1 no, I know officially from some documentary way back in the 1980s. That the person who did the break dancing at the end of her dance routine before the judges, was a male wearing a wig. (i.e. it wasn’t Jennifer Beals) so I was just wondering which one of these guys was the guy that did the final scene in her dance evaluation?
@@juniorjames7076 Oh, you were going so well 'til you went down that route. Just how do you think that the various media; including television, exist at all? Now, New York City and several other American cities were indeed very dangerous in the 70's and 80's - BUT! - we could safely cherry pick the elements of musical and cultural expression which we could appreciate which were emanating from them, for real. I'm Australian, and here they've been recreating a similar socio-cultural/demographic scenario as existed in those areas then - actually, much worse though - except we're engulfed in it, and nothing of any 'pop' cultural merit can come from it because everything's already been done!
Rock Steady Crew came to Adelaide, South Australia about 1985 or86, and I went to the Old Lion to watch them. Breakdancing changed my life, and I was thrilled to see my heroes in the flesh.
As a black guy I know the importance of Nuyoricans in disco and Hip Hop culture. Disco was invented in the black and Puerto Rican clubs of NY and Philly. Don’t listen to the naysayers.
I remember seeing Crazylegs and his crew in London back around 82-83. Electro, Breaking and Body Popping was still a relatively new thing here in the UK back then. I also saw Afrika Bambaataa and the Soul Sonic Force in a college hall in my local town around the same time.
Man these dudes would smoke you on the floor and then run ya pockets. They was stickup kids, a lotta young HipHop dudes was sellin or stealin sum so they could eat. Just the fact of life. They still deserve their props and respect regardless.
This is really incredible to watch. What baffles me is: Q What’s your breakin’ name going to be? A. = “Crazy Legs” Q. & how about you young man? A. = “Ken Swift” (what a brilliant dope breakin’ name)
@@kariblack298 100% true and crazylegs maiontaned same ass 5months progress bboy skill to this day, dood never learned anything more since the 80s and he has tendency to shit on people who do lot of powermoves, sure he was where he was at the beginning but come fucking on... how long can you ride that wave without progressing
Damn, I miss this Letterman era. Great that all the hiphop/dance crowd here now remembers these gents as legends, but the fun thing for me is remembering what it was like at the time when Letterman would occasionally/often just feature something that at the time was still just a curiosity but it caught his show producers' attention and he said, "Sure, let's have them!"
Yup! I'm 31 and he's kind of before my time but I LOVE his interviews for this exact reason ❤also something about seems not condescending like the ones now. Just genuine questions!
I'd almost forgotten how important this performance is-- before the countless acrobatics were invented based off these guys (and a few others), and the more and more complex techniques all came from standing on shoulders before them, it had to start somewhere. Watch how smooth they footwork is. You are witnessing floor rocking in it's first form, and how they were already dissecting how they could improve it even without anyone having invented the outrageous stuff we eventually saw later. True pioneers right here.
Exactly..and Down rock. Their 2nd single titled just that. Up Rock. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-lop7B5QuFyk.htmlsi=_lD1L7ChGVNBG2k5
Break dancing changed my life. I saw an episode of the new dance in the early 80s. I'm not sure what show it was on, but I wasn't impressed. Then later, my mom took me to see beatstreet. Mind you, I didn't ask to see it, I didn't even know what it was about. And man, when they hit the Roxy, I was blown away. I didn't want them to stop. I went home, moved furniture, and I learned how to windmill that night. I was hitting my ankles on the leg of my bed and everything. That was a fun time in my life. Cars would stop and watch us. We danced at halftime at our middle school basketball game. I was in the 7th grade when beatstreet hit the theaters. Fun times. At 50 I can still swipe and backspin, but I can't windmill that good lol.
So you weren't impressed the first time you saw breaking, then you didn't know what Beatstreet was going to be about but went in to see the movie? AND learned windmills that night?? Something kinda smells here, and it ain't us.
It's great to see this performance again and again. They were so young and shy at that time. Certainly... They have changed a lot today ! Excellent 💯👍✊🤜🤛
This was monumental they got a chance to sit down and talk about their dance n share their thoughts. Usually if you had a manager or representative they would speak unless you were an actor, comedian, or public figure. Before I think “Shabba- Doo” from “Breaking” movie 1984/ The Lockers dance group in the early- mid 70’s of Soul Train n Robert Shields of “The Clinkers “ San Francisco Street performer were the only street dancers/ movers of 70’s n early 80’s that were able to speak on the couch about their original movement n dance.
Thank you for this @SkillzOne !!! I saw a clip of the dance performance on RU-vid b4 but not the interview as well. Supa cool to hear the interview as well.
The actual battle between NYC Breakers and Rock Steady crew for Beat Street lasted 30 minutes, but it was edited down to the 5 minutes used in the movie, so it's highly likely that Ken Swift came out more than once.
@@thunorwodenson Actually before DJs, it was drummers aka "drumboys" who were extending the 10secs drum breaks in a song before DJs started doing it (1971)
Sad how the originators, BLACK SPADES, never got the true credit of the creators of Break dance , Bronx Boy , BBOY style. Salute to BronxDale and DJ Mario.
@Kay Kay Johnson… well maybe because they (the Black Spades) were too busy $elling dope, using dope, had no passion or business sense, or kiLLing one another to push the art form into a career. 🫵🏾 Don’t blame the w̴h̴i̴t̴e̴ Puerto-Rican man for taking the art form to stratospheric levels around the world. Do better… 👊
Disco King Mario introduced me to Hip Hop at his infamous Rosedale Park Jams in The Bronx during the late 70's alongside Tex DJ Hollywood & Grand Wizard Theodore.
The break dance like a vibration around the whole world at that time suspected to be the first time it ever be done that way the footwork swipe into baby Freeze
At that time, mainstream White media was so Cringe whenever they were covering something "new and amazing" happening on the "dangerous streets of NYC or Philly", but in the early 80s it was the few times you could see Black & Latino culture at all on television. I think at that time Letterman was on practically after midnight, which was the zombie hour for me. I don't know how i was able to sneak back into the living room to watch this footage when I was in the 6th grade in 1983. My parents would have killed me, but i had to see them once I heard they were on Letterman! There was also an episode of Ripleys Believe It Or Not that featured the New York City Breakers that EVERYBODY was talking about in school the next day when it aired!!! Haaaa haa. Such innocent days.
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After seeing this, there should be Syncro Breaking in the Olympics. (like there is Syncro diving) & this is much complex and entertaining than seeing the synchronize swimmers.
They the same thing. Only difference is us Puerto Ricans got fucked by the Spanish in the 1400s before all that n got mix u see all shade in Puerto Ricans if u know then u know we the same frfr we jus got good hair 😭😂
It’s crazy how Latinos don’t get credit for being part of hiphop from the beginning & creating it… it started in the BRONX… like that’s Latino as it gets!! & at that same time created Salsa & Reggaeton… but I’m one them people who looks at black & latino as same.. not all but most.. also.. gotta give credit to Fat Joe for bringing up this topic to the mainstream.. heard him say this a few times..
Because they wasn't' they are second generation' not the creators' they came ten years later' That is why' They get credit for contributing and helping to evolve breaking' That is the credit that they deserve'
They didn't create hip hop or breakdancing black people did back around 1971 or 72. Ricans actually called it "jungle music"..but when it gained popularity and breaking was dying with black youth in 1978,they picked up the dance and kept it going. So they get credit for participating later.
So today first time I’m seeing this 31.3. 2021, it’s from 1983, looks like Prince Ken Swift is 5 years younger between this & Beat Street being filmed I presume between November 83- Feb 84?
Why oh why does everything devolve into an argument?? When hip hop was talked about in my circles it was west and east coast not race or ethnicity because poor doesn’t seem to take race into account so it seems that folks should look for unity because these guys were the absolute best when it came to their particular dance style.
