The Untold Journey of BBoy Crumbs: 30 Years of Hip-Hop Mastery 💯 | SWAY’S UNIVERSE
May 30, 2024
Join us on Sway In The Morning for an awe-inspiring episode as we delve into the journey of Bboy Crumbs, a true hip-hop legend who has transitioned from an underground icon to a judge at the upcoming Olympic breaking competition in Paris! 🏆
In this exclusive interview, Sway and Tracy G sit down with Crumbs to discuss the evolution of Bboy culture, the significance of keeping hip-hop elements united, and the monumental impact of breaking making its debut on the Olympic stage. From his early days with the Style Elements crew to collaborating with megastars like Justin Timberlake and Christina Aguilera, Crumbs shares incredible insights and unforgettable moments.
Crumbs also opens up about the challenges faced by the Bboy community, the global support for breaking, and his personal journey of longevity and innovation in one of the most physically demanding art forms.
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CHAPTERS:
0:00 - Intro
0:18 - Sway & King Tech’s Vision for the Culture
5:16 - Sway’s First Time Seeing Crumbs
11:15 - How Crumbs Kept the Olympics True to Breaking
14:15 - The Greatest Group of the 90s
14:56 - Why is the World More Supportive of Breaking Than the US
18:10 - The US Should Support Breaking
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that's mandatory for greatness showing
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up a lot more than the
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average yes big round of applause for
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that I'm going open up the phone lines
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right now 888 742
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3345 and when we talk about this culture
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this next individual Tracy G
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personifies what I learned this culture
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to be all about when keing Tech and I
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came in the game in the
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80s the way we came into the game King
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Tech and I met through a friend of mine
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by the name of Al ski he was one of the
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sickest dancers to come out of North
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Oakland he King Tech and others um Aki
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star AKA octaviano from the Renegade
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rockers a crew out of Northern
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California Bay Area um eventually he
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became a singer he's the lead singer for
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Spanish fly but prior to that he was a
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part of the All City Productions crew
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which was founded by King Tech and
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myself right but prior to that it was
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the fly namic Force which was a group
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name we had but prior to that we that we
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co-opted uh and made it into a a rap
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group prior to that so many priors
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flynamic force was a bat boy crew of
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different beat boys or as people like to
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call them Breakers and we'll come into
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that uh that were assembled in Northern
1:25
California as teenagers and they
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eventually um created the San Franc
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Frisco ballet Breakers um out of
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Northern California and King Tech was a
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major part of that Ali eventually
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branched off into other things but
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before he did that he introduced King
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Tech and I and we formed swaying King
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Tech and our vision was rooted in
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culture and everything that's pure about
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it we were influenced by movies like
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wild style Star Wars Beach Street I
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could keep breaking I could name them
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all right and we wanted to be a part of
1:58
this movement that was empowering young
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people to express themselves in ways
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that they weren't being allowed to break
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into me is a beautiful expression of art
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through your body through your physical
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that's being transformed from your
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mental to your physical and now becomes
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Visual and all these different things
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all these different ways to express are
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so unique to this culture it's so unique
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to this culture um and so what I came up
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to understand the culture to be is our
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next guest represents
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wholeheartedly this branch of Hip Hop
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culture to me is the most important now
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because it's the one that's less tainted
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it hasn't been able to be fully
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infiltrated where those including the
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Architects and some of those of first
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generation beat boys could still
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participate in it in rap it was um
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infiltrated by Corporate America and it
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um assumed the
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it assumed the badge of Hip Hop yes it
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was only a part of hip-hop the mcing
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there are other elements the DJing was
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the first part of it the beat boys were
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right there with the DJs the MC
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supported the DJ right the graph writers
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had their own movement happening at the
3:21
same time and it all kind of assembled
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and felt like it was all this one thing
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that now is being deemed hip-hop it
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didn't have a name back
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right it was just disenfranchised people
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who needed a way to express themselves
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would not get support couldn't get
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exposure none of that it was also a way
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where people communicated where we
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didn't have to fight no more we could
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battle right you know and as a result of
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that uh King Tech and I when we started
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radio started on radio we knew that one
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of the things we wanted to do was
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highlight B boy culture him and I were
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artists before that we were signed to
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Giant Warner Brothers when we made
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videos all we wanted to do was highlight
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beat boy culture um I'm going to name
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some of the folks we've included in
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videos B boy
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Ivan get that man a round of applause
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you know Prince Ken Swift give that man
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a round of applause my man
4:23
Cojo give that man a round of applause
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um Crazy Legs hey give that man a round
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of applause remind get that man a round
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of applause and I can name him on and on
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and on because it was important to us if
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you watch our Anthem video that came out
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in 99 it was important for us to make
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sure that we use the rap gang now to
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highlight the Beat Boy Beat Girl game so
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we had
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Eminem Tech 9 Rizza Coogi rap Chino
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Excel J felony feral munch
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[Applause]
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krs1 DJ red alert and all of these in
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one video because we knew it would get
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maximum exposure and because of that we
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also included the beat boys so they
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could get the same maximum exposure as
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the MC that's my setup for this next
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young man that I want to say I saw first
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time I saw him dance in
5:22
person was at a event called
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radiotron in 19
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this is what
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96 and listen I was just driving around
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La I can't think of who I was with and I
5:37
saw just a bunch of people gathered
5:39
outside of a building pulled over this
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is in the midst of Sway and Tech world
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famous wake up show all this stuff
5:45
happening I didn't even know I was
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walking into wow and I remember walking
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in and I saw these dudes from Style
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Elements crew dancing and I was
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flabbergasted at how far the dance
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culture has come come in the moves that
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they were doing the power moves were
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ridiculous I had never seen anything
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like it and I recall calling team Tech
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and saying bro I don't know what's
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happening right now but the way this
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what I'm looking at we got to get these
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dudes on the show number one and you
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need to drive down here to see this [Â __Â ]
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you know and that's the first time I saw
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this man dance he's had a career that
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spans back to I want to say 1993 mhm uh
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so when you put that together that's 30
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1 years of professionalism of a culture
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that should be highlighted that people
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wouldn't even know this man has been
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touring he has been in movies he has
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choreographed with some of the biggest
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artists Justin timberlay Christina agala
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Missy Missy Elliott black ey peas let's
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go let's go I mean and the list goes on
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and on and on I want to welcome him he's
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also a judge of the first ever Olympic
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breaking dance competition in Paris
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ladies and gentlemen I know him from the
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Style Elements crew but he's gone on to
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do other things since I want y'all to
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give a big round of applause and I'm
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going open up the phone lines for this
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man even if you don't know him you
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should know him he's respected around
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the world in the Beat Boy Beat Girl
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Community um and Hip Hop and the culture
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the legendary the one and only B boy
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crumbs is here CRS Lessing man CRS is
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here standing o man get his man standing
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o bation man get his man a standing on
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get that man a standing on love you guys
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man love you guys so much for being here
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man we we've came a long way but it's
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just begun Just Begun gun gun gun just
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begun I love how you did that that was
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pretty good man this is why you are
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where you are you know just I speak for
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all Breakers all around the world you
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know we we thank you for your
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contributions to hip-hop and there ain't
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many um people in your position doing
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what you're doing the right thing right
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the true school there's a new school
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there's a old school and there's a true
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school and you know where you stand man
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the true SCH appreciate you brother like
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salute to you crumbs I Manan you make
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you giving me chills because that's the
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one branch of the culture that I'm the
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most humbled
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by it's it's one that that uh we kept
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control of speak to that yes you know we
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we we kept it in house right and the one
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of the most important things that I
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think that kept us flourishing is we
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never separated the elements we always
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kept it together the writers the DJs the
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B boys the MC's always you go to a
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breaking event you're going to see all
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of that if you go to a rap concert you
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Pro now yeah you're probably not going
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to see the other elements right so at
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some point it got separated and um we
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never did that we always stayed true you
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go to a breaking Jam you're going to
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hear tracks from the original break
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Beats from the 70s ' 80s 90s 2000s 2010s
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2020s we play it all you know we
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represent all um all elements we
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represent all genres of music and hipop
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and break beats and even even um popping
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locking you know all these street art
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forms come together and and we're one
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big family under one big umbrella we
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call hip-hop we never said at that so
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that's why we kept you know kept it true
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that's man give that a round of applause
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man
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I it it was done so well and the
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infiltration the Diabolical infiltration
9:42
of the culture was so
9:44
effective that when you say hip hop to
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people today who may have been a part of
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you know rap for about five to 10 years
9:54
they can't name the elements they don't
9:56
see that this goes together with goes
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together with this right why is it so
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important to keep them all together in
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the events that you
10:05
do um well is it's evolution of of of
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hip-hop in the dance of of lyrics of
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your your pieces whatever whatever uh
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element you're representing and honestly
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like a lot of real hip-hop heads do more
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than one element yeah you know like we
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came up we were we were rhyming writing
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I'm a DJ too but I'm a b boy first
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that's my best element that's just my
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best element you know but I'm a
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practitioner of hip-hop so when I came
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up in the '90s this was that's what
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Crews were about it wasn't Oh no you're
10:39
just a breaking crew you're just a a rap
10:41
crew no you're a hip-hop crew right so
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we I felt like like I was saying before
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we kept those guidelines and kept uh
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kept building kept growing and never um
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never strayed from that and it's
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important you know because where we're
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taking break now finally like on the
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Olympic level you know now we can teach
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the massage what real hip hop is about
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you know breaking is officially on the
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Olympic level crumbs is a
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judge how what was the process because
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there are amazing B boys now who've been
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doing this for decades all over the
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world what was the process how did you
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not let the Olympic Committee
11:30
infiltrate the performance part with
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rules regulations and
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misunderstanding a lot went into it you
11:38
know there's a lot of people in the
11:39
background that played a big part in
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making sure this happens in the right
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way um making sure things big things
11:47
like they don't call it break dancing
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okay let's talk about that why do you
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not call it break dancing because I you
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know I we never call that was taboo to
11:56
say break dancing it's like you know any
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genre of dance right uh jazz or anything
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you don't say hey I do jazz dancing you
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know why what was why was that added in
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you know it's just like when breaking
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became popular in the in the early 80s
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the media kind of coined that term and
12:16
the breakers back then the Pioneers
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really didn't do much to fix it to
12:20
correct it they just kind of rolled with
12:22
it and um it stuck right but it was
12:25
never called break dancing it was called
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breaking B boying B boys be girls that's
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what it is so from now on call it
12:34
breaking bat boys be girls but but not
12:38
break dancing not break dancing no there
12:41
you go all right because that was never
12:43
what it was called and that was coined
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by folks who had no idea about it right
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right and so you know that for one
12:51
that's first and foremost and um just
12:53
keeping the for when it goes to the
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Olympics keeping the same format that
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our events already have not changing it
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it's just on a bigger platform the same
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format same music Same Vibe just trying
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to keep it authentic as as possible you
13:13
know so a lot of people played big Parts
13:15
in in making that happen who are some of
13:17
those people that you could
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recall um well I mean we can go back
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we're in the birthplace of hip hop right
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now in New York City right so there's a
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lot of pioneers that pave the way for us
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to be in the Olympics to be doing what
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we're doing right now and uh if I could
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just shout some of them out man um you
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know the they're said to be one of the
13:38
first breaking Crews right here from New
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York Zulu Kings started in 1973 okay you
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got crazy commanders the Bron boys Rock
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Steady Crew incredible Breakers Dynamic
13:48
rockers floor Masters all these Crews
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and individuals um contributed to the
13:55
foundation of this dance MH and in the 7
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and the ' 80s and they're from right
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here from New York City you know so I
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would be remiss if I didn't come up here
14:06
and uh shout them out and salute to them
14:08
because if it wasn't for them there
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would be no crumbs there'd be no Style
14:11
Elements there'd be no breaking in the
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Olympics so love all of them my brother
14:16
King Tech um I told him you was here
14:20
today and I'mma tell you exactly what he
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said to me um he said man in my opinion
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they were the greatest group from the
14:31
United States in the 90s B boy Ivan
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remine crumbs man does they you know he
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said they were the greatest group um of
14:40
the
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90s and he asked some other questions
14:44
I'll get to in a second I there reading
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what he wrote um which I believe too uh
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I want to get back to the Olympics so
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yeah this would only be
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possible if the rest of the world had
14:59
interest right if the rest of the world
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wasn't so engaged and involved and
15:04
committed and dedicated to this dance
15:07
culture the it wouldn't make sense to
15:09
the Olympics right to put make this make
15:12
this actual now a new event so to speak
15:15
a new tournament when I did hosted just
15:19
Theo and shout out to Bruce you know
15:22
Kani I believe his um last name is who
15:26
brought me over there and the idea was
15:29
sway we doing these live broadcast with
15:31
Red Bull and we want you to co-host with
15:34
it at that time I hadn't been that
15:37
connected I'm always connected to the
15:38
bat boy culture but I hadn't you know I
15:40
was like I didn't know all the new names
15:42
man you get pulled in a lot of different
15:43
directions way so it's okay you always
15:45
stay true I know yeah but I went over
15:47
there and my mind was blown because it
15:49
was full Arenas packed AR Arenas like a
15:53
Usher tour concert concert with
15:56
grandparents and grandkids and
15:59
everything in between all together what
16:02
happened why is the world so more so
16:05
much more supportive and so much more
16:08
ahead and advanced in b boy be girl
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culture than we are in the place where
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it originated o that's a tough one to
16:14
talk about you know cuz cuz we're from
16:16
here you know what I'm saying this is
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the birthplace Hip Hop was created here
16:20
in the USA but the sad truth is we get
16:23
the least amount of support you know
16:26
I've been traveling the world since I
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was 16 years old I went on my first
16:29
world tour at 16 still still in high
16:32
school you know what I'm saying and
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still doing it to this day and uh I I
16:36
even noticed back then you know um I
16:39
started noticing little things like our
16:41
jams were held in gymnasiums over there
16:44
it was in big venues which turned into
16:47
Arenas right um then I started noticing
16:50
the government support that their
16:52
government started paying the breakers
16:54
to train to compete to represent their
16:56
country they were paying their bills
16:59
here in America government hasn't given
17:01
a [Â __Â ] dollar to Hip Hop you know
17:03
what I'm saying well not not breaking
17:05
you know um things like this um and and
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it's sad to say it even bleeds into our
17:11
own culture here in America right like
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you got so so many of these million
17:17
dooll rappers MC's you know and I love
17:21
them all I love them all but the truth
17:23
is they haven't put any money towards
17:25
breaking the Olympics they haven't even
17:27
talked about it or given it any light
17:28
and this is massive for hip-hop this is
17:30
histo this is a historic moment for
17:33
breaking and for hip-hop and they're not
17:35
even talking about it let alone like
17:37
putting any funds in you know um I'll
17:40
give you an example too like one of the
17:42
top B Boys in Japan uh his name is Shiga
17:46
kicks he's got like eight major sponsors
17:49
we're talking about sponsors like Nike
17:53
um Red Bull gshock Mercedes like I could
17:57
go on and on and on the top B boy that's
18:00
competing in the Olympics from America
18:02
he has one sponsor and that's Red Bull
18:05
and that's not even an American sponsor
18:07
wow so I'm just trying to put things
18:09
into perspective I don't I don't want to
18:11
debie down the
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show listen this is information yeah
18:16
that we don't know yeah and and it's
18:18
really I get passionate to talk about
18:20
that stuff cuz it sucks you know cuz
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this is the home we should be supported
18:24
by by all these MC's all these rappers
18:27
all these uh producers ERS record
18:29
companies you know that have made
18:31
Millions off of Hip Hop you know don't
18:34
forget about the other elements just
18:36
because we ain't cashing in like y'all
18:38
don't mean we ain't [Â __Â ] it doesn't mean
18:39
you can't because these tournaments that
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happen overseas Tracy I went to do
18:44
Battle of the Year M the Battle of the
18:46
Year tournament when they made the movie
18:48
Terence Jay and I I was in the movie you
18:50
was in the movie crumbs was in the movie
18:52
of course he was our co-star
18:54
okay get it right let's go but now
18:57
battle to Year Chris Brown was in that
18:59
movie Brown yep and
19:02
um even that even we were filming inside
19:06
the actual competition MH and I felt
19:09
like I was at a playoff game for the NBA
19:12
Championship kid you not s yeah these
19:15
events that's what they're equivalent to
19:18
yeah you know like battle of the year
19:20
was our Super Bowl MH right and and I'm
19:23
going to play off like radiotron 96 yes
19:27
okay I was 16 years old that was our
19:29
first big Championship that styons won
19:32
that was in LA so that was National
19:35
right battle of the year was a movie off
19:38
of a real event yeah you know so the the
19:42
promoter um the promoter from Battle of
19:45
the Year saw the video from Radio Trum
19:47
they saw us versus Renegades they got a
19:50
hold of us they said yo we want you to
19:52
bring you guys it was in Germany to
19:54
battle of the year to represent USA so
19:57
Battle of the Year is like the best
19:59
Crews from all different countries
20:00
compete you know you know how it goes so
20:03
um so we went and let me tell you like
20:06
that's that day is when breaking changed
20:09
forever like how so because we just
20:12
flipped the game upside down and added
20:15
so much vocabulary and we just changed
20:18
the whole the whole game you know and
20:20
made everybody start breaking in a new
20:22
format and and everybody from Style
20:24
Elements was their own superhero their
20:26
own character had their own style remind
20:29
come on man one of the great one of the
20:30
goats man complex he's a Rubik's Cube
20:33
he's just a genius you know his patterns
20:36
his his musicality and just the way he
20:39
moves he moved like nobody you had Ivan
20:42
flying in the air oh my gosh the Human
20:44
Action Figure Incredible Hulk you know
20:46
what I'm saying the urban action figure
20:47
the urban action figure yeah you had me
20:49
the Stacked Master like on never my to
20:53
feet NE never touching the ground on
20:54
beat for like a minute long you know
20:57
with complex threads and uni blowups and
20:59
all of that you had Jrock with the with
21:02
the thread combinations and just
21:04
straight just crazy Styles upon crazy
21:07
Styles upon crazy Styles you know we had
21:09
when we formed together was like arm arm
21:12
leg leg body head we were like Voltron
21:14
yeah when we clicked together nobody was
21:16
beating us nobody so we just kept
21:18
racking up W's and and y'all won the
21:20
Battle of the Year we won Battle of the
21:22
Year easy what year was the first 97 my
21:25
man damn man cuz y'all changed you did
21:27
the whole world
21:29
because then by that time video footage
21:32
start that's what I was saying like like
21:35
that from Battle of the Year everybody
21:38
around the world saw us at that point so
21:41
in 97 that's when everybody started
21:43
mimicking our Styles and you know and
21:46
and everything changed like you know I I
21:49
would do like one hand hops right yeah
21:51
from from and I did it in Battle of the
21:53
Year about a week later everybody and
21:55
their mama was hopping on one hands you
21:57
know what I mean you know stuff like
21:59
that that's just an example but so many
22:01
different movements and styles and
22:03
flavors and flows and techniques not
22:05
just the moves it's the movements and
22:08
the ideas the concepts it just got
22:10
tooken to a whole another level so shout
22:12
out to my boy sty Monster Squad you guys
22:16
you know deserve all the respect man we
22:18
we changed it in the '90s and we just
22:21
did our part we contributed right cuz we
22:23
always had the mindset of you got to
22:26
bring food to the table right you got to
22:28
contri contribute you can't just take
22:29
take take right we want to add on to the
22:32
game to contribute and we did that and
22:34
um some of the stuff we did I call it
22:36
Future Foundation cuz there's only one
22:38
original Foundation but the moves that
22:41
we were doing back then now all these
22:43
modern-day Breakers these kids they're
22:45
all doing them they took your moves and
22:48
Amplified them yeah times five right
22:51
because you start seeing the Korean B
22:53
boys technology technology right so they
22:56
were able to slow you down before that
22:59
you if you saw it you saw it but you
23:02
didn't have you couldn't rewind it and
23:05
then slow it down and so how did that
23:09
how did that play when it came to biting
23:12
you when somebody just steal in your
23:13
move without your permission that and
23:15
that's a fa PA you can't do that right
23:18
yeah well things have changed guidelines
23:20
have changed you know um in the 80s and
23:23
'90s that was a golden rule in hip-hop
23:25
don't bite you can't bite you know um so
23:28
when people started biting our [Â __Â ] of
23:30
course we would get upset we would
23:32
battle smoke smoke cats if we got to
23:34
when we see them and just handle it
23:37
hip-hop style battle this is the battle
23:39
culture this is a lot of people forget
23:41
that sometimes you know what I mean like
23:43
they were tripping over Drake and and
23:44
Kendrick battling same thing I love that
23:46
[Â __Â ] you know that's what it's about let
23:48
them let him battle you know um but yeah
23:51
but now it's like sometimes sometimes
23:54
certain moves become bigger than you
23:57
right you think about we'll go back to
23:59
the foundation of breaking the six step
24:01
the baby Freeze the chair freeze we all
24:04
do it somebody created it you know what
24:06
I'm saying those moves became bigger
24:09
than that person but you got to pay
24:11
homage to those people so that's it's
24:13
the same situation just you know in a
24:16
different time different era It's Just
24:18
Happening all over again B boy crumbs is
24:20
here he's a judge in the first ever
24:23
Olympic breaking competition you can
24:25
follow him at B boy the letter b boy
24:29
crumb so it's BB o y c r u m b and I'm
24:33
going to open up the phone lines b bs
24:36
I'm sorry BS um b b boy crumbs yeah BS
24:40
um and he's no BS I just had to do
24:43
that of course I want to go back to
24:46
something you said about the rappers
24:50
mhm this is your opinion you don't
24:53
obviously speak for the entire B boy
24:54
Comm B boy community on this part um
24:59
do you feel like rap
25:01
abandoned the beat boy culture because
25:04
early on when we look at KRS krs1 videos
25:08
different artists would incorporate Sway
25:10
and teag videos I I just going to tell
25:13
you that we we all would incorporate the
25:16
B Boys in our videos so to highlight the
25:20
culture and to preserve at the same time
25:22
do you feel like rap abandoned the B boy
25:24
culture I feel like mainstream rap okay
25:28
abandon the culture right cuz if we're
25:30
going you just said it we're going back
25:32
I'm from the 9s I I call it the Golden
25:34
Era some people may disagree but I think
25:37
that's when Hip Hop was at an all-time
25:38
high all together connected right you're
25:41
talking about those videos I mean just
25:43
shooting up the top I remember the bums
25:45
elevation they gave Crazy Legs his own
25:48
his own scene at the end that was now
25:51
you know King Tech and I produced that
25:52
uh there you go we were executive
25:54
producers and the way Crazy Legs caught
25:56
into that videos we flew them out to put
25:59
them it's all connected lord of the
26:01
underground Chief Rocka you know you had
26:03
ks1 step into the world with quickstep
26:05
and Rocka fella you know you had uh
26:08
swaying King Tech The Anthem you had all
26:11
these amazing MC's collaborated on them
26:13
but what's the first thing you see is B
26:15
boy Ivan and you see flow master opening
26:19
up the video giving shine to the B boys
26:21
first and you had the breaking all
26:22
throughout the video right so that's the
26:24
era I grew up in and uh that changed
26:28
about I want to say around 98 99 MH you
26:33
know I feel like the mainstream rap they
26:35
traded in the other elements for the
26:37
girls in bikinis the money the Mansions
26:41
you know the bling bling era you know
26:43
I'm I'm like MC is going to hate me now
26:45
right no that's number one no no they
26:48
traed in the I love MC and man trust me
26:52
I do but they they did at that time so
26:55
so this is when I I graduated high
26:57
school in
26:59
'97 um and then I moved to LA to get
27:03
into Hollywood start start making money
27:05
off my craft right and I'm thinking like
27:08
yeah I'm going to get in these hip-hop
27:09
videos with these these MC's I look up
27:12
to and been listening to you know for
27:14
years and years and um that era was over
27:18
you know they didn't want to [Â __Â ] with
27:19
us but you know who did the pop stars oh
27:23
they put us on a pedestal they were like
27:25
well come well come [Â __Â ] with us you
27:27
know they were like my first my first
27:29
job was with Christina Aguilera come on
27:31
over I choreographed along with flow
27:34
master Wicked and remind we all
27:35
choreographed that you know that was my
27:37
first job choreographing for Justin
27:40
Timberlake miss you know and then
27:42
miss Justin Timberlake song Oh no I for
27:46
for his tour I taught him how to break
27:48
you taught Justin tber Lake how to break
27:51
yeah wasn't a oneoff GRS really but
27:54
isn't that amazing like a pop star would
27:56
want to learn breaking before you know
27:58
some hip-hop artist you know and that
28:01
just a testament to JT and his hard work
28:03
and like he wants to evolve and keep
28:06
growing and even though he's not
28:08
considered hip-hop you know he he really
28:11
loved breaking enough to want to learn
28:13
it right so that's uh black ey peas come
28:17
they come from dance culture so black ey
28:19
peas is like I say they were The Last of
28:21
a Dying Breed and the the MC's that
28:24
actually danced right so when I came to
28:27
La we we clicked right away cuz we were
28:29
in the clubs ciphering together and
28:31
stuff and immediately they took me on
28:33
tour with them and I tour with them for
28:35
years and it wasn't like I was a
28:37
background dancer you know they have
28:39
like artists usually have like 10
28:42
dancers behind them and no it was just
28:44
me and when it was time for me to break
28:47
they moved off the stage and gave me the
28:49
whole stage you know and I just do my
28:51
solos and and rip it and um so they
28:54
always show me a lot of love and and
28:56
they always dance too so there was
28:58
certain hip-hop artists that that kept
29:01
the the culture alive and represented
29:03
the other elements but it was very very
29:06
rare right so the pop stars is what
29:09
really like the work we got Missy Elliot
29:12
black ey peas Justin Timberlake Usher
29:15
they all we got B boy crumbs here um and
29:18
he'll be a judge at this year's Olympics
29:20
when I listen to you talk about this
29:23
journey crumbs my bones are
29:26
sore cuz to break is the hardest it
29:29
really is it's the hardest thing on your
29:31
body that you can ever imagine I'm sure
29:33
ballerinas might contest this or people
29:36
who have to just use their bones every
29:38
single day but this is distorting the
29:41
body in ways that it's not supposed to
29:44
it's not supposed to move right how are
29:47
how are you physically cuz a lot of beat
29:49
boys are broken down now because of what
29:52
they took their body through well um
29:55
well look longevity I pride myself on
29:57
that 31 years nonstop battling and
30:00
competing the whole time like that's
30:04
unheard of it's pretty crazy you know if
30:06
you compare it to like some other sports
30:08
or let's say like the longest careers in
30:11
sport right you could take some of the
30:13
greats like like Tom Brady right he
30:15
played 22 seasons and retired LeBron
30:18
James is going into Season 22 still
30:21
going you know props to him I'm in
30:23
season 31 going on season 32 you know
30:26
like it's and breaking is super like you
30:29
said it's it's one of the hardest things
30:31
on the body so you know my body feels
30:35
pretty good like usually Breakers have
30:38
problems with their knees get a lot of
30:39
knee surgeries I've never had that knock
30:41
on wood but um my shoulders are pretty
30:44
much gone you know the the um it's all
30:47
bone on bone now the lab room is all
30:49
gone you know so there's 50% of my
30:52
Arsenal that I had to kind of set to the
30:54
side but luckily I'm creative and I can
30:56
always evolve and create new new ideas
30:59
new movements new flows and keep
31:01
changing that's why it keeps it fun for
31:02
me but um I am going to be trying stem
31:06
cell therapy I was going to ask you can
31:08
you like what what kind of me medicinal
31:11
ways could you kind of like repair
31:14
yourself regenerate and repair tissue
31:17
exactly stem cell therapy that's I hear
31:19
so many great things about it you know
31:21
I'm heading down to Tiana Mexico to the
31:23
CPI which is the cellular performance
31:25
Institute and they're partners with the
31:27
UFC they they handle all like the top
31:29
athletes and all I hear is good stories
31:31
from them and so I'm gonna um I'm gonna
31:35
let them shoot these shoulders up with
31:36
some stem cells and try to Benjamin
31:39
Button these shoulders back to 20 years
31:41
old you know what what's the place
31:42
called cellular performance Institute
31:44
CPI yeah Tiana Mexico and um you know
31:47
I'm really excited about that cuz uh I
31:49
got a lot more to do you know and and
31:52
the rest of my body feels great you know
31:53
it's just the shoulders so woo B boy
31:56
crumbs is here Tracy I'm let you get in
31:58
you got to understand um let me uh take
32:02
a few phone calls 888 742 3345 when does
32:06
the Olympic breaking competition
32:07
officially begin it is August 8th and
32:11
9th I believe um of course Paris France
32:15
2024 Olympics and it's it's the very
32:17
last thing in the Olympics okay so
32:19
they're saving it for the end oh my God
32:22
deal man yeah headlining the Olympics
32:25
that's over the 100 meter dash bro yeah
32:27
they love they love it oh you you want
32:29
to know real quick going back to the
32:31
support in America right like this
32:34
journey to get breaking in the Olympics
32:36
like other dances have been trying to
32:37
get in the Olympics for like 50 years
32:40
and have failed right M we got breaking
32:42
in the Junior Olympics in 2018 I want to
32:46
say and the ratings did higher than all
32:48
the other sports I believe that so so
32:52
that's why they put it into the Paris 22
32:54
24 Olympics so but the where the where
32:57
wherever the Olympics is held whoever is
33:00
in charge they have to accept that sport
33:03
we're not a sport we're a dance but you
33:05
know into the Olympics and per was like
33:08
we want breaking you know they put us in
33:10
real fast so don't we have the Olympics
33:13
coming into the states in I was just
33:15
going to get that 2028 in La okay so la
33:18
don't want it what do you mean they
33:20
denied it l denied what breaking are you
33:24
kidding La the city of La the mayor's
33:27
off who can't tell you exactly who but
33:29
you know the people in charge of the
33:30
Olympics in La they they don't want they
33:33
didn't choose breaking to come in see
33:35
the the thing is like when there's a new
33:38
sport um it has to be chosen twice in a
33:41
row for it to be in the Olympics forever
33:44
right so we had Paris accepted and we
33:46
thought we'd get accept in La no problem
33:49
birthplace of hip hop right again going
33:52
back to the support they're like nope
33:53
they put squash in before us what is
33:55
squash I have no idea I'm done put a
33:58
vegetable in the Olympics yep yo I know
34:02
what squash is um but after La I feel
34:05
it's going to get back on track
34:06
especially after it it's crazy that they
34:08
chose before it actually happened in
34:11
Paris because I think the numbers are
34:12
going to be crazy can they reverse it I
34:14
mean cuz that's first of all that's
34:16
embarrassing and that's shameful that
34:18
the country where this culture
34:19
originated from would deny
34:21
its deny its place in the Olympic Games
34:24
yeah being hopefully they can I I don't
34:27
know I don't have the answer to that but
34:29
I hope that you know the numbers go
34:31
through the roof and they rethink their
34:33
decision and make the right choice you
34:35
know B boy crumbs is here I'm going to
34:37
take a few calls real quick uh Cameron
34:39
is in New Mexico Cameron go ahead oh
34:43
[Â __Â ] oh I'm swe in the morning that's
34:46
right
34:47
ceron say hello to B boy crumbs what
34:50
would you like to say yo B boy CR what's
34:53
what's
34:53
good not much man just hyped up about
34:56
the Olympics boys in the Olympics yeah
34:59
finally oh man that's that's history man
35:02
it really is man but uh but I just want
35:04
to say like uh I do uh Capa too so you
35:08
know it's crazy how Capa and B boy are
35:11
similarity you know like music and all
35:14
that and uh there's a couple uh cistas
35:18
who traveled from Brazil all the way to
35:20
New York in the 70s and uh I was
35:23
wondering if like Papa was also like a
35:26
main influence for B boys breaking big
35:28
influence see the the beautiful thing
35:30
about breaking is we sample from
35:32
everywhere movements right and we just
35:35
turn it into a hip-hop B boy fashion
35:37
right so Brazil if you look at the
35:39
Brazilian B boys all the best they
35:41
started doing capoa so they mix that
35:43
Capa into their breaking style and uh
35:46
you see it so that's what separates uh
35:49
the Brazilians from everybody else
35:51
around the world in Breaking so they
35:53
they they bring that to the table
35:55
there's certain elements of of tradition
35:57
art forms from different countries that
36:00
those people um use in breaking and as
36:04
long as you do it in a breaking format
36:06
fashion and make it look fresh
36:08
everything's accepted Cameron you're a
36:10
citizen thank you brother all right I
36:12
saw when I went to see the bout of the
36:14
year I couldn't believe the Korean teams
36:16
mhm and that's what really blew me away
36:20
France in Korea too were blowing me away
36:24
and that do they interject a lot of
36:25
cultural movement into their breaking
36:27
too right yeah um every like I said
36:30
every country has their thing like in
36:32
France I noticed like most people are
36:34
really flexible in France right so they
36:37
have this crazy flexible style added to
36:39
their breaking a cats like Benji Benji
36:42
and you know I had a classic battle with
36:44
him in 2002 that was uh epic you could
36:47
look that up on YouTube b boy crumbs
36:48
versus Benji some people still say it's
36:50
the best uh one-on-one of all time um
36:54
because of the time too the crowds were
36:55
just crazy but yeah so flexible style
36:58
they represent that like we were just
36:59
talking about in Brazil like Capa they
37:01
mix that in and the Koreans um you know
37:05
they're smaller lighter uhhuh they could
37:08
be more Nimble they can do more air
37:09
moves and stuff like that right so you
37:13
know everybody got their advantages yeah
37:15
right uhhuh Benji uh who was who's an
37:18
Italian one of the Italian Legends
37:20
maritzio Yeah man so we you know we had
37:22
marissia on the show you did yeah okay
37:24
dope I couldn't believe it bro like I
37:28
couldn't believe he was sitting here on
37:29
this show cuz I was such a huge fan of
37:31
his well listen to this yeah I was
37:33
touring with him at 17 years old oh wow
37:36
so imagine how I felt you know like I
37:39
was on Jam On the Groove at 17 years old
37:43
you know fresh out of high school and
37:44
I'm I'm performing with Mr Wiggles
37:46
maritzio Ken Swift flow master like all
37:50
the greats and and you know that's how
37:52
that's how I started we have we have
37:55
flow master our brother flow master on
37:56
the show we always tried to support I'm
37:59
a boy too you know I'm not going hit the
38:02
Flor you
38:05
but all right my shoulders still work
38:07
crumbs let me get some more Junior's on
38:10
the line from Bay Area uh junior what up
38:13
brother hey Junior what up Jun hey
38:16
what's up what up what up uh yeah so I'm
38:18
from from San Jose um one of the one of
38:21
the break here a hell yeah 408 you
38:24
already know um so we got Playboy boy
38:27
Inc right y my cousin Lil whiz he's part
38:30
part of that crew and I tried all that
38:33
and my body ain't got it right I stick
38:35
to graph graffiti and [Â __Â ] and and is
38:38
there any any graffiti Crews part of
38:40
this Olympic team being you know like
38:42
doing like mural list and all that and
38:45
uh my SEC my other question is you know
38:47
everything that's going on in Palestine
38:49
there's a huge Palestinian breaking crew
38:51
out there too are they going to be in
38:53
this Olympic team I know there's a b
38:56
girl from Afghanistan that has been
38:58
added um I'm not sure about a
39:02
Palestinian B boy or be- girl yet um
39:06
yeah I'm not I I can't answer that
39:08
question hopefully you know um as far as
39:12
like graph and writers involved in the
39:14
Olympics there's going to be graph all
39:17
in the background all elements are going
39:18
to be connected some way somehow hip hop
39:21
will be represented to the fullest fire
39:23
and um speaking for you're from San Jose
39:25
I'm from the 209 Med
39:28
Central Valley of Cali and uh you know
39:30
we came up we came up at the the Raves
39:33
in the Bay Area and and and Frisco
39:36
freestyle sessions Oakland you know San
39:38
Jose we come to San Jose almost every
39:40
weekend to hit up Hollywood Junction I
39:42
don't know if you're old enough to
39:43
remember that a club in San Jose where
39:45
we we used to Cipher at every weekend
39:48
and we got we got deep ties to San Jose
39:50
going back from sidewalk Breakers in the
39:52
80s uh Playboy Inc you know um those are
39:56
my those those are my f you know Jrock
39:58
is from San Jose you know so yeah oh
40:00
yeah hell yeah n to Jrock and then uh no
40:03
well shout out to the uh Lord's crew
40:05
graffiti lorda that's from so that was a
40:09
great question you know why that's a
40:11
great question Junior and you're a
40:12
citizen too on it is I I often say this
40:15
is what I love about the culture it
40:17
supersedes everything it's the one
40:20
religion Keeps Us divided politics Keeps
40:23
Us divided all of these different thing
40:26
keeps us divided and
40:27
nobody loves what we see no I think
40:30
everybody is distraught about what's
40:32
happening in that region of the world
40:34
absolutely and I hope there are some
40:37
Palestinian dancers that are able to
40:39
make it because we as a culture
40:42
supersede global politics you can't
40:45
trick us and tell to telling us
40:47
something that ain't right is right you
40:49
know and something that's wrong is not
40:51
wrong but when you come through that
40:54
hip-hop cultural lens all of that gets
40:56
left at the doorway the youth uh will
41:00
prevail and The Architects will too
41:03
through hip hop I've seen hiph hop unite
41:06
people who cultures are enemies hip hop
41:10
is healing but they're in this room and
41:12
they're celebrating together because of
41:14
the culture right we don't even speak
41:17
the same language but when we dance we
41:19
speak the same language right we
41:21
communicate through through breaking we
41:23
communicate through writing through
41:24
mcing through all of it you know like it
41:27
it doesn't matter like I could be going
41:29
to any country and just see I'm in in my
41:32
Instagram hey I'm going to be in this
41:33
country I got people offering to stay at
41:35
their house and that I don't even know
41:37
they want to take care of me that that
41:38
show that love because they got that
41:40
love and respect for hip-hop and they do
41:42
what I do you know so it's immediate
41:44
connection so hip-hop is healing man all
41:46
around the world all around the world so
41:48
hopefully we'll see everybody
41:49
represented Tracy jump in this before I
41:51
hog the whole I mean listen you already
41:54
did that but anyway I got a couple more
41:56
questions so hurry up yeah CR wow crubs
41:59
I have a lot to ask you but limited on
42:00
time and obviously you know sway he's
42:03
such a major fan been of b boy culture
42:08
um one where did your name come from
42:11
because so many of those who are
42:14
involved in b boy have the most
42:16
interesting of names and two because
42:20
you're moving your body in such a unique
42:22
manner is there any like have you gotten
42:25
inspiration from like any type of
42:27
outlandish wild just one-of-a-kind
42:31
instances because sometimes I feel like
42:32
folks I wonder if they're even looking
42:34
at punctuation and attempting to make
42:36
like an exclamation point with their
42:38
body or if you look at animals and be
42:39
like hm I see the way that Critter is
42:41
moving let me see how I can put that
42:42
into my moves they
42:45
are that's it they are you know
42:47
inspiration comes from everything and uh
42:50
so with my name you know in hip-hop
42:52
you're given a name and my crew gave me
42:54
crumbs and basically it represents like
42:57
wherever I dance any Cipher stage I'm uh
43:00
I'm leaving pieces of of me behind for
43:02
others to pick up off spreading crumbs
43:04
dropping crumbs you know metaphor for
43:06
Styles um but yeah inspiration uh a lot
43:10
of my Inspirations come from like Jackie
43:12
Chan you know Bruce Lee you know I got
43:15
my head flips from Jackie Chan I was the
43:17
first to bring head flips into breaking
43:19
wow get out a round of applause toor
43:21
Jesus my first to bring head flips yeah
43:24
wow yeah but I got it from Jackie Chan
43:26
you know but I flipped and created my
43:28
own head flips as well um so things like
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that you know Bruce Lee's energy uh
43:35
everything he represented you know I I
43:37
feel that that passion so it's like I'm
43:40
not I'm not going to take his his
43:42
straight kicks and moves but I'm going
43:43
to take that energy and use it in a b
43:46
boy fashion you know absolutely uh
43:48
nature Everything You Name It We we gain
43:51
uh inspiration from everywhere and
43:52
everything artists what you said like
43:55
like trees you know it's everything it's
43:58
grass blowing in the wind certain
44:00
movements um even like looking at infant
44:03
babies how they crawl around and they
44:05
manipulate their bodies and contort in
44:08
crazy ways I'll just sit there and watch
44:09
them like oh that was fresh you know
44:11
like I get ideas you know and just flip
44:14
it so really really just everything you
44:16
just got to open your eyes and accept it
44:18
and look right yeah I I got to I think
44:21
this is fun because in in rap we always
44:24
ask who's your top five
44:27
so I'm going ask you that in b boy
44:29
culture from the OG G's to now your spe
44:33
your personal top five it's so hard well
44:36
okay name five people that you think are
44:38
excellent even though you can't cuz I
44:39
didn't give you I believe like if you're
44:41
doing like a Mount Rushmore thing yo
44:42
Mount Rushmore I think that Mount
44:44
Rushmore should be from every there
44:45
should be one from every era you know
44:48
cuz so many people played a big part in
44:50
in and making it happen but um if I want
44:54
to say like my top five that kind of
44:56
influ influence me yes you know
44:59
definitely Ken Swift Prince Ken Swift
45:01
get that man around a legend you know um
45:06
remind remind that's your crew yeah
45:08
that's my brother came up together and
45:10
and learned so much from him ridiculous
45:13
he's the goat man um huge um man I would
45:20
probably put storm storm up there as
45:22
well from Europe yeah from I'm glad you
45:24
did that to when breaking kind of died
45:26
out Europeans kind of kept doing it Sal
45:29
salute to them over there I don't call
45:31
them Europeans but you know but salute
45:34
to them over there from theed
45:37
that big up big up to storm um oh man um
45:43
so two more M so tough you know I I
45:47
would put Crazy Legs in there too cuz he
45:49
kept the brand and you know he's been
45:51
the brand he had been the brand he was
45:53
the poster boy for breaking for so long
45:56
you know had the skills to back it up MH
45:58
right um and uh
46:03
last I would go
46:05
with probably Ivan people boy Ivan yeah
46:08
so you got two sty in there two rock
46:11
steady and and a battle Squad in the
46:14
battle Squad but listen that's just
46:16
that's just that's your personal that
46:18
that does there's so many greats now I
46:20
want to give you the opportunity is
46:21
there something that you want to you
46:23
know what I want to ask you when you
46:24
when you look at um um
46:27
well let me let me I'm G have this let
46:30
me get this one caller JT and Cape K
46:32
real quick what's your question J
46:34
JT e w side what's happened to fellas
46:37
well hold on one second JT I hit the
46:38
wrong person
46:40
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wow
46:42
s just come on the radio banging like
46:45
that I like his energy whatever let me
46:47
take JT JT you sound like you
46:51
break my move was the windmill okay the
46:55
windmill yeah
46:57
yeah everybody Kurt Thomas who
46:59
influenced the windmill was it Kurt
47:01
Thomas Kurt Thomas was the flare the
47:02
flare okay the Thomas flare all right
47:05
the windmill um what do you think about
47:08
what do do do so are B boys utilizing
47:11
social media to really brand the art
47:15
form because Tik Tock for example could
47:18
be a great arm to help put more exposure
47:22
to the dance yeah no definitely the
47:24
youth is for sure okay I do do what I do
47:27
as well you know a lot of us um older
47:30
Breakers are are are using social media
47:33
to let people know what's up and uh yeah
47:36
definitely that's you got to do that in
47:37
this time you know if you don't post
47:39
something in a week people think you're
47:41
retired or some [Â __Â ] right that's true
47:43
that's just the times we're living in so
47:45
yeah it definitely helps but um I think
47:48
we still got a ways to go but it's in
47:50
the right headed in the right direction
47:52
for sure what is it something anything
47:54
you would like to say in closing right
47:56
now
47:58
um really just like the stuff that we've
48:00
been talking about you know is really
48:02
important to me I think that um there's
48:05
power in numbers and when I say power in
48:07
numbers I mean power in elements right
48:10
so we need to come back together you
48:13
know the writers the MC's the DJs The
48:16
Breakers the fashion the knowledge
48:20
everything we need to come back together
48:22
start putting breaking in all hip-hop
48:24
back in rap videos and uh just start
48:27
helping each other out you know we got
48:29
to unify when I was coming up the
48:32
principles in Hip Hop was peace love
48:34
unity and having fun so um I don't see
48:37
that represented much in in a lot of uh
48:40
things these days so let's get back to
48:43
that y'all peace love unity and having
48:45
fun real hip hop I love that man come on
48:47
man be boy crumbso let's go B boy Crown
48:53
true Monster Squad come on spread the
48:55
word man that we need to get breaking in
48:57
the Olympics when it comes to the United
48:59
States La petitions whatever we got to
49:02
do hip hop can help hip hop can help and
49:05
when they see the results of the metrics
49:08
and analytics that come from what
49:10
happens in Paris France they're going to
49:12
beg the B boys to come in and rightfully
49:15
show as you should Crumbs are really
49:17
proud of you a man thank you man I met
49:19
you guys young y'all were young back
49:21
y'all were young men back then yeah kids
49:24
man kidss bro kids coming up and we
49:26
still here we're still here 30 plus
49:28
years later and you still look the same
49:30
yeah hey you EA nothing okay okay I
49:34
thought you was eating air Burgers bro I
49:35
don't know how you do it man [Â __Â ]
49:36
breaking keeps you young to all the B
49:38
boys and be girls in the world keep
49:41
doing what you do what what what it
49:43
represents is um expression it does
49:47
represent Unity breaking has broughten
49:50
people together from all different walks
49:52
of life your tax bracket doesn't matter
49:54
the Hue of your skin doesn't matter
49:56
nobody tripping on all these man-made
49:58
constructs that keep us divided your
50:01
religion doesn't matter how you eat none
50:04
of that politics is a big one you know
50:06
cuz it bleeds into the culture now like
50:08
everybody want to talks politics and
50:10
stuff and we ain't about that yeah you
50:13
know yeah not about that at all and uh
50:15
sway I want to I want to give you your
50:17
flowers too and salute you man like from
50:20
uh can I can I share my earliest
50:22
memories of you in King Tech know before
50:25
we met okay okay [Â __Â ] uh about to cry in
50:28
Modesto California you know rolling with
50:30
my man ly G and his Rodeo uh down
50:33
McKenry Avenue bumping
50:36
camel right uh we had to pull over in
50:39
the closest parking lot and just turn
50:41
the radio up because hieroglyphics was
50:43
battling Hobo Junction and uh this is
50:47
epic man this is I don't know if you
50:49
guys know or heard that but you know on
50:52
the radio station and uh Safir and Cat
50:54
Safir man even own a microphone your
50:58
blood owns no bones I'm teaching a
51:00
special ed classes teaching cowards how
51:01
to wipe them asses bro 94 flows like I
51:06
still it's still in my brain you know
51:08
what I mean MH um dude from back then
51:12
till now and Beyond you've stayed on
51:15
your path You' stayed true to the game
51:17
represented you provided a platform for
51:20
real hip-hop artists to battle and to
51:24
test their skills and that's what hip
51:26
hop is about and I think that's what a
51:28
lot of people forget but you don't let
51:30
people forget yeah amen you keep
51:32
reminding them you know so salute to you
51:34
man thank you man SW King Tech man
51:36
that's my brother King Tech man is yeah
51:38
shout out king Tech is the purest man
51:41
that's ever come out of the culture to
51:42
me he
51:44
hasn't Tech is the same man and and that
51:47
Vision a lot of that Vision was um
51:49
inspired by him as well so um you know
51:52
in that part him coming from competition
51:56
I followed his lead you know and um and
51:59
so he and I have always been on the same
52:01
Accord people don't see us together as
52:03
much cuz we on the opposite Coast but we
52:05
live together in La that's my brother
52:08
and and you my little brother man I'm so
52:10
proud of you man can I get a ticket to
52:12
the Olympics let's go all right cool man
52:14
get
52:15
up [Â __Â ] you can't miss history you can't
52:17
miss history I'm going to shout out
52:19
freestyle sessions right yes yes
52:21
freestyle session and you know Shameless
52:24
little plug I'm just proud of this [Â __Â ]
52:26
you know like like I told you freestyle
52:27
session is like is like the Super Bowl
52:31
of breaking right the biggest here in
52:34
the states and I won it six times like
52:37
the most in history
52:39
wow I just want to shout myself out on
52:41
that cuz that is like that's like on
52:44
some Jordan [Â __Â ] right that is six times
52:47
you know six times that's how many rings
52:48
he got too by the way yep yep and so
52:51
yeah man and all the folks at free talk
52:53
about who throw freestyle cross one
52:55
shout out to cross trying to get you the
52:57
shout out cross shout out cross he
52:59
started that in in uh I believe 97 was
53:02
the first you know and kept a consistent
53:05
year after year Asia one used to do yeah
53:08
B boy Summit yep started with Asia 1 and
53:11
easy rock and uh B boy Summit 96 was
53:15
classic um that's when styman that's
53:17
when we called out Rock Steady to battle
53:19
in the cipher and we battled for like an
53:21
hour right and that that's classic you
53:24
can look at look that up on YouTube and
53:26
stuff like that and that um that also
53:29
was a huge moment in Breaking you know
53:31
it was like Ching of the Guard Changing
53:33
of the Guard The Changing of the Guard
53:34
you know and um so so many so many
53:37
classic moments and classic events
53:39
around the the US that deserve their
53:41
props and respect that are still going
53:44
you know this man is like what Magic
53:46
Johnson and Michael Jordan and all those
53:48
names are to the NBA or whatever sport
53:51
or whatever field that the top person
53:55
exists you have met him today the one
53:57
and only beat boy crumb Y and I want the
54:00
world to embrace this conversation and
54:02
we need all beat boys and be girls to
54:05
circulate this interview spread it out
54:08
repost post repost post and we're going
54:11
to support ourselves to make sure that
54:13
we're we're in always in a great
54:15
position all right absolutely and shout
54:17
out to all the breakers around the globe
54:19
we talked about so much you know there's
54:20
so many too many to mention you know but
54:23
there's so many crews that played
54:25
pivotal parts and bring it break to
54:26
where it is today so uh all you guys are
54:29
celebrated respect and peace and love to
54:32
to all of you guys any any of you want a
54:34
name all too many to name there's too
54:36
many okay I'm going to give you you
54:37
didn't me okay good point good point B
54:40
boy crumbs you can follow me at B boy
54:41
crumbs BB o y c r u MBS B boy crumbs on
54:45
YouTube that's like my career Video
54:46
Vault from when I started till today so
54:49
go check that stuff out and support
54:51
appreciate you guys yeah I need all my
54:53
all the citizens man really this is
54:55
really interesting I want you to when
54:56
you go on his Instagram you'll
54:58
understand like he is defying the laws
55:02
of physicality with his body so make
55:04
sure you go to B boy crumbs b b o y c r
55:08
u m
55:10
BS we started today would just begun
55:14
which is to me the most legendary um B
55:17
boy Classics the Jimmy Caster Bunch but
55:20
we're going to conclude today with the
55:22
Incredible Bongo Band a hipop
55:27
Beat Boy soundtrack
55:31
Legend Apache Apache man yo he's is
55:35
classic oh go you about to get busy I
55:38
mean there ain't no room in here I'm
55:39
about to break the table down get camera
55:42
man he about to do something okay you
55:44
hear it okay hold up hold up I can hear
55:47
can hear it
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