POSTED ON March 20th, 2010 BY Calvin
A point of clarification: this is meant to be satirical. I don’t smoke, nor do I condone it. I’m just pointing out some of the quirkier sides of b-boy culture. Enjoy, and feel free to leave your thoughts in the comments! -C
It’s not just at IBE, either. The universal way to a b-boy’s heart isn’t through his eardrums or his eyes — it’s through the end of a lit blunt.
Throw age, language, culture, religion, and all that out the window: if there’s weed smoke, b-boys will come to it like it’s the Bat-Signal. That YouTube celeb-b-boy whose outfit you bit? Puffing like a smokestack. That little kid who’s way too good at dancing for his age? It’s that green, man.
And you thought hip-hop and b-boying could unify people. There’s just something about dudes in a circle sharing movements they’ve created and dudes passing a blunt around that just go hand in hand.
Every once in a while, you’ll come across a b-boy who says ludicrous things like “I don’t smoke weed,” or “That’s bad for you.”
What he’s really trying to say is, “Hold on, wait until my mom/girlfriend/kid leaves,” or maybe “I’m so blazed right now that I forgot how to talk.”
What do you think? Does smoking up help or hurt your dance? Either way, let’s be responsible with our actions. We each play an important role in this culture, and the fewer b-boys and b-girls in jails, hospitals, and morgues, the better.
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I find it hard to stand while blazed…. or maybe it was just that medicinal shit I smoked…
Never did weed, never will. And I know plenty of bboys who don’t either.
Yo, weed is where i get my funk from, all you wack foos who’ve never tried weed, do the research! Its a plant!! a funky plant!! natures little way of saying hi:]
Weed death toll since the beginning of time – 2010, = 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
dayuumm thats the craziest death toll i’ve ever seen.
IBE’s DAAA SHIIIIT. SMOKE THAT BUHDDAAA
http://www.jackherer.com bet your mama dont know about this.
Oh and ill dance the night away on that shiet. Pass me a beer to. fack it
I don’t smoke, at all.
Well i’ll smoke you but thats on a whole other level haha.
But im not gonna tell you how to do your thing, but keep thats shit away from me and my future kids and its all love feel me?
All respect to you sir. Its a choice, and I liek a man with good conviction, but sometimes it falls short, cuz u wont know if ur ignorant about some things, which we all do. But Hey man all love
I smoke weed every day..
I SMOKE WEED EVERYDAY, sorry i didn;t sound enthusiastic enough on my other post.
I used to smoke all the time, blunts, bongs, hot knives, apples, u name it…but just recently I’ve discovered that when I smoke weed, it seems increase the pain of my injuries.
Last time I smoked, I’ve felt an immense muscle spasm in my shoulder,bicep and lat muscles. I mean,REALLY unbearable pain, like my shoulder wanted to pop out of its socket.I had to put my arm in a sling and go to physiotherapy.
It seems to be better now, but I feel like it’s a wake-up call from my body to decide what I love more: dancing or smoking.
I’m not against people who smoke and dance;
I have no problem with it. Some say it inspires them. I used to do it and would feel music on completely different level, and I also felt I could be more creative and original.
I think there are much worse drugs out there and it seems less harmful than alcohol…yet, I can’t say it’s harmless.Everyone’s body will have a different reaction to it and it might affect you physically in a way you might not like, so use it at your own discretion. That’s all I have to say.
Weed doesn’t kill people so its all good. Those who haven’t smoked yet just gotta take it from a neutral perspective – forget all the propaganda that’s been stuck in your head, try it out, if you like it cool, if you don’t then you have the right to an opinion.
Mango: Dang I do trust that you knew what u were doing. But, have u found out the other factors? I’m sure there must be other reasons because weed’s medicinal properties actually a muscle relaxant. The Canibinoid in weed, actually intereacts with the canibinoid’s in our blood cell and brain, and give’s better blood flow and therefore ur muscle should feel better not worse. Not saying its not the source of ur pain, but im curious.
i practice and battle high =]
Woohoo me to. We should get high together:]
I think “lol” likes weed ya’ll.
k well i apologize for saying people who dont smoke are wack. and yes i do very much like weed.
Hey guys, interesting point to start a discussion. I am all for free choice and don’t like that our government dictates the drugs we are allowed to consume – alcohol and cigarettes – which by the way kill more people that all the other drugs together – because they make money on them. Everybody has different drug receptors in their system and drugs work different for everybody. But you should be aware that your little article sounds like it’s uncool not to be smoking weed and I don’t think that’s true. I know lots of B-Boys and B-Girls that don’t smoke and I have always admired people that can go off and have a great time without drink or drugs.
Peace
Nika
Yo Nika,
Thanks for your input; you bring up some really valid points, and I have to agree with you.
This entire “Things B-Boys Like” series is meant to be, like its predecessors (http://stuffwhitepeoplelike.com/), satirical. Saying that every b-boy in the world smokes up — or does anything the same, for that matter — is such a vast generalization that my intent was for people to see that it’s a ridiculous belief.
I understand that this could’ve been clearer, and I’ve added a note at the top to clarify.
Thanks again! I hope you are doing well.
Peace,
Calvin
Yo, that’s dope post.
We should remember that Hip-hop is about having fun & respect, so we should respect another people’s way of having fun.
Peace & God Bless
Nika, this matter is actually something everyone needs to discuss. Prohibition did nothing but cause trouble. The was on drugs was a waste of money, and many people were sent to jail for smoking some doobies. All it caused was create more chance for the black market to grow, aka mexican cartels. Just like it did when the alcohol prohibition was in effect. Al pacino is most notoriously known for his bootlegging and killin ruthlessly for alcohol that could’ve been proccessed and safely sold in controlled ways. This is all Harry Anslinger’s mistake, and nobody wants to clean up the mess, and so propoganda’s will obviously appear. I have admired those who do not smoke also, and they were the ones who knew all the benefits weed could give them and still denied it. Which in all to them much respect for knowing all sides and then making a compromise.
Just a correction, Al Pacino is most notoriously known for being an awesome actor, not for being an alcohol bootlegger.
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Just like alcohol,and tobacco, I feel that smoking green is fine in moderation. Dont get me wrong I love to blaze and I feel it connects me to the music better but the second it starts to affect my training ill have to give it up.
lol my bad al capone.
Smoking good for dancing?? NEVER.
Lol actually if u asks the best dancers, they’ll say dancing+being fucked up= Hell of a good night.
I take the occasional hit but not when I’m jamming, just throws me off personally. But to each his own. What helps you get down might now work for others. As long as bboys and bgirls can still rock it’s all good.
I know for some people it really gives them breaking mojo but whenever I smoke, which is on occasion, all I want to do is sit back and watch and listen to things. Physical exertion is the last thing on my mind. Wish it would give me the breaking mojo though – would smoking more often make bodily movement more enticing??
smoking weed releases ur inner creativity..at least for me
i understand what you mean cuz ive tried it, but the truth is its the lazy way of finding your creativity, everyone has all the creativity in the world, you just have to learn how to find it and inspire it…to me smoking puts you in another dimention that is deff interesting but really why not just enjoy everything you enjoy with out it? yes you can enjoy things just as much AND MORE with out it, being in reality, having a clear head breathing fresh air, damn there is nothing like practicing or working out, drinking fresh water and breathing fresh air, health, a clear mind and a sharp concious…nothing better
HEY HEY HEY..
smoke weed everyday
HAHAH
@ Mango
you do know that weed makes you paranoid right? Just checking.
Paranoia – normal side effect
Physical pain – abnormal side effect
i know weed as the bboy steroid
jajaja so true, weed improves my dancin’, you just feel the beat WAY different, when Im painting is when I get malfunction in my system cause I get tired of standin XD and I step back to watch the piece for a min and my stoned behind chills there like for 10 mins jaja.
”B boy steroid” LOL all this comments are so damn fuckin funny, Im high right now!
pz to all smokers n non smokers!
Smoke a Jay hit play n watch the style come phat.
catch a breath CHECKPOOOOINT time for a joint pass the buddah sack!!!!
jajaajajaja…
It feels good at first but it messes up w/ your stamina
first of all, weed is a plant it just grow like that and if you should happen to set it on fire, there are some effects
hungry
happy
sleepy
i just dont see the harm..but i mean everybody is going to have something to say but instead of worrying about weed i think we should be worried about harsher crimes ..jus sayin
I’ve only been high once but I really regret not doin more stuff like dancin when I was. Next time….
YO! peace to my boys calvin and paul for writing such an interesting topic!
coming form a spiritual stand-point: for those of you out there that are spiritual or even religious too, you might be able to feel me on this one. i myself believe in a higher being, a being with a consciouness that created us and gave us the ability to make choices for ourselves and distinguish from right and wrong. so i look at weed like this; it is a plant, just a fucking plant. there are thousands of species of plants in our world but if you possess one of them in the united states of amerikkka, just one, then you get thrown in jail along with alot of other bullshit that comes along with that. alcohol (im talking about liquor and beer, i know that wine is natural) is processed and made by human hands and machines along with the additives of certain chemicals, just like cigarettes and chewing tobacco but nobody (nowadays at least) questions alcohol or tobacco! i look at it like this, when God, or whoever/whatever you believe in created the world he/she knew that we would be faced with troubling times, hardships, you know “life”. so then he/she decides to give us something to help ease the pains of reality and voila now we have marijuana!!! everyone is entitled to their own opinions on marijuana, but you cannot argue the fact that it is a gift from above to humankind. all im saying is, how can we question a gift from our creator? i mean, it comes from the earth and is totally organic… denying the joys of marijuana to the public to me thats like questioning any other of the creators gifts to us. who are we to say that the creator has made a mistake? i mean thats what we are saying by illegalizing something that actually physically helps some people who are in desperate need of it. yo there are cancer patients out there who get thrown in jail for smoking bud to help ease their pain. how fucked up is that? but thats life.
BUT i will say this, and end it on this note. marijuana will NEVER be legalized, so all of you people out there that dont do it, then you have nothing to worry about. because of 2 simple reasons, first of all YOU CANT TAX IT! you will never be able to tax weed, never. its just that simple. 2nd reason is this, the goverment would never ever let something like that be legalized b/c what if it were! imagine a country with lower crime rates – the police loose their jobs. imagine a country where people who suffer from diseases that could be treated by marijuana are walking around all healthy and stuff – doctors loose their jobs, and not to mention a huge surplus would arise in the country’s population. if you dont already know that the goverment controls the population then you need to wake up and quit being so naieve. our goverment is our biggest enemy and they are truly the evil ones in this world who are trying to seperate us and have us living like lab rats in their little fucking experiment, telling us what to do, what to eat, and how to think. in todays society the public needs marijuana, just to deal with how fucked up things are in the world today. think about that
Honestly bud doesn’t do shit. if you can’t dance high, then smoke when you dont dance.
Personally though, ill probably keep on smoking herb all day and the rest of the people deciding on whether to quit smoking or dancing can watch me on stage with my trophy and a blunt in my mouth