Although there seems to be some debate about it, I thought that the LXD’s performance at the Oscars was pretty fun, especially the part set to the UP theme music.
Of course that could have been due to me shouting out the name of every dancer I recognized under the assumption that it made me look cooler.
What did you think?
The thing about talking shit… is that it’s hilarious.
What pisses you guys off in the b-boy scene right now?
We all hear it time and time again: b-boying started as a way for rival gangs to settle disagreements without violence. It’s a nice little idea. Even OG’s like KRS-One reference it in the video above with lyrics like, “We started breakin’ so we could stop fightin’.”
But something about it always seemed a little idealistic and borderline-sugarcoated to me. B-boying is now a worldwide phenomenon, yet scuffles and fights are still no rare occurrences at jams, battles and cyphers across the globe. How the hell, then, would have a group of pissed off, disenfranchised teenage minorities from the slums been able to stop a street fight long enough to settle through dance?
We can find the answer on Mr. Wiggles’s Misconseptions page:
HELL NAAAAA!!! SH#T WE GOT INTO MORE FIGHTS FROM BREAKING THAN ANYTHING. THAT WAS A MEDIA HYPE STORY THAT WE AS YOUNG BBOYS( WHO NEW THE TRUTH ) EVEN FELL FOR. DEFINITELY FAR FROM THE TRUTH
I’m pretty excited for this to come out. I don’t have a lot of knowledge about European b-boy history, so I’m glad that someone is out there trying to document it. Even if it is just one crew at a time.
I spend most of my days in front of a computer at work, and occasionally (all the time) I get to fool around and watch YouTube or browse some forums. Some stuff catches my attention more than others, so I figured why not share those things here. The following are some of the most interesting things I’ve come across this week.
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Powerful Pexster posted a pretty long rant on the Bboyworld.com forums calling for Alien Ness to be banned. The post was complete with different sized text and a video, and prompted some really interesting responses from both Alien Ness and Erwin.
The National Museum of Hip-Hop is a proposed museum that would exist to “feature and commemorate the cultural achievements of hip-hop, as well as its artists from around New York, the Nation and the World.” It’s an idea that is way overdue.
As one would hope, they’ve included each of the traditional four elements in hip-hop, each with its own section in the museum space. They are asking for suggestions and critiques on their current plan, and who better than the readers of MTAS to provide some wisdom?
I have a hunch that this is how b-boys look to some people.
Just substitute “Twistsonic Bust” at 18 seconds with the name of any powermove.
Okay, so there’s a total of maybe five seconds of actual b-boying in this. But what’s most striking to me is how seamlessly the dancing fits in with the rest of the video despite the fact that it’s not a conventional dance or hip-hop track.
In an age where most music videos use a quick powermove or freeze here or there as quick gimmicky eye candy, director Keith Schofield floods this video with every possible absurdity possible. And it works — or, at least, I think it does. Of course, it doesn’t hurt that it also features Charlotte Gainsbourg and Beck, two of the coolest people ever. What do you think?
“I don’t care what song you’re breakin’ to. But when you’re breaking, subconsciously you’re singing ‘Just Begun’ in your head.” – Alien Ness (Foundation)
I remember being in NYC a few years ago and hearing about a session somewhere in Harlem. I got directions from some girl whose name I can’t remember (thank you random NYC b-girl!) and I printed out directions from Google Maps just in case.
“Pop pop blam blam! People know who I am!”
With a soundtrack straight from Kickin It Old School and some end graphics that are ripped off from Planet B-Boy, B-Boy Beats is sure to be one of the shittiest things you’ll ever see TOTALLY AWESOME!
Sometimes the simplest things are all it takes to turn a bad day/week/month to a good one. I’ve been having a pretty hardcore string of bad luck lately, so this video came to me at just the right time.
Juste Debout is in the middle of a worldwide tour, and this video comes from its first stop in Japan. Although there is plenty of dancing, there isn’t any b-boying. But just bear with me. The sequence between two and three minutes in has to be one of the most heartwarming things I’ve seen in a long time in a dance video. If you’re a fan of kids, dancing, and horseplay, then you’ll be smiling like an idiot like I was.
The rest of the video is topnotch as well, but that one-minute stretch helped me end this week with a smile on my face.
In case you didn’t know, zombies are so in right now (don’t believe me?). Another thing that’s totally hot right now: b-boys.
So that would make these photo manipulations by Tammy Tso of Eye Of The Cypher some of the most hip-happening things in the world.
At least it seems like every b-boy ever. Elizabeth Dell, producer of B-Girl, talked about this audition in our interview with her, her sister, and Lady Jules last year (see the 3:30 mark in the clip below), calling it “one of my top 10 days in my whole life.”
B-boys featured in this clip include Incredible Josh, Legacy, Spee-D, Flea, Venum, Luigi, K-Mel, Remedy, Do Knock, and Rainen. And probably some others I missed.
If you’re not familiar with Heelys, the first two definitions from Urban Dictionary do a pretty good job of covering the spectrum of possible definitions:
1. Sport shoes that have wheels housed in the heel that allow you to walk, run, and roll at any given moment.
I enjoy riding Heelys.
2. Pathetic attempt at an extreme sport, only little kids buy them to look cool to their friends, and for kids who gave up every extreme sport they tried.
If your seen in a skatepark with heelys chances are you’ll be beaten the shit out of
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