Wait, what?
(For all you international readers who can’t access Hulu, the first LXD episode features the narration of an old man, lots of slow motion b-boying at a high school prom, and Cloud wearing a scarf and being a bad guy. No, really.)
This one’s for my little sister. I don’t think I’d know who this kid was if she didn’t have his poster up in her bedroom.
Thanks to krisbarizo for sending it our way.
No, I’m not referring to the actual costumes, though there are b-boys who like to dance while dressed up as Power Rangers.
In case you don’t catch the reference, the show Power Rangers was about a group of multicultural high school kids who were given dinosaur powers by a giant floating head. There was also a robot who was prone to yelling, “Aye-yi-yi-yi-yi!”
Anyway, aside from the aforementioned dinosaurs, each member was also assigned a color. And, despite the fact that it was a total giveaway of their secret identities, each ranger would wear almost nothing but that color, even in everyday life.
Now, there’s nothing wrong with matching colors, but there’s also such a thing as understatement and subtlety.
Why are there more and more b-boys (myself included) who insist on dressing like we’ve been dipped in a tub of paint? Is it really that exciting to have everything — including your laces, belt, and underwear — match?
As we learned in our interview with him, there are few people on Cros1’s level when it comes to the business of b-boying.
In his latest venture, the man behind Freestyle Session and Armory is putting together the world’s first ever b-boy flash mob, choreographed by Flo Master. It’s set to go down in LA at the end of this month.
If you’re not familiar with the concept, hit the jump for a video of one of my personal favorite examples.
I could talk here about how much of an honor it is when interview subjects say we ask the right questions. Or I could comment on how social networking sites like this democratize the interview process by eliminating the middle man between “celebrities” and their fans.
But none of that means much when you’re hit in the face with some tough, hard-hitting questions like:
penis?
3 feet long
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 hesitated to post this clip, but the insanity of the logic behind it was just too much.
Poor guys who were chosen to illustrate how evil b-boying is. It seems like they thought they were contributing to some kind of thoughtful discussion of how you could relate b-boying to ancient cultures or spirituality.
What do you think? Does b-boying make you want to slaughter innocents?
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?
“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!
Image from UGHH
The first time I saw somebody doing headspins, I just assumed it was some kind of trick. I was just an elementary school kid watching some weird public service announcement on TV with a song pronouncing that “nobody wants to be a dumb-dumb,” but even then I felt smart enough to discern that the idea of people spinning on their heads was absurd.
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.
TheBboySpot.com has officially blown our minds. They’ve just put up a blog post which features a product that will stay in the minds of b-boys and b-girls for years to come: the b-boy condom.
They’re made by One Condoms and feature a b-boy on the package with the phrase “power move.”
I really don’t know what else to say, so visit TheBboySpot.com’s blog to read just how they came across this majestic product of pop culture.
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
I talk about Rawbzilla a lot on this site, but it’s hard not to when his moves in a clip like this are still as relevant now as they were a decade ago.
In this recent interview with MikeyIce, the self-proclaimed “Lizard King” spends a lot of time talking about his inspirations and his thoughts on foundation, judging and biting. The audio and video quality aren’t the best, but depending on your level of patience and your willingness to sit and learn, this interview has the potential to be a game-changer.
Take, for instance, Rawbzilla’s stories about finding inspiration from carousels, cockroaches, Godzilla movies, the Grinch, and even tow trucks — apparently, after driving past a tow truck lift a car, he pulled over and immediately came up with a move on the concrete. “That’s zoning out and pretending you’re something you’re not,” he says.
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