I was born in 1971. My teenage years were full of this in L.A. I was 13, when this song came out. 80s were my teen years, 90s my young adult days. I'm so blessed to have lived in 2 great decades!!! 👍
Im 53, a grandfather of 6, and former "B-BOY" from Harlem. Original member of The Apache Kings, Zulu Nation (Ch.12/13) and I can still get down. Electric Boogie and all. I might not do well with head spins, but I can hold my own. I can smell the cardboard or linoleum as we lay down our craft. Each and everyone of us had a special move that we coveted. I remember going to different hoods to battle, the parties in the park at night. Growing up in the 80's was a very special time and Im proud to have been a part of it. I am a hip Hop Pioneer as well.
Those who never got to experience the 80's will NEVER understand how amazing it was. Life was a blast and the music...will NEVER be duplicated! The dancing, the music, the girls...I could go on for hours. I miss the 80's.
I'm 50, and I'm telling you now...the 80's is at THE top of the food chain when it comes to music, dancing and talent. No decade will ever come close to the 80's, NEVER!
50’s best for overall life conditions 70’s best environment drugs 80’s best for music / intro to videos and games 90’s hated the 90’s music lol.. grunge :/ Now EDM when that came on the scene and the ecstasy was pure back in the mid 90’s that was a fun time too
Born in 72 and every time I hear this song it makes me want to start popping and locking cuz I get so hyped up but, I can not dance to save my life 😅 The 80's were the best and I'm so glad I was able to experience this music firsthand ❤❤
My husband Is 55 year old an was also a break dancer in 84' an still loves his music sadly to say he's fighting for his life right now in the hospital an we all praying for you baby I love you very much!!!😢
Well in Miami there was lots of violence it was the scarface drug lord miami vice days and it was real and still exists today to a slightly different extent. I should know I was born and raised in Miami.
I’m 57 and cannot express how much Millennials and Gen-Z missed musically in the 70s and 80s. It’s a shame they learn about this music because of the madness of sampling by today’s “artists”.
@@ttllymxico Uuuh, I was there. The first rap HIT (not first rap song) by the Sugar Hill Gang in 1979 used Chic’s “Good Times” as its music. Only a few rappers sampled. Now, most rappers and some pop acts sample pop music from the 60s, 70s, 80s, and 90s. Hell, even this new Asian pop singer gets his entire beat from Rene’ and Angela (early 80s). It’s a compliment…I just hope they properly credit the writers/owners of the original music.
When the dancefloor cleared and a circle formed...you knew it was about to go down. I was born in '73 so most of my youth was in the 80's...an absolute blessing indeed.
'73 Team...my youth was in the 80's too, i discovered Hip Hop with this TV show in France in 1984, the first in the world. th-cam.com/video/snUL2IBlB88/w-d-xo.html with Boogaloo shrimp and Shabba doo.
All of them on the left of the floor sucked, the ones with the stripes on there pants were far better, I never broke or popped in 85 cuase I felt I would get hurt for baseball but in the early 80s everyone around me was popping or breaking.
I moved from a small town in Illinois to Denver in 84’ at the age of 8 and was baptized into a whole new world. I feel in love with breakin, hip hop, cardboard and ghetto blasters. I ate and breathed the culture for the next 7 years. Some of the best moments of my life. God Bless the OGz that did it first.
So who’s here April 23, 2024? Beat Street and Breakin’ was the movies. I was 15 when I started to breakdance. Me and the crew was popular among the teens especially the gurls. Those was some great times out there with your boom box and a roll of linoleum mat. Miss those dayz. 1983-1985. I can still poplock but no more breaking. Leave that stuff to the young ones😅😊❤❤❤
born in '71 and i revisit this vid several times a year. Everythig you siad, except we had to use cardboard...the only access to linoleum was installed on the kitchen floor lol.
Born and raised in New York 1973-this was my whole childhood. I am still a breaker. B-boy for like. Rock steady y’all. I still rock fat laces on all my kicks..
I was a teen when this was released and breaking was trending. Our high school would open the gym during lunch to give us a safe place to dance. The stands were usually full of kids watching individual and teams challenge each other. Funny how back then beefs were usually resolved on the dance floor, unlike today.
@@james3440 naw fool y’all got no talent or originality y’all shit old after first month of play lmfao I still listen to this and I was born in 89 😂 yall mf don’t be talking bout nothing nobody ain’t did already y’all good but plain like a yellow bag of lays potatoe chips 😂 y’all gotta get some ass shakers to make it sell
Yes. That 808 will make your wooofers crumble! This music+ dance is ART...for 84 a new ART...THE BIRTH OF URBAN HIP HOP...a true AMERICAN ART LIKE JAZZ....WE INVENTED IT...US AMERICANS
I am so proud to have come of age in the 80's. We danced All night, guys took care for girls without looking for anything else but a good time on the dancefloor. So many good memories
This 54 yr old can pop, lock and drop. Being double jointed in all of the joints and with arthritis helps them to keep the flex ability. But my knees would lock and then I drop. 😂😂😂 learned from the best went to Compton and my friend had a block party. Her Auntie had invited The Clown. Had a lot of fun and learned about dance wars. Also, everyone competed for dance offs and more.
I’m 51 and I always thought he was a cutie. He was my boyfriend in my head.😆 Didn’t know that he and Lela Rochon were married once upon a time. She was always so pretty to me.
Oh man this neally brings me to tears, Born in 79 so i was only a youngen through the 80s but my older brother was a hardcore breakdancer, He used to take his boombox and a dance matt down the high street and he'd gather a crowd around and everyone would be dancing, He was a popper and locker, This was in the uk but he was quite well known, We dont even talk about this era anymore as we both miss it so much its to painful to even talk about.
@@williamjohnson1858 If I could get the music in my head I might get close. Finish this one I know you got it. “Now what you hear is not a test I’m rappn to the beat … Me the groove and my friends are gonna try to move your feet … Ya see I am wonder Mike and I’d like to say…….. ✌️my friend (I was in 7th grade when this song changed everything)
Created in 73, God gave me the opportunity to experience the 70s. Thank you for giving me the opportunity to experience thus time. Love it. Music when it meant something. Crazy stuff this decade.🤔💯👍💯👍
I'm 24 and have always felt like I was born in wrong generation. I love EVERYTHING about the 80s, so simple, no cell phones, nice cars, badass music, seemed like a good time. What I would do to be reborn in the 70s to experience the 80s lol
@Zach Zee Actually cellphones were invented back in the eighties. They were much bigger back then and their were literally only a few broadcast towers back then. But they were so expensive at the time only the rich could afford them.
My boys had so much fun and I miss these years! Nintendo, boom boxes, telephones attached to the wall! Roller skating, picnicking, beach trips, camping…..it’s all gone now. Living in a tiny shed is the best I can do now!
Still today’s date, I’m on my late 50’s my body is shaking by listening to this song 🕺 My teenage hood has been the best and I was one of the great dancer 🕺 in my time 🕺🕺🕺
The 80,s absolutely greatest decade EVER for movies, toys, video games, music,TV shows ,fashion,sport cars, celebrities, real hiphop rap,fast food, WWF sports and a whole lot More.... NEVER to be replicated 🇺🇲🇵🇷
Remember Tonka had real heavy duty trucks made from metal not plastic to save money? Radio Flyer Wagon was real and not plastic? Love the 80's never forget!!! 80's baby I am born in 84
I’m 53 now, growing in the 80’s great music. Love the Double Dutch Bus is one of my favorites. My older brother taught me how to robot and the backward kick worm. I can still do the robot but not the kick worm. Taught myself how to pop n lock (being double jointed help). Learned how to pop my hips to the sides lift and right.
My dad had this tape and i would beg him to play it every time we went to town in his old Ford truck. I'm only 34 now but I miss the simple years so much 😊❤😊
Started 1980 as a ten year old & was fortunate to be a teen during the 80’s. No cell phones…no home computers. Just mtv & lots of great music & dance. People got along & you didn’t have to worry about being woke or politically correct. No unisex bathrooms or people identifying themselves by using pronouns. You were a guy or a girl & if you were gay, no problem. The music of that time brought all kinds of people together.
I'm 58 and this song still gets me dancing 🕺.. Nothing is like the 80's. Especially when it comes to dance. Those were the days we played together instead of this virual fake world we live in today.
Oh my god, this immediately gave me flashbacks of Saturday night at the skating rink in the 80's. 50¢ nachos, 25¢ Pepsi, Dig-Dug, and the smell of used rental skates. God I wish it was the 80's still.
@@billsimms2511 I don't think so. My town used to have two rinks, but both have been closed for decades. Plus, parents today would never drop their kids off anywhere by themselves. The internet has made people afraid of the world. I'm always hearing about some nosey neighbor calling the police because some kids were playing unsupervised in their own front yard or police arresting the parent because their 12 year old walked home from school alone. The 80's were awesome for a lot of reason. It must suck to be a kid these days. I know being an adult isn't a lot of fun.
This song changed my life. I just switched schools in grade 9. Last year of junior high. I had had some problems with depression and I had started drinking in grade 6. I was nervous. My first day. Came out of the bathroom and was walking towards the common area where all the kids were waiting and I could hear a beat. It was loud. I looked and it was a girl I knew from my previous school holding a ghetto blaster and she was blasting this song. I had never heard anything like it before. I walked up to her and said hello. We were inseparable that day forward. Hip hop gave me something to look forward to. Going to break dancing competitions and really getting into the whole scene. My life completely changed after that. The 80’s were so fun I can’t even put it into words to describe it properly. It was so new... the music etc. It was an exciting time to be a teenager. I will forever be grateful and this song was the start of all of it
@@roberttruesdell6151 damn, sheltered much... 😂😂😂 (Take it as a compliment, I was exposed to drugs and alcohol ever since I could remember, poverty sucks...)
I am a Chicagoan from Little Village. Break dancing was a unification of youth back in the 1980's. Kids who danced on the street and competed. We did'nt kill each other we "Battled each other " meaning we competed. I am in my mid 50's and i wish i was a kid again back in the 80's
Miss these days so much.. Almost all the poeple i knew back then are dead, or moved and lost contact, or in prison.. Time goes by fast when you're young and having fun. Not realizing.. Time is counting away and no one thinks about it. Who ever is still alive, through this era.. i wish your all the best, until our final days.. Blessing!.
My dad was born in 1966. He taught my brothers and I how to break dance and showed us all the good rap songs from the 80s, the old school tricks on the bikes, and the old school movies like breakin’, beat street, you got served, etc.. Our dad passed in January 20, 2024. It’s really cool to carry on the stuff he taught us and continue to do it knowing he used to do it as a kid
I have a Dove chocolate wrapper that says; " Solve arguments with a dance off." This used to hang on the door frame of my office. Many of my students born in the late 90's didn't understand the quote.
We all no that would be so true. Nothing could compare to back in our day.. They don't even seem to play our kind of music in regular radio anymore so we all can just picture the big break now... NOTHING AS IT WAS FOR US IN OUR DAYS. A FLIPPEN BLAST..🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺
Grew up in SoCal in the Inland Empire...Banning, Ca....we used to go off at the dance parties when ever this and other jams came on...Kraftwerk, Bambataa, Cybotron and others.....the 80's where lit!!! Class of '87 Banning Broncos!
@@vh9network Exactly, my graduation year of '88 when they came out. I thought that album was crazy. It really did change for the worse right after. Sad. When is it going to turn around? Peace and love, peace and love.
Thats a false assertion and a romentisation of the times of the 70-80's in the US There where plenty of deadly violence and beefs - less so in the Hip Hop culture though since it was made up by youngsters that used their time dancing and going to clubs if they got the access.
This tune gives me the chills! Takes me back to the 80's! We weren't stuck to our phones we were out there jamining and taking on other crews. Making memories that will last years!
and now you are the grandpas talking shit about the teenagers of today. Bet you were bitching about it when your generations old people told you your breaking shit was nonsense and that the 1950s were the real deal. How the fuck does every generation go through the same cycle of "our generation was the best"? Just enjoy the time you had and accept that you know nothing about the culture of today's kids you grumpy old man
very innovative rhythm track. I heard it often when it first hit mid 80's ? years later I played my drums along with it. I'm always picking up new little things in the mix. so so so. dope!
@Mark Riley at least we saw it through raw first hand experience If we saw anything more credited to the cause and revolutionary vibe music brings in on every level the meaning of any promise of a coming day and the dreams that make it to the top of the mountain stand with the ones that hoped for the pinnacle, the vibe of truth and the beat goes on eternal, infinite essence there wont ever be anything like we witnessed in the power that music always has & always will be. We saw a miracle in its forming and I testify to that as irreplaceable and sacred. We never forget where we come from Streets of Fire & always down for the cause!
@@uncletony3025 That is so cool. I grew up in NYC and remember back in the 80's watching them on the street corners breaking on cardboard boxes. Those were the good old days. By the way I love your TH-cam name. I had an Uncle Tony. God I miss him so much 😢
@@FuturesPast1 here in California they battled at the High School Auditorium. A lot of them would practice at the parks, they would move the park seat and lay cardboards down. The best dancer I ever saw wore a mask and we never saw his face, but he was built like a gymnast. He’d fly in the air land and do the splits, do a jumping windmill, head spin for days, all kinds of crazy moves. We had tapes of everything but lost it all in a house fire.
Man o man no cellphones no social media when people actually talk to each other face to face brake dancing was 🔥 lit back then this music actually made you wanna dance 🪩 I miss the 80s-90s😊
I’m 51 and remember dancing to this at school dances and house parties. The 80s were the absolutely best decade! I will always dance when I hear this song. My knees may not, but dammit I will!😂
1984. house party. brought my walkman. went for a stroll outside and put on the local dance station. this song came on. 16 years old and my body felt every note and beat. love this song to this day. you do the math.
This is my EARLIEST MEMORY OF MUSIC. Got Off the subway with my Grandma and I saw all these boys with a boom box and a cardboard platform they was dancing on. I was like 5 or 6. We were going shopping. I remember she brought me a Star Wars figure that day. I still remember the smell of the Woolworths. Hotdogs and hot pretzels!
Omggggg!!!! Dude... I've lived out the same experience on Jamaica Ave near where the now out business "Mays" used to be!!! Me, my lil sister, my Mom and my Aunt Ivy was getting some pizza from the lil hole in the wall joint next door!!!!😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆
Omg! Woolworth 's. My grandmother would buy a bag of hot salted peanuts that sat under a heated lamp. Sometimes we'd have lunch there. It was on Jamaica Ave. in New York. I was so little. I wanna go back too.😔
Im very grateful that i was a teenager in that era because the music was so Amazing,the dancing was unlike anyone ever saw before plus there will never be a generation like mine again. A true music culture for sure😊
I was 19 in 84 and this song was in the dance clubs I remember watching people gather on the dance floor to watch breakdancers, how in the hell did I get old, this feels like yesterday , it’s funny how a Song can take you back in time so quickly! Damn I loved the 80’s wish I could go back be young , pretty, petite, and wear all those outfits from that decade. If it was possible to go back for a least one night as we used to say it would be totally awesome!
Awwww 80s good times, we were so blessed, living those beautiful moments, so clean, innocent good times, I'm 58, still enjoying those 80s song, will never die 😊
Puerto Ricans started breakdancing Then came the Culture Vultures smh To add insult to injury they don't let the Puerto Ricans or any hispanics in tje Rapp hip hop industry....... Facts 🤦♂️
I’m a 55 year old female and I listen to this song regularly on Spotify. I remember in high school in the 80’s guys were break dancing at parties and it was mesmerizing.
@@enriquecortes1948 no internet back then. Movie took place in the Bronx where it started. But L.A. was popin back then too sound was a little different but great i was in Boston mass back then.
@@richlong4119 yes, that's what I meant, . . .WHERE WERE YOU THEN, I seen the movie and know it's from new york, break dancing, (back then), was called New York Style, in Los Angeles that is. Good times. Take Care bro.
I remember first hearing this at 7 years old on some radio station from out of Philly. I recorded it on a cassette and I ended up playing that thing out. Definitely left an impression on me.
Who’s still jamming out to this song in 2024?
Still rocking it march 2024
Yessir
You already know 💪
all day right now march 19 2024
Right here jamming around and upside down
I was born in 1971. My teenage years were full of this in L.A. I was 13, when this song came out. 80s were my teen years, 90s my young adult days. I'm so blessed to have lived in 2 great decades!!! 👍
Born in 69 (in NY) .. right there with you dude ... definitely the 2 best decades to witness as a young person.
Yeah you were born and raised in the best 3 decades..
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Hi Kevin! Right witcha darlin!
Same here, born in 71, grew up in AZ seeing all this!
If you didn’t grow up with this music, I’m sorry.
Brooklyn here saw it all
Good music is timeless. Any future youth can grow up to it. Wake up people.
Born in 97 & my dad still plays all these old school jams, I love them
OMG what I had all kinds of boom boxes back in the day that box I had in Rehoboth Delaware and was kicking it❤❤❤❤
For real
I'm 54yrs old, and these were the greatest Decade of 80s Music
I'm 54 too born 1969- had the boom box on my shoulder walk in down my street❗❗
80's music era was damn good!!!!
i thought the 60s was greatest decade of 80s music
Im 53, a grandfather of 6, and former "B-BOY" from Harlem. Original member of The Apache Kings, Zulu Nation (Ch.12/13)
and I can still get down. Electric Boogie and all. I might not do well with head spins, but I can hold my own. I can smell the cardboard or linoleum as we lay down our craft. Each and everyone of us had a special move that we coveted. I remember going to different hoods to battle, the parties in the park at night. Growing up in the 80's was a very special time and Im proud to have been a part of it. I am a hip Hop Pioneer as well.
Salute to you King. For your contributions to the culture. Respect
Respect sir.
Respect 🙏
Salutteee
yeah right keep on smoking crack lmao
Those who never got to experience the 80's will NEVER understand how amazing it was. Life was a blast and the music...will NEVER be duplicated! The dancing, the music, the girls...I could go on for hours. I miss the 80's.
So true. Those were the days.
Truth bro.. truth
I feel sorry for my Kids :( you do realise the younger generations consider us dinosaurs :(
Mc max thier jealous on the inside, Were never Dinosaurs unless you portray yourself as one
Best decade of my life.
Nobody knows the difference between 2000-2024, but man 1970-1999 are so impactful in terms culture and music
more like 1964 - 1997
Absolutely
Yes
@@kellys.4356 why?
AMEN
I was born in 1964 and I still say this is 🔥🔥🔥 This is real Rap Music
'67 here and it's what I first considered Rap music
I'm 50, and I'm telling you now...the 80's is at THE top of the food chain when it comes to music, dancing and talent. No decade will ever come close to the 80's, NEVER!
The only decade worse than the 80s was the 2010s. 2020s are off to a pretty awful start as well.
the 90's was good also
Sorry friend, the 80s were damn good, but the 70s beats it hands down, i know, i was there :).
50’s best for overall life conditions
70’s best environment drugs
80’s best for music / intro to videos and games
90’s hated the 90’s music lol.. grunge :/
Now EDM when that came on the scene and the ecstasy was pure back in the mid 90’s that was a fun time too
It is also the decade that get sampled/cloned/copied on so many levels whether it be music or other things
The first break Dancer is my Father in red Ramon! I’m so proud of him. Still have some moves on his 53 year old. 😂❤️
That's so cool!
My Father heard that loud in his VW Käfer:))))))
wowwwww cool story
First breaker is actually Anthony Lopez aka Powerful Pexster of the NYC breakers.
I assume NYC?
Born in 72 and every time I hear this song it makes me want to start popping and locking cuz I get so hyped up but, I can not dance to save my life 😅 The 80's were the best and I'm so glad I was able to experience this music firsthand ❤❤
That's the gospel
Красава бро!
Omg. I’m an 80s baby and when I tell y’all it was live back then, it was ALL THE WAY LIVE.
My husband Is 55 year old an was also a break dancer in 84' an still loves his music sadly to say he's fighting for his life right now in the hospital an we all praying for you baby I love you very much!!!😢
Prayers for you both
My prayers to you
Prayers
God bless you guys I'm going to pray for you guys we just to believe in God and everything going to be alright like Bob Marley say
Sending positive vibes your way
No cussin, no guns, no violence. Just sound and dance. That was the 80's. Glad I got to experience it.
Lmao. Dumbest thing I've ever read.
Well in Miami there was lots of violence it was the scarface drug lord miami vice days and it was real and still exists today to a slightly different extent. I should know I was born and raised in Miami.
Similar to Michael Jackson.
If you had a problem with somebody you getting their face and dance it off
That’s how you know it was a movie. There was plenty of all that, it just wasn’t sensationalized for tv and politics.
I'm 58 and still my favorite song. Plus I still break dance when I can
Good for you !
👏🏻🤣🔥🔥👌🏻
The 70s and 80s best year's of life.
2022 and I'm still hypnotized by the beat
Yup
@brewzkee batida Boa de mais
Batidao
😎⚡🙏⚡
Where tf did Hip Hop go after this era smh. I was raised in this era with songs like this.
In 100 years, this song will still be ahead of its time.
Word!
I learned more about physics learning to dance than I ever learned in school.
Yeh
It should be blasted into outer space for all of humanities existence.
@alphaomega8373 this would make a better representation of humanity than most higher ups recognize
I’m 57 and cannot express how much Millennials and Gen-Z missed musically in the 70s and 80s. It’s a shame they learn about this music because of the madness of sampling by today’s “artists”.
uh 80s was already sampling
@@ttllymxico Uuuh, I was there. The first rap HIT (not first rap song) by the Sugar Hill Gang in 1979 used Chic’s “Good Times” as its music. Only a few rappers sampled. Now, most rappers and some pop acts sample pop music from the 60s, 70s, 80s, and 90s. Hell, even this new Asian pop singer gets his entire beat from Rene’ and Angela (early 80s). It’s a compliment…I just hope they properly credit the writers/owners of the original music.
You're giving yourselves too much credit. Today's music is vastly superior, and it is accessible by everyone.
@@CheezburgerBrown LoL. Now literally imitates everything.
I couldn’t have said it any better myself- Amen to that
I was born 1950. Still jamming on it.
You're fuckin old
Boy if I could turn back the hands of time I would stop at the 80s an stay there
same here... 80s THE BEST.
WORD
Love that
Every kid in high school in '84 wanted to be cool --- it was a great time to be a kid and enjoying all that music
Good time nothing like the 80s I represent NYC ❤
When the dancefloor cleared and a circle formed...you knew it was about to go down.
I was born in '73 so most of my youth was in the 80's...an absolute blessing indeed.
'73 Team...my youth was in the 80's too, i discovered Hip Hop with this TV show in France in 1984, the first in the world.
th-cam.com/video/snUL2IBlB88/w-d-xo.html with Boogaloo shrimp and Shabba doo.
Omg…I was born in 1973 also and i remember soul train dancers
73' as well! Am more than blessed to have witnessed all of the good and bad. Was a military brat too!
All of them on the left of the floor sucked, the ones with the stripes on there pants were far better,
I never broke or popped in 85 cuase I felt I would get hurt for baseball but in the early 80s everyone around me was popping or breaking.
Born in 1976 I remember my older family members trying to break dance🤣🤣 the 80s was a fun time🤩🤩
I moved from a small town in Illinois to Denver in 84’ at the age of 8 and was baptized into a whole new world. I feel in love with breakin, hip hop, cardboard and ghetto blasters. I ate and breathed the culture for the next 7 years. Some of the best moments of my life. God Bless the OGz that did it first.
So who’s here April 23, 2024? Beat Street and Breakin’ was the movies. I was 15 when I started to breakdance. Me and the crew was popular among the teens especially the gurls. Those was some great times out there with your boom box and a roll of linoleum mat. Miss those dayz. 1983-1985. I can still poplock but no more breaking. Leave that stuff to the young ones😅😊❤❤❤
Yes!! Beat street, breakin we're great movies, but didn't forget about crush groove. The music was freaking awesome from all of them
born in '71 and i revisit this vid several times a year. Everythig you siad, except we had to use cardboard...the only access to linoleum was installed on the kitchen floor lol.
I'm here may 24th 2024
June 2024
I was born in 69 and was a teenager in the 80's. The diversity in music, dancing etc was such a great time and era. Still makes me smile.
Born the same year. Feel the same💕
69 here TOO
A few years earlier, but it was a cacophony of music.
little bit older here, but the the 80s were the best.
Same year same opinion
The 1980s is one of THE DECADES that will never be beaten!
I'm in my early 50's and the 80's had some of the all-time best movies to come out too.
The 90s did that for us already lol
The 80s were absolutely the best years
The best time to be a teenager
I’m glad I grew up then
With normal people around
@@katastrafika5253 wonderful years that will not return 😢😢
Im so glad i was born in 75. I grew up throigh the good eras of rap and hip hop. I got to experience all of this in my neighborhood
Born and raised in New York 1973-this was my whole childhood. I am still a breaker. B-boy for like. Rock steady y’all. I still rock fat laces on all my kicks..
This is so cool!! I wish to connect with B-boy dancers of the past to do interview feature project and also bring it back. Let's connect..
As a 17 year old today I really wish people would still get down like this
we do
@TheFrogFootman not even. The other team would show up and start shooting the “opps “. Dumbest shit ever. Gawd I’m grateful I grew up in the 80’s
@@KittyKittyBangBang249 The bronx in the 80s these would get shot up often
you can't smoke no more in clubs
I was a teen when this was released and breaking was trending. Our high school would open the gym during lunch to give us a safe place to dance. The stands were usually full of kids watching individual and teams challenge each other. Funny how back then beefs were usually resolved on the dance floor, unlike today.
I am 51 years old. This song NEVER gets old. The trendsetters of the 80's are the foundation of music today
56 Years old, and it’s an amazing song still
Ya’ll are delirious. This shit was old by the time you turned 12 pops.
@@james3440 naw fool y’all got no talent or originality y’all shit old after first month of play lmfao I still listen to this and I was born in 89 😂 yall mf don’t be talking bout nothing nobody ain’t did already y’all good but plain like a yellow bag of lays potatoe chips 😂 y’all gotta get some ass shakers to make it sell
@@james3440 Yet the youth lock and pop, doing our "old" dances.
@@james3440 it was brand new. Everything evolved from this. If it's so old so quick, why are you and I here 40 years later?
Yes. That 808 will make your wooofers crumble! This music+ dance is ART...for 84 a new ART...THE BIRTH OF URBAN HIP HOP...a true AMERICAN ART LIKE JAZZ....WE INVENTED IT...US AMERICANS
I am so proud to have come of age in the 80's.
We danced All night, guys took care for girls without looking for anything else but a good time on the dancefloor.
So many good memories
This 61 year old can still pop, lock, top rock, moonwalk and break! Great memories from the best Hip Hop Decade - The 80's!
That was the best time,I remember 😊 that's impressive you've still got your poppin' skillz,much respect.
Me to😆
This 54 yr old can pop, lock and drop. Being double jointed in all of the joints and with arthritis helps them to keep the flex ability. But my knees would lock and then I drop. 😂😂😂 learned from the best went to Compton and my friend had a block party. Her Auntie had invited The Clown. Had a lot of fun and learned about dance wars. Also, everyone competed for dance offs and more.
Yes sir! Respect
RIP the greatest time. I remember PLENTY of battles back in the 90s/2000s...
I’m so proud to be a part of Generation X.
RIP Adolfo 'Shabba Doo' Quiñones. 😔🙏🏽
For some reason me too, Just wished I saved all my toys and cool shit I used to have.
I’m 51 and I always thought he was a cutie. He was my boyfriend in my head.😆
Didn’t know that he and Lela Rochon were married once upon a time.
She was always so pretty to me.
Me too my beautiful brunette
💯
@@roger25z Thank You !
Oh man this neally brings me to tears, Born in 79 so i was only a youngen through the 80s but my older brother was a hardcore breakdancer, He used to take his boombox and a dance matt down the high street and he'd gather a crowd around and everyone would be dancing, He was a popper and locker, This was in the uk but he was quite well known, We dont even talk about this era anymore as we both miss it so much its to painful to even talk about.
I love this song and im 40 and it came out about 10 years before I was 11 years old 😂❤❤ you just know good music when you hear it...
Anyone else miss the old golden days like me?
Damn right freaking 80s
Sitting in the 3rd grade in the morning and smelling the fresh grass
Sho nuff sho nuff sho nuff sho nuff. Wickie wickie wickie wickie! Who can finish this lyric? "A child is born with no state of mind. . .. "
👋
More than ever.
@@williamjohnson1858 If I could get the music in my head I might get close. Finish this one I know you got it. “Now what you hear is not a test I’m rappn to the beat … Me the groove and my friends are gonna try to move your feet … Ya see I am wonder Mike and I’d like to say…….. ✌️my friend (I was in 7th grade when this song changed everything)
Sad to say that most of this new generation will never understand the true beauty of hip hop
You’ve obviously never heard of Sada Baby 😂😂
Fuckin A right and I was only like 2 years old when this came out lol
Z ‘@9
At all
ABSOLUTELY RIGHT!
Created in 73, God gave me the opportunity to experience the 70s. Thank you for giving me the opportunity to experience thus time. Love it. Music when it meant something. Crazy stuff this decade.🤔💯👍💯👍
We knew diversity! No one had to shove it down our throats! 80s were great!
Wow… one movie definitely proves diversity exists lol
I was born in 94 and I can just tell by watching and listening that this was the time to be alive.
1984 was probably the peak of American culture
Yes it was. The 80s/90s were amazing! I'm so lucky to have been a part of history ❤
Trinere and friends was the jam to get ready to go to club!!!!
GURLLLL IT WAS THE BOMB❗❗
I'm 24 and have always felt like I was born in wrong generation. I love EVERYTHING about the 80s, so simple, no cell phones, nice cars, badass music, seemed like a good time. What I would do to be reborn in the 70s to experience the 80s lol
Yep! You missed a REALLY GREAT time in history.
Sport was pure & wild back then also.
Started to sense it was slipping circa 87-88
The 80's was awesome. No internet, very few had cable. Skate boards, roller blaes, bikes, nintendo. Early 90's was the same. Went downhill after '95.
@@Dave-ui6xn facts.
@Zach Zee Actually cellphones were invented back in the eighties. They were much bigger back then and their were literally only a few broadcast towers back then. But they were so expensive at the time only the rich could afford them.
My boys had so much fun and I miss these years! Nintendo, boom boxes, telephones attached to the wall! Roller skating, picnicking, beach trips, camping…..it’s all gone now. Living in a tiny shed is the best I can do now!
Still today’s date, I’m on my late 50’s my body is shaking by listening to this song 🕺
My teenage hood has been the best and I was one of the great dancer 🕺 in my time 🕺🕺🕺
The 80,s absolutely greatest decade EVER for movies, toys, video games, music,TV shows ,fashion,sport cars, celebrities, real hiphop rap,fast food, WWF sports and a whole lot More.... NEVER to be replicated 🇺🇲🇵🇷
💯👍
You are so right.... the 80s rocked
Toys 😂😂😂
Remember Tonka had real heavy duty trucks made from metal not plastic to save money? Radio Flyer Wagon was real and not plastic? Love the 80's never forget!!! 80's baby I am born in 84
@@csessoms8389 they lasted forever 😂💪🏽💪🏽
I'm 52 now, this is still as good now as it was in the 80s
Hi
Same I'm 45 .....
55 this year and still blasting the good stuff
I’m 53 now, growing in the 80’s great music. Love the Double Dutch Bus is one of my favorites. My older brother taught me how to robot and the backward kick worm. I can still do the robot but not the kick worm. Taught myself how to pop n lock (being double jointed help). Learned how to pop my hips to the sides lift and right.
80s born and this was the best times of the years
My dad had this tape and i would beg him to play it every time we went to town in his old Ford truck. I'm only 34 now but I miss the simple years so much 😊❤😊
Oh my God this shit brings tears to my eyes. This is my generation and i miss it so much.
😓😢😥😫🙄 I miss these days
You got that right- as long as we had music we had fun and we all got along
Me and you💯
Well Said Tone!
Thank God! We Grew Up When We Did!
Started 1980 as a ten year old & was fortunate to be a teen during the 80’s. No cell phones…no home computers. Just mtv & lots of great music & dance. People got along & you didn’t have to worry about being woke or politically correct. No unisex bathrooms or people identifying themselves by using pronouns. You were a guy or a girl & if you were gay, no problem. The music of that time brought all kinds of people together.
This is real hip hop 💯 no cussing ❤️
aye! was all about fun back then. Music is a great place to deliver a social message but it's all too serious now....
No cussing doesn’t mean real hip hop
10000%%%%%%
Good damn memories, take me back to the 80s....
We know
😅 💃🏻 Take me back to the 80s right now!!!! ❤
born in the 2000s but wish i was born in this time,, still bumpin 2024 in my roller skates thoo
I'm 58 and this song still gets me dancing 🕺.. Nothing is like the 80's. Especially when it comes to dance. Those were the days we played together instead of this virual fake world we live in today.
I heard the 70s where the shit too
I am dancing right now reminiscing 80s kid here
@@jonathanpadilla6157wl1ga😮❤w qv0
Tell'em again joy this new generation can't here you. 😂😂😂😂❤✌️
80s and 90s were real world unforgettable years, the world seemed much better those years, what went wrong?
Oh my god, this immediately gave me flashbacks of Saturday night at the skating rink in the 80's. 50¢ nachos, 25¢ Pepsi, Dig-Dug, and the smell of used rental skates. God I wish it was the 80's still.
facts
Same here!
Yep. Do kids still go to roller skating rinks? My nephews and nieces never talk about doing things like that
@@billsimms2511 I don't think so. My town used to have two rinks, but both have been closed for decades. Plus, parents today would never drop their kids off anywhere by themselves. The internet has made people afraid of the world. I'm always hearing about some nosey neighbor calling the police because some kids were playing unsupervised in their own front yard or police arresting the parent because their 12 year old walked home from school alone. The 80's were awesome for a lot of reason. It must suck to be a kid these days. I know being an adult isn't a lot of fun.
SAME !! Makes me want to go check the rink out this weekend!! Amazingly its still open; Skate-Away in Shillington PA!
50 years old still rocking this! Amsterdam here 😊
Me being almost 50 now, I remember break dancing to this ! I still do! Memories!
This song changed my life. I just switched schools in grade 9. Last year of junior high. I had had some problems with depression and I had started drinking in grade 6. I was nervous. My first day. Came out of the bathroom and was walking towards the common area where all the kids were waiting and I could hear a beat. It was loud. I looked and it was a girl I knew from my previous school holding a ghetto blaster and she was blasting this song. I had never heard anything like it before. I walked up to her and said hello. We were inseparable that day forward. Hip hop gave me something to look forward to. Going to break dancing competitions and really getting into the whole scene. My life completely changed after that. The 80’s were so fun I can’t even put it into words to describe it properly. It was so new... the music etc. It was an exciting time to be a teenager. I will forever be grateful and this song was the start of all of it
I am so glad to read it. A great story. I still want to learn this movements at age 38. So much time lost. Always regreat.
Glad it worked out for you. Have you seen Herbie Hancock's 'Rock It'?
Geezus drinking in sixth grade? That’s insane. Didn’t even know what drinking was until 10th-11th
@@roberttruesdell6151 damn, sheltered much... 😂😂😂
(Take it as a compliment, I was exposed to drugs and alcohol ever since I could remember, poverty sucks...)
@@Clos93 I was poor as well trailer park kid. We just found sports and things to keep us entertained.
400 years from now they’re still going to be rockin this jam on shuttles between earth, mars and the other interstellar exoplanets.
Lol exactly just like those futuarize movies 🎥 they making and showing something from our era amazing 🎉❤❤❤
Newcleus - Jam On It - Love this one also... So good...
I wonder what moves will be around then !
Melhor de todos
Dat da truth fo sho.rok on
Look at all the different cultures bring these times back
In the 80's i would follow my brothers to the basement living room and we would break dance to jam on it so crunk some of my best memories
I'M 55 YEARS OLD, THIS SONG NEVER GETS OLD, THIS SONG TAKES ME BACK TO THE SIMPLEST TIMES IN MY LIFE, MUSIC HAS CHANGED SOO DRASTICALLY. ❤
I just hear a snippet of this on IG. I came straight here to hear the while song. 😊❤
Me too 😂
@@tamekabatson1998already baby
Can U even call it music anymore ? The Sh1d iz HORRIBLE !
I am a Chicagoan from Little Village. Break dancing was a unification of youth back in the 1980's. Kids who danced on the street and competed. We did'nt kill each other we "Battled each other " meaning we competed. I am in my mid 50's and i wish i was a kid again back in the 80's
Grew up in the NW burbs in the 80’s. Agree 100%. Grew up in the roller rink and we taught each other how to dance to this jam and the others.
Same here WEST SIDE 😊
Miss these days so much.. Almost all the poeple i knew back then are dead, or moved and lost contact, or in prison.. Time goes by fast when you're young and having fun. Not realizing.. Time is counting away and no one thinks about it. Who ever is still alive, through this era.. i wish your all the best, until our final days.. Blessing!.
My dad was born in 1966. He taught my brothers and I how to break dance and showed us all the good rap songs from the 80s, the old school tricks on the bikes, and the old school movies like breakin’, beat street, you got served, etc.. Our dad passed in January 20, 2024. It’s really cool to carry on the stuff he taught us and continue to do it knowing he used to do it as a kid
Life was so much better when we could solve things with just a dance off.🤩
I have a Dove chocolate wrapper that says; " Solve arguments with a dance off." This used to hang on the door frame of my office. Many of my students born in the late 90's didn't understand the quote.
good point
Instead of acting like terrorists --- the Trumper Extremists should challenge the Democrats to a dance off !!
@@jax65h94 I love it
And everyone goes home to have dinner 🥰. Aaaloha 🌺
Nobody Break Dances like eighties kids did. God bless em all wherever they are right now.
#JamOnIt
You gotta go to Vegas and watch the jabbawockeez 💪🏾💪🏾💪🏾
Didn't start breakdancing til I was 18 and I was born in the 80s
@@franktruth6322 they can't beat the rocksteady crew
We all no that would be so true. Nothing could compare to back in our day.. They don't even seem to play our kind of music in regular radio anymore so we all can just picture the big break now... NOTHING AS IT WAS FOR US IN OUR DAYS. A FLIPPEN BLAST..🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺
Thank you Racer X (Speed Race and the Mach 5) Most of are over the overweight. Hee Hee Hee! Haw Haw Haw!!!
Grew up in SoCal in the Inland Empire...Banning, Ca....we used to go off at the dance parties when ever this and other jams came on...Kraftwerk, Bambataa, Cybotron and others.....the 80's where lit!!! Class of '87 Banning Broncos!
1984 , very popular ,still sounds good.
When hip hop was fun no guns no deadly beef only rap dance and roses.
Remember when breakdancing was used to squash beef
Breaking, cutting, emcing, graffiti that's what it was before the corporate world came in and split it up and pit artist against each other.
Late 80s N.W.A. would change that.
@@vh9network Exactly, my graduation year of '88 when they came out. I thought that album was crazy. It really did change for the worse right after. Sad. When is it going to turn around? Peace and love, peace and love.
Thats a false assertion and a romentisation of the times of the 70-80's in the US
There where plenty of deadly violence and beefs - less so in the Hip Hop culture though since it was made up by youngsters that used their time dancing and going to clubs if they got the access.
This tune gives me the chills! Takes me back to the 80's! We weren't stuck to our phones we were out there jamining and taking on other crews. Making memories that will last years!
❤ no social media
and now you are the grandpas talking shit about the teenagers of today. Bet you were bitching about it when your generations old people told you your breaking shit was nonsense and that the 1950s were the real deal. How the fuck does every generation go through the same cycle of "our generation was the best"? Just enjoy the time you had and accept that you know nothing about the culture of today's kids you grumpy old man
@4Tlccas Butthurt much? lol
Agreed.
Right 💯
I was a scrawny 8 year old when this and other music was alive! Thank God for my big sister who made sure that I was exposed to the culture! 🙏🏾
I'd give up the rest of my life just to go back to 80's for 1 more year
Still till this very day this is one of the hardest Hip Hop Techno beats of all time.. They killed this shit🔥🔥🔥🔥!!!
Facts
Aauuuwwwwaaahhhhaaa.....
Hell yeah
very innovative rhythm track. I heard it often when it first hit mid 80's ? years later I played my drums along with it. I'm always picking up new little things in the mix. so so so. dope!
What about Silento-Watch me whip watch me nene????
Do y’all see this…this music & dance moves bought all races/cultures 2getha all love. Da 80’s will always be da greatest of all time PERIOD.!
W. O. R. D. !!
I just said this ❤
Yeah but Democrats and CRT,
THESE DAYS ARE LONG GONE,
WAR IS IMMINENT AND WE WON'T BE DANCING
That would be the 70s
Settled their beef on the dance floor
I born in 1973, and I did a talent shop to this in school! I am excited, haven't heard it in 40 years!
So glad I was a teen during this era. Jam on it!
Those were the days of my youth....long gone. I haven't seen anything like it since.
Yup.. Gen X we caught the last of it!
@Mark Riley
at least we saw it through raw first hand experience
If we saw anything more credited to the cause and revolutionary vibe music brings in on every level
the meaning of any promise of a coming day
and the dreams that make it to the top of the mountain stand with the ones that hoped for the pinnacle, the vibe of truth
and the beat goes on eternal, infinite essence
there wont ever be anything like we witnessed in the power that music always has & always will be.
We saw a miracle in its forming and I testify to that as irreplaceable and sacred.
We never forget where we come from
Streets of Fire & always down for the cause!
Can you imagine all the talent and physical fitness and agility that goes into all of this??? Absolutely amazing!
Most of these dancers were so athletic I bet they would have been good enough to go to the olympics and beat every country for the gold in gymnastics!
A lot of them did gymnastics in college. Others would practice for hours every day. I seen many of these dance battles in the early 90’s.
@@uncletony3025 That is so cool. I grew up in NYC and remember back in the 80's watching them on the street corners breaking on cardboard boxes. Those were the good old days. By the way I love your TH-cam name. I had an Uncle Tony. God I miss him so much 😢
@@FuturesPast1 here in California they battled at the High School Auditorium. A lot of them would practice at the parks, they would move the park seat and lay cardboards down. The best dancer I ever saw wore a mask and we never saw his face, but he was built like a gymnast. He’d fly in the air land and do the splits, do a jumping windmill, head spin for days, all kinds of crazy moves. We had tapes of everything but lost it all in a house fire.
@@uncletony3025 So sorry you had a house fire and lost it. It would have been so cool to see.
I’m on the back side of 50 dancing like it’s 1985. Love it.
Man o man no cellphones no social media when people actually talk to each other face to face brake dancing was 🔥 lit back then this music actually made you wanna dance 🪩 I miss the 80s-90s😊
I’m 51 and remember dancing to this at school dances and house parties. The 80s were the absolutely best decade! I will always dance when I hear this song. My knees may not, but dammit I will!😂
1984. house party. brought my walkman. went for a stroll outside and put on the local dance station. this song came on. 16 years old and my body felt every note and beat. love this song to this day. you do the math.
I miss the old days cause we had no phones and we knew what was real like breakdancing and having fun ❤😊
14 years old. I had the biggest boom box!
Newcleus still filling my ears! 👊🏼💪🏼👍🏻
This is my EARLIEST MEMORY OF MUSIC. Got Off the subway with my Grandma and I saw all these boys with a boom box and a cardboard platform they was dancing on. I was like 5 or 6. We were going shopping. I remember she brought me a Star Wars figure that day. I still remember the smell of the Woolworths. Hotdogs and hot pretzels!
This is a heartwarming memory!
Woolworths ❤️ Fond memories.
Omggggg!!!! Dude... I've lived out the same experience on Jamaica Ave near where the now out business "Mays" used to be!!! Me, my lil sister, my Mom and my Aunt Ivy was getting some pizza from the lil hole in the wall joint next door!!!!😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆
Omg! Woolworth 's. My grandmother would buy a bag of hot salted peanuts that sat under a heated lamp. Sometimes we'd have lunch there. It was on Jamaica Ave. in New York. I was so little. I wanna go back too.😔
Life was so much simpler then. Everyone pretty much got along!
For those who have lived through the 80s, we've been blessed :)
Yes indeed it was our time..
Wow when i saw your comment reminded me danny funky best wishes to you🙏☮️❤️
This song came out in 1984. I remember it like it was yesterday . One of the coolest jams ever 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
It's been 50 years of pure HIP HOP....that has changed the PLANET.., MY Generation
Im 50 we had the best generation ever❤😊
I’m 50 years old & this is my #1 song to change my mood whenever I need it
I’m right there with ya
Right 👍
@@wesschepman oh Kim
The favorite song
I'm 52. Right on! Agreed!
Im very grateful that i was a teenager in that era because the music was so Amazing,the dancing was unlike anyone ever saw before plus there will never be a generation like mine again. A true music culture for sure😊
I remember when we get a big piece of hard wood floor a boom box and start break dancing and poplocking ❤😊the 80s were the best ❤and thank you ❤😊
I was 19 in 84 and this song was in the dance clubs I remember watching people gather on the dance floor to watch breakdancers, how in the hell did I get old, this feels like yesterday , it’s funny how a Song can take you back in time so quickly! Damn I loved the 80’s wish I could go back be young , pretty, petite, and wear all those outfits from that decade. If it was possible to go back for a least one night as we used to say it would be totally awesome!
Totally!!
i was 14 in 1984>>>>little did i know those were the best years of my life..
@@tthreepointo8267 YEP
😆 LOOKING AT THIS, I FELT LIKE I TIME TRAVEL. THEM WAS THE GET OLD DAYS, I WAS 20 IN 84.IN THE PROJECTS OF CHICAGO
thank you for your comments man it's nice to reminisce go back and listen to you guys that's why I play this music to give us heart so
As a teen in the 80s, this jam increased your sense of cool 1000%. Great jam to eternity.
im 65and stills love 💕😘 them from Chicago and New York The 80sbaby Joe baby U.S. M C
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Give me a wink
Im a 80s baby
Awwww 80s good times, we were so blessed, living those beautiful moments, so clean, innocent good times, I'm 58, still enjoying those 80s song, will never die 😊
Never gets old! I be missin them days. Keep jammin to the real jams 😜🥰
Still give me the chills...love my 80's
First 5 seconds I seen em live never forget it
Puerto Ricans started breakdancing Then came the Culture Vultures smh To add insult to injury they don't let the Puerto Ricans or any hispanics in tje Rapp hip hop industry....... Facts 🤦♂️
I’m a 55 year old female and I listen to this song regularly on Spotify. I remember in high school in the 80’s guys were break dancing at parties and it was mesmerizing.
I'm 55 too and remember. 😎
Entertainment was fire back in the day
where at, . . .I was in LA CA.
@@enriquecortes1948 no internet back then. Movie took place in the Bronx where it started. But L.A. was popin back then too sound was a little different but great i was in Boston mass back then.
@@richlong4119 yes, that's what I meant, . . .WHERE WERE YOU THEN, I seen the movie and know it's from new york, break dancing, (back then), was called New York Style, in Los Angeles that is. Good times. Take Care bro.
I remember first hearing this at 7 years old on some radio station from out of Philly. I recorded it on a cassette and I ended up playing that thing out. Definitely left an impression on me.