BBOYS and GRAFFITI go Hand in Hand
this article is a work in progress
It's an unknown fact that most original BBoys were also Graff Writers. From Phase II to Ken Swift. TBB to RSC. We all Tagged walls and Hit Trains on the regular. In the 70's a true Hip Hop Head was a person who did it all. If we look back you will find that Kool Herc, Afrika Bambatta, Members of Batch TBB, Bom 5, Frosty Freeze, Lenny Len, Trace 2, and the list goes on and on. All Tagged!
In my case. I was Breaking hardcore, and also Rhymin and learning how to write Graff from my cousin NAC 143. Then Breakin died in 79, and I kept Rhyming, but Graffiti became my biggest ghetto expression. I ended up in the freshest High School for writers all over the city. And kept writing through my years in school. When Breakin came back, I really had no intension's of dancing anymore. It was actually through the leader of my Crew TC5 (the cool 5) SEEN that I got the name Mr Wiggle because of my Popping. In truth, I was planning my future as a Vandal and a Writer! Dancing kinda came out of the blue for me.
kool Herc hitting his own 7o's style tag
Question to Writer SADE on Facebook Forum.
Mr Wiggles
SADE! Question. You Rock Walls the same way we Rock the Floor. Please reiterate the connection between all forms of Rocking. Specifically between Writers and Hip Hop Dancers.
Sade Tcm
Yo WIGZ thanks for that question. Because we're talking multiple disciplines I rock it like this. To simplify it and put it into a tangible concept that can be thought of within each receiver's relative reference I would say its the urge t...o communicate. When rockers rock, breakers break or I rock on walls, for those that do it to the beat of our hearts we do it as the tangible expression of our conciousness. A functional translation of emotion. Its that urge to communicate that we manifest. I manifest it it with the style I bring to a battle, a rocker may manifest it with the way he rides the beat in an out of the bars. the breaker may manifest it with the way he pauses, intensifies and then resolves to a cresendo puntuating his communication with a freeze. When you get beyond the technique and being awed by the visuals of it and you look at the underlying pretense then what you see and what you have is the ultimate expression of a conciousness, its the burner, the swipe, the dip...all expressed through different vehicles of movement...when I see you or many of the dancers you guys show on here I see...the personification of passion...communication! Not "hey look at me" more like "hey listen to me with your eyes"...check out my melody...word. I want to give Fabel credit for originally stating this idea and what I just wrote...I reiterated in my own way...
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Links to BBoys who were also Writers
courtesy of TCFIVE.com
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