B-boys vs. Breakdancers
Thought I’d go ahead and clarify the difference between a b-boy and a breakdancer since many people outside the breaking scene don’t know the difference and I really feel that they should because breakdancers tend to lessen the value of what a b-boy really is.
One thing I’ve learned from being a b-boy is that there really are two types of breakdancers in the breaking scene. You have the b-boys and you have the breakdancers. These two terms mean the same thing to an outsider since b-boy (breaker boy) is literally another way to say breakdancer. They aren’t the same though. A b-boy IS a breakdancer, but a breakdancer isn’t always a b-boy. Alien Ness once mentioned in a video that a b-boy has the movement, but a breakdancer does not. “Moves without movement is just simply tricks” -Alien Ness. A breakdancer without that true b-boy essence is just an imitation of a b-boy. Take that video I have of ATN vs. Psycho Sid posted above. It shows the definition of a b-boy and a breakdancer.
Stuff B-Boys Like: Weed
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! -CIt’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.
We do.. Don’t know why. Almost every b-boy I know smokes. I do because it amplifies my creativity for moves and heals my injuries so I can get a really good practice. Not saying that I rely on it and smoke every time I have practice. Just saying that it helps my body and helps me think of crazy shit. Weed is probably what makes us b-boys such crazy motherfuckers when we dance.
I Love Hype Battles
Full Force vs. Knucklehead Zoo
Day 9 — Someone you wish you could meet
I’m a day late on this. I know.
B-boy King So. This b-boy is fucking AMAZING. He’s still doing the same shit from 2008-2009, but back then he was THE fucking all around b-boy (imo of course). He has footwork similar to Born, power like Bruce Lee, kills beats like no other and has his own flava. He’s my inspiration when it comes to style. I actually reconstructed my top rocks last year to be as clean as his.
More Than A Stance: Don’t Be Annoying
Original Article: Don’t Be Annoying: Identify Any Song On Your Own
You drove 10 hours to the jam, paid an extra $15 to bring your camera in, and asked some random girl to film your crew’s first battle. You drove the 10 hours back home, transferred the footage to your computer and uploaded it to YouTube. You waited for feedback from your peers on how you did and what you should work on. Instead, you got four people asking “wutz da song?”
It’s one of the most frustrating comments you’ll see on YouTube videos, and yet it’s tough to find a single battle posted online that doesn’t have someone asking some variation of that question. Sometimes it’s asked nicely with a “please” (or more likely a “plllzzzzzz”), but most of the time it’s just demanded.
The reason it’s so frustrating is that most people don’t even try to find the song themselves. If they did, they’d realize that it’s really not that hard. Below are two methods for identifying a song.
1. Search For The Lyrics
One of the fastest and easiest ways to identify music is to simply listen to the lyrics and search for them on Google. If you hear the words “your mighty mighty body baby” in the song, type them into Google like this. Make sure you use quotes so that it searches it as a complete phrase instead of searching for each individual word.
2. Use Song Identifying Software
If you’ve got an iPhone, then you probably already know about Shazam. You hit a button, it listens to whatever music is playing, and a few seconds later it tells you the name of the song and artist. So if you have an iPhone, hold it up to your computer speakers — it’s that easy.
If you don’t have an iPhone, you can use Tunatic. Tunatic uses your computer’s microphone to listen to a song and identify it. If you have a webcam, you have a microphone. Otherwise you can buy a cheap one at Walmart for under $10 — a small price to pay for endless song identifying. Just hold the microphone up to your speakers and hit the search button on Tunatic, and you’ll have the song title in a few seconds.
