Beat Street Roxy Cult Scene
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- Beat Street Roxy Cult Scene - Réalisé par Stan Lathan - 1984.
Avec : Afrika Bambaataa, Soul Sonic Force & Shango, G.L.O.B.E.,Mr. Biggs, Pow Wow, Amid,, The Rock Steady Crew, The New York City Breakers, Dj Jazzy Jay, - Hudba
That walk to the floor to battle was everything
Breakdancing was not only a dance, it was one of the dances that stop the violence in the streets. Where people got together and had fun.
I will never forget when this movie came out and how iconic it turned out to be! It was a great time to be alive and young I’m 57 now!!!!!!!!!!!!
Same age was an excellent time to be alive! Wish my body still worked when I was like 16
Gees. 30 years later this is still the best dance battle scene of all time.
B Michaels WORD my brother !
B Michaels Gimme a hell yeah!
word!
i agree hands down...best battle scene of all time..can't really judge who won tho
I remember watching this time and time again when it came out on VHS in 1984 as i just loved this scene. Being a b-boy myself at the time. The opening move; windmills, back spin to knee freeze is the best move and they throw it out first, but it is over ruled by baby face as being a b-girl no matter what move you did you could not beat a girl. Remember this was way of fighting without physical contact, hence the name break dancing (break from fighting and dance instead). Apparently the New york city breakers (Beat street grew in the film) are winning on the best moves against Rock steady crew (Bronx rockers) as you can tell from Kuriaki face (8.00 mins in) after NYCB steal the swipe moves.
How it works is; Someone comes on and does their move, if a member from the opposite side thinks they can beat it they challenge it. You could never come on do your same move twice only once. Flips or holding parts of your own body and speed along with style of your move to show the difficulties of your move gave you the advantage.Your footwork was a big player too if you could swipe your feet and spin and turn on the spot. Kuriaki comes on, does perfectly fast no handed windmills closer to the floor and more flatter on his back keeping in the same spot not travelling, which were very difficult to do in that era. Windmills were the top move back in them days. Rock steady crew gain the advantage as they have kept their best move till last.( If you watch the opening first move the windmills are higher meaning he is on his shoulders, also his legs slightly bent and slightly travels off his spot, still a class move though. As for Kuriaki his are smoother, legs perfect straight and closer to the ground, also you will notice his move from windmill to back spin to freeze he does not travel off his spot that shows top control in your move. The same is for Gino guy with the red head band his windmills pointing more up than flat to the ground (still top windmills must admit) You may have to pause and play and watch slowly to see the difference. After glide masters fist spin into backspin into head spin stand freeze, Rock steady crew are beaten for sure with the most outstanding move. That is why glide master puts his hands up looks and says beat that!!! Crazy legs comes on and does normal windmills backspin but because he takes his shoes off and flips into a freeze, (hence having no hands to flip with) he takes the move. Rock steady jump for joy and victory is theirs. You can see the NYCB debating saying no way as the scene ends.
My view NYCB wins on more better moves but that's how it was played out in them days.
no phones, no facebook, just hiphop
I'm 13 Again, watched this at the Odean Woolwich. Never will HIP HOP be this pure,the breakers, Beats. Attitude & ALL in peaceful surroundings no gats naked girls,drugs or thugs. Real HIPHOP.
40 years later, that battle is still.epic.
This is the most 80's thing ever. Their clothes, hairstyles, music, dancing and dance battles. All in one clip.
I could be bias....but this was probably the best dance scene of any movie.
royuncg2 true true the subway way scene was good also
And the sub way uprock
It was definitely the best. My cousin was there, and told me that both crews were battling even when the cameras were off. They need to release the unedited full battle of this.
#Facts!
Definitely the 1st battle from you got served was good
You can't consider yourself a true Bboy if you've never saw this video and dreamed to be like them! :)
THIS #bboyshit
Bboys beware cause 2 sisters are here
@@DJDanceClassicAnd they’re coming at High Noon.
Still get goose bumps at 54 year old watching da Roxy battle
Same here, me and my friends in the UK used to hire the VHS movie out and watch it over and over taking notes on breaking and graff as much as we could, great days!!
Most EPIC dance scene ever made. Can never get enough of this clip. Those times back in the 80's were magical, everything was so fresh and vibrant. I'd pay good bucks to relive it!
More epic than “dancing in the rain” with gene kelly
@Violinistic Me too Bro.
@@DJDanceClassic Be realistic. Gene Kelly stands apart from this genre. He was special in that world. ✌🏻😊
Me too Bro, ill be 58 in july! Thankyou youtube❤! Love ya.
Yo, 80s Hip Hop Culture was the joint. I loved those times. What a decade. Sometimes I wish we could go back.✌🏻
I have no idea how many times I’ve watched this scene and it still twitches a nerve and I’m 54 years old, I watched that scene in my teens over and over trying to learn some moves while dancing in the kitchen on the old linoleum floor 😂🤣
Same here bruh and I'm 53. That means you saw it in the movies l8ke me then.😅
Doing it noooowwww lol my feet hurt (53yo)
I'm 57 just had back surgery lower lumbar fusion. Back in 83 we'd go up to Washington DC from Virginia Beach and there would be awesome battles! Miss those days very much!
@@seanwright8786 oh yeh, saw it at the only cinema in my area at the time and hid in the cinema and watched again 😂🤣
That Flying windmill from the third guy from BeatStreet crew is still to this day the best windmill i ever seen💯👊👊
THE 4TH GUY TO DO THE WINDMILL FROM STANDING UP
30 years past, I remember it like last night. Where does the time go?
I wore out my VHS copy back in the 80's I watched it so much, just the best movie ever and 31 years later I still watch it (but now on DVD !)
Same here , still a bboy at 47 ktf
I rewatch this again and again and again. And I have the movie in my collection. These guys were going at it for real! Awesome scene. CLASSIC!
8:33 that move Kuriaki did was so underrated
Yeah...he went down full momentum in one direction - and then instantly switched direction.😀 Awesome!
...FACTS and Mr. Wave tho'.........!!!!!!!!!
Not really the whole battle was underrated. Both crews could dance at a much higher level than this.
Complete body control. Definitely a nice intro move
Best 11 minutes of any movie ever made for me. I was 14 when this came out and in a crew called Floor Lords just across the river in New Jersey. "Lee" was our hero!
Real Heads know.
That opening move by Kuriaki. Wow.
R.I.P Kuriaki
I was there with the filming of this scene and a DJ still today and past Breaker NYC. Nothing... and I mean Nothing beats the breaking, the music and the atmosphere of New York City itself! If you don't know where it started don't begin now because you saying you're a DJ on a computer does not make you a DJ, if you're saying you know how to breakdance like we did and danced back then your truly mistaken you don't know what you're doing today be honest. The younger generation and younger cats have destroyed what we made back then and turned it into a circus show, nothing will ever replace what we did back then it will always stay alive even from 2023 on!!!!
Much respect Rock Steady Crew, Incredible Floormasters (NYCB), Dynamic Rockers, Rockwell Association, Scrambling Feet, Hot Feet Rockers, The Bronx Boys, Furious Rockers, Magnificent Force, Shake City Rockers, Midnight Breakers, L.A. Breakers, Pony Express, Unique Dominoes, Electric Boogaloos and The Lockers, Rock City Crew, Young City Crew, Canadian Floormasters and all iconic and legendary B-Boy and B-Girl crews..
Dope
Ken Swift & Lil Lep's style is that real uprock and b-boy footwork!
The guy @6:15 blew me away when i was a teenager with that move and it’s still smooth as heck
This and the little guy from the NYC Breakers after Crazy Legs, he literally 1UPs him on all his moves.
Action
Best breakdancing movie ever made, the story line all the characters in the movie, it's just pure 80s gold here and all the songs on the soundtrack are exceptional. Very underrated movie. If I'm not mistaking, Siskel and Ebert both gave it thumbs up.
RIP B Boy Buck 4(RSC),B Boy Kuriaki(RSC),and B Boy Glide Master(Floor Masters aka NYCB)
Amen!
Thanks for your response. When it comes to the culture of Hip Hop,I never forget those cats. Especially B Boy Frosty Freeze who also should've been in Beat Street. But at least he was in a much better Hip Hop culture movie namely Wild Style.
You're welcome. And you're right. Frosty was cold as ice...pun intended. I just got finished watching Wild Style for the umpteeth time. I've been craving the early hip hop years lately and can't get enough of these legendary films and the b boy icons that are forever immortalized in them. Sometimes you have to go back, watch the films and listen to the music to remind yourself what hip hop was all about, especially with all of this hip slop and (c)rap dominating the airwaves these days.
Thanks for sharing your comment with mine,sister.
My pleasure, dear!
I was in the 11th grade when this was on the big screen and man all we did was break-poplock, DJ, rap, tag up..donno how I graduated..good times!!
People who say they are down with hip hop and yet they aren’t even aware of how iconic and important this is and that bboyin is a vital element of hip hop man!...this stuff here is the real deal!
I remember watching this film religiously in 1984 copying the moves. Wonderful, beautiful times. I am so glad I experienced the 1980s. Breakdancing forever!
Break dance old school. I learn some moves from this film 😂 on 1984 when i was 14 😋
I was 14 when Beat Street dropped. I'd already been into the breakdancing but like so many of us outside of New York Beat Street was the absolute pinnacle. I didn't see Wild Style until years later and, as much as I'll always have a soft spot for Beat Street, Wild Style took you even deeper into the culture of hip hop.
Good times fam. Keep the stories alive. Each one, reach one.
Gotta give it to the film editor for cutting the scene and keeping them on beat! All time classic dance scene!
Best dance ever I was a breakdancer and a DJ in the 80's
Lisa Fisher only love (shadows) still sounds great now
everytime i see this it brings me back to When i was 15 damn where does the time go!!!!
Any of the dancers in this scene get eternal legendary status.
Beat street over breakn any day!!!
+40missedcallz knee spin was about all they could manage… 'plastic' as we used to say circa 1983-5
+Graham Sherlock please refrain from talking to me until you speak with knowledge.....
Breakin'--as much as I liked that movie--always came off to me like Hollywood's attempt to do for hip-hop culture what "Saturday Night Fever" did for disco: to make it easier for mainstream audiences to accept and embrace.
Thankfully, it didn't work, or hip-hop might have gone the way of disco.
40missedcallz Yeah I Feel That
MiketheCabbie Your Right
Great GREAT battle...
... Pexter with that dope intro freeze in the beginning.
... Mr. Wave cRuSHed 'em with that tick/spin move. Absolutely CRUSHED!
... Ken Swift cRuSHed 'em with that sick uprock and freeze against Pexster.
... Buck 4 killed 'em with that blazing spinning turtle. No one on NYCB could top it.
... Fliprock was clean... almost too clean.
... Lil Lep burned Crazy Legs with the headspin.
... Legs came back with a dope, yet simple move calling the next dude out.
... Kuriaki's windmill had the NYCBs in awe. They resorted to making biting gestures.
... Legs burned the whole crew with a dope move (shoes off into a backbridge).
It gets no better than this!!!
DJ GaFFLe yeah I thought the beatstreet crew don't know the official name for them had crazy crew beat until crazy's move at the end.. that dude Gino if that was his name @ the 6:14 mark on the beatstreet crew was clean as hell.
DJ GaFFLe BRAVO
flip rock killed his scene too.
mr wave was so smooth they didnt even challenge him.
+B H Mch true very true
B H Mch Ha! Who in that entire crew could pop like that? They would have needed o'le Normski to stand a chance and I don't think he was with RSC at this juncture.
Wish I had a time machine, back to the 80’s for me
The memory attached to this film brings so much joy to my soul. This is B-Boy gold...40 years later.....thats right FOURTY YEARS ago this film was carrying the swing. London went b-boy crazy. From ghetto blasters on the train, people dancing on 12ft lino squared on the concrete at Carnaby Street, London where we'd pop, lock and spin on our heads for the hustle...From Planet Rock to Electric Kingdom to West Street Mob's Breakdance...tunes tearing up the dancefloors on radio and in the clubs....My goodness did we have it good or what.. Priceless days of some of the best days of dance. ♥🎶♥
1984 Was Lit 🔥!
10th Grade Los Angeles High School !
🤙🏾🇺🇸🇨🇦🇹🇭🇬🇧🇹🇼🇵🇭🇰🇿🇮🇹😎
I wonder if those dancers had the faintest idea that they were making history? A cult scene indeed!
They did not. Many of them were actually high at the time. They were street kids, although gifted, who were into having a good time, dancing, and getting paid.
I miss the Roxy. Had so much fun there.
The best dance scene in film history
Remember when this movie came out, we were all breakin in my town lol ... those were the days and no dance movie comes close to this masterpiece!
Thank you for this is the best footage ever 🙏🙏🌠❤❤❤❤❤1980'"*$$$ all the way but from the west Coast movement moms grew up with ICE T I tried to go to every party when I was a kid teenager a new ART LABO personally went to all his concerts since the 1990s -- 2015 i will see them again one day but love all and a good man of God bless 🙏💕🙏🌉🌆🌉🌆💯💯🛼🛼🔥🔥🤯🤯🕯️🕯️🫨🫨😇😇💪💪🙏🙏
Damn I wish we could go back to this where everything was normal but now we can’t even go to a dance club anymore.
Mr. Freeze, n Bboy Rockers',
That shit is SO Freeeeeeeesssshhhh...
30 yrs Later!!..They still Doing THIS shit out Here!!!!..Shit Neva gets Old!!!!
Definitely epic dance battle as well as the subway battle...but the scene where Beat Street and the Bronx Rockers squashed the beef and then united for Ramos celebration are my most unforgettable moments! When the breakers slide in during the gospel song me and my lil bro lost it GREAT TIMES,GREAT MEMORIES!!!
(7:52) FAST EVOLUTION OF THE AIR FLAIRS FROM CRAZY LEGS-TWO FEET TOUCHING TO LIL LEP ONE FOOT AND THEN WE HAVE TODAY NO FEET TOUCH(AIR FLAIR). LOVE THIS SHIT.
Best Battle - Best Music!
When goin 2 tha clubs were fun. Yu gotta luv tha whole decade of tha 80s
Legendary Beat Street Dance Battle,
Crazy Legs moves are still awesome.
Arhur Baker's Breakers Revenge,
I´m so old, I´m still same age as Master Yoda.
Cult scene? More like the most electrifying hip hop Roxy live club scene ever filmed there WILL NEVER BE ANYTHING BETTER!!!!! 💯👑💯👑
Love that❤
40yrs on this 80s legendary movie Beat Street inspired my generation a dance art that is accepted and recognised in the same category as jazz, Ballroom, ballet, to me will always be the greatest breakdancing film of the 80s
This battle and Arhur Baker's Breakers Revenge is nothing but legendary!!!!
🎶🎶🎶🥰🥰🥰🎼🎼🎼🎼🤙✋برنس أوف راب من أجمل وأحلا وأروع كوبليه في عالم الرقص ولها ذكريات جميلة جدا جدا وجذابة أيام التعليم 🎉🎉
Thanks mom for putting us on to this movie
Nothing but lovely memories from this movie, my dad rented it for me at Christmas along with a loaf of other great videos an absolutely fantastic Christmas I think I was 12 or 13 lol 53 now and this movie still makes me smile! I actually feel like looking for my Nike Red and Blue windbreaker now 🙄😂😂😂😂👌👍
bboy fo life...started in breakin in 1982 still remember the best days...and i'm fitty and still lovin this, altho my windmill isn't as good as it used to be haha......thanks for the upload :)
Different fashion, different dancing, different backgrounds and everyone having a good time and not giving a shit.
You know, I like to put on my shades indoors too when someone/something grabs my attention.🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
ICONIC ❤❤❤
Bruh, this movie & BREAKIN' 1 & 2 was da blueprint for us BBoyz when Break Dancin' made a big come back in 1992.
"Hip Hop Don't Stop"
ken swift is so badass he made the donkey kick look tight lol
i love when special k say its working
God I miss the 80's 😎 Saudades 💕 Best time ever! United Youth of America 🎶👏
Rest in peace Kuriaki and Buck 4
Now this what a hip hop beef looks like in the good ol days. 😊
This is a sport!!!🔥🔥🔥
I love this!
This is my fav scene of all time..along with blade nightclub scene
Der Film war abssolut cool, einmalig!
Best dance battle then and still is currently.. IMO
ROCK Steady Crew and NYC Breakers friends for many years much respect from My Crew CHICAGO WINDY CITY BREAKERS BBOY PHAZE 2 wat memories when my homies Rock Steady Crew Came to Chitown for there reunion Amen
13 in ‘83. We were a crew of misfits that could pop, lock, spin and flare everywhere and we all had a beatbox..
Eric, Manny, David, Tommy, Lisa, and I. Man I wish I could see them all again just like I did then.
🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿
what i would do to live out just one year in the 80's
I lived 10 years. It wasn’t that great ...
Me too bro! Would go back right now. 80's forever!
I lived 8 years of the 80’s. Unfortunately it will never come back.
Cocaine and mustaches....pretty much it
This is the best part in the whole movie because both sides put on a great performance.
I worked there as a skate guard and part of the club's lighting crew. Shout out to Richie Rich and Crazy Legs Rock Steady Crew
best break dance movie of all time
Antonio Diaz Yep Yep
This why New Yorkers ARE sooooooo passionate about HIPHOP. They. Invented the S** T NOT FORGETTING it's Jamaican roots in Dancehall. Nuff respect,DJ KOLL HERC,GRANDMASTER CAZ,AURTHER BAKER AFRIKKA BAMMBATTA MELLE MEL AMONG OTHERS
GOD BLESS U ALL . PEACE ✌️ ☮️ 🕊KENNY-O LDN #288_The.i kingz
When crazy Legs took his shoes off.. I remember me and my boys going crazy
Must give props to producer Arthur Baker for the legendary track, "Breaker's Revenge".
As a kid I loved the Rap and breakin' but now I love this scene for the Freestyle music
Love this classic historic movie and we all know Rocksteady Whack lost this iconic battle against The Floormasters!!!
This scene changed my life
5:57 even Lil Lep got a kick out of that move
RIP HARRY BELAFONTE (he just made transition a lil while ago this year) .... but i wanna leave this comment to and for ANY ONE NOT OLD ENOUGH TO HAVE PARTIED IN THE 1980'S ..... THIS ..... IS THE WAY WE PARTIED 24/7 , and yeah people had guns, but not to the amount of the 1990's & ON !!! We PARTIED, went home ,work or school .... come next weekend (Weekdays for some as there were SOOOOOOOO MANY places open then) and DID IT ALL AGAIN. I myself party like this(Saturday night only) til the mid 1990's. It was AWESOME.
WE NEED CLUBS LIKE THIS NO DRAMA
Man, I was 10 years old and in love with this movie!
Me too, born in 74 and would rewind the shit out of this part
This battle of NYC top crews rock steady crew and New York City breakers
I AM 48 YRS OLD TILL THIS DAY THIS SONG STILL GETS MY SOUL!!B GIRL FOREVER!!
Sickest dance movie ever...very close is Breakin...shows the different styles of east coast and west coast...80s baddest time ever!
It’s not a fucking dance movie you dickhead
Priceless.
Beat Street vs. Rock Steady Crew one of the greatest break battles scenes of all time!
This is the real Break Dance with quality and artistic value. Today thousands of dancers have completely destroyed the magic of this dance. Without having talent without quality moves, they enter the tracks as advertisers of energy drinks and NOT as dancers. After 1986 began the new style that no one deserves to deal with this ridiculous. Street dancing will be part of the Olympic Games. The situation is now funny so we all insist and support the old school of real dancers.
Totally agree ,this was good to watch ,modern Breakdance looks like their taking a fit ,it's like somewhere along the line Breakdancing lost its rhythm. 👍
Don't worry that's why we have CZcams to keep these memories alive. What we really is this remastered in 4K like what Parliament Cinema Club do with their channel
Out of due respect those aren't "Breakdancers " they're....ROCKERS
Ya i hate bboys
Yes this is Real.. New Style is Stupid
Rest easy Irene Cara
I always loved and still love that song BREAKERS REVENGE
Everyone looks so happy dancing