Second to None present THE BBOY MERCENARIES
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- Опубликовано: 8 мар 2019
- Using rare archive footage of underground European hip hop jams of the late 80's and early 90's, with exclusive interviews with bboy pioneers from across the globe and a soundtrack of classic hip hop, rare funk and atmospheric 80's electro, "The Bboy Mercenaries," is a feature length documentary about how Bournemouth - based Bboy crew "Second to None" helped keep breakin from going extinct through the exchange of VHS tapes of their seminal battles and game-changing practice footage with the pockets of survivors dotted around the world in a time before the internet.
Brought to you by Raw Angles Films
From the original idea by El Lapizito and NathaN Losado
Written, Edited & Directed by Charlie Marbles
Produced by El Lapizito, Charlie Marbles and NathaN Losado
Interviews by NathaN Losado and others
Scratch mix by Jabba tha Kutt
Brilliant work. This deserves to be a Netflix special.
Cheers Barry... We worked super hard on this for 9 years to ensure it did justice to the crew and what they did as well as all the other Bboy mercenaries dotted around the globe that kept Breakin alive in the dark days... Thanks for the props they are very appreciated.
Agree a lot of bboying need's to be shown to the world ....now they gonna make it a Olympia thing and we old school head's got mixed feelings about that ...but at least it's gonna get some kind of recognition ....they don't understand how serious it was 4 us ... PZ bro
Fantastic film about one of the most important cultural exports ever from the UK. Top shelf respect from Manchester. Huge love
Thanks very much for the props Woody… and big up the Manchester massive… Huge respect to that city and its place in hip hop culture! Yeah a lot of love and hard work went into this and we are glad it’s been received as we intended… Thanks again,
Charlie
These guys are legends.... Way ahead of their time... We salute you all.
Thanks very much... Coming from you that means a great deal... Thanks for putting on the jams when hardly anyone else was... Your Africa Centre and Maximus launch parties were legendary and it was a pleasure to be part of...
Nice one!!
@@charliemarbles1529 No worries. It's all for the culture bro. We really appreciate you guys for having our backs and thank you all for what you did and are still doing for the scene.
When we were coming up in Amsterdam in '94, the Second to None mixtapes got some heavy rotation in our boombox. Respect from .nl!
Newfoundland?✌️
Much love to second 2 none. True UK pioneers
Big up Ness... Much appreciated to you and the other pioneers who laid the ground stones and continued to push with character, style and presence so the later generations had so much to get their teeth into... Peace
I see Junk and Asa breakin up a jam in shoreditch about 4 years ago. One thing i noticed was Asa prowling the circle still with the hunger in his eyes. Incredible to watch. Stone cold UK legends !!
Just seen nick as an older guy ...he still got it
This is probably the best b boy documentary of this era I’ve ever seen. Breaking as we called it back then was my entire life from about 83’ to 86. I’m so glad to have danced and traveled and competed with others that shared the love.
Cheers Ed.. It was a slog to make that’s for sure but we were adamant that it had to be right before we put it out... Thanks for the kind words
Oldskul B-Boys forever. Excellent Power-Combos👍 Welldone guys. Thanks a lot.
Blinding documentry, Im a 47 year old bboy from Aldershot loveing the goose jackets im still rockin the fat boys etc
Wicked Simon... I used to live in A-Shot ghetto... You must know AK, Roshan and Pete etc... Thanks for the props... Took ages - 9 years... All the best!!
Yes I know who ur talking about Will b leaving Aldershit soon used to be a wicked place re record stores, hip hop jams in west end centre then labour got in power and left their legacy and its crack central with their open door policy, any way bet u miss it who remembers 4 star general in carnaby street
that another history lesson everyone needs my brother
Shout out to second to none i remember starting late 99 early 00s i came across the website they have and would watch countless clips of them!!!! True legends
Rj
Fallenkings
Loved that, respect for putting it together. The scene in London was massive in 84-85 under the influence of Mr Allen and the films from the US, even Our Price stocked a few import electro 12's although we mostly had to get them from the independents. The All-Stars killed it back then but from 86 onwards 'writing' was the more prominent b-boy discipline in the Capital, at least that's how it seemed, loads of people at school had a tag and did graff, whereas only a few of us had been in breaking crews. As the music progressed from electro to hip hop it really blew up in 1987 and the fashion and dancing changed also, we were heavily influenced by the dancers at the Electric Ballroom in Camden, letting off crazy routines to Jennifa, Letter to the Better and Calm Down. Plus house music blew up at the same time and lots of former hip hop heads and b-boys made the switch. Respect for representing the UK and holding it down for so long, I hadn't realised quite how influential you guys were!
Thanks very much for the kind words... Those were magical times indeed... I wish I had reached some of those clubs and jams in their 80's heydays... All the best and thanks again from all of us involved with this monster of a film (tookk 9 years to put together)
Was an honour to dance in the same jam as these guys.
Big shout out to Nick
Nigel
Birmingham
Cheers man... Glad you dug the film... It was a labour of love... The integrity we maintained to get this film made (across 9 years of ups and downs) directly relates to the integrity of the crew its about as well as the other Bboy Mercenaries that kept breakin alive across the world... Now look at it... Olympics, sponsorship etc... There definitely needs to be more recognition of these "survivors" and that is why we made the film... Cheers
Best documentary ive seen in a very long time. Can't imagine how much work/hours went into this. RESPECT TO ALL INVOLVED. Fierce Legends.
Cheers Allan... It took me 9 years to edit it... Me, Tony and Nathan pushed really hard for this... We fell out due to the sheer enormity of it... then rekindled our friendship and got it finished... Thanks for the kind words!
Yes it was a beast! Some of the interviews I just don’t think you’d get now.. I mean I just shot some of them with Nathan on a small DV camcorder... I think that’s why people relaxed and told the truth... I noticed when guys were doing interviews with people with like a crew and a boom they didn’t look relaxed and didn’t give much up.. we kept it casual.. I remember doing the Ivan one with Nath in a broom cupboard, as we couldn’t find anywhere else quiet enough at the gig.. We killed ourselves to get a lot of that stuff.. I had to track down ALL the original tapes..I had all my camcorder footage from the Harewood restored.. Cost me a fortune..Ha ha.. I love it’s rawness.. Hats off to Charlie for finishing it...
Fuckin blinding documentry
@@RawAngles would love to do a documentry with u old school memorebelia hunting it down etc let me know
@@anthonypenfold4085 Worth every penny mate... My favourite part of the film. That Harewood footage is the absolute gold dust!
Respect to second 2 none!!!! True bboy legends! Amazing documentary
Nice one Shawn...
I couldn't B-Boy for shit, but love, love, LOVE this! Makes me wish I was just a couple of years older so that I could have at least been around the scene a little more in the 80's. Part of my love for this is the not caring what the majority considered 'cool', as it reminds me of my own love of Hip Hop... The early 90's arrived & virtually everyone I knew ran off to get pilled up in clubs & aircraft hangars, while I was left pretty much on my own listening to the likes of DJ Renegade with Blade, S.O.N., etc, etc. To this day I'm still rocking bucket hats, graff tees, faded Carhartts, etc, & still representing the culture in my own little way. Big up Second To None & the makers of this documentary... It's guys like you that have given me so much pleasure over the years, & clearly still continue to do so.
Thanks Dan...
mad respect! great film was worth the wait....Nick and Jon...& the whole crew was dope.---Gee1,Point Blank boys
Much respect Gee1... Point Blank always fresh... Thanks for your kind words and really happy you liked it... it was made for breakers by breakers ;-)
Thank you..❤🙏🏼
Brought back memories! I remember when it all started back in the day, Saturday afternoons at Madison Joe's - great times! 🤘
Came herefrom Tyler asking his dad to dance like he did in the 80s Clip??❤
Thank you! 🤝
So sic! I've known about this crew for just over 20 years.. but never seen 'em dance till just now. I only knew them from the Breaker Breaks battle records that they don't mention at all in this. Those records taught me to scratch, and I very much appreciate that.
Holy shit, this is fantastic. The sequence from 22:50-ish onward is Rocky-1-training-montage-levels of inspirational. Great doc, I've seen it twice now, thanks for all the effort you put in.
Thanks very much Pokercism... We made it to inspire, so really glad you felt that... We just wanted to put down the truth, cross-referenced with video evidence and set it in stone for the archive as well as to make sure sure the world knew what sacrifices and hard work this crew and the other “survivors” dotted around the globe did at the time plus the connections and correspondences that were made that lead to what is the Competition era now... Thanks again and so glad you liked it!! Peace
Absolutely awesome. Such a well put together documentary, and I recognize some of this footage. I downloaded it on my windows 98 computer using dial up internet. I even did a school project on breaking and in class I had footage of the UK B-boy Championships from a clip I recorded on TV here in Canada. I presented it to the class while explaining the little bit of knowledge I had about breaking at the time, and I did very well on the project. I even threw down a bit and I had only a year max of breaking at the time. I wasn't great but the class loved it. Haha. Second 2 None respect.
Thanks it took me 9 years to edit... It was a group effort between me, Tony and Nathan... We really dug for as much first gen footage as poss... It was super difficult to create a coherent narrative with interviews and archive... We are all happy that it is straight up and does justice to all those, not just STN, who were active at the time who helped keep breakin from death... It would vae been great to include Japan etc but we just had to tell the story as it happened to STN.... Thanks again for the appreciation.
Mad props to second2 none from east london dope doc. You catz kept it going when we all dropped off.
Thanks Antonio, we just thought it was time to fill in the missing gaps in that transitional stage of breakin... Glad you liked the film bro
Just watched it a second time. Brilliantly made. Really hope you got the recognition you deserve. Deserves some sort of award.
Thank you Dan...
Hey Dan... We really appreciate the kind words and appreciation... Trust me when I say this was a hard film to make... In fact the way we made it and the trials and tribulations that it brought on us as well as the blood sweat and years... (9 of them!)... is fitting for such a legendary hardcore crew but also bearing in mind this untold story of an essential era which, as we say, is the missing link... We kinda aimed for a European "Freshest Kids"... and we fully knew the responsibility we had on our shoulders to come correct and present it honestly, warts n all... Real Bboys/ Bgirls appreciate that shit cuz its in their blood from battling as well as testing themselves every step of the way to become the best they can be.... Again Dan, thank you very much for your kind words... We are so so glad this film continues to be recieved in the way in which we intended it... Best regards... Charlie
@@RawAngles Is it available to buy on DVD anywhere?? I'll be gutted if it's ever removed from RUclips! By the way, the footage from the Harewood Centre in 88/89 is absolute gold dust. Probably my favourite part of the film.
Yeah people need to know who they were great footage
BBoy for Life..
Inspiration!! Been and still!
Dorset Hip Hop History! Mad respect to the Second to None crew.
Big up yourself!!!
Thank you..🙏🏼
This was great spent years watching tapes of these guys good to hear them actually speak at last.
Looking spectacular Private Joker...loving this. Great works...
Nice one Graham... Gave us all grey hair I can’t lie :-)
The pillars of European HipHop
thanks Marco.. Appreciate the comments bro
@@RawAngles 🙏🏻✊🏼
Great documentary they should make a movie with second to none and steady crew doing battle in the Roxy .
Incredible historical story and amazing video footage... Respect to S2N
Nice one Alex
Thank you mate.. The respect is appreciated....
It's amazing I still love the music now always listen to breakdance and hiphop
i remember was watching a VHS of UK bbchamp 96 and i was like 'what the phuuuuuq???'
Brilliant stuff! I train with Adam occasionally, it's crazy how influential he, and every single member, has been to the scene!
Thank you for your kind comments.. Yes Adam is a great experimenter of the dance..Seen him do things back in the day that I’ve never seen anyone do since...
This was inspiring. Thank you for sharing the history of a legendary crew!
Thanks very much Alex, that is exactly how we intended it
Unreal!! Saw Tyler’s dad just now! Still going strong
Amazing documentary! Thank you!!!! 😎 👊🏻 👍🏻 🔊 🎧 🎶 🎤 🌏 📻
Cheers dood complete and utter labour of love...
Amazing doc and thank you so much for every thing you lot have done and keeping the B-Boy love alive! Peace...
MrPaulTaylor Thank you Paul it was a pleasure to meet you..🙏🏼
Cheers man, it was a beast to make but it was worth it... STN truly deserve this film as does the breaking community... Like we say at the front.. it’s the missing link!
Absolutely fantastic work and content. STN style is timeless.
Thanks very much Dako… We had to make a heavyweight documentary for a heavyweight crew but also take the time to do justice to this era of breakin which kept it from dying… It’s mad to think fashion nearly killed it… just look at how huge it is now… Whether or not you like/agree with the direction breakin has gone it’s now the turn of the current generation who are doing incredible things and pushing the dance forward … Just like this 80s/90s generation did and the generations before that… culture keeps moving… In many directions… diversity make it richer… like anything… And there will always be an underground… And that is what this film sought to document and celebrate… Peace
Sweet, some of that footage at CH Fresh was filmed by me. Great jam and awesome documentary
Thanks very much for capturing it Burrows TD... Do you still have the original tapes? Was there any more footage other than the main jam? Any footage from the cyphers and/or pre parties or any more from that visit? Cheers!
@@RawAngles The CH fresh stuff was on a VHS I leant to Tony when it the doc eas being made. It also had their appearence on German TV with Battle squad and some amazing poppin from Kai, so I would assume that whatever was needed was taken then.
Thanks for uploading, its give me great motivational boost and has helped me with a heritage project that I'm working on.
Great to hear Tom
The STN legacy lives on. Utmost respect, gents.
Sir Beans Thanks for the respect brother! It’s appreciated...🙏🏼
Cheers dood, glad you liked it!!
Wow 🤩
cheers for that ;-)
Thank you 🙏
Amazing video feel proud to be a UK head
Thanks Veeza... it was hard work but definitely worth it if it inpired people... Thanks!!!
Amazing bboys
Super inspiring. Thank you 🙏
Thanks very much for the props
Dope!
Still epic!! 🤝
Great documentary thanks for mentioning me .... SPIKE THE BODY POPPER..CLIVE . hope all is well lads long time no see .. Tonys head spins 🏆👌
I remember you at the top of Madisons stairs when we were waiting to go in... Rock at your own Risk always seemed to be playing.. Cheers Spike
@@RawAngles great days mate and i can still do it ... never realy stopped lol
Thanks old friend!! You were one of my first inspiration in the dance!! Your popping was amazing for the time!! Always respect mate...🙏🏼
@@anthonypenfold4085 nice one mate I often think back to those days ... probably the most exciting time of my life ... respect back my mate 👌👍
Nice one m8 :)
You had a big hand in it Steve... If it wasn’t for you and our breakin sessions in your front room at the Grove I wouldn’t be into hip hop dood! Always props!
An interesting watch mate. Nice meeting you in Manchester 👌
Yes mate!!!! Really glad to meet you guys too... Cheers for the props... and glad you left a message... All the best!!!
Wow!!
Amazing doc!! Big up from France BCK Bboys Criminal Kingz represent!
Much respect... Happy you liked it BCK... We made it for the hardcore!!!!
@@charliemarbles1529 much respect to you guys!!! I saw the doc 2 times wooowww!!! Such energy ! I share it in french bboy network . Peace
@@looking4loopzprod Brilliant... All the best and peace to all the French crew!!!
Thank you so much for your kind words!! Respect...👊🏼
@@anthonypenfold4085 peace ahki
hmm if anything now i want to visit the Uk for this crew l.lll. thank you,,,bros ...
Thanks very much Goldskool, been loving your vids for a long time also. This was a massive labour of love… even though at times it felt impossible to finish but we knew it was an important crew and era that needed to be done properly so we just kept chipping away. Thanks fir the love…. That was the whole point of this project… Peace
@@charliemarbles1529 your welcome & i hope there will be an extension of this great documentary in the near future & i will be interviewed in this one i believe to had encounter with one or two of their members & i have a few question & would add to their story ,,,hope its all well with you & them thank you ,,,bye..
big in the game
wot a good bunch of guys they should get credit 4 wot they've done ur right it's about the passion and heart the love 4 it sorry john about ur graf dude was only joking haha love and peace
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#THEREALNESS
i met them probably here @ skate key in 99 or so,,maybe you guys come to get that story,,,
whats the track at 1.24.25 ? The hip hop tracks scratching 'release yourself' by aleem on the chorus and using the James Brown can't stand it sample ?
That tune’s called “Release Yourself” by Phil Most Chill
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I get dizzy just by standing up from an armchair. I don't think break-dancing is for me.
Who the fuck dislikes this video??
Is Matthew smith (Matty) up in these comments?
@7.00 sec.what song do you use?
Rockin - tue track
@@RawAngles Thanks,great Track!
Bournemouth boys Maddisons Harewood training grounds
Beautiful golden times in both case!
Thanks Alan..🍻
Madisons Bournemouth.
Ever felt like you've been airbrushed out of your own past life? I've only watched this once before and I have to say, my feelings were hurt. Now I watch it again years later, just some plain re-invention of the past going on. It's such a shame that everyone felt the need to take such an odd approach to the past in this documentary, and I still don't understand the motivation for doing so. I still get "people" calling me out as a fake to this day because of this film. I have actually stopped mentioning my past as a Second to None member because this film is apparently proof that it never happened. One thing that I know about Hip Hop culture is that it's very staunch about its early history. This film falls very short of that approach as far as basic research of the facts and just respect for an old friend and a crew member, its plain insulting and I now see it as a personal attack. I was DJing last week at an event with a Japanese guy, we got into a discussion about stuff, STN came up and the guy just told me outright that I was never in STN. Far from the first time this has happened. REPERATIONS needed. This film is following me around in the worst way possible.
Your comments are jealous, delusional bollocks..
You were approached TWICE to be in this film and never got back to Charlie both times.. You were in STN for a grand total of four months! Four months! Can you let that sink in.. You were there at the start when Steve Kerr came up with the idea to create a super crew from all the best breakers and poppers in Bournemouth. Your involvement was to come up with the name and that’s it! That was in August of 1985 and you were gone by the November. I have never heard or spoken to you since that time 38 years ago. There’s no reinvention of the past. This is the history that I told Charlie about how this all unfolded and how nearly everyone else gave up including you! A history of which 99.99% you weren’t there for! Your reinventing and Altering the past to fit into your own agenda. An agenda that’s based on regret and sadness that you stepped away early from something, but didn’t make it to the glorious end. Oh and by the way you were a bit shit aswell mate,that’s why Steve asked me to join because I was miles better than you at popping at that time. Forget breaking I never even saw you do a mill or a six step. What is all this shite you’ve written all about? You’re obviously angry at something and it’s not just this film. Classic case of sour grapes Frazer..
Gil180 BX in the late 70s we started Break dancing original b boys first the blacks started and then the Puerto Ricans change the style fax now you got these white boys doing documents I don’t support it👎🏼👎🏼👎🏼👎🏼👎🏼👎🏼👎🏼👎🏼👎🏼👎🏼👎🏼👎🏼👎🏼👎🏼👎🏼🇵🇷🇵🇷🇵🇷🇵🇷🇵🇷🇵🇷🇵🇷🇵🇷
Hi Gil… Thanks for the racist message… Those that made this film (I directed it) and those that this film is about have nothing but love and respect for the architects… I mean why wouldn’t we?! We were introduced to this culture by black/Puerto Rican crews like RSC, NYCBs, Mag Force as well as films like Flashdance , wild style and Beat street… and their tours as well as NYC Rap Tour in 82, some tunes and some KISS and WBLS tapes… That’s when/how we got it - through the media - and we had no choice about that but we got it nonetheless and acted upon it with love and a fierce energy… You were the originals and for that we are forever in your debt!! BUT… You have it all wrong bro… No one is taking anything away from those generations… or whitewashing it… This film is about OUR generation although the architects are mentioned and included in the indepth interviews… Bro, it’s obvious you haven’t bothered to even watch the film cuz if you had you’d see that those it’s about and the shit that they are doing pushed the dance (and so culture) further and that is beneficial for EVERYONE, that is if they truly love it… And this film is set at a particular point in time when NYC had moved on and were sleeping on breakin… not saying it wasn’t in your hearts, I’m just saying people weren’t practising and pushing it like folks were overseas… FACT… It was the European and overseas generation as well as LA in the shape of Orco and Air Force that communicated via VHS with the Australians who made legendary Hype magazine which then connected Second to None and Battle Squad and Maurizio and Tuf Tim (UK RSC)… and it was that group of people that then travelled back to NYC in 87 onwards and only really found Kwikstep who was still training and busking… but then connected with others and inspired them to start training again… Honestly dood you’d LEARN all this if you watched the film… Do yourself a favour… Culture moves on bro whether you like it or not… luckily we approached the dance it in a pure, hardcore NYC fashion and documented that in a fucking stylish dope heavy weight doc that Israel who directed Freshest Kids cited as a masterpiece (We wanted to make a European/overseas Freshest Kids so his words were very appreciated), We pulled no punches and asked the difficult questions… showing time stamped dope video evidence of what these people did and the battles and jams that travelled around the globe on 10th generation vhs tapes… It doesn’t matter if those folks were white or purple with mint green zigzags on their balls - it’s about character, heart and work ethic… SKILLS… and making sure the originators get their props and the history is told correctly…. Which is exactly what we did…. But without OUR generation of various shades, colours, creeds, nationalities, shapes and sizes of people… Breakin would have died… FACT… It’s a shame Gil that you focus on the differences between people and not how hip hop culture has brought people from different backgrounds, classes, countries onto a common ground… and progressed mutual understanding and respect… I mean not in your case clearly but in most cases… So many of us whiteys learned about black culture and black lives working back from breaks and lyrics and at a very early age too, is that not a positive thing? So you see “white boys doing a documentary” isn’t just some white boys, it’s the best fucking bboys in the world at the time talking about a time when they were the kings… Yes THEY WERE THE KINGS at that time and it is them you have to thank for the dance still being around… and instead of being ignorant you should do as Alien Ness said in the film and bow ya head and give thanks and recognise whatever contributions these folks have made and also the dope generous filmmakers like myself that dedicated 9 years to get it 100% tight and accurate for the benefit of those it’s about as well as the next generation and then gave it away for FREE…
Yours unapologetically,
Charlie Marbles
(Bboy and Director)
they kept it going and till this day the energy is strong wtf did you guys do? quit, then listen to girly gangsta crap..have some respect ..any way grandmaster flowers had bboys at his block parties before the bronx.......biglove STN we still have those vhs tapes we got from high5 RATS ,Maze83 ,Unique etc..
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