I get a bit emotional when I see this. It's so raw and there's so much talent both musically, acting and dancing. The whole scene is amazing. I wish I was old enough to have seen things like this in person at the height of breakdancing.
I agree 100%. People assume it was a bunch of neon clothing, it wasn't. I had some other the nicest clothes in the 80s. And yes, a splash of neon here and there.
For me it’s when you see those two crews walking up to battle. They’re walking with a purpose, like serious as a heart attack. Then that standoff and the way the whole crowd clears out because they know it’s about get real. Then both crews do the nastiest breakin ever seen. This whole part is too badass
This dance battle scene is the best cinematic dance battle ever....the fuckin intro..."Bronx Rockers, Gino! Lep! c'mon!"..."Yo there's Beat Street let's serve 'em" that's how you set a battle off.
You know how good this is? I’m from the BX and we moved to PR in the 80s when I was a teenager. When I got to PR and people learned I was from NYC people challenged me because obviously, I must be a good break dancer. Well, I was ok but not the best. So, I went to my local Blockbuster and rented Beat Street and I would rewind this scene over and over and practiced these moves for hours per day. I’m 53 now and I feel blessed that this was part of my youth. My strengths were the front flip and the hand spin. Lee, if you’re reading this we are from the same area. I was born and raised at 750 E163rd St Mckinly housing projects. Long live this era!
This scene is such an important piece of Hip Hop history for those of us who weren't born in NYC and not exposed to Hip Hop. This was my introduction to Hip Hop seeing it in the Theaters in '84. A lot of us in our 40s today are still Hip Hop heads stemming from this movie (Particularly this scene). We got exposed to Wild Style later on but for a lot of us this movie had the biggest impact.
Yes, this movie and Breakin'. I saw both in the theater, and I was overwhelmed as little kid. Me and my cousin tried to do all these dance moves.. between this and karate moves from The Last Dragon. 😂
This movie was basically the most commercial one out of all the movie releases next to Wild Style & Breakin'. Harry Belafonte was on a global tour promoting this movie, even went to Germany with the New York City Breakers. Breakin' was almost corny with the token white girl trying to be down but the dancing saved the movie. Hip Hop culture wise Wild Style was the best and most important one.
I remember growing up in those days … we didn’t solve problems by fighting or shooting each other but challenging in many different ways break dancing , rapping , graffiti , DJ etc etc things change now but I would never forget that era will always be in my heart
Im an Old School BBOY and i met this dope fresh Crew Members and for many years we kept contact my crew is CHICAGO WINDY CITY BREAKERS i go bye OLD SCHOOL RAY RAY aka BBOY PHAZE DOZ thank you all for the love and support you have for my friends Amen and God bless Always 🙏🙏🙏
This was so awesome! The build up with them walking, then the stance and then the main event! Wow! It’s like you’re a kid going to Disney world for the first time.
The order of Break Dancers appearance in dance routine. Beat Street Breakers aka New York Ciy Breakers vs Bronx Rockers aka Rock Steady Crew. 1) Poweful Pexter 2) Baby Love 3) Mr Wave 4) Lee Kirkland 5) Prince Ken Swift 6) Action 7) Buck Four 8) Icey Ice 9) Devious Doze 10) Flip Rock 11) Crazy Legs 12) Lil Lep 13) Crazy Legs 14) Kid Nice 15) Kuriake 16) Glide Master 17) Crazy Legs
And in my opinion it's all over with powerful Pex..first move..best windmills...( along with kuriaki who doesn't use his head which is harder to do NYC easily win this battle
C'mon, I love this for its nostalgic reasons but today's bboying is on a whole nother level. Just for naming it "break dancing" you really do not know much about bboying and today's scene
You trippin. I bet you dont know a damn thing about the scene. Bboying was young when Beat Street was made, and mad respect to Rocksteady and NYC Breakers for influencing many of us who came after, but bboyin now is more refined and definitely in its adult stage. Its crazy the things ppl can do today, and I used to bboy in the late 90s to the late 2000s. And you probably dont even know that Crazy Legs and Ken Swift (they are battling in this movie part) are still a part of the bboy scene now.
Nah, today theres a lot of breakin and bboying and crazy sh1t they do, but they dont really "break dance" anymore. You dont see the same type of wild windmill styles, or footwork like they used to. Its all different now
I get chill's EVERY time I watch this scene and I instantly become a 12 year old kid, watching it in awe all over again. The music: Breaker's Revenge - Arthur Baker The Breakin: Νew York City Breakers and Rock steady crew The outfits: Puma Savannah Windbreaks and pants. Puma hoodies, puffer jackets. Puma basket and Clyde sneakers with fat laces, etc etc. (Some of which I still own) …All stuff of legend, both then and still now. All of it was the epitome of Kool in 1984 and it hasn't lost a drop since.
Yes! This was so awesome! The build up with them walking, then the stance and then the main event! Wow! It’s like you’re a kid going to Disney world for the first time.
So many Hip Hop legends in this film Jazzy Jay, The Rock Steady Crew, NYC Breakers, Grandmaster Melle Mel etc..and some of the most iconic dance scenes and soundtrack in cinemas history....Still gives me goosebumps
1st PEX went, Baby Love did not beat him, Mr. Wave went Doze taunt did not win, Lee went, but Swift took him out, Then Chino(Action) went and beat Swift, I do think BUCK KILLED it, to this day who can do what he did that fast, but Flip Rock Killed it, then Legs got beat by Lil Lep, and Kuriaki won his set, but only went once, I think NYC won this battle, I heard from Legs that they battle after the movie was over somewhere and RSC won that battle
@@stanforddickson6349 Mr. Wave’s whole schtick was top notch. Nobody could touch that quaking tick into that iLL standing body spin! Ken Swift’s uprock was nasty! He got the whole crew with that ding-dong freeze. Chino’s jump to backspin was crazy but Kuriaki waved it off like it wasn’t dope (it was). Crazy Legs’ little ankle move was dope. Flip rock was clean. Buck 4… no one from NYCB could top that turtle move. Kuriaki killed that windmill Crazy Legs did the iLL sneaker-off backspin which burned the whole NYCB crew. Dope battle…
I never thought New York City breakers got the credit they deserved.They had a brilliant body popper in MR WAVE & great B BOYS such as POWERFUL PEXSTER, LIL LEP, FLIP ROCK & ICEY ICE(who doesn’t appear in the battle).Just look at PEXSTERS windmill,then freeze,right in front of ROCK STEADY CREW...BRILLIANT.And look at ACTION jumping into a backspin,back up,then into a windmill.Then GLIDEMASTER’S handspin,into backspin, then up into a head spin.These were hard moves to pull off.It was sad that they lost GLIDEMASTER in a motorbike accident,and the crew split up after that.
Not really.. the red crew was the focus of the movie because Bobby was with that team so they had to come out Slightry on top as part of the movie. They gave the red crew more time to dance. The blue crew was as technical as they were in real life but the red was suppose to reign for the plot
I grew up in this era, went to school with some of the New York City Breakers, this is how they took care of business, no guns just pure dancing talent.
The best dance scene in a movie ever. I saw this movie at the Whittier walk in when I was 13. Went with my friends and we watches 3 or 4 showings the weekend it came out. I'm so so fortunate to have experienced this movie back in the 80s.
A ten year old me thought Rocksteady, when they walk in with their blue puffas and hoodies on, were the coolest dudes on the planet. It's still looks wicked today. As does Lee with his graffiti denim jacket, Cazal glasses and Kangol. Fresh as fuck! 👌🏻😊
I know this is an 80s movie but I used to watch this battle so much in the 90s that I started breaking and didn't stop till 2020. I'm picking it up again.
what a lot of people miss is that this scene is shot extremely well, very competent direction, from the build up of Lee being the scout, then following the two crews as the crowd part way, to the battle (3 camera setup?)... all the way up the girl with poof air sauntering off stage right at the end... amazing camera angles... would love to see the b-roll of this scene and the subway uprock battle... as well as the classroom scene that was cut from the movie...
There were tons of edits on this scene but yes, it was superb! The key is to look at Tracey and her friends during the battle. One of those girls that was wearing purple flips in and out of position on several occasions. You will notice how many edits they did with these guys moves. Even with crazy legs, they added about three extra swipes to his set. Glidemaster had his hand glide extended too and they edited in a different scene of him coming out of his backspin. Overall, they made a masterpiece especially when you consider how they kept it all in sync with the music.
@@gaffle-411 Great observation my friend. I've watched Beat Streat a million times since seeing it in the theater in 1984 at age 11. I've never noticed that before. Now I wanna go back and watch again to see the things you pointed out.
I actually remember those days ! Now in my mid 50s I was a kid when we use to carry a sheet of linoleum down the Chicago streets . I was capable of still doing some of the dance moves in my 30s at my brother wedding but after that it was all down hill .😂😂😂
Good times as a kid here in Chicago back then . Carrying cardboard sheets meeting at some buddy house to practice for a battle. Can’t forget the boom boxes everyone was carrying on there shoulders and if you were a upper class kid you had linoleum. 😂 fun times .
This is a very Important lost art in Hip Hop History, I am a 50s generational old timer, I remember the famous group the Lockers, who perform on Soul train in the early 1970s. Hip Hop in the beginning was more artist, and had great DJ's back then. New York city is and will always be the original birth place of Hip Hop, that being said I am a music buff, and a Historian of Black American History to the fullest.
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I get a bit emotional when I see this. It's so raw and there's so much talent both musically, acting and dancing. The whole scene is amazing. I wish I was old enough to have seen things like this in person at the height of breakdancing.
If you're young enough, make your own scene💙
This is what I was expecting to see at the Olympics
Hiro 10 was even Better..his Power moves was next level. 🔥🔥🔥🔥
The Paris olympics was nowhere near this level. Rock Steady Crew & NYC Breakers old skool break talent, RESPECT!
Id of just loved this tune at Olympics
Word!!!
@@RostyForsythexplain how anyone from either crew you see in this movie could compete with a top bboy today in 2024
The B Boy stance before the battle was dope.
That's how they knew you meant Business!!!
And it was called the Buffalo Stance. Why? I have no idea, but I found out after that Nena Cherry song came out.
Hispanics and Blacks when life gave them the streets, they made the streets beautiful!!!! A bond like no other!
Yes ❤
MAN1 what the fuck you said.
We killed it together!
We could not afford musical instruments, so we took a turntable a made it into one. Innovation through genius!
Word
80’s is and will always be the greatest generation from Music to Fashion. No contest!
Fashion??Neon clothes??No thank you🤮Bad big hair rock bands??🤮The 80s sucked!!!
Love it or hate it, 80's style always made a bold statement that was uniquely it's own. It was an amazing time.
I agree 100%. People assume it was a bunch of neon clothing, it wasn't. I had some other the nicest clothes in the 80s. And yes, a splash of neon here and there.
An era when dancing solved problems not guns 👌
We danced went home and practiced
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For me it’s when you see those two crews walking up to battle. They’re walking with a purpose, like serious as a heart attack. Then that standoff and the way the whole crowd clears out because they know it’s about get real. Then both crews do the nastiest breakin ever seen. This whole part is too badass
This dance battle scene is the best cinematic dance battle ever....the fuckin intro..."Bronx Rockers, Gino! Lep! c'mon!"..."Yo there's Beat Street let's serve 'em" that's how you set a battle off.
Actual Facts!!! #BAR 🗽
I won a prize for breaking in early 80 and got to dance with them great time
You’re absolutely right about everything except he said “Chino! Pex! c’mon!”
Chino
man i get chills every time I see that face off...it was filmed perfectly!
cant lie, the nostalgia brings tears to the eyes
some of my school friends back then that danced to this tune at the back of the class are no longer around, seeing this clip reminds me of them
This is before hip-hop became commercial this was a way of life for us back in the 80s
Name of first song
Lisa Fisher (Xena) - only love
This will never get old.
I was sixteen years old when I first saw this! 👌😚
They should lock this movie in a time capsule! 🇺🇸
Never late 1970s and the 1980s
Timesless, music will liver for ever
Never. Ever.
I was eleven when this movie came out
Rest in peace to:
Lil Lep
Glidemaster
Buck 4
Kuriaki
🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾
For true.
The only blue vs. red I care to see anymore.
"There's Beat street. Lets serve em"
Classic line in hip hop history
ROCK STEADY CREW
Nada me da tanta saudade como ver break... pena que a gente envelhece mas nossa juventude foi sensacional..
You know how good this is? I’m from the BX and we moved to PR in the 80s when I was a teenager. When I got to PR and people learned I was from NYC people challenged me because obviously, I must be a good break dancer. Well, I was ok but not the best. So, I went to my local Blockbuster and rented Beat Street and I would rewind this scene over and over and practiced these moves for hours per day. I’m 53 now and I feel blessed that this was part of my youth. My strengths were the front flip and the hand spin. Lee, if you’re reading this we are from the same area. I was born and raised at 750 E163rd St Mckinly housing projects. Long live this era!
Do you happen to know lil Lep moves I’ve been trying to get them name of his moves
FREESTYLE CHAMP
@@cyberpunk2527 literally. he's so smooth
0:57 the way Bronx Rockers (Rock Steady Crew) walks through the crowd on the dancefloor is legendary
Still the best battle i ever seen ! I went to the movies to see this ... fresh
Real hip hop, recognize son
RIP Kuriaki
Crazy seeing my dad at 2:20 mark 😮🔥🔥🔥🔥
Your dad was bad ass man a real legend and pioneer.
Ken swift is ur dad?
This scene is such an important piece of Hip Hop history for those of us who weren't born in NYC and not exposed to Hip Hop. This was my introduction to Hip Hop seeing it in the Theaters in '84. A lot of us in our 40s today are still Hip Hop heads stemming from this movie (Particularly this scene). We got exposed to Wild Style later on but for a lot of us this movie had the biggest impact.
I won a prize and it was to hang out and practice with the rock steady crew everyone thinks crazy legs was the best cariakie.was the best
Yes, this movie and Breakin'. I saw both in the theater, and I was overwhelmed as little kid. Me and my cousin tried to do all these dance moves.. between this and karate moves from The Last Dragon. 😂
Wild Style was released before
It was a wonderful era before it got hijacked bye gangster rap
This movie was basically the most commercial one out of all the movie releases next to Wild Style & Breakin'. Harry Belafonte was on a global tour promoting this movie, even went to Germany with the New York City Breakers. Breakin' was almost corny with the token white girl trying to be down but the dancing saved the movie. Hip Hop culture wise Wild Style was the best and most important one.
When they first announced that breakdancing would be part of the Olympics, this is what I imagined.. I was way off lol
🐰🐇🐰🐇we know who this is
I remember growing up in those days … we didn’t solve problems by fighting or shooting each other but challenging in many different ways break dancing , rapping , graffiti , DJ etc etc things change now but I would never forget that era will always be in my heart
Kuriyaki elevating while doing the windmill is next level.
Im an Old School BBOY and i met this dope fresh Crew Members and for many years we kept contact my crew is CHICAGO WINDY CITY BREAKERS i go bye OLD SCHOOL RAY RAY aka BBOY PHAZE DOZ thank you all for the love and support you have for my friends Amen and God bless Always 🙏🙏🙏
Mr Wavy (second dude in red) killed that shit.
4:11 RIP bboy lil Lep
HipHop at pure and rawest
This was so awesome! The build up with them walking, then the stance and then the main event! Wow! It’s like you’re a kid going to Disney world for the first time.
Watching this never gets old for me! Remember when I first saw it in the theater!
1:10 Powerful Pexter
1:31 Baby Love
1:45 Mr. Wave
1:59 Lee
2:18 Ken Swift
2:37 Action
2:55 Buck 4 (RIP)
3:09 Powerful Pexter
3:17 Devious Doze
3:28 Flip Rock
3:49 Crazy Legs
4:10 Lil Lep
4:27 Crazy Legs
4:36 Kid Nice
4:49 Kuriaki (RIP)
5:14 Glide Master (RIP)
5:33 Crazy Legs
Damn how do u know all there names..very impressive
Thank you
Good shit homie ,,I appreciate you for that for real
The very first guy danced in my classroom. PS 114 BX Ms Figaroa. New York City Breakers
Flip Rock wins
Shadows of the night still hits so hard🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Lisa Fisher (Xena) - Only Love
I guess the Aussie Olympics coach forgot to show this to the team...
"Shit.... They're wearing kangols, not kangaroos mate!"
😂😂😂
SO GLAD I LIVED DURING THIS TIME. I WAS 12 WHEN THIS MOVIE WAS RELEASED.
Same. I was 11. Good times! 👍
Me to
The order of Break Dancers appearance in dance routine.
Beat Street Breakers aka New York Ciy Breakers vs Bronx Rockers aka Rock Steady Crew.
1) Poweful Pexter
2) Baby Love
3) Mr Wave
4) Lee Kirkland
5) Prince Ken Swift
6) Action
7) Buck Four
8) Icey Ice
9) Devious Doze
10) Flip Rock
11) Crazy Legs
12) Lil Lep
13) Crazy Legs
14) Kid Nice
15) Kuriake
16) Glide Master
17) Crazy Legs
There was no Icey Ice in this battle. That was Pexster going back out trying to one up Buck 4.
@@gaffle-411 He was with Magnificent Force in the movie.
And in my opinion it's all over with powerful Pex..first move..best windmills...( along with kuriaki who doesn't use his head which is harder to do NYC easily win this battle
This still beats today's break dancing it's just the whole vibe about it
C'mon, I love this for its nostalgic reasons but today's bboying is on a whole nother level. Just for naming it "break dancing" you really do not know much about bboying and today's scene
You trippin. I bet you dont know a damn thing about the scene. Bboying was young when Beat Street was made, and mad respect to Rocksteady and NYC Breakers for influencing many of us who came after, but bboyin now is more refined and definitely in its adult stage. Its crazy the things ppl can do today, and I used to bboy in the late 90s to the late 2000s. And you probably dont even know that Crazy Legs and Ken Swift (they are battling in this movie part) are still a part of the bboy scene now.
Nah, today theres a lot of breakin and bboying and crazy sh1t they do, but they dont really "break dance" anymore. You dont see the same type of wild windmill styles, or footwork like they used to. Its all different now
It's not called "Breakdancing " which is a media term , it's called Rockin', B-boyin' or Breakin'.
@@Mr-Keyeswe in the south called it Breakin
Thanks to Harry Belafonte for bringing this to the big screen for the first time!
I get chill's EVERY time I watch this scene and I instantly become a 12 year old kid, watching it in awe all over again.
The music: Breaker's Revenge - Arthur Baker
The Breakin: Νew York City Breakers and Rock steady crew
The outfits: Puma Savannah Windbreaks and pants. Puma hoodies, puffer jackets. Puma basket and Clyde sneakers with fat laces, etc etc. (Some of which I still own)
…All stuff of legend, both then and still now. All of it was the epitome of Kool in 1984 and it hasn't lost a drop since.
R.I.P. Lil Lep 🙏🏽💔🕊️🕊️ New York City Breakers!
Lil Lep passed???
Classic from 1984! ❤️🔥
I watched this in the movie theater when this came out back in the day, and here I am again at age 56. Yes, those times will never be forgotten.
Yes! This was so awesome! The build up with them walking, then the stance and then the main event! Wow! It’s like you’re a kid going to Disney world for the first time.
Better than what we got in the 2024 Olympics and this is over 30 years ago.
Tbh this is possibly the best ever B Boy battle committed to film. Even now its hard to beat.
Damn I miss those days
Rock Steady Crew / Kuriaki Power
Still one of the best 80s movies ever
So many Hip Hop legends in this film Jazzy Jay, The Rock Steady Crew, NYC Breakers, Grandmaster Melle Mel etc..and some of the most iconic dance scenes and soundtrack in cinemas history....Still gives me goosebumps
KURIAKI!!!!!!!YOUR TALENT WILL LIVE ON FOREVER!!!!!!
#THEGODFATHEROFBBOYS
1st PEX went, Baby Love did not beat him, Mr. Wave went Doze taunt did not win, Lee went, but Swift took him out, Then Chino(Action) went and beat Swift, I do think BUCK KILLED it, to this day who can do what he did that fast, but Flip Rock Killed it, then Legs got beat by Lil Lep, and Kuriaki won his set, but only went once, I think NYC won this battle, I heard from Legs that they battle after the movie was over somewhere and RSC won that battle
@@stanforddickson6349 Action took out all of RSC with that "no-hands to the floor back spin, then back up on this feet" move...
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Mr. Wave’s whole schtick was top notch. Nobody could touch that quaking tick into that iLL standing body spin!
Ken Swift’s uprock was nasty! He got the whole crew with that ding-dong freeze.
Chino’s jump to backspin was crazy but Kuriaki waved it off like it wasn’t dope (it was).
Crazy Legs’ little ankle move was dope.
Flip rock was clean.
Buck 4… no one from NYCB could top that turtle move.
Kuriaki killed that windmill
Crazy Legs did the iLL sneaker-off backspin which burned the whole NYCB crew.
Dope battle…
😢😢😢😢
A Timeless Complete Masterclass of Breakdancing!!! 👏👏👏👏👏
All of these dudes are fresh af
4:10 Still watching in 2025. RIP Lil Lep. 1963-2024.
The best break dancing movie ever
Breakin 84
@@MadeInManny0161Breakin was nice....too whitewashed.
It was definitely the benchmark at the time.
Classic movie
Those were the days,awww bet I could still break now at 53 😝😝
I've watched this scene so many times on here and it never gets old.
Facts brother. The walk to the dance floor as the track kicks in, gives me goosebumps to this day. ✊🏾🔥
Schon so old school,aber das Battle,dass mich am meisten beeindruckt hat
Man I miss the 80's !!!
Give all of these guys Gold Medals! 🥇🥇🥇🥇
LOL 0:46 Lee pointed at Pex, but he was right next to him.
LoL
I never thought New York City breakers got the credit they deserved.They had a brilliant body popper in MR WAVE & great B BOYS such as POWERFUL PEXSTER, LIL LEP, FLIP ROCK & ICEY ICE(who doesn’t appear in the battle).Just look at PEXSTERS windmill,then freeze,right in front of ROCK STEADY CREW...BRILLIANT.And look at ACTION jumping into a backspin,back up,then into a windmill.Then GLIDEMASTER’S handspin,into backspin, then up into a head spin.These were hard moves to pull off.It was sad that they lost GLIDEMASTER in a motorbike accident,and the crew split up after that.
Chino moves were clean
I disagree. They got tons of credit! They performed in front of the president, Ronald Reagan, twice!
Agreed, Chino did a quick backspin directly from the up position...
Puma. Best example of product placement in a movie that made its name synonymous with breakdancing.
I remember being a kid and my pops pulling me to the living room to watch this scene on the TV. Glad he showed me gems like these!
NYC Breakers crushed RockSteady, their moves were more pronounced and elegant, very clean, Pex , Chino and Flip's routine was flawless....
Not really.. the red crew was the focus of the movie because Bobby was with that team so they had to come out Slightry on top as part of the movie. They gave the red crew more time to dance. The blue crew was as technical as they were in real life but the red was suppose to reign for the plot
Plus the track suits look more seamless than jeans and they had more people dancing.
I grew up in this era, went to school with some of the New York City Breakers, this is how they took care of business, no guns just pure dancing talent.
Which was really The New York City Breakers Vs The Rock Steady Crew …❤❤❤ I intro to hiphop as a baby. I’m in 30s and still watch this.
Nah I’m building a time machine unless there is already one
The best dance scene in a movie ever. I saw this movie at the Whittier walk in when I was 13. Went with my friends and we watches 3 or 4 showings the weekend it came out. I'm so so fortunate to have experienced this movie back in the 80s.
I had it even 4+4 even!!!
A ten year old me thought Rocksteady, when they walk in with their blue puffas and hoodies on, were the coolest dudes on the planet. It's still looks wicked today.
As does Lee with his graffiti denim jacket, Cazal glasses and Kangol.
Fresh as fuck! 👌🏻😊
Puma street also lol,,Dope
me too!! They were the toughest dudes I'd ever seen.
Lee did rock the fly gear for that era…
Nothing quite like the 80's. Thanks for posting!
I know this is an 80s movie but I used to watch this battle so much in the 90s that I started breaking and didn't stop till 2020. I'm picking it up again.
1:56 he got upset because he got up rocked!😂😂😂 what a classic movie!
I remember this. I was 11 years old! Great times! 😊
what a lot of people miss is that this scene is shot extremely well, very competent direction, from the build up of Lee being the scout, then following the two crews as the crowd part way, to the battle (3 camera setup?)... all the way up the girl with poof air sauntering off stage right at the end... amazing camera angles... would love to see the b-roll of this scene and the subway uprock battle... as well as the classroom scene that was cut from the movie...
There were tons of edits on this scene but yes, it was superb! The key is to look at Tracey and her friends during the battle. One of those girls that was wearing purple flips in and out of position on several occasions. You will notice how many edits they did with these guys moves. Even with crazy legs, they added about three extra swipes to his set. Glidemaster had his hand glide extended too and they edited in a different scene of him coming out of his backspin.
Overall, they made a masterpiece especially when you consider how they kept it all in sync with the music.
Love the passion for film. Great heignsight.
@@gaffle-411 Great observation my friend. I've watched Beat Streat a million times since seeing it in the theater in 1984 at age 11. I've never noticed that before. Now I wanna go back and watch again to see the things you pointed out.
I run half marathons and put "Breaker's Revenge" on my playlist. When I hear it I kick it in overdrive. I wish I could breakdance like these guys
Sad to see Buck and Kuriaki in the beginning.😢
Fresh.
Red Team killed it
They are the New York City Breakers.
Unbelievable that this is from 1984 and it's a thousand times better than the Olympic breakdancing competition which was an abomination.
I actually remember those days ! Now in my mid 50s I was a kid when we use to carry a sheet of linoleum down the Chicago streets . I was capable of still doing some of the dance moves in my 30s at my brother wedding but after that it was all down hill .😂😂😂
Had to have the thick laces in the trainers as well 😂😂
I had so much fun at The Roxy in the late 90’s, early 2000’s. Miss this legendary place so much.😢😢😢 This scene is iconic.❤❤❤
Good times as a kid here in Chicago back then . Carrying cardboard sheets meeting at some buddy house to practice for a battle. Can’t forget the boom boxes everyone was carrying on there shoulders and if you were a upper class kid you had linoleum. 😂 fun times .
80's was way better!
Wow unfortunately I can't do this anymore
Illest hip hop movie scene ever..
The greatest scene in cinema history... "They're gonna battle man!"
Thanx for great 80s movies .
Classic movie Jazzy Jay , Legend
3:54 remember when cuba gooding jr did that on rat race
L'époque où il y avait du RESPECT et où les gens savaient danser sur de la très bonne musique et chansons!
It's almost weird seeing this so clear and crisp. I own the VHS. Incredible job on the remaster.
Thanks Veeo Beats!
Agreed!!
such a good movie.
Greatest movie scene ever! "Here comes Crazylegs" 🤸♂️👊💪
Those were the days!
This is a very Important lost art in Hip Hop History, I am a 50s generational old timer, I remember the famous group the Lockers, who perform on Soul train in the early 1970s. Hip Hop in the beginning was more artist, and had great DJ's back then. New York city is and will always be the original birth place of Hip Hop, that being said I am a music buff, and a Historian of Black American History to the fullest.
B-Boy Kuriaki was so dope, i wish there was more footage of him
Word
Proper b boys from the bronx
Smashed rock steady so easy with crazy legs
40+ years later and these olympians couldnt stand a chance
Great movie great Sound.,.. 👍