What many people didn’t know was within these styles, other sub-cultures existed, each with their own identities. “In the 80’s when streetdancing blew up, the media often incorrectly used the term ‘breakdancing’ as an umbrella term for most the streetdancing styles that they saw. Hip-hop’s dance tradition, the kinetic counterpart to the sound scape of rap music and the visuals of graffiti art, is properly known as b-boying.” To those who knew it before it was tagged with the name breakdancing, to those still involved in the scene that they will always know as b-boying, the tradition is alive and, well, spinning.” “Breakdancing may have died, but the b-boy, one of four original elements of hip hop (also included: the MC, the DJ, and the graffiti artist) lives on.
B BOYING DANCE PROFESSIONAL
“B-boy… that’s what it is, that’s why when the public changed it to ‘break-dancing’ they were just giving a professional name to it, but b-boy was the original name for it and whoever wants to keep it real would keep calling it b-boy.” “You know what, that’s our fault kind of… we started dancing and going on tours and all that and people would say, oh you guys are breakdancers – we never corrected them.” “When I first learned about the dance in ’77 it was called b-boying… by the time the media got a hold of it in like ’81, ’82, it became ‘break-dancing’ and I even got caught up calling it break-dancing too.” Freeze, and hip-hop historian Fab 5 Freddy use the term “b-boy”, as do rappers Big Daddy Kane and Tech N9ne. In addition, co-founder of Rock Steady Crew Santiago “Jo Jo” Torres, Rock Steady Crew member Mr. Frosty Freeze of the Rock Steady Crew says, “we were known as b-boys”, and hip-hop pioneer Afrika Bambaataa says, “b-boys, what you call break boys… or b-girls, what you call break girls. B-boy London of the New York City Breakers and filmmaker Michael Holman refer to these dancers as “breakers”. For those immersed in hip-hop culture, the term “breakdancer” may be used to disparage those who learn the dance for personal gain rather than for commitment to the culture.
Most b-boying pioneers and practitioners prefer the terms “b-boy”, “b-girl”, and/or “breaker” when referring to these dancers. The obvious connection of the term “breaking” is to the word “breakbeat”, but DJ Kool Herc has commented that the term “breaking” was slang at the time for “getting excited”, “acting energetically” or “causing a disturbance”. DJ Kool Herc is a Jamaican-American DJ who is responsible for developing the foundational aspects of hip-hop music. The original terms arose to describe the dancers who performed to DJ Kool Herc’s breakbeats. The terms “b-boy” (break-boy), “b-girl” (break-girl), and “breaker” are the original terms used to describe the dancers. The dance itself is properly called “breaking” according to rappers such as KRS-One, Talib Kweli, Mos Def, and Darryl McDaniels of Run-DMC. The term “breakdancing” is also problematic because it has become a diluted umbrella term that incorrectly includes popping, locking, and electric boogaloo, which are not styles of “breakdance”, but are funk styles that were developed separately from breaking in California. Purists consider “breakdancing” an ignorant term invented by the media that connotes exploitation of the art and is used to sensationalize breaking.
Although widespread, the term “break-dancing” is looked down upon by those immersed in hip-hop culture. The terminology used to refer to b-boying changed after promotion by the mainstream media.
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