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Posts Tagged ‘ken swift’

Toys Crew: Denmark’s Call of the Wild Style

By Q Ball • Jul 17th, 2008 • Category: The Blackbook

It is the call of the wild style, and traditionally Graff Writers will hook up in crews like a pack of wolves roaming the night. A crew is exactly like any other team or company focusing on a common goal to get the job done. They choose their pieces, pick their target, establish the plan, agree to the tasks, enter, execute, bomb, and finally exit like vapor.



Old School B-Boy Footage: Ben Vereen and David Letterman

By Q Ball • Jun 29th, 2008 • Category: Body Rock

During the mid 1980s when B-Boying was being commercially pimped, the world was exposed to the legendary New York City Breakers and The Rock Steady Crew. Unknowingly, these two B-Boy crews were internationally evangelized Hip Hop’s dance form and culture, and thanks to the international community B-Boying never died. If you were really paying attention to Hip Hop culture on the outside looking in, the international community is who is saving it now.



B-Boy Pioneer Frosty Freeze Passes at 44

By Q Ball • Apr 4th, 2008 • Category: Body Rock

Ladies and Gentlemen, B-Boy Godfather, Wayne “Frosty Freeze” Frost of the Rock Steady Crew, has passed at the young age of 44. His passing occurred Thursday April 4, 2008, at Mount Sinai Medical Center in NYC due to suffering a long term undisclosed illness.