San Francisco Rap scene
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YO..IM BACK..HEY.....FRISCO WILL NEVER EVER FOLLOW A TREND. NEVER DID NEVER WILL...LIKE THAT CLASSIC TRACK....WE ARE THE WORLD..FEEL ME...THERES NO WAY WE'D BE ON THE SAME SHIT EVERYONE ELSE IS ON...YES WE MIGHT TOUCH IT A LIL BIT BUT THAT'S IT..FEEL ME...WHEN MY SINGLE DROP ON THE STREET...GIVE IT A REAL LISTEN...I MEAN A LISTEN...PLEASE DON'T TRY N COMPARE MY STYLE TO NOTHIN OUT CUZ YOU WON'T GIVE ME A FAIR LISTEN....TAKE A LISTEN TO MY SHIT AND GIVE ME MY SECTION IN THE BAY....THIS NEW SHIT....FEEL ME. THERES HELLA TALENT IN FRISCO BUT THERES TOO MANY LISTENERS EXPECTING IT TO SOUND LIKE EVERYONE ELSES SHIT AND THEN THEY TURN THE OTHER WAY LIKE IT'S NOT POPPIN...WHEN IN ACTUALITY IT'S THATBBRAND NEW BREATH OF FRESH AIR SHIT THAT WILL GO MUCH FURTHER THAN THE NORMAL SHIT OUT HERE....NIGGAS IS FAR FROM WEAK..FAR FROM TRASH..NIGGAS IS ON SOME ALL BY MYSLEF PROFESSIONAL SHIT...THAT FRISCO SHIT ISIN MY BLOOD SO TUFF......
MY SINGLE PURPLE TREEZ WILL HIT THE STREET THE SAME DAY AS MY VIDEO SHOOT WHICH IS NOW MAY 13TH 2006...DOWNTOWN SF AND ALSO SHOOTING IN GOLDEN GATE PARK....THAT DAY WE'LL BE GIVING OUT COPIES OF THE SONG....LETS GET THIS SHIT ON KMEL...SOME SUPPORT MY SHIT YALL.....LETS NOT JUST HAVE THE SAME SHIT ON THE RADIO WITH NO OTHER TYPE ARTISTS REPRESENTING...THERES ROOM FOR ALOT MORE STYLES OUT HERE..FEEL IT. 1
MY SINGLE PURPLE TREEZ WILL HIT THE STREET THE SAME DAY AS MY VIDEO SHOOT WHICH IS NOW MAY 13TH 2006...DOWNTOWN SF AND ALSO SHOOTING IN GOLDEN GATE PARK....THAT DAY WE'LL BE GIVING OUT COPIES OF THE SONG....LETS GET THIS SHIT ON KMEL...SOME SUPPORT MY SHIT YALL.....LETS NOT JUST HAVE THE SAME SHIT ON THE RADIO WITH NO OTHER TYPE ARTISTS REPRESENTING...THERES ROOM FOR ALOT MORE STYLES OUT HERE..FEEL IT. 1
WROOOOOOOOOOONNNNNNNGGGGGGGGGG buddy..... pop locking came from FRESNORTE that aint no scrap cal thing dummy, quit talkin out of your ass so cal aint nothing but clones living there that can't reinvent themselves fuck outta here! lol pop locking come from LA them faggots was jocking that shit in FRESNO, thats why you dummies look retarted doing it, cant even do it right LOL.
nigga u sound stupid as fuc, shut yo farmer ass up livin in sac u niggaz bit everythang from LA nigga, white-ts as far as street fashion not tha pen , u corny ass nigga, everybody know it started in LA, just like saggin as a street fashion started in LA, who wuz wearin white-ts in tha rap game before tha hot boys came out? nobody except LA niggaz, tha hotboys got that from LA, they been visited tha Jordan Downs projects in Watts, thats where they seen niggaz in all white t-'s , u can watch menace II society from 1993 and see tha whole hood in white t-'s
Locking and Popping (Electric Boogie)
Electric boogie is a style of popping (ticking). Both locking and popping or ticking originally came from Los Angeles. Popping was created by street dance crew ñElectric Boogaloo. Locking was created by ñThe Lockersî Both locking and popping existed a long time before breaking was born. During breaking era, b-boys started to put popping and locking into their dance. Mr. Wiggles says, since people in NY twisted popping and made it more funky and something different from original popping, they call it electric boogie instead of popping. (This comment about Electric Boogie is different from the following artilce, though. I am not sure which is ture.) Nowadays, so-called "Breakdance" consists of breaking, locking, and electric boogie or popping. The following article is about history of locking and Electric boogie from a book "BREAKING AND THE NEW YORK CITY BREAKERS" written by Michael Holman in early 80s. I also put an article from Doc Boogaloo who is a member of Electric Boogaloo. He sent this artilce to me. This is very good article. Please check this out.
History
It was the robots on TV shows in the early '60s like "Lost in Space" that inspired the black kids in Los Angels to invent the dance the Robot. I don't think mime was as great an influence, after all, how many live shows has Marcel Marceau done in Watts?
Obviously mime was inspirational in the development and perfecting of the Robot. The sense of animation and futurism is strong in most poor inner-city kids because it's an escape to a world where everything is perfect, sharp, and in control. The hydraulic movements of the robot danced to music which was becoming more and more mechanically rhythmic, like James Brown's "Goodfoot" (1969), was a natural development in Los Angeles, a city of major street dance creations.
In 1969, a young black man by the name of Don Campbell was becoming known among street dancers in Los Angeles for inventing a dance called the Campbellock (he put out a record called "Do the Campbellock"). Don Campbell took the hydraulic robotic movements, which were all about total control and mixed it with wild, out of control body movement dances of the tap-flash dance days plus exact stop and start movements and spiced it all with comic facial expressions and clown-like costumes to develop a whole new dance movement which is still going strong called "Locking" (Campbellocking to us old guys. I lived in L.A. when it first came out and was a pretty good Campbellocker myself.)
The best way to describe the movement of locking would be thus: You know those little-figured toys that are like inside-out puppets on small plastic circular platforms or pedestals, and if you press the bottom of the platform the figure collapses real fast, then when you let your finger up it goes back into shape? Well that's what locking looks like. The body moves out of control then back into control snapping into position, collapsing then snapping back.
By the Early '70s Don Campbell had put together a whole crew of lockers called "The Lockers." One of the lockers was Shabadoo, the star of "Breaking," and Penguin, who was the chubby locker named "Rerun" on the TV show "What's Happening." The lockers of the early '70s wore platform shoes, loud striped socks, pegged pants that stopped at the knees, bright colorful satin shirts with big collars, big colorful bow ties, gigantic Apple Boy hats, and white gloves.
Around that time a known TV choreographer named Toni Basil, who was famous for shows like "Shindig," and "Hullaballoo," discovered Don Campbell and his Lockers and helped bring them to international fame. She was an incredible dancer herself and soon learned to lock. She became a member of The Lockers, helped develop their dance act, and got them on TV shows like "Saturday Night Live" and commercials such as Schlitz Malt Liquor Beer (the one with the bull).
I remember seeing her and Don Campbell dance live at a nightclub called Crenshaw Flats in Los Angeles. I was blown away. She was actually better than he was!
Also around the time "Soul Train" hit the air (1972) and it became an instant media hit by featuring street dancers, especially The Lockers, of Los Angeles. The nightclub Crenshaw Flats the apartment on Crenshaw Boulevard in Los Angels was where the "Soul Train" gang hung out.
At the time breaking was developing in New York, locking the The Robot were getting popular in southern California. During 1972 and '73 in Fresno, California, a small city halfway between Los Angeles and Dan Francisco, a black family of all boys were inventing something new of their own. They called their dance the Electric Boogaloo. Pistol Pete (who also starred in the film "Breaking" and was involved with Toni Basil and The Lockers and "Soul Train" in the early days) and his brothers had created The Electric Boogaloo by combining locking. The Robot, and the more smooth and controlled movements of mime. Instead of throwing their bodies in and out of control like locking, or in total hydraulic control like The Robot, they passed energy through their bodies popping and snapping elbows, wrists, necks, hips and just about all the body joints along the way. Electric Boogaloo was more like mime in the sense that it pantomimed a live wire of electrical current, but it still needed the control of The Robot to give it style. The Electric Boogaloo became big in San Francisco even before it hit Los Angeles but when it did hit L.A., the TV capital of the world, it was introduced through "Soul Train" as the new dance form and challenged the popularity of locking. The Electric Boogaloo (or Electric Boogie as it's called now) has since spread to New York as breaking later hit Los Angeles. It's interesting to see breaking and locking existing in the same sub-cultures. I think it's partly because they complement each other as opposites. The Electric Boogie is in control and tends to imitate the movements of nature like a lightning bolt or a rippling river, whereas breaking is more out of control and anti-nature or anti-gravitational like a flying saucer. Another reason they're done together with the same kids may also be that they're both competitive dances where dancers battle each other to determine who's best. "If my breaker can't beat you, my boogie can." They live in the same competitive atmosphere.
Because of its competitive nature, I see Electric Boogie also becoming a competitive sport. This might seem odd because unlike breaking, it's hard to judge, but it will go the way of breaking because they have become inseparable in a cultural dance movement. It will evolve into a competitive thing.
Written by Michael Holman in early 80s.
Frisco is doing it's own thing you got Quinn (whose latest CD is doing well on the East), Big Rich ,Bailey, Ya Boy, Willie Hen, J Davinci, Skyballa who gets much love on the East Coast, and J Valentine has a major deal with J Records. Frisco is doing it's thang without riding anyones dick. Give them their props.