New York City Breakers

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New York City Breakers is a breakdancing crew and hip hop group that was established in the Bronx borough of New York City .

Contents 1 History 2 List of members 2.1 Original 2.2 Second Generation 3 References

[edit] History

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The New York City Breakers are a legendary break dancing crew, which rivaled and ever surpassed the popularity of the Rock Steady Crew back in the days. Michael Holman took Breakers from the Floormaster crew and recruited new b-boys and renamed them the "New York City Breakers". The group consisted of ACTION, KID NICE, GLIDE MASTER, POWERFUL PEXSTER, LIL LEP, MR. WAVE, FLIP ROCK ICEY ICE and Lil Alex. The movie "Beat Street" featured them battling against the Rock Steady Crew and this scene has become legendary. The battle scene inspired so many breakers and made them crazy about the art of b-boying. The New York City Breakers also appeared on the first ever hip-hop TV show called "Graffiti Rock" created by Michael Holman. They also appeared on "Soul Train", The 1/2 Hour Comedy Hour, Ripley's "Believe It or Not", P.M. Magazine, CBS Evening News, Good Morning America, That's Incredible, The Merv Griffin Show, The Bob Hope Show, and they became the first ever Hop-Hop group (rap or dance) performed in Washington D.C for the President of the United States Ronald Regan. It was nationally broadcasted and is considered the day America accepted Hip-Hop as a culture. After GLIDE MASTER pass away, the New York City Breakers quit performing. They came back in the late 90's and performed again on MTV at April, 1996 and found out that they came back ACTION, KID NICE, POWERFUL PEXSTER, LIL LEP and FLIP ROCK with B-BOY LONDON, SPEEDY DEE and ALIEN NESS the 2nd generation of New York City Breakers from the early 80's.

[edit] List of members

[edit] Original

• Chino Lopez aka "ACTION"
• Noel Mangual aka "KID NICE"
• Tony Draughon aka "MR. WAVE"
• Ray Ramos aka "LIL LEP"
• Matthew Caban aka "GLIDE MASTER"
• Corey Montalvo aka "ICEY ICE"
• Tony Lopez aka "POWERFUL PEXSTER"
• Bobby Potts aka "FLIP ROCK"

• Lil Alex

[edit] Second Generation

• B-Boy London
• Speedy Dee
• Alien Ness
• Bam Bam
• ENGIN#9

[edit] References

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