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Cuz Herc had the sh*t!

Cuz Herc had the atmosphere of, I mean, really there was nothing like a Kool Herc Party

We heard the music from way down the block

And you know, Herc had the big speakers..

We walked down the block, the closer we got, the louder the bass got

and all we could hear was this tall light skinned guy going "This is DJ Kool Herc and you always come back for more"

Half the party was inside and half was outside

That's how packed it got, until one summer I gave the first block party right here between the buildings

And I told them where my career was heading, where the clientel was heading we couldn't come back here

That was it.

That was the birth of Hip Hop man

Herc used to play a part of a record that had a "break down" in it

and that's why they call the records Break Beats now

It was the part of any record that had a "break down" where all the music dropped out and it was just the beat

And these beats were so hype and so frantic that..

when the music dropped out it was just the beat everybody would go off

And I noticed people who would just wait 'till those particular part of the record

And I started buying two records, I started prolonging records, the breaks.

For instance, James Brown, coming to "Clap your hands, stomp your feet, Clap your Hands, Stomp your feet"

I get another one to extend that part, "Clap your hands, Clap Clap your hands"

We used to always always always, when we were in the circle, wait for the break of the record

That was it. We would get down to the break of the record.

I called that particular part of the music, the merry-go-round.

Because I'd be taking the merry-go-round back and forth, giving you no slack

The break of the record, B. Break. We are the B. Boys.

The word Bboy orginated from Kool Herc

Bboy should really have stood for Bronx

Or really, Breaking Boys because you know when people be breaking at parties you know you're starting trouble

Bboys and Bgirls, Break, Beat, Break Boys, Break Girls

I could tell you straight up..

Breakin' comes from the street terminology

When people used to say "Why you breaking on me, why my moms breaking on me

Why you acting crazy, it really just meant doing sh*t above normal

The DJs used to cut breaks

And the Bboys would break to what? The Breaks.

So well you know, its just common sense man

You know when somebody get mad, yo hes breaking, stop breaking man

And when Kool Herc says it, its official.

Bboy, boys that break, it didn't come from breaks on the record

It comes from, "this man broke"

He went to a breaking point

You know what i'm saying? So we just used that exaggeration of that term

to the dancing, the Bboys, the Break Boys

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