“I was a small little shorty and I was always doing flips and acrobatics - so the bigger kids came and got me and asked me to be a part of their crew and compete against the east side. “I started breaking in 1972 when I was 13,” he replied. “Did you break dance back in the day?” I asked the ordained minister, who is known to his peers and family as Kurtis Walker. The original story was featured in the print edition of San Diego Reader on October 23, 2019. This was the inspiration of hip-hop: the innate love of the drum.” “That was the funky-funky break,” Kurtis said, “and when the song got to “the break,” that’s when we went down to the floor and did our best moves. In the 1970s, the breakers were referred to as “break-boys” and “break-girls” - then the names were shortened to “b-boys” and “b-girls.” The term “break” in our culture - before it was coined as “hip-hop” - was derived from when the DJs at the time would play and loop a portion of a song on their turntables and tape players. After 1980, that’s when they started calling it breakdancing - it was b-boying before that.” “I wanted to make a song with a lot of breaks in it, so that the b-boys could do their thing. “‘The Breaks’ is an ode to all of the b-boys,” Kurtis Blow said to me on October 15. They released “Christmas Rappin’” and then “The Breaks,” which in 1980 became the first rap record to receive a gold music recording certification. In 1979, Kurtis Blow was the first rapper to sign with a major record label: Mercury Records. Hip-Hop Nutcracker: Kurtis Blow breaks with tradition
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