#shabba doo

[kendalls-roy]

Breakin’ (1984) dir. Joel Silberg 

#filmedit #80sdaily #dailyflicks #bbelcher #userstream #breakin #shabba doo #boogaloo shrimp #movies #80s movies #mine

[mimi-0007]

Ozone and turbo. 💙💙💙🖤🖤🖤

#shabba doo #michael chambers #black tumblr #black literature #80s rap #black excellence #black community #black actors #break dancing #80s fashion #80s movies #old hip hop #black history #black archives #black art #black artists #black culture #african american culture

[schlock-luster-video]

On April 15, 2003, Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo was released on DVD by MGM Home Entertainment.

#breakin 2 1984 #breakin' 2: electric boogaloo #breakin 2 electric boogaloo #sam firstenberg #shabba doo #musicals #musical #musical comedy #1980s #breakdance #breakdancing #tcm underground #movie art #art #drawing #movie history #pop art #modern art #pop surrealism #cult movies #portrait #cult film

[mitochondriaandbunnies]

Miami Vice S1E18: The Maze

Tubbs is sent undercover to save hostages in an abandoned hotel.

This is absolutely one of those Vice episodes where you are given two versions of the truth and are asked to be discerning enough to realize which one is real. Vice likes doing this a lot with music-- you see something happening on screen that's contradicted by lyrics or musical tone, and you have to figure out if what you're seeing is the lie or whether it's what you're hearing. In The Maze, we are presented with a spoken truth (some people aren't "good enough" to be cops, the world is hard and dangerous, a kid with a gun can't be thought of as a kid ever again) and a witnessed truth (a "bad cop" is suffers no consequences because he's a cop, people you think of as disposable or even frightening are worth protecting, a kid with a gun may be dangerous but that doesn't make him not a child) to striking, devastating effect. There's a distinct sense in this episode that our protagonists are playing proscribed black and white roles in a drama they're not quite ready to see shades of gray in yet-- later in the series their disenchantment with the justice system will come, but in this point in the series, they don't quite see what we, the audience see.

I started this one thinking "it's always weird seeing other cops outside of the main squad," and then one of them immediately died

Womp womp

The two "new" cops, Tim and Dickie, are talking about how they finally made some "real arrests," and how they usually can't get charges to stick because something-something-the-law, and that it's because of guys like them that the area they're in is starting to get "cleaned up"

Immediately Sonny and Rico correct them, very gently explaining the concept of community organizing, and pointing out that whatever "clean up" they've seen happen recently has nothing to do with the cops and everything to do with the people who live here deciding to stand up for themselves and invest in their neighborhoods

This is the thesis of the episode

From here on in it becomes a split between Tim's tough-on-crime view (what's said) and Sonny and Rico's maybe-heavier-policing-isn't-the-answer view (what's shown)

The dancing guy, Pepe, is played by a choreographer known by the real-world name of Shabba-Doo

Sonny pours water on him because Sonny is an asshole

There is a scene in which Switek offers Zito lunch while Zito tries to pick up a woman through the window of the bug van; both of them tell the other they're "pitching" and I. I have questions

Tim, the asshole cop whose partner got shot, suggests that the best way to catch the criminals that killed Dickie is to just go into a building full of squatters guns blazing, random innocents be damned

Sonny glares at him like he is a leopard and Tim is a plate of ground beef

They decide to, instead, send Tubbs undercover in to see if he can clear the squatters out and get them to safety before they go after the Escobars. In order to do this they dress Tubbs up as the world's most beautiful filthy transient. He looks like he should play Jesus in a modern version of Jesus Christ Superstar

It should be mentioned that the ~*scary dangerous building*~ the homeless people and the Escobars are in is a dilapidated hotel owned by a rich white guy who's on the phone about golf when we meet him, and it turns out the only thing really scary about it is that the people inside are living in terrible conditions because they are poor. In case, y'know, other parts of the episode weren't already clear enough on the whole "maybe the system is broken, actually" angle.

After Tubbs is in the hotel for approximately three and a half minutes, Tim charges across the street with his gun because it's "ridiculous" that this is "taking so long"

He completely ruins the operation and causes an immediate gunfight between the police and the Escobars to break out; Tubbs and the rest of the squatters are taken hostage as a result. Tim is not punished for this-- Castillo says that if he "didn't need every man," Tim would be sent home, but that's it.

Let's be very clear, this is a perfect example of why the whole "one bad apple ruins the whole bunch" thing is 100% true about the police

You get one Tim the Asshole on your squad and people fucking die

Actor Joe Morton, who I best know as Henry Deacon from Eureka, but who others may know better as the SkyNet Scientist from Terminator 2, plays hostage negotiator Jack Davis. He has a big ol' stick up his ass, but he's kind of hot anyway?

Sonny smokes like twelve cigarettes in the course of about 3 minutes, and then goes outside because he can't stand to look at Tim any longer. Castillo makes an attempt to comfort him in his extremely Castillo way (he's the one who says the Escobars, who are a bunch of teenagers, "stopped stopped being kids when they started using guns"), which does not seem to calm Sonny down much. He tells him the best thing he can do for Tubbs is "be cool," and then there's a lovely little match on Sonny's face and Rico's face, both looking off to the side, both looking worried.

The graffiti in this episode slays me

666 is COMIN

Why ME

Rico plays with the child hostages, and a teenage girl dances to the music playing inside her head. I genuinely feel like this is one of the saddest episodes of Vice-- we see the squalid conditions these people are forced to live in, they're humanized and made very real feeling, even if they don't have many lines, and you know that even if they all get out alive, nothing good is going to come of it, because they've been living illegally inside an unused building and the police will have to remove them, leaving them all completely homeless. There are multiple shots throughout the episode of the beach-- its crystal blue water, the sun, the pristine sand, palm trees-- through the broken windows of the collapsing hotel. The squatters are bereft in an ostensible paradise, completely disconnected from the glamorous world outside their crumbling walls.

Sonny suggests that they pinpoint the exact location of the hostages; Tim asks why they should bother when it was the hostages who "got them into this."

Yes Tim

Definitely not you, fuckwad

When Davis negotiates to let the small children hostages go, Jaime, one of the Escobars, argues with one of the older boys that "they're just kids," and that they should do as the police said and let them free. Jaime appears to be about fourteen.

Sonny insists he go in to find the hostages; Davis stands behind him shaking his head no at Castillo. Sonny goes in to find the hostages. He climbs over a fence and through a hole in the wall in his loafers and chinos.

When Sonny figures out where the hostages are located, they send in what appears to be the entire national guard of Florida. The Escobars, it should be noted, are five teenagers.

At the end of the episode, approximately twenty adult men with machine guns point their weapons at one teenage boy. He breaks down in tears and falls to the ground, because no matter what Castillo said, he is ultimately a frightened child.

The episode ends on a freeze frame of Sonny and Rico looking at each other, silent, with the darkening blue sky behind them.

#miami vice #miami vice s1 #s1e18 #the maze #sonny crockett #rico tubbs #martin castillo #my gifs

[legendaryalishabazz]

Presidents & Politicians always get a Street or Building BUT When a URBAN STREET DANCER GETS ONE- ITS A BLESSING FOR US ALL. THE TRUTH SHINES... Congrats to SHABBA DOO aka Ozone.. YOU DID THAT jack!!!! #shabbadoo #Streetdancer #Breakin

[tracyanderson]

I watched #breaking soooo many times as a kid. Being on the #westcoast …. I loved and lived #hiphop culture growing up. Knowing that we are losing these trailblazers is alarming. Let’s commit to preserving our culture for the future generations ♥️🙏🏽👑 • @officialshabbadoo Heaven has gained another dance legend 🙏 The Shabba-Doo Estate would like to express our sincere condolences to one of the greatest to ever do it... our dear brother Poppin Taco. Prayers to his family and many fans worldwide🙏 #RIPPoppinTaco . . . . . . . #hiphopdance #hiphopculture #breakdance #poplock #poplocking #breakdancing #breakdancer #bboy #bgirl #losangeles #plushlifemedia #chosenmogul https://www.instagram.com/p/CfjzCwUpFIi/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#breaking #westcoast #hiphop #rippoppintaco #hiphopdance #hiphopculture #breakdance #poplock #poplocking #breakdancing #breakdancer #bboy #bgirl #losangeles #plushlifemedia #chosenmogul

[c-40]

A-T-4 027 Chaka Khan - I Feel For You

Following on from yesterday the best example I can think of of African-American recording artists going all in on the electrofunk/hip hop sound in 1984 is Chaka Khan's hit I Feel For You. The track features a rap from Melle Mel, it's considered the first rap/soul crossover a alliance that would become a hit making formula from the late 1980s until today. The harmonica parts on the track are performed by the one and only Stevie Wonder, also the vocal samples 'Say Yeah' and 'Just A One More Time' are from Little Stevie's hit record Fingertips. I Feel For You is written by Prince and had already been recorded by The Pointer Sisters in 1982 and by Prince himself for his eponymous second album

Now the names you might not know, the arrangement is credited to Arif Mardin and Reggie Griffin. Arif Mardin had produced all Chaka Khan's solo records, he's a legend, in the early 1970s he'd been co-producing Aretha Franklin and Donny Hathaway, throughout the 1970s he produced major artists like the Bee Gees, Average White Band, and Carly Simon. Reggie Griffin on the other hand was a new jack. I can see him getting the gig because he'd produced West Street Mob's Breakdance Electric Boogie for Sugar Hill and would be producing Grandmaster Melle Mel's solo single Jesse. Multi-instrumentalist Reggie Griffin formed the group Manchild with Anthony "A.J." Johnson in the mid 1970s then produced a few electrofunk/hip hop records with George Kerr (including Thug Rock and Mirda Rock) before working with Sugar Hill. Another name worth mentioning is David Frank of The System who did most the synth bass with Reggie Griffin playing the live bass fills. We think armies of people are involved in making a hit record today, it's not new

I Feel For You goes to number 1 on the UKs singles chart. The video for I Feel For You would have been on Top Of The Pops. The set for the video is an imaginary basket ball court or some other outside fenced space like in West Side Story, a DJ is stood behind two turntables (but there are no speakers), there's graffiti (which looks hung like art in a gallery) some dancers are locking - two of the dancers are Shabba Doo and Boogaloo Shrimp from the films Breakin' and Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo. Shabba Doo was a member of Toni Basil's The Lockers dance troupe. Toni Basil left in the mid 1970s but co-founder Don "Campbellock" Campbell was still at the helm, I wonder if the other dancers were from the same troupe? The female dancers are dressed in high fashion and as I said the graf in the space looks hung like art in a gallery or museum, at the time the NY art world was embracing graffiti and DJs and Bboys would perform at exhibition openings

As a ten-year-old I loved this record. That week when Top Of The Pops is on I'm stretched out across the carpet head lifted by my hands and my nose almost touching the television as usual, Chaka Khan's I Feel For You is number 1 and my ears are wide open and eyes are fully dilated watching the video. Behind me on the sofa my dad begins muttering This isn't Music, or This isn't Proper Music, or This isn't Real Music, this prompted the first argument about music I had with my dad. My dad likes The Stylistics, the Four Tops and Trojan Tighten Up and Club Reggae comps. I was only 10-years-old and my dad has all the sensitivity of a Brummie screwdriver but what I now know he was trying to say was he finds the synths and over the top studio production a little soulless when compared to the productions of Thom Bell from just before and around the time I was born 10-years earlier

I didn't care it might not have sounded like Proper Music to my dad but I loved it so from that point electrofunk/hip hop became my music not my parents music

The video version

The remixed version it's a masterclass in editing

#1984 #chaka khan #electrofunk #r&b #pop #chicago #usa

[thevaultboombap]

#Repost @80s_dopehouse

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The film Breakin' (1984) is 39 today! Ayo, you people that be trying to shit on Breakin' these days, you know you saw it a bunch of times back then! 😂😂😂 Who remembers when shorty got possessed and became a ninja only a few months later in Ninja III: The Domination with Sho Kosugi? That shit was dope! RIP Shabba Doo 🙏🇵🇷🙏🇵🇷🙏🇵🇷

#breakin1984 #80s hip hop

[raybizzle]

"Breakin'" (1984) is a hip-hop breakdance movie that brought mainstream attention to the style. Directed by Joel Silberg, the writers based the story and setting of the movie on the 1983 documentary "Breakin' 'n' Enterin.'" The film stars Adolfo Quinones (Shabba Doo), Lucinda Dickey, Michael Chambers, Christopher McDonald, and Ben Lokey.

Rap, graffiti, and breakdancing were staple characteristics of the hip-hop culture during its conception and evolution into the mid-80s. "Breakin'" highlighted aspects of the style, but there was a slight contrast to a rival film released a month later called "Beat Street." "Breakin'" was out of California, and "Beat Street" was out of NYC. Since there were regional cultural differences, elements of the dance styles were different. Ice-T was also in the film rapping during his career's early stages.

Nevertheless, the film's star breakdancers were Adolfo Quinones and Michael Chambers. Both performers were showstoppers and carried the movie's epic dance battles along with the Electric Rock Crew. There isn't much story to the movie, and the acting is very cheesy, but this was the 80s, and cheesy is what gives that decade its charm. "Breakin'" is a reflective film that is memorable for many.

Director: Joel Silberg Writers: Charles Parker, Allen DeBevoise, Gerald Scaife

Starring Lucinda Dickey, Adolfo Quinones, Michael Chambers, Ben Lokey, Christopher McDonald, Phineas Newborn III, Bruno Falcon, Timothy Solomon, Ana Sánchez, Ice-T

Storyline Kelly (Lucinda Dickey) is a classically trained jazz dancer tired of warding off her amorous teacher and hungry for a new outlet. When she befriends street dancers Ozone (Adolfo "Shabba-Doo" Quinones) and Turbo (Michael "Boogaloo Shrimp" Chambers), she's blown away by their unique and original moves. She soon volunteers to help them defeat a rival group of street dancers, learning breakdancing skills along the way and sharing her own moves.

Available on Blu-ray (out-of-print) and streaming services

[gregarnott]

Adolfo "Shabba-Doo" Quiñones

[clemsfilmdiary]

The Worst of February 2023

Worst Film: Lambada

Worst Performance: Melora Hardin in Lambada

           Runners Up: Rita Bland, Shabba Doo and Jimmy Locust in Lambada

Most Unsightly Screen Presence: Ashley Newbrough in Love in Glacier National: A National Park Romance

           Runners Up: Charlbi Dean in Triangle of Sadness, Mia Goth in Infinity Pool, Lochlyn Munro in Curious Caterer: Grilling Season

Most Loathsome Screen Presence: Ashley Newbrough in Love in Glacier National: A National Park Romance

           Runner Up: Charlbi Dean in Triangle of Sadness

#list #worst of the month

[fmhiphop]

Fat Joe Talks About Hip Hop's Latino History

Hip Hop has always had some Latino mixed in with its African American roots. When Fat Joe tried to honor them, he got several comments that said that the culture was always only African American. Fat Joe posted a video on his Instagram celebrating the history of Latino Hip Hop. There was a backlash to this, so he made a response video to it.   View this post on Instagram   A post shared by FAT JOE (@fatjoe) https://twitter.com/SaycheeseDGTL/status/1564319892584775680 Hip Hop started in the Bronx in New York. In the '70s, it was a dangerous neighborhood and was populated by the disenfranchised, low-income, and immigrants, especially from the Caribbean. This mix is what made the musical inspirations for hip hop, such as reggae and funk, come together. Hip Hop is both down to its DNA One of the massive techniques in hip hop, isolating the percussive breaks, comes directly from Jamaican dub music. The genre came from block parties where the youth, particularly African-Americans, Caribbean and Latino, would come together to party. The DJs needed to create a mix that would please these demographics and create hip hop in the process. Several of the founders of hip hop are directly related to the Caribbean and Latin America, such as  DJ Kool Herc, DJ Disco Wiz, Grandmaster Flash, and Afrika Bambaataa. Latinos are so prevalent to hip hop that in the first hip hop film, "Wild Style" in 1983, several of the main characters are Latinos. This is not even talking about the other two major elements of the hip hop culture, break dancing and graffiti. Both of these also had a major influence from people from Latin American countries, such as Lady Pink and Shabba-Doo. Instead of being upset that hip hop can not be completely created by African Americans, enjoy the diversity that it offers, something that could only have been created in the melting pot of America. Written by Justin Acosta Twitter: @hahalacka Read the full article

[mimi-0007]

My favorite movie 🍿🍿🖤🖤🖤

#breakin #ozone #turbo #kelly #shabba doo #Lucinda Dickey #Micheal Chambers

[schlock-luster-video]

On October 19, 1984 Breakin' debuted in Italy.

#breakin' #breakin #shabba doo #lucinda dickey #dance movies #movie art #art #drawing #movie history #pop art #modern art #pop surrealism #cult movies #portrait #cult film

[chaptertwo-thepacnw]

1984

#gif #I feel for you #chaka khan #prince #music #1984 #dance #shabba doo #boogaloo shrimp #music video

[lascenizas]

The Last Movie I Watched...

Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo (1984, Dir.: Sam Firstenberg)

#breakin' 2: electric boogaloo #i watched #boogaloo shrimp #adolfo quinones #shabba doo #lucinda dickey