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Anybody out there live in NYC during this era...

posted 9 years ago by lmartin-17
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If so, I have a couple of questions.
1)Did any of you actually witness a "Battle" scene like the one on the subway platform as depicted in the movie, or "any" battle for that matter?
2)The scene where "the crew" we're all entering The Roxy, and the bouncers only stopped the Puerto Ricans too be searched?
Was that a common occurrence and why?
I live in SoCal. And in my area, Blacks and Hispanics party together all the time!
Do not want to start any racial sh·t on here, just curious.
BTW: I am black!
Every time I watch this movie, I think of how badass it would have been to grow up in NYC and to have witnessed, first hand, the birth, growth and evolution of the whole Hip-Hop, graffiti and break dance era!
I feel the we, on the west coast, were probably late to the game.

[–] BEoutbox 9 years ago

1) I did not witness any such battles, but I stayed inside a lot and only lived at the edge of the 'hood. There were battles at school dances.
2) I think some crews may have been more 'Rican, some more Black. (When "Colors", South Central" , BITH came out, I remember thinking Crips were Latin & Bloods were Black.) That scene was more about turf than ethnicity/ race.

[–] jayhn1111 9 years ago

Yeah but that was a time when breakin exploded all over the country. At that time there'd probably be battles going on in some junior high in wyoming. It was everywhere. People thought it was something new and different at the time. Nobody knew that breakin had been around since the early-mid 70's because only people in the bronx did it back then. I'd be more interested in how it was when it first got popular around 1974 or '75