NEW YORK CITY BREAKERS-(SOUL TRAIN)

The New York City Breakers are a break dancing crew, which rivaled the popularity of the Rock Steady Crew. 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. Original crew: Chino “Action“ Lopez Noel “Kid Nice“ Mangual Tony “Mr. Wave“ Draughon Ray “Lil Lep“ Ramos Matthew “Glide Master“ Caban Corey “Icey Ice“ Montalvo Tony “Powerful Pexster“ Lopez Bobby “Flip Rock“ Potts Lil Alex Second Generation: B-Boy London Speedy Dee Alien Ness Bam Bam ENGIN#9