OMG! You’ll never guess who this funky fresh poppin’ prince grew up to be.

All the old original b-boys would talk about Wild Style, Style Wars, etc like they were Citizen Kane, Jules and Jim, and The Godfather all rolled into one. They’re wrong. Beat Street’s only got two good scenes.  One of which is a 30 second clip of Brenda K Starr performing Vicious Beat. I’m guessing, like almost everything else in the film, it’s produced by Arthur Baker. I can’t find the track anywhere on 12″, MP3 or tape. Does anybody on the world wide web know where I can find it?

The other good scene, The Roxy battle,  features Rock Steady Crew and the NYC Breakers in a breakdancing contest. I’ve already blogged about that before. So here are the NYC Breakers a few years later wearing tight trousers.

I wish going out and meeting people was more like it was in 1990s American popular culture. I want to go up to all the hot girls in the club like Jazz eyeing up Hillary Banks in The Fresh Prince and say things like “Damn girl! You look fine”! or “Why dance with a zero when you can get with a hero?” This track sort of has that vibe. FYI Apparently Positive K rapped the female voice too.

POSITIVE K - I GOT A MAN

Link stolen from Missingtoof.com

What happened? In the early 80s Arthur Baker was defining electro, hip hop and freestyle. This decade he opened a few lame bars, remixed electroclash group W.I.T and put on parties with Wade Crescent. He’s still my hero though.

Arthur Baker - Breakers Revenge/ Beat Street clip (1984)

Freeez - I.O.U (1983)

Soul Sonic Force - Planet Rock (1982)

3. House Party (1990)

2. Breakin’ (1984)

1. Earth Girls Are Easy (1988)

Right, this is enough blogging for a while. Time to get back on track to reality.