The Rock Steady Crew

See these guys spinning on their head.

There's Rock Steady Crew and Crazy Legs.

Puerto Rican boys, they make me crazy.

They make me crazy.

The event recognized the trailblazers, including Tupac, Run DMC, Public Enemy, KRS-One, and DJ Kool Herc.

alongside the Rocksteady Crew, Sugarhill Gang, DJ Hollywood, and also the graffiti art movement.

Albums that were released on October the 3rd include in 1975 when The Who released their seventh studio album called The Who by Numbers.

This was in the UK on this one.

See these guys spinning on their head.

Rock Steady Crew and grease legs.

Puerto Rican boys, they make me crazy.

Yeah.

And somehow across four decades, He's remained culturally relevant without ever chasing trends.

He's official member of the Rock Steady Crew, member of the Universal Zulu Nation.

Please welcome the legend, Rich Medina in the building.

I need that in cans, man.

What's up, everybody? Welcome to the Almanac of Rap.

I'm your host, Don Will, and today's guest was a long-time member and key figure in the Rocksteady crew, and he's now the president of Break Life and the Seven Gems hip-hop movement.

Give it up for Ken Swift.

Man, I'm here, man.

It could, all of this could be, you know, all of those things, but the break is related to the DJ, you know, and the job of the DJ.

You touched on being, you know, second generation and the origins of like, you know, just your origins.

But I want to know a little bit more about how you got down with Rocksteady and like how deep was the crew at its height?

so i started out you know just being uptown you know my mom we came to new york i was born in brooklyn but my dad was in the military so he traveled and i have two older brothers we came back to new york to the projects douglas projects starting on 100th street long story short i came back they were crews from douglas projects and i have to give respect to the untouchables crew mike d and the untouchables dj andre dj sherlock and the shamrock crew right there on Amsterdam.

And we used to battle, you know, New York City Breakers, Lil' Lep and them, Action, all these dudes, Lil' Lep, rest in peace.

And we used to battle a lot of these dudes and stuff, Rocksteady Crew, because they heard we was the tightest down here.

You know, it was like us, you know, the Time Bandits from Long Beach, a lot of them, you know, they was mainly pretty much poppers, but we was like real, real heavy breakdancers.

You know what I mean? And I was just heavy into the hip-hop culture at a young age.