{"id":855,"date":"2010-08-12T21:07:01","date_gmt":"2010-08-12T21:07:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oldschoolhiphop.com\/?p=855"},"modified":"2014-04-21T20:49:07","modified_gmt":"2014-04-22T01:49:07","slug":"bronxboys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oldschoolhiphop.com\/artists\/bboys\/bronxboys.htm","title":{"rendered":"The Bronx Boys"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Originally formed as a graffiti crew in 1975 by\u00a0Batch, Shark, and Cash, The Bronx Boys were true pioneers of the art of break dancing. \u00a0They spent much of their time with graffiti and up rocking. \u00a0When one of the members hit the ground in a new routine, up rocking began to change into break dancing.<\/p>\n<p>The TBB Crew spread throughout the Bronx and hooked up with <a href=\"\/artists\/deejays\/afrika.htm\">Afrika Bambaataa<\/a> when he was trying to organize protection for party goers in the parks.<\/p>\n<p>Upon breaking up in 1979, several of the members became part of a new developing group&#8230; <a href=\"\/artists\/bboys\/rocksteadycrew.htm\">The Rock Steady Crew<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Information submitted by Batch<\/em><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">Check Out This Interview with The Bronx Boys<\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"youtube\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" class=\"youtube-player\" type=\"text\/html\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LYunQaFnC64?wmode=transparent&amp;fs=1&amp;hl=en&amp;modestbranding=1&amp;iv_load_policy=3&amp;showsearch=0&amp;rel=1&amp;theme=dark\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><a href=\"\/artists\/bboys.htm\">Back to B-Boys Biographies<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Originally formed as a graffiti crew in 1975 by\u00a0Batch, Shark, and Cash, The Bronx Boys were true pioneers of the art of break dancing. \u00a0They spent much of their time with graffiti and up rocking. \u00a0When one of the members hit the ground in a new routine, up rocking began to change into break dancing. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3858,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[108,23,19,117,121],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldschoolhiphop.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/855"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldschoolhiphop.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldschoolhiphop.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldschoolhiphop.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldschoolhiphop.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldschoolhiphop.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/855\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldschoolhiphop.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldschoolhiphop.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldschoolhiphop.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldschoolhiphop.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}