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TIMBUKTU
Timbuktu believes in DeSofo and will be giving an interview right back at us...
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TANYA MORGAN
THE MAIN INGREDIENT tanya morgan's freewheeling, populist poetics
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GRANDMASTER CAZ
Grandmaster Caz, DJ/MC of the infamous Cold Crush Brothers, the crew that most...
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SHA-ROCK
Sharon Jackson, also known as Sha-Rock, was the first female rapper, and joined...
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WHIPPER WHIP
You can see Prince Whipper Whip, of the Fantastic 5, him battling the Cold Crush in Wild Style--and he still sounds good on the mic today.
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FROSTY FREEZE
Wayne Frost--Frosty Freeze--was a member of the second generation of the Rock Steady Crew--b-boys that helped revitalize an almost-forgotten art in the '80s.
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WANDA DEE + ERIC FLOYD
Wanda Dee was arguably the first female DJ ever, and the first female inductee into Afrika Bambaataa's Zulu Nation. She went on to be the diva voice of techno superstars The KLF...
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FROSTY FREEZE
Wayne Frost--Frosty Freeze--was a member of the second generation of the Rock Steady Crew--b-boys that helped revitalize an almost-forgotten art in the '80s. Frosty was the first b-boy ever to grace the cover of a magazine (New York City's Village Voice, in 1981), was featured in the films Wild Style and Flashdance, and invented the Suicide (the move in which a b-boy or b-girl does a front flip and lands flat on his or her back).
What are you up to these days?
Basically I'm still around. I still break here and there. I'm at the stage where I'm trying to put out a documentary video of myself. I was hoping to have it out by the party to market myself.
When do you still b-boy?
When I go to a lot of these events and when I feel good and I'm in the groove I do it; you know, for respect to the younger kids cause I like to have fun, like them.
What do you think about how b-boying has evolved, gotten more acrobatic and stuff?
Basically, yeah, it's advanced now. A lot of stuff is added like power moves and aerial stuff. It's really good with the young kids cause they can endure a lot of that. I still like to see kids gaining knowledge, like looking at the old footage and stuff. They have a lot of advantages these days because they have video cameras and stuff.
How has being part of the Rock Steady crew changed your life?
It changed my life a lot, especially during the '80s. I never really expected to make something out of it.
KATIE SHIMER
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