Electro Boogie: Bboys B-ware!
Two Sisters – B-Boys B-Ware (Club Mix)
Bboys had best b-ware when this joint drops! It’s an all time classic East Coast electro jam produced by Raul A. Rodriguez (who also shared a studio with Man Parrish and Planet Rock producer Arthur Baker) with additional production by Mark Berry plus featuring a guest verse from MC G.L.O.B.E from Afrika Bambaataa’s Soul Sonic Force crew. Released in 1983, it’s a dope party track and also one of the all time classic 808 jams — boooming kicks and and some ruuude cowbell action.
Two Sisters had some other classic tracks like Destiny, Scratch This, and the Man Parrish produced High Noon. The girls put it best themselves — Hot damn, when the sisters jam, we gonna rock every boy girl women and man, we can rap rhyme mix and cut, bboys we’re gonna fuck you up!.
As well as several vinyl pressings, it was also featured on Street Sounds Electro 2. For the unaware, Street Sound Electro was THE compilation for old school electro.
Fancy rocking a little bboy stance yourself? Why not follow these easy instructions!! They are apparently scans from a breakdance record released in the early 80s, I don’t know shit about the record itself but came across these scans online. Pretty entertaining shit, if anyone knows what’s going on in the wardrobe department please be sure to advise in a comment!
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2 Sisters – B-Boys B-Ware (Club Mix)
Cool track …probably the first Electro-Funk piece I’ve heard with some actual cussing!
Wardrobe: IMHO that is almost purely West Coast…at least it totally reminds me of what happened to breakdancing here in L.A. when the mainstream media got a hold of it in late ‘83. Suddenly it became “cool” to know how to breakdance, and every primetime news/tabloid/comedy just *had* to feature a breakdancing segment sometime in the show.
I even remember “How to Breakdance” kits in the grocery store (man I wish I had one of those …classic)! They featured very similar characters with easy-to-follow steps, and one kit even had a foldup cardboard “floor” to practice your moves on!
Yes…breakdancing’s gritty battling/aggressive origins were eventually snubbed by the glitz, glam and ignorance of the general public and domesticated into something tame and fun to do…like hopscotch. =)
Haha true…yeah, I guess swearing didn’t really come along until gangster rap, or at least Miami bass.
Haha true…those outfits look like they could be from a comedy segment these days! I’m pretty sure that whole record was something like that. I looked into it a bit more and apparently the music was pretty forgettable.
It’s a shame that anytime something original comes along it gets sanitised by the mainstream. Hip hop seems to have suffered the same fate, with a few notable exceptions!
I think the album ‘mite’ b
called ‘Breakdance You Can Do It’-i have a copy(& had one b4),but they both didn’t have inlays/posters. I got them both within last 10 years-tracks r all by ‘ALEX & THE CITY CREW’,apart from ‘New York City Breakers-MICHAEL HOLMAN’. Failing that could b a rental video from mid 80’s-’Breakdance You Can Do It’