A Decade of Breakin' Conventions

    A Decade of Breakin’ Conventions

    No longer a babe in arms hip-hop dance theatre festival Breakin’ Convention is taking its first steps into double figures. Back for its 10th year the three-day festival is delivering a special anniversary programme to celebrate the past decade of hip hop dance from around the world and the UK. For its 10 year anniversary [...]

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    B-Boy News Interviews: Profo Won

    B-Boy News Interviews: Profo Won

    B-Boy Profo Won is from the crew Floor Gangs Worldwide, lives in San Francisco California and is 37 years old. Tapes of Ken Swift, Funk Master, Storm, Evo, Swift Rock, Marizio doing foot work first sparked his interest b-boying. Profo’s style is a combination of lots of different people. What makes it unique is the [...]

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    King Of The Kidz 2013 - Battle Footage

    King Of The Kidz 2013 – Battle Footage

    Leelou vs. Kid Karam Lil Demon vs. Justen Sunni (Soul Mavericks) vs. Kid Colombia

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    Red Bull BC One 2012 LIVE Stream

    Red Bull BC One 2012 LIVE Stream

    Watch Red Bull BC One 2012 streamed LIVE here on B-Boy News! Battle starts on Saturday 8th of December at 21:50 UK time.

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    B-Boy News Interviews: B-Boy Sunni

    B-Boy News Interviews: B-Boy Sunni

    Red Bull BC One, in less than 10 years, has become one of the biggest and best known annual B-boying competitions on the international circuit. Every year it takes place in a different country. This year, in 2012, the finals will be taking place on Saturday the 8th of December in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil. [...]

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    Vagabonds Win Braun BOTY 2012

    Vagabonds Win Braun BOTY 2012

    After an epic night of b-boying Vagabonds (France) were crowned the 2012 Braun Battle of the Year champions for the second year in a row. They beat Flooriorz (Japan) in an explosive final securing victory with their signature power moves, fast and furious footwork and routines that left the crowd hollering for more. “It’s well [...]

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    Two Days to Go Till BOTY 2012!

    Two Days to Go Till BOTY 2012!

    Throughout the year, b-boy crews around the world have been competing in regional and national qualifiers for a place in the Braun Battle of the Year 2012. Now is time when only the best of those remain. In two days time, on November 17th in Montpellier, these crews will meet for the final showdown. This [...]

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    Road Tripping to IBE Part 2

    Road Tripping to IBE Part 2

    The official opening ceremony on the first afternoon is the only formal event of IBE. People cram into the glass building of cypher 1 to hear the speeches. Light streams in from all angles as organiser Tyrone van de Meer welcomes everybody in his jovial, resonating voice and expresses his thanks to the corporate sponsors [...]

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    Battle Footage: UK B-Boy Championships 2012

    Battle Footage: UK B-Boy Championships 2012

    Popping Final Brooke (UK) vs. Greenteck (Canada) Winner Greenteck Freestyle hip-hop Final Mufasa (France) vs Kefton (France) Winner Mufasa Solo B-Boy Final Niek (Holland) vs Kareem (USA) Winner Kareem B-Boy Crew Final Soul Mavericks (UK) vs Jinjo (Korea) Winners Jinjo

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    B-Boy News Reviews: Some Like It Hip Hop

    B-Boy News Reviews: Some Like It Hip Hop

    ZooNation’s “Some Like it Hip Hop” has taken a huge step forward for hip-hop theatre and has set the bar high. The production has actively moved away from the gimmickry typical of many hip-hop theatre pieces and this skillfully constructed, brilliantly crafted and thoughtful performance is one to be taken seriously. The storyline revolves around [...]

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    We B*Girlz in Hanover

    We B*Girlz in Hanover

    Following my weekend at the IBE battling in the We B*girlz qualifier, I ironically flew to Hannover in Germany to judge the German We B*girlz qualifier. I reached Hannover on Saturday morning, went to my hotel, rested for a couple of hours and arrived at the jam at 2pm. Germans are very organised and I [...]

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    Red Bull BC One | Western European Qualifier

    Red Bull BC One | Western European Qualifier

    This is the final qualifier on the road to Red Bull BC One 2012 in Rio. The live stream kicks off at 8.15 pm tonight (22nd September 2012) Central Eastern Time. Battling tonight are: Abd-l (France) Bruce Almighty (Portugal) Chey (Spain) Khalil (France) Lawson (Belgium) Mounir (France) Hatsolo (Finland) Lagaet (Portugal) Raw-Mantic (Germany) Yu-Seng (Switzerland) [...]

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    Road Tripping to IBE

    Road Tripping to IBE

    It is 3 am. My flight to Holland is in 3 and a half hours. The airport is less than an hour away and the coach there leaves from the bottom of my road in 40 minutes. Only one last task to do before I creep out my house and make my way to the [...]

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    We B*Girlz at The Notorious IBE

    We B*Girlz at The Notorious IBE

    Waooo! It was September the 8th and I had arrived in Heerlen at 1am. I got to bed at 3 and didn’t get up until 1.30 pm, I was that tired. I entered Cypher 2 of IBE where the We B*Girlz European qualifier would take place hungry to do my best in the competition, take [...]

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    THROWDOWN!’s Last Ever B-Girl Battle

    THROWDOWN!’s Last Ever B-Girl Battle

    The last ever b-girl battle at the legendary monthly London hip-hop dance night THROWDOWN! took place on Thursday night. 17 b-girls entered, which was a pleasantly surprising high number. It was easy to recognise some of the competitors (such as Candice, Shortie and Angel) because they battle frequently on the UK and international scene. It [...]

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    The Notorious IBE 2012 Day 3 – Battle Footage

    The Notorious IBE 2012 Day 3 – Battle Footage

    All Battles All Red Bull BC One All Stars Vs. Team France Red Bull BC One All Stars : Roxrite (USA) – Taisuke (Japan) – Ronnie (USA) – Pelezinho (Brasil) – Hong 10 (Korea) – Neguin (Brasil) – Lil G (Venezuela) – Cico (Italy) 

Team France : Mounir – Marcio – Billy Boy – Charly [...]

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    The Notorious IBE 2012 Day 2 - Battle Footage

    The Notorious IBE 2012 Day 2 – Battle Footage

    We B*Girlz 2 on 2 Battle Final

 Marta and he Victory Vs. JK-47 & Roxy 

Winners : JK-47 & Roxy Solo Kids Bboy Battle 

Winner : Bgirl FairyTale Focus on Footwork Battle – Final 

WingZero Vs. Lussy Spy Powermove Final 

Hill (Mexico) Vs. Marcio (France) Vs. Kidone (Venezuela) Vs. BTwins (Greece)

 Winner : Hill Solo [...]

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    The Notorious IBE 2012 Day 1 - Battle Footage

    The Notorious IBE 2012 Day 1 – Battle Footage

    3 on 3 Generations Battle – Final

 Momentum Crew (Lagaet, Max, Jonathan) Vs. Styles Confidential (T-Bone, Kid Colombia, James) Winners: Momentum Crew Solo Top Rock Battle – Final 

Meen 187 Vs. Whacko 

Winner : Whacko Seven 2 Smoke

 Lil Kev’, Pick Up, Tawfiq, Machine, Blond, Emstro & Sem

 Winner : B-boy Blond (Extreme Crew) IBE [...]

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    B-Boy News Interviews: Sunanda Biswas (B-girl SunSun)

    B-Boy News Interviews: Sunanda Biswas (B-girl SunSun)

    For those of you that have been in a coma, knocked unconscious or shut your eyes and stuck your fingers in your ears over the last month, you may have missed out on the fact that the UK went just a little Olympic crazy. Cloaked in mystery, Danny Boyle’s much hyped opening ceremony was the [...]

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    Regional Conflict 2012

    Regional Conflict 2012

    Photos from Regional Conflict 2012 the UK qualifiers for the UK B-Boy Championships 2012 that will take place in October at Brixton Academy. Representing the UK in the B-Boying will be: Solos: B-Boy Spin Crew: Soul Mavericks Hip Hop dancer in the Regional Conflict’s first ever stand up Hip Hop Battle. Two dancers battled their [...]

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    Note from the Editor

    Note from the Editor

    I have seen on the UK B-Boy facebook forum that our article “To Battle or not to Battle? That is the Question” made quite an impression. One that we had not anticipated. We apologise if anyone felt targeted. This was not our intention. People’s lack of interest to sign up for Regional Conflict and failure [...]

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    To Battle or not to Battle? That is the Question.

    To Battle or not to Battle? That is the Question.

    Regional conflict the UK qualifiers for the 17th annual UK B-Boy Championships 2012 takes place this Sunday (the 19th of August) at the Islington Academy in Angel. There have been over 70 sign-ups for the solo battles but only 15 for the crews. Two of these are made up of the members of Soul Mavericks. [...]

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    Rukus Breaks Out

    Rukus Breaks Out

    There has been hot debate on the UKBBoy Facebook forum in the last couple of weeks. Two questions in particular have received a lot of attention. Has the UK scene improved in comparison to the global scene and which crew holds the UK crown? Both topics have been fiercely argued and no overall conclusion drawn. [...]

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    Art

    US Film "Bboy For Life" Seeks Funding
    US Film “Bboy For Life” Seeks Funding

    Jun 01, 2012 | Discuss

    BBOY FOR LIFE a film by Nadus Films is the story on how the lives of breakers in Guatemala City are …

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    Entertainment

    A Decade of Breakin' Conventions
    A Decade of Breakin’ Conventions

    May 02, 2013 | Discuss

    No longer a babe in arms hip-hop dance theatre festival Breakin’ Convention is taking its firs…

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    Battle Footage

    King Of The Kidz 2013 - Battle Footage
    King Of The Kidz 2013 – Battle Footage

    Mar 04, 2013 | Discuss

    Leelou vs. Kid Karam Lil Demon vs. Justen Sunni (Soul Mavericks) vs. Kid Colombia…

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    Style

    Rockfresh [in] The Dopest Hip Hop Tees in the UK
    Rockfresh [in] The Dopest Hip Hop Tees in the UK

    Mar 30, 2012 | Discuss

    Born from a love of real underground Hip Hop, the online UK based clothing store Rockfresh only stoc…

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    Interviews

    B-Boy News Interviews: Profo Won
    B-Boy News Interviews: Profo Won

    Mar 21, 2013 | Discuss

    B-Boy Profo Won is from the crew Floor Gangs Worldwide, lives in San Francisco California and is 37 …

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