![]() The earliest written account of breaking, in 1981, uses the terms "breaking," "breaker," and "B Boy". Other names for breaking (or aspects of it) included going off, the boyoiyoing or boyoing, burning, and rocking 2. Me myself I think they started calling it BBoy after we had gotten to the Executive Playhouse and the Hevalo to a degree" (i.e. Coke La Rock recalls, "it came about later on. In another interview, Herc elaborates, "when somebody go off in the neighborhood, 'Yo, I’m ready to break on somebody,' so we just say B-boys, you know, breakers". You understand? So we just used an exaggeration of that term to the dancing. It didn't come from breaks on the record. Herc relays the etymology in the film The Freshest Kids, The terms b-boying and b-girling followed. The terms breaking (informally breakin) and breaker arose in the early 1970s, while b-boy (shortened form of break boy) and b-girl were derived by DJ Kool Herc around 1974. ![]()
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