User:Jakhari brown/A1 Bboy sasa

A1 B-boy Sasa is an African American street dancer credited as the first number one B-boy dancer of Hip-Hop, at DJ Kool Herc parties from 1973. Kool Herc coined the term B-boy and B-girls for the African American teenage Funk dancers that attended his earliest parties. Sasa along with the first generation B-boys, Trixie, The Legendary Twins, DJ Clark Kent, and a few others from Kool Herc's parties, set the foundation for the B-boy dance style in hip-hop taking it to the floor, performing acrobatic moves. Originating from the music and breakbeats of James Brown records, along with many other funk hits. The later 3rd generation of dancers introduced the B-boy dance as (Breakdancing) into the mass media, because of the popularity of Hip-Hop becoming a mainstream genre in the early 1980's.

Early life
Sasa was born in Manhattan New York City and raised in the west Bronx. As a child he grew up dancing to R&B, Soul and Funk music, he started getting recognition from his school peers early on for his dancing skills at school parties and later on in his teenage years. Many of his friends began inviting him to different house parties where he made a name for himself on the dance floor with his style, especially at Kool Herc parties where the best dancers from all over the Bronx and Harlem went to get down, " even some dancers from Brooklyn use to come out to Herc's parties. The best B-boy dancer was given the title (A1), If you were into funk dancing, Burning, Rocking and B-boying, you went to Herc's events. Sasa, like most of the " first generation originals," stopped B-boy dancing by 1977. He retired undefeated never losing a B-boy battle. The original Zulu king's B-boys popularity and influence brought in the era of forming break crews, with the Zulu's adding new footwork and gymnastic tricks to the foundation of the dance, making it a city-wide competitive trend, " establishing the history of this performing art form between the years of 1973 to 1977. After that new B-boy crews began to pop up all over the city." - The Foundational Pioneers of Hip Hop Culture(@)CE&GP