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C-8 Times-News, Twin Falls, Idaho Friday, September 11, 1998 Backbeat Breakdancing and '80s rap all the rage with today's teens ancient civilization. He was break-dancing. Remember breakdancing? That hip-hop pastime of the early 1980s when kids everywhere were spinning on their parents' linoleum floors and exuberantly trying the Moonwalk? Performers who've been out of the big time for almost 15 years now find themselves playing reunion shows at clubs that don't book contemporary hip-hop acts. They're the pioneers of rap and they're finding a whole new generation of fans. "Once again we have a whole crop of kids 20 and under that are discover LOS ANGELES (AP) A circle i formed in the crowd of rap enthusiasts and slowly widened as a DJ played the mechanical beats of Herbie Hancock's "Rockit." Eyes darted around the ring before an athletic 19-year-old guy who goes by the name of Juice, wearing a tank top and nylon pants, finally stepped in.

Juice swayed his arms and began to step left, then right, then left again, in time with the rhythm. Suddenly, his legs shuffled, kicked, dipped, flut-, tered, twirled and kicked again, and with one athletic move, he dropped to the floor and spun around on his back. It was like recalling a lost rite of an ing breaking, discovering graffiti, and rap, and saying, 'Yo, I can be a part of this, I can said longtime rap producer Fred Brathwaite, better known as Fab 5 Freddy. "The young crowd is really embracing the history of it all, because it was so pure," he said. "Nobody that invented the stuff was really thinking about making a lot of money.

They were really just trying to have fun." The Wild Style Reunion Jam drew about 350 people, mostly hip-hop fans in their late teens and 20s. They watched a screening of "Wild Style," the seminal 1983 movie about rap and hip-hop culture, and heard some of rap's earliest stars perform. Grandmaster Flash was on hand, along with Buzy Bee and legendary breakdancer Crazy Legs from the Rock Steady Crew. The show's promoter, Tony Harris, 25, says old-school rap is one in a long line of musical forms to enjoy a retro revival in a culture endlessly fascinated with its recent history. But there's another reason for this nostalgia trip: Many hip-hop fans, turned off by the violence and negative images in much of contemporary rap, like old-school for its boastful exuberance and emphasis on clever rhymes.

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