BBoy or EBoy?

how is it going folks?
Late night rushing to finish the blog last minute right? (́◕◞౪◟◕‵)

Anyway…
Its me again! Your manly gentleman Benjamin Lei AKA BBoy Sleepless!

Today, we are going to talk about the exciting topic of what is BBoy and EBoy.

The term, BBoy, is often used to refer to people who breakdance. (If you are a girl, you would be a BGirl.) Pretty straight forward right? Now you might ask what about breakdancer? The answer is NO! Why?

The term, BBoy, originated from the early 70s when Jamaican-American DJ Kool Herc would play these “breaks” from a song on a vinyl record. Breaks are parts of a song that there are no lyrics but only music. The reason to play these breaks was to excite people to dance. People who dance to these breaks were then named Break Boys, or BBoys in short. Sometime they are refereed as Breakers too. After the dance was popularized, it started to appear in main stream media and BBoys were called breakdancer on the media. Later on, real BBoys who are dedicated to their art form and culture started to refer those BBoys who are not dedicated as breakdancer, and those who use breakdance as a mean for their personal gains.

With how easy it is to connect to the internet nowadays, it gives rise to another form of breakdancer called EBoy. It stands for Electronic Boys. EBoys is often used to refer to people who spend way too much time on the internet all day, especially on YouTube or other breakdance related forums.

What does a EBoy comment look like? Here is one.

Since these people spent too much time online, all they do is leave comments on BBoy related social media like YouTube and forums. Their comments are extremely bias. They often made it sounds like they are very knowledgeable on the subject but in reality they are not. Here is another example of EBoy comment.

Since they think they know everything, they love to argue that although certain famous international level BBoys are very good at what they do, they do not know the basic foundation of the dance. At this point, they are establishing themselves as a person who is well educated in the art form, but it only shows how much they do not know. If they are dedicated enough to the art and culture, they would look for evidences to find out whether these famous BBoys are really lacking of foundations. After all, Google is only so far away, but these EBoy are too lazy to because they think they know everything. If they would simply type these famous BBoys’ names in the search bar, they would find interviews of them. These famous BBoys are shown to be very skilled at their foundational moves. The specific moves they do are simply a personal choice. After learning all of the basic foundation of the dance, they have found a specific area of interest and they spent most of their time since then to train those moves. They are famous for their moves because the hard work and training they put in.

Here we have it boys and girls! Now you understand what REAL BBoy means!

Remember! Be a REAL BBoy or BGirl!

Don’t be a breakdancer or EBoy!