Bust A Move!!

Unity vs Rapture Crew



Word of warning, I can’t dance. I’m so bad, it’s the reason why I became a DJ in the first place. At least I can go to the club and not look like a total dufus. I’ll tell you who can dance though, Rapture dance crew. This video I’m giving you is a bit old, I think it was January 2008. I randomly went to Jumpoff in Central (big night btw, you should go) with a few friends on their first night of the year. So we’re there right, and the crew dance of starts up, very poop. Most of the dance crews we’re ok, but Unity dance crew were killing everyone, so that’s a bit boring. I know some of those guys so it’s not really amazing to see them anymore, sorry boy’s lol. This one crew, forget their name, got merked badly. It was so bad, they did this counting thing, you know, 1 2 3 4, before they bust a move, and the crowd took the biscuit by counting along with em, just to put them off even more. I joined in obviously. Then they announce Rapture and we see these 8 or so really young white girls (there I said it! We was all thinking it lol) from Ireland step out. Oh no, we thought, they are going to get buried faster than you can say Myra Hindley.

Here are the facts that worked against them. Firstly Unity are good, very good. They’ve won international competitions for christ sake. Secondly, all the other dance crews had a few problems. Each round is about 40 seconds long. Now that doesn’t sound like a long time, but each routine you’ve got isn’t that long so you have to string them together and cut out at the right time, or you get disqualified. One of the crews that went on before couldn’t fill their 40 seconds and it looks so bad when you finish with 15 seconds left on the clock, the crowd don’t like that. Thirdly, you have to have a whole bunch of different styles under your belt, popping and locking, old skool steps, break dancing, as well as a few surprises, otherwise you might as well stay at home with early grey and catch up on some corrie. On top of all that, you have to be as tight as possible. If one crew do something, let’s say a group routine, you can’t answer with a solo, that’s just stupid. You can’t have one person in the crew forget or mess up a move and put you all off, AND, that’s a big no no, and you can’t go counting 1 2 3 4. That’s like when you’re little and you try to rap but don’t know English too well so you fill in the gaps with what you think it sounds like, retarded.

One word of warning before you watch the video though. Rapture have a secret weapon. It’s the aww factor of their two youngest members. When they do first get included though, one of the little babies (that’s what they are) gets picked up from the either end like a skipping rope and another older one (not older by many years mind) goes to jump over her. The little baby gets hit accidentally though. It doesn’t look very good, but I assure you the kid wasn’t hurt at all. Promise, I even asked one of their dance teachers afterwards just to make sure I could go home and sleep afterwards.

So that said, here is the most amazing UK dance off you will ever see. It’s the Hip Hop equivalent of David Vs Goliath, quite literally. I still watch it about once a month just for kicks. If you like it, show support and put a comment down, the girls deserve it. Oh, and don’t say I never hook you up!



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