This song from Black Star’s classic self-titled 1998 album.

It acts as a sort of tribute to the origins of hip hop as the name suggests, alluding to the b-boys that originally danced to break beats before MCs began rapping over them. There’s shoutouts to b boy crews such as Rock Steady along with shoutouts to graffiti artists (“writers”).

The rapping also alludes to the origins of hip hop as Mos Def and Talib Kweli play off a freestyle verse from the movie Wild Style. It is also a classic old school hip hop verse showing call-and-response and bragging and simple rhyme structure.