THE TWINS …THE FIRST B-BOYS EVER  “B-Boys Make Some Noise”

Originally named by DJ Kool Herc, “The N***a Twins”, they soon became legendary  throughout The Bronx during the early 1970’s as the first dance crew to drop down to the floor with innovative moves, create top rocking footwork and mixed in vertical moves such as the Sling Shot.

While DJ Kool Herc, The Father of Hip Hop was laying the foundation of hip hop culture at 1520 Sedgwick Avenue and Cedar Park in the Bronx, he attracted many followers with a wide range of artistic abilities but, the most direct response to his innovative style of music was the birth of the b-boy, or 'break-boy'. 

Kool Herc began to notice that people would wait for the breaks during the records to jump onto the floor.   These breaks were so frantic that when he played them everyone would rush in to dance. DJ Kool Herc described b-boys in the movie Freshest Kids as, “boys that break…itdidn’t come from breaks on the record, it come from this man, he broke; He went to breaking point. So we would use that exaggeration of that term to the dancing – the b-boys, break boys.”  During Kool Herc’s instrumental breaks, a new style of dance was evolved, adapted and pioneered by the N***a Twins, called 'top rocking'.   In addition, because they were the first crew to go down on the floor with their moves, they are also credited with creating the form of dance, now called “b-boy style”. 

As legend has it, Kool Herc would yell “B-boys Make Some Noise!”…and The N***a Twins would dominate the floor.

The Twins add…”we saw people dancing and we wanted to dance,…but our style of dancing was not like anybody else’s…when we use to go down on the floor, we didn’t get dirty.  We didn’t dance on linoleum, we didn’t dance on cardboard, we danced on cement.”

The Twins are the founding fathers of the b-boy movement, one of the most artistic fusions of body and music ever created.  It became so connected to the music that it became an essential element of hip hop culture.
 The Twins “Keith & Kevin Smith” also inspired legendary style, including matching outfits, trench coats and often times sporting cigars in their routines.