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B Girls is one of two hit singles from hip-hop group Young & Restless. The song is about gold diggers who specifically target guys who possess items starting with the letter B . Specifically, these include " Broncos , Benzes , BMWs , bass , bangles , and "a pair of bars [chrome wire-spoke wheels] on a Cadillac Brougham ".
She began as a local b-girl, or breakdancer, in the early days of South Bronx hip hop scene and culture in the late 1970s. [7] The Funky 4 + 1, Sha-Rock being the plus one, had their first hit with the 12-inch "Rapping and Rocking the House" on Sugarhill Records (1979), which was followed by "That's the Joint" (1980). [ 8 ]
The Sequence is noted as the first female hip hop trio signed to the Sugar Hill Records label in the late–1970s and early–1980s. The group consisted of Cheryl Cook, known as "Cheryl The Pearl", Gwendolyn Chisolm, known as "Blondy", and lead singer and rapper Angie Stone, known as Angie B, who were all high school friends. [1]
Both American b-girls were eliminated in Friday’s round-robin phase, a blow to the country representing the birthplace of hip-hop in what could be the discipline’s only Games appearance. B ...
Hip-hop performers like Kurtis Blow and Big Daddy Kane helped popularize gold necklaces and other types of jewelry, while female rappers such as Roxanne Shanté and the group Salt-N-Pepa helped popularize made oversized gold door-knocker earrings trend. The heavy jewelry was seen as a symbol of prestige and wealth, and some even connected the ...
Similar to other hip-hop subcultures, such as graffiti writing, rapping, and DJing, breakers are predominantly male, but this is not to say that women breakers, b-girls, are invisible or nonexistent. Female participants, such as Daisy Castro (also known as Baby Love of Rock Steady Crew), attest that females have been breakdancing since its ...
Humphries, 38, proceeded to toss his wife into the water while she was wearing $75,000 diamond earrings. “My earring’s gone,” Kim screamed. “My diamond earring came off in the ocean!”
'B-Girls' were women who, in the post-World War Two era, got a take from bartenders after getting men to buy them drinks. Catto designed the band's logo and made the stencil for them; Cynthia painted all the T-shirts, the band made its own buttons and fliers, and only recorded the 'B' sides of covers because they were less expensive.