The breakdancing competition at the first annual Freedom Festival July 4 was awesomely spectacular—definitely one of the major highlights of this very good inaugural event.
Energetik from Fullerton won the battle, edging out LA B-boy Smurf (the bald dude). Both of these cats put on incredible displays of athleticism and rhythm. Their moves are like world-class gymnastics, but funky as hell.
Check out the clip below of their final headspin-to-headspin match.
Damn, another music mag...gone. Yesterday afternoon it was announced that Vibe Magazine was officially closing it's doors, stopping it's presses and going the way of the 8-track. This extinct outlet for Hip Hop and R&B is now survived by only two major magazines of it's kind: XXL and The Source (whose had it's own battles with bankruptcy in the last year). Quincy Jones founded Vibe in 1993 along with Time Warner and focused its content on music news in the realm of Hip Hop (well, mostly Top
