Montgomery Mayans days.. - Pop Lock days- Inspired by mentor Ken Murphy - The Murph..
Hi everyone, I hope your doing well , just remember we will overcome this crisis covid 19..
Now lets go back in time,, Zapp Bands More bounce to the ounce, Gap Bands early in the morning , Atomic Dog, Funkaledic's One nation under the groove , were some of the jams we used to pop lock in those days. But , I didn't learn the movements by myself, I was mentored by the baddest popper in school. Yes, maybe at the time I never said it. But now,, I realize , he let me my thing , but he had all those smooth moves.. I was more a athletic, Martial art guy that knew how to act like I was a popper,..Yea, For reals..I knew how to present my moves,, I didn't have as many moves a K dog. But I knew how to sell my moves. One of my favorite moves was like a zig zag move and doing it fast.. My trademark move was doing the splits.. I got so many ohs and ahs. with the finishing move..
But K dog. would teach me moves during school breaks. Like the walk between classes or lunch time. Every day we put on a show. Its got so bad.. WE MADE .. EVERY student late to class.. I was with a very cute girl.. Liz was her name. Man I loved that girl.. Well we were in 8th grade.. oh well sorry about embarrassing you liz.. Because I could hear people say your boy friend is a trouble making show off. I know she tried to fight it. But I always wanted attention. But anyways, K dog and company, would go to the lunch area and we would go at it. K would do his moves then the next and of course I would finish the show.. We did this everyday , its amazing the students never got bored, well we changed it up,,at times we go by ourselves, and other times we would tag team.. Man we were hot,. BOth of us were skinny , fit and dark.. Oh, K dog was a cool black guy and I was dark complexion guy that acted black and dance like a brother. I think that's why he liked me because I knew all the jams back in the day.. Lake side , Slave , Mass production , were just some of the groups we used to do our thing.. It was magical time in our lives.. But the counselors , were always on our case,, They said do it at lunch ,or before school or after school . But please not during the walk break,, But we couldn't help ourselves. we wanted to show off to the prettiest girls in the southside, The sisters , the rucas , the pinays and the white girls were hottest !! Back in the day, girls were girls, they would talk to you and say what's up. No ,mind games back in the day, U knew where you stood. Those girls let you knew what was the deal. Your my friend or not. Man.,,if only I could go back in time.. Those girls were so cool to talk to. But anyways. We loved to show off.. But we paid for it. By having our boom boxes confisicated and having to do detention. No wonder My girls left me. Instead of walking my girls home I was in school serving detention.. But this is how we rolled until we graduated to high school. But those Jr high days in South San Diego were the shits..I mean we wore the khaki's and our tight white shirts, with our handkerchiefs and pop lock along the hallways of Montgomery... Geez if only those walls could talk, Because we did great dancing .. That's wasnt even recorded.. I mean think back. Those days, No computers , no social media. so everything was done for your memory.. Man,, if only we had cell phones. We have hours or days of some of hottest dance moves ever. Break dancing style. Yea. those were the days and Ken was so cool to me , like I said he was like my dance brother , he always wanted me to look good, because it made him look good. I remember he would hype me up. In fact .. He was the better pop locker , but he enjoyed talking me up.. Don King style,. yeah.. and the girls. were in love with us. Why? well we were cute and charming and we dance like crazy.. It was especially fun when we would dominate a school dance .. But that's another blog.. maybe.?
Final thoughts. To my dear long lost friend. Ken Murphy.... I haven't heard from you in what 30 years..I really admired you bro, you had the smoothest moves ever and I'm not going to lie.. I stole or imitated your moves an put a little something , something . to make it my own.. Bro , if we ever reconnect at a reunion or what.. ? Lets give the classmates a show of our old school moves. I know they would love it and it would be awesome to see the old school pop moves..
well Take care my Montgomery jr High classmates.. We had a unique style, the feather back hair for the guys and gals. and our slim and sexy bodies. We were to legit to quit.. and we loved one another. Those were the greatest times of my childhood..
THE SOURCE PRODUCTIONS @ 2020
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