Post by roldare on Nov 9, 2010 23:49:07 GMT -5
DONT CALL IT A COMEBACK...
PHAZE II, EST. 1982.... THE NAME STANDS ON ITS OWN... THOSE WHO KNOW THEIR HISTORY CANNOT IGNORE THE PHAZE II LEGACY... IT TRANSCENDS TIME... IT DEFINES BBOY PURITY...ITS INFLUENCE IS UNQUESTIONABLE...
LIKE A CAGED WARRIOR, BBOY WICKED HAD BEEN HANDCUFFED BY THE CHAINS OF SECULAR WORLD. AS LIFE TOOK ITS COURSE, WICKED HAD TO WALK AWAY FROM THE SCENE, BUT HE NEVER LOST SIGHT OF THE FLOOR. HE LURKED IN BACKGROUND... HE EXISTED TO ONLY THOSE IN HIS CLOSEST CIRCLE...BUT ON NOVEMBER 7TH 2010 THE LIVING LEGEND KNOWN AS BBOY WICKED, ROSE FROM THE ASHES AND RE-INTRODUCED HIMSELF TO THE SCENE THAT HE HELPED FATHER... AND ON THIS DAY HE BROUGHT US CROSSTOWN CYPHERS.
THE BATTLES
16 CREWS SIGNED UP...BUT ONLY ONE DUO WOULD WALK AWAY WITH THE CASH, THE PRIZE AND THE PRIDE OF BEING CROSSTOWN CYPHER CHAMPIONS....
THE FINAL FOUR
SELF-X, FEATURING P-NUT AND LIL' IVAN VS. UKRAINE VILLAGE, FEATURING MALO AND KES WAS THE FIRST SEMI-FINAL OF THE NIGHT. LIL' IVAN IS ONE OF THOSE BBOYS THAT SNAPS ON ALMOST EVERY ROUND...IF THERE'S A SPANISH TOP-ROCKING BEAT PLAYING DURING HIS ROUND, I FEEL SORRY FOR HIS OPPONENT: LIL' IVAN IS UNDENIABLY ONE OF THE BEST TOP ROCKERS IN THE MIDWEST. BUT THE EASTERN EUROPEAN BBOYS CAME TO PLAY...WHILE MALO HAS BECOME A CHICAGO MAINSTAY OVER THE LAST YEAR, KES IS A NEWCOMER WITH PIZAZZ. MUCH LOVE AND RESPECT TO A WELL FOUGHT DUEL, SELF-X WINS!!!
"CHI TO SHANGHAI" , FEATURING JFUNKY AND AMBROSE, VS. CROOKS CREW, FEATURING ADVERSE AND JOLEE WAS THE SECOND SEMIFINAL. THIS WAS WAR... AFTER A ROUGH START TO 2010, CROOKS CREW HAVE BEEN ON A ROLL...RECENT WINNERS OF HELLAWEEN IV AND BREAKIN' THE ICE, THE CROOKS HAVE BEEN TAKING EVERYBODY'S LOOT. BUT JFUNKY AND AMBROSE JUST FINISHED EXPLOITING CHINA FOR ALL ITS WORTH, SO THEY WEREN'T ABOUT TO GET ROBBED BY SOME CROOKS...AND AFTER 4 BREATH-TAKING, LUNG BURNING ROUNDS....CHI TO SHANGHAI WINS!!!
THE FINALS
CHI-TO SHANGHAI VS. SELF-X: THIS WAS A COMPLETE BATTLE....IT HAD STYLE, CHARACTER, BEAT RIDING, TRICKS, MOVES AND POWER MOVES...ALL FOUR BBOYS CAPTIVATED THE MOMENT....AMBROSE WITH HIS DIAMOND-CUT FOOTWORK: LIL' IVAN WITH HIS PRECISION-ED BODY CONTROL; JFUNKY WITH HIS FUNKTIFIED BLOW-UPS....AND LAST BUT NOT LEAST, P-NUT WITH HIS MIND BOGGLING BODY MECHANICS....I THINK YOU COULDVE SWAPPED PARTNERS AND THE BATTLE WOULDVE LOOKED THE SAME....THATS HOW EVEN THESE GUYS WERE....BUT IN THE END, SELF-X CAPTURED THE TITLE OF CROSSTOWN CYPHER CHAMPIONS.....
IN THE CYPHERS
HEAT: BENNY BEN IS A REAL NICE GUY, BUT I'LL BE DAMNed IF HE WASN'T CALLED OUT FROM DAWN TIL' DUSK...AS SOON AS HE WALKED IN PEEPS PICKED HIM OUT...HE WOULD TAKE A BREAK, AND THERE WAS A LINE OF GUYS WAITING FOR HIM...BUT BERTO OF CROOKS CREW WANTED BENNY BEN'S HEAD... IVE NEVER SEEN SUCH FEROCIOUSNESS FROM BERTO....BUT I GUESS THATS LIFE IN THE CYPHER...
ORIGINAL COMBAT CREW: SERIOUSLY SPEAKING, WATCHING PHAZE, TOKYO, MR. DO AND WICKED HIT THE FLOOR WAS A REAL MOMENT...ORIGINAL WORLD WIDE TRAVELERS...FROM CHICAGO TO COLUMBIA TO GERMANY...THEY TRULY CAN SAY THEY PUT CHICAGO ON THE MAP...
IN ONE MY PROUDEST MOMENTS, I WAS GLAD TO SEE NONE OTHER THAN WAYNE GRAVY CROWNED AS CYPHER KING. WAYNE HAS BEEN A CHICAGO MAINSTAY FOR MANY YEARS; FROM "CFK"(CONJUNCTION FUNCTION KREW) TO "CF"(CONNECT FORCE) TO STYLIN' OUT TO ROLDARE NATION...THIS MAN IS TRUE TO HIS STYLE AND ALWAYS SEEMS TO HEAT UP THE CYPHERS...CONGRATS ON HIS FIRST EVER WIN....
CELEBRITY SIGHTINGS
LADY CHAMP: STRAIGHT OFF THE RUNWAY...
BOCHI AND REDDOR: MAKING A NAME FOR THEMSELVES
SPINMASTER: AN EVENT ISNT COMPLETE UNLESS SAUL TAKES IT TO THE FLOOR.
MR. AND MRS. CITY VS.CITY: EARLY LEAVERS CREW, LOL
MR. CHICAGOBBOY.COM: TILL DEATH DO US PART.
ROCKFORD: MIDWEST MONSTERS REPPING ON THE TABLES AND ON THE FLOOR.
E-DOUBLE: CRASH GOES LOVE...DESPITE THE DEATH OF HIS CAR, E-DOUBLE STILL BANGED TO THE BEAT OF THE DRUMS...
FINAL THOUGHT:
THIS WAS MORE THAN JUST A FUND RAISER...IT WAS TRULY A WAY TO CULTIVATE THE GROWTH OF THE CHICAGO SCENE VIA EVANSTON...BUT IT WAS ALSO, IN A SENSE, THE REBIRTH OF WICKED AND THE PHAZE II LEGACY. I WAS HONORED TO A PART OF THIS EVENT. TO ME THIS EVENT WAS MORE THAN A SUNDAY AFTERNOON SESSION...IT WAS A CHANCE SHARE A MOMENT IN TIME WITH SOME OF THE FOREFATHERS OF THE CHICAGO SCENE. PEACE AND LOVE TO ALL THOSE THAT CAME OUT TO SUPPORT AND A BIG PROPS TO THOSE THAT, IF ONLY FOR ONE ROUND, MADE THEIR PRESENCE FELT ONE MORE TIME. THANK YOU.
ROLDARE NATION
PS.
PLEASE HIT UP THIS LINK FOR SOME PHAZE II UPDATES AND NOSTALGIA...
phaze2chicago.com/joomlatest/index.php?option=com_expose&Itemid=50
PHAZE II, EST. 1982.... THE NAME STANDS ON ITS OWN... THOSE WHO KNOW THEIR HISTORY CANNOT IGNORE THE PHAZE II LEGACY... IT TRANSCENDS TIME... IT DEFINES BBOY PURITY...ITS INFLUENCE IS UNQUESTIONABLE...
LIKE A CAGED WARRIOR, BBOY WICKED HAD BEEN HANDCUFFED BY THE CHAINS OF SECULAR WORLD. AS LIFE TOOK ITS COURSE, WICKED HAD TO WALK AWAY FROM THE SCENE, BUT HE NEVER LOST SIGHT OF THE FLOOR. HE LURKED IN BACKGROUND... HE EXISTED TO ONLY THOSE IN HIS CLOSEST CIRCLE...BUT ON NOVEMBER 7TH 2010 THE LIVING LEGEND KNOWN AS BBOY WICKED, ROSE FROM THE ASHES AND RE-INTRODUCED HIMSELF TO THE SCENE THAT HE HELPED FATHER... AND ON THIS DAY HE BROUGHT US CROSSTOWN CYPHERS.
THE BATTLES
16 CREWS SIGNED UP...BUT ONLY ONE DUO WOULD WALK AWAY WITH THE CASH, THE PRIZE AND THE PRIDE OF BEING CROSSTOWN CYPHER CHAMPIONS....
THE FINAL FOUR
SELF-X, FEATURING P-NUT AND LIL' IVAN VS. UKRAINE VILLAGE, FEATURING MALO AND KES WAS THE FIRST SEMI-FINAL OF THE NIGHT. LIL' IVAN IS ONE OF THOSE BBOYS THAT SNAPS ON ALMOST EVERY ROUND...IF THERE'S A SPANISH TOP-ROCKING BEAT PLAYING DURING HIS ROUND, I FEEL SORRY FOR HIS OPPONENT: LIL' IVAN IS UNDENIABLY ONE OF THE BEST TOP ROCKERS IN THE MIDWEST. BUT THE EASTERN EUROPEAN BBOYS CAME TO PLAY...WHILE MALO HAS BECOME A CHICAGO MAINSTAY OVER THE LAST YEAR, KES IS A NEWCOMER WITH PIZAZZ. MUCH LOVE AND RESPECT TO A WELL FOUGHT DUEL, SELF-X WINS!!!
"CHI TO SHANGHAI" , FEATURING JFUNKY AND AMBROSE, VS. CROOKS CREW, FEATURING ADVERSE AND JOLEE WAS THE SECOND SEMIFINAL. THIS WAS WAR... AFTER A ROUGH START TO 2010, CROOKS CREW HAVE BEEN ON A ROLL...RECENT WINNERS OF HELLAWEEN IV AND BREAKIN' THE ICE, THE CROOKS HAVE BEEN TAKING EVERYBODY'S LOOT. BUT JFUNKY AND AMBROSE JUST FINISHED EXPLOITING CHINA FOR ALL ITS WORTH, SO THEY WEREN'T ABOUT TO GET ROBBED BY SOME CROOKS...AND AFTER 4 BREATH-TAKING, LUNG BURNING ROUNDS....CHI TO SHANGHAI WINS!!!
THE FINALS
CHI-TO SHANGHAI VS. SELF-X: THIS WAS A COMPLETE BATTLE....IT HAD STYLE, CHARACTER, BEAT RIDING, TRICKS, MOVES AND POWER MOVES...ALL FOUR BBOYS CAPTIVATED THE MOMENT....AMBROSE WITH HIS DIAMOND-CUT FOOTWORK: LIL' IVAN WITH HIS PRECISION-ED BODY CONTROL; JFUNKY WITH HIS FUNKTIFIED BLOW-UPS....AND LAST BUT NOT LEAST, P-NUT WITH HIS MIND BOGGLING BODY MECHANICS....I THINK YOU COULDVE SWAPPED PARTNERS AND THE BATTLE WOULDVE LOOKED THE SAME....THATS HOW EVEN THESE GUYS WERE....BUT IN THE END, SELF-X CAPTURED THE TITLE OF CROSSTOWN CYPHER CHAMPIONS.....
IN THE CYPHERS
HEAT: BENNY BEN IS A REAL NICE GUY, BUT I'LL BE DAMNed IF HE WASN'T CALLED OUT FROM DAWN TIL' DUSK...AS SOON AS HE WALKED IN PEEPS PICKED HIM OUT...HE WOULD TAKE A BREAK, AND THERE WAS A LINE OF GUYS WAITING FOR HIM...BUT BERTO OF CROOKS CREW WANTED BENNY BEN'S HEAD... IVE NEVER SEEN SUCH FEROCIOUSNESS FROM BERTO....BUT I GUESS THATS LIFE IN THE CYPHER...
ORIGINAL COMBAT CREW: SERIOUSLY SPEAKING, WATCHING PHAZE, TOKYO, MR. DO AND WICKED HIT THE FLOOR WAS A REAL MOMENT...ORIGINAL WORLD WIDE TRAVELERS...FROM CHICAGO TO COLUMBIA TO GERMANY...THEY TRULY CAN SAY THEY PUT CHICAGO ON THE MAP...
IN ONE MY PROUDEST MOMENTS, I WAS GLAD TO SEE NONE OTHER THAN WAYNE GRAVY CROWNED AS CYPHER KING. WAYNE HAS BEEN A CHICAGO MAINSTAY FOR MANY YEARS; FROM "CFK"(CONJUNCTION FUNCTION KREW) TO "CF"(CONNECT FORCE) TO STYLIN' OUT TO ROLDARE NATION...THIS MAN IS TRUE TO HIS STYLE AND ALWAYS SEEMS TO HEAT UP THE CYPHERS...CONGRATS ON HIS FIRST EVER WIN....
CELEBRITY SIGHTINGS
LADY CHAMP: STRAIGHT OFF THE RUNWAY...
BOCHI AND REDDOR: MAKING A NAME FOR THEMSELVES
SPINMASTER: AN EVENT ISNT COMPLETE UNLESS SAUL TAKES IT TO THE FLOOR.
MR. AND MRS. CITY VS.CITY: EARLY LEAVERS CREW, LOL
MR. CHICAGOBBOY.COM: TILL DEATH DO US PART.
ROCKFORD: MIDWEST MONSTERS REPPING ON THE TABLES AND ON THE FLOOR.
E-DOUBLE: CRASH GOES LOVE...DESPITE THE DEATH OF HIS CAR, E-DOUBLE STILL BANGED TO THE BEAT OF THE DRUMS...
FINAL THOUGHT:
THIS WAS MORE THAN JUST A FUND RAISER...IT WAS TRULY A WAY TO CULTIVATE THE GROWTH OF THE CHICAGO SCENE VIA EVANSTON...BUT IT WAS ALSO, IN A SENSE, THE REBIRTH OF WICKED AND THE PHAZE II LEGACY. I WAS HONORED TO A PART OF THIS EVENT. TO ME THIS EVENT WAS MORE THAN A SUNDAY AFTERNOON SESSION...IT WAS A CHANCE SHARE A MOMENT IN TIME WITH SOME OF THE FOREFATHERS OF THE CHICAGO SCENE. PEACE AND LOVE TO ALL THOSE THAT CAME OUT TO SUPPORT AND A BIG PROPS TO THOSE THAT, IF ONLY FOR ONE ROUND, MADE THEIR PRESENCE FELT ONE MORE TIME. THANK YOU.
ROLDARE NATION
PS.
PLEASE HIT UP THIS LINK FOR SOME PHAZE II UPDATES AND NOSTALGIA...
phaze2chicago.com/joomlatest/index.php?option=com_expose&Itemid=50