adidas Original NMD Runner – $129.99 – The adidas NMD was one of 2016’s most popular sneakers. Don’t buy them to look at in the box, though. These are gift worth giving, or keeping for yourself.
Ultimate Breaks & Beats 30th Anniversary Bundle -$44.98 – The folks at Get On Down stay hooking up essential box sets, like their Purple Tape box set. Besides the breaks, you get a tee and a figurine.
“Breaks” or “breakbeats” first emerged in the formative days of the early 1970s, when a DJ in the Bronx, New York named Kool Herc popularized a sound based around the hard funk drums of James Brown. Herc kept the dancefloor jumping by isolating parts of the records with the “breakdown” – typically in the form of a percussion solo. Since these sections would always generate the most excitement from the dancers, why not continue the energy using two copies of the record? Herc’s cutting-edge practice of extending the break led to the emergence of “break boys” (aka b-boys), who would take the opportunity to showcase their best dance moves during these passages, hence the term “break dancing.”
Limited to just 86 copies. You may want to cop stat.
