early 80's as the point when more latinos came in has been confirmed by Cholly Rock
and Beaver
2010 video from mr wiggles on him
2011 board post asking about Beaver
WHERE IS BEAVER .. ORIGINAL BBOY FROM THE 1970'S
2017 video below
^^cholly rock, closer to 2nd generation talks about him above
actual Beaver interview from 2018 where he flat out says Ricans started coming more into Bboying by the early 80's right when he retired.
Beaver (The Little Zulu Kings)
Castles In The Sky
they're mainly repeating what was going in hiphop by the time the early 80's arrived and then 1980's myths on hiphop history. Plus there was ameeting Between Zulu Nation and some of these Rican crew because the Rican crews wanted to know how they could be down with the bubbling hiphop culture
read below
Castles In The Sky
so, Rock steady crew is the one group that really put Ricans into the mix (1980s) but before that, you had the TBB Crew in the late 70's that first tried to get Ricans into the mix through Bambaatta.