“King of the Beats” is a priceless Bboy joint from NYC’s Mantronix:
Mantronix poured out a bucket of Bboy Breaks elements for this jammy, drawing on a number of Hip-Hop classics and their sample sources.
Known for their definitively Hip-Hop habit of bringing together diverse elements from the background of the time, Mantronix’s DJ Kurtis Mantronik and MC Tee brought Electro and Funk together in their own style of the burgeoning movement, providing a distinct style to the dance floor.
Some background on the pair from Wikipedia:
Kurtis Mantronik (Kurtis el Khaleel), a Jamaican–Canadian émigré, began experimenting with electro music in the early 1980s, inspired by early electro tracks like “Riot in Lagos” (1980) by Yellow Magic Orchestra‘s Ryuichi Sakamoto. In 1984, while working as the in-store DJ for Downtown Records in Manhattan, Kurtis Mantronik met MC Tee, a Haitian-born, Flatbush, Brooklyn-based rapper (and regular record store customer).[1][2] The duo soon made a demo, “Fresh Is The Word,” and eventually signed with William Socolov’sSleeping Bag Records.
This track was featured on the soundtrack to the 2012 film “The Art of Rap”.
