About Me
(THE NEW IMAGE, A HIP HOP PROMOTING COMPANY)
FORMER RAPPERS, STREETDANCERS, TAGGERS, DJ'S AND SINGERS, WELL MOST OF THE STUFF WE STILL DO! TURNED B-BOY BREAKDANCE HIP HOP PROMOTERS..........WELL, LETS SEE....
NEW IMAGE FIRST STARTED OUT AS A STREET HIP HOP DANCE CREW WHICH WAS ORIGINATED IN THE EARLY 1990'S. A GROUP OF YOUNG KIDS-SOLO DANCERS WAS WAITING FOR THE BUS AFTER SCHOOL, TALKED AND DECIDED TO UNITE THERE TALLENTS & FORM A DANCE CREW. OUR ORIGINAL CREW NAME WAS DAY & NIGHT DANCERS, THEN CHANGED TO WESTSIDE JAMMING CREW THEN A YEAR AFTER CHANGED THE NAME TO NEWIMAGE. OVERALL THE NEWIMAGE DANCE CREW CONSISTED OF ABOUT 10 DANCERS.PRACTICEING ROUTINES ON DIRT PAVED ROADS AND GRASS FIELDS & WHEREVER WAS GOOD.IN THE LATE 1990'S WHEN WE ALL GREW OUT OF ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, WE STARTED TO GET INTO THE OTHER HIP HOP ELEMENTS AS WELL, SUCH AS DJ'ING, MIXING MUSIC, RAPPING AND SINGING.bELIEVE IT OR NOT WE WAS WAY AHEAD OF OUR TIME ON THE ISLAND OF KAUAI, BY RAPPING AND SINGINS AND DANCEING AT THE SAME TIME.BY 1997 WE DECIDED TO MAKE A MOVE AND TO TAKE OUR TALLENTS TO THE PHILIPPINES, I THINK OR MAIN MOTIVATION WAS WATCHING TO MUCH FILIPINO CHANNEL (ABS-CBN)LOL... WHICH WAS INTRODUCED TO HAWAII AROUND THAT TIME. AT THAT TIME ALSO THE PHILIPPINES WAS BOOMING AND WAS STARTIN TO MAKE A BIG IMPACT, SUCH GROUPS AS MASTPLANN, SUNVALLEY CREW, DEATH TREAT, URBANFLOW ALONG SIDE WITH OTHER HIP HOP ARTIST WAS REALLY TAKIN IT TO THE PHILIPPINES..tHINGS ACTUALLY DIDN'T WORKOUT IN THE PHILIPPINES, LACK OF PROFESSIONALISM ECT ECT..BY THEN THINGS FELT LIKE ALL WAS GOING DOWN HILL AND IN 1998 THE GROUP BROKE UP, AND WENT SEPERATE WAYS, SOME STAYED ON KAUAI, OTHERS WENT TO CALIFORNIA AND ARIZONA.NEVERTHELESS THAT WAS THE BIRTH OF NEW IMAGE PRODUCTIONS, WE TOOK THE TALLENTS AND KNOWLEDGE WE NEW ABOUT THE HIPHOOP CULTURE AND STARTED TEACHING IT TO THE YOUTH!BY 1998 WE HAD OUR FIRST DANCE CREW WHO WE TAUGHT, CALLED NEWIMAGE2, THEN WITH THE NEXT GENERATION, THEN WITH THE STREETKIDS, WE STARTED PRODUCING & PROMOTING LOCAL SHOWS AT THE MALLS AND PARTIES AND OTHER LOCAL VENUES.1998 WAS ALSO THE UPRISE OF THE NONSTOP BREAKERS "KAUAI CHAPTER" OR n.s.b, AND THE OPENING TO INTRODUCE THE ISLAND OF KAUAI , HAWAII BACK TO BREAKDANCING!, WHICH WAS LOST BACK IN THE 1980'S. WE DID OUR FIRST EVENT AT A MALL CALLED KUKUI GROVE IT WAS THE FIRST BREAKDANCE BATTLE ON KAUAI IN THAT DECADE! WOW! THE EVENT WAS CALLED "DONTSTOP THE ROCK" WHICH WE HAD LIKE A TOTAL OF 8 B-BOYS PARTICIPATED ON THAT NIGHT..LOL, EVENTUALLY THE CROWEDS CREW HUGE AND THE INTREST IN THE YOUTH AND THE LOCAL COMMUNITY GREW DRASTICALLY! BY 1999 THE BREAKDANCE COMMUNITY ON KAUAI WAS A CULTURE, GROUPS LIKE N.S.B, ETERNAL STYLE, GREW TO BE POPULAR CREW ON KAUAI.SADLY IN 2002 THE B-BOY CULTURE SORT OF VANNISHED FROM KAUAI?? WHY?? THATS WHEN NEW IMAGE PRODUCTIONS WENT ON A LONG VACATION!!IN 2006 THERE WAS A SPARK IN THE DARK..CLIF FORMALLY FROM THE OLD NEWIMAGE PRODUCTIONS DECIDED IT WAS TIME TO GET BREAKDANCING GOING AGAIN ON KAUAI.HE DECIED TO ROUND UP THE OLD NEWIMAGE GANG AND DO IT ALL OVER AGAIN..SINCE 2006 NEWIMAGE PRODUCTIONS HAS PROMOTED COUNTLESS B-BOY BREAKDANCE BATTLES HERE ON THE ISLAND OF KAUAI, AND HELPED SPARK THE NEW GENERATION OF B-BOYS ON KAUAI!ALSO THREW THE HELP OF OTHER PROMOTIONS SUCH AS ARCHANGLES-EVENTS(OAHU) & UNAWISM(MANILA) WE HAVE HAD THE CHANCE TO TAKE OUR LOVE FOR THE ART TO HONOLULU, HAWAII AND THE H.I TO THE P.I(HAWAII VIA pHILIPPINES) AND BEING THE FIRST IN HISTORY TO UNITE B-BOYS FROM HAWAII WITH THE pHILIPPINES.THUS HAVING THE HAWAII VS PHILIPPINES BATTLE IN 2007. BRIDGING THE GAP AS WE SO CALL IT.STILL AT THE PRESENT TIME WE ARE LOOKING FOR NEW WAYS TO BRING OUR LOVE FOR THIS HIPHOP GAME AND TO REACH NOT ONLY THE YOUNG PEOPLE BUT FOR ALL GENERATIONS...WE REALLY DONT KNOW HOW LONG WE GONNA BE AROUND? BUT ALONG THIS CRAZY JOURNEY WE HAVE MET A LOT OF INTERESTING PEOPLE WHO LOVE THIS THING CALLED B-BOYING AND HIP HOP, I THINK THATS ENUFF MOTIVATION FOR US TO GO MANY MORE YEARS...THEY SAY WE STRIVE FROM THE PAST, THATS WHAT MAKES US KEEP TICKIN FOR THE FUTURE..THANK YOU ALL, FROM THE N.I.PGOD BLESSS!
