Breaking just became a Olympic sport and will be represented at the 2024 Paris Games. Rock Steady Crew legend Crazy Legs (real name Richard Colón) was asked to be involved, but his future with the Olympics could be in jeopardy.
On Wednesday (December 16), a petition started circulating online claiming the often celebrated breaker has a long, sordid history of sending salacious photos to young women, essentially accusing Crazy Legs of sexual assault. Consequently, the people behind the petition (simply identified as BBoy & BGirl) are pleading with the International Olympic Committee to take action.
“Founder of Rock Steady Crew Richard Colón (a.k.a. Crazy Legs) has been using his power of influence to sexually harass women,” the petition reads in part. “Not only so, this behavior has gone on for a long time without being checked. He has failed to take accountability for his actions, and the Bboy/Bgirl community needs to take action! This man should not be involved with Redbull or Olympics, as he is a proven sexual predator.”
Now, Crazy Legs has responded to the allegations in a lengthy Instagram Story post, blaming a bout of depression for his alleged predatory behavior.
“What I’m going through is necessary and good for me,” he began. “I have refused to be honest for myself for too long. I haven’t admitted or discuss with people around me the things that lead me into depression. I’ve always thought my symptoms were the problem, when it was me not wanting to admit that I was in a deep depression and had a fear of looking weak by sharing it with others who would be supportive and helpful.”
“These issues have also lead me in a direction of hurting and letting people down. And there’s also how much I’ve down a road that was self destructive. For many years I’ve barely had a good nights rest, because I took my pain to bed every night. Now that I’m confronting myself, my demons and my depression, it’s amazing how telling your family and close friends these things can lift a weight off your shoulders and allow myself some clarity.
“Being an asshole is one thing, but not figuring out why I’ve become an asshole is the poison that festers within myself. I know the good that I’ve done and I can only hope that outweighs the bad.”
Crazy Legs insists he’s committed to getting help and has already started the process, which he says was tough because he “had to come out of being a coward and say it out loud.”
He ended with, “Although my depression is the root of my issues, it can not be an excuse for the disrespect of women. For that, I am truly sorry and I hope others follow suit. Going to do something. That is frown upon within the hood I grew up in and get therapy for my journey.”
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But people are calling foul on Crazy Legs’ post. As noted in the petition, “Depression has no medical evidence to cause you to send pictures of your genitals to women. Evidence shows a lack of motivation to do things, even sexually related.”
Established in 1977 by Jimmy D and Jimmy Lee, the Rock Steady Crew was arguably the most prominent b-boy/b-girl crew in the Bronx. Other notable members included Crazy Legs, DJ Cucumber Slice, DJ Qbert (first Rock Steady DJ), Fever One, Gizmo, Mr. Wiggles and Q-Unique.
Jimmy D appointed Crazy Legs as president of Rock Steady for his impeccable all city reputation, keen eye for talent and introduction of uptown b-boy style of dance to the downtown arts and nightclub scene. Today, he’s also involved in community outreach, dance instruction and dance theater productions.
Hold on. I don’t even send those type of pics to people, but I know it’s a thing. They’re framing this dude like he’s a sexual predator for that? What am I missing? Was he some type of serial pic sender? Like women asked him to stop and he kept going? Again, I’m not sending pics like that to people. But if that’s how somebody shoots their shot, can’t the women just delete it and never talk to him again if they don’t like it? Does that really make you a sexual predator?
Um, yes it absolutely does. I don’t want some creepy dude sending me pictures of their dick.
but denzel its cool huh? women dont understand theres plenty who like those pics, all depends if it was unsolicited typically they ask me or send an x rated 1 1st which far as im concerned is consent to send 1 back, face pics are the creepy thing to send lol but then most people have no clue about the tech they use
In a world where everyone is on social media you think people don’t Understand how “tech” works,really,you sound like someone from who lives in a cave,HELLO
just cuz you on it dont mean you know how it works, case in point you actually on “social media” if you knew how it worked you wouldnt be its email for dummies and letting strangers stalk your network and build dossiers on your non tech booty, socila media worse than crack, check the suicide numbers since iphones came out and facebook blew up coincindence i thik not haha and 40% of the world still dont have internet so no everyone is not on stalker media just the sheep who want their 15 minutes or to go viral, bunch of narrcicissts praying for validation from likes and retweets from strangers theyll never meet
Eat a dick fuckboi
So if another grown man sent you a dick pic, its cool? How about constant pics in your inbox daily? Every 5 minutes? What about every morning or every night you went to bed? Its what so many women and even some young girls deal with all the time. He was out of pocket.
Longshot,
No, I’m a man, so another man sending me dick pics would not be cool. On the other hand, if a woman sends me a nude out of the blue and I don’t like it, I’m not screaming sexual harrassment. I’m just deleting it and moving on with my life.
The “women” that you were referring to Are not women. They are young girls. Some of them were under the age of 18. It also wasn’t just sending dick pictures. It was trying to coerce young girls to have sex with him in order to be down with rock steady crew. He uses his power in position to try to groom and take advantage of young girls. Allegedly there are over 20 victims, I’m sure there’s probably a ton more since he has allegedly been doing this for decades.
Are you you a member of the Catholic Church?,would make a lot of sense from your post
Yes it makes you a predator. Many of these “women” that you are calling them, Are young girls under the age of 18. Some of them I heard are even 15. He has done this to a serial amount over the past few decades. Everything from his end was strategic and planned out. He looks for vulnerable girls. So If you could stop discrediting the claims and calling him for what he really is, a sexual predator that would be great.
He’s an arrogant prick.
they only dont like the d picc if u not they type, i mean i wouldnt send 1 unsolicited but if you sending me adult pics im sending ya one back with links to the videos, snowflkes dont know how to flirt they think its weird or creepy unless of course u they type they used to have enough game to block ya or just say not interested i have a man or something and move on, duck lips and selphies are offensive to me you wont see me starting a petition or trying to cancel someone geez get over it, Ds are on statuues and in art if one offends you become a lesbo and stop looking for a man to put you on
I’d love to see a picture of his big ass white dick ijs
If you want to see some pic dicks post your contact info to the public to see.
White woman are using the same sexual harrassment stories theyve used since emmit till and black people are too scared to call out white womans long abuse of false claims or hyped up claims to get men of all races arrested. Black ppl are scared of white woman
Are you serious with these stupid social media conspiracy theories,Ken Swift and Frosty Freeze were always the most official members of the crew,crazy legs was always trying to cashing for a pay check and it seems some Grooming
Actually all it takes is a google search 2 see how many american woman have been caught lying about it. How many men in jail were let go bc of it. And reps ruined for false claims.. thousands
You sound like his manager,maybe you could clean up Bam’s dirty society media presence as you such a fan of egotistical old school hip hop heads trying to cash in on the 80’s
Its clear youre a white woman … let me guess u hate predators but listen 2 drug and rape men cardi b still right?
Are you his manager?
Him & Afikka Bambootay are close friends with similar taste ?
So, let me get this straight…
This nigga is blaming “his depression ” for being a fking sex offender??? Nigga, GTFOH!
Who gives a fuck…he’s the kang of breaking. These miserable people just want his spot. Fight back, crazy. You’re being smart by first apologizing, and you’re also being a stand-up guy for that, but they’re only speaking out now because they want his spot.
Does anyone have a picture of the dick he was supposedly sending? I’d love to see it?
His craziest leg is his third one apparently…
All these Zulu Nation dudes are ending up to be some serious weirdo sexual assault chino types. SMH. Shout out to Afrika “run a baby boy booty” Bambaata.
*chomo, not chino
This guy “Broken Legs’ has always been an arrogant Jerk-Off…
What about “Hip Hop Legends/Dancers” that physically assault women and use their power and influence to avoid consequences with intimidation tactics? There is a large vm very scary underbelly here.
People saying that the solution was to eliminate it and move on with your life, but what if they had a closer relationship with them, I know about work, workshop, event, it’s not like they could avoid seeing it especially because it is almost everywhere.
I understand if your depress man,
But you can jerk off that depression away but in private.
y que pasó con tus amigos KURIAKI y BUCK 4 ? será cierto que PIERNAS LOCAS los mandó al matadero ?
con artist together with rentashit, storm and cros 1… they r not for the community n yes i said it… bboyspecial elementaryforce & suicidallifestyle crew
This hit so close to home due to the fact that Crazy legs was around while I was growing up, being a Teen where I attended a community center in The Bronx called “The Point CDC”. Where break dancing was so celebrated. I just recently found this out last week and was completely mind blown that this came out in the light 2 well now 3 years ago. I remember roughly about 4, 5 years ago Crazy legs had direct message through Instagram with the approach of trying to get to know me. Which throw me off so much because he watched me grow up. I questioned him with “Do you not remember who I am”, and ” You remember who my Mother was”!! For him to bypass the question and continue. I found it so weird and instantly blocked him and deleted him. I completely dodge a bullet with that one. But to the ones that suffer from this I give my heart out to and the light to heal from this because he cause a mental disturbance. His response to his actions are just mind-blowing to state that depression lead you to this. This isn’t depression, something is completely and mentally wrong with this guy. He should be walking around in a institution then parading around in the 3 kings day parade. This is happening way too much that these people with the fame and money get away with these actions and still get praised, while their victims walk around feeling shame, and hurt. Just to think all these young children he was around over the years. It’s so troubling!! I’m glad to hear that he is no longer a part of Redbull and the Olympics, but more needs to be done.