Essay: #VanessaBranch4Ever a True SouthSide Jamaica, Queens Hip Hop Pioneer

Essay: #VanessaBranch4Ever a True SouthSide Jamaica, Queens Hip Hop Pioneer Ray Ray Branch, people showing love to my dear Aunt Vanessa Branch. She raised a lot of people on these SouthSide Jamaica, Queens streets young Queen. I'm writing the script for her biopic, it must be done she can't be forgotten. 

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At the first Hip Hop club in SouthSide Jamaica, Queens- Fantasia (from 1977 - 1981), which was on Merrick Boulevard between 116th Avenue and Linden Boulevard and had an estimated occupancy of 500 (preteens and teens) your mom was always the best damn dancer. Aunt Vanessa could regularly been seen in a circle of youth freestyling or burning someone in any dance, and she did this even before traditional BGirling and BBoying. She preceeded BGirling and BBoying moves, flips, headspins etc. Vanessa "Nessa" Branch was also the flyest dressed person wherever she showed up. When she'd walk past my house at 167-44 118th Avenue (at the intersection of 169th Street) in the 1970s it was a fashion show daily. 

From Stan Smith Adidas, terrycloth short sets, terrycloth bucket hats down to the booty socks with the little pom-pom on the back. She was a Hip Hop Fashion Icon before the term Hip Hop was coined in the late seventies by DJ Lovebug Starski in Harlem, Manhattan, New York City USA. Aunt Vanessa killed the whole game in style, dress and FlyGirl Moves, she was way more than a HardRock or a Gangster, she set the barometer for FlyGirl fashion in SouthSide Jamaica, Queens. I will always write about her and her memory will live forever. She made sure that I stayed focused on my education and the arts even more so than my own family. 

Whenever, I'd venture across New York Boulevard (Guy R. Brewer Boulevard) as a preteen if she saw me she'd ask me, What are you doing? I'd turn around and go back to 118th Avenue and 169th Street. All young people need guidance and positive redirection like this. Be proud of your mom Vanessa "Nessa" Branch saved lives on these streets. Ignore any negativity about her, as she was not one-dimensional and can not be characterized by her NYPD rap sheet, she was a warrior, revolutionary and a decent Black Sister. #VanessaBranch4Ever 

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The Original StreetLegend Professor DJ Queen MC Eva Marie King, BA, MS, est. 1970, 

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