Hip hop dancer Crazy Legs admits he was more interested in Queen Elizabeth’s crown jewels than what she had to say to him when they met.
The 48-year-old star – whose real name is Richard Colon – was invited to Buckingham Palace to dance for the monarch along with the rest of the US b-boying group Rock Steady Crew in 1983 when he was just 17 years old, and he recalls being particularly mesmerised by her expensive jewellery.
He said: "We were more interested in what we saw in each other, because we weren’t sure if the crowd knew what the hell we were doing or not. I think it was more we didn’t care.
"Meeting the queen, I mean I was still basically wilding out, we were performing, but coming back to the Bronx we were still wilding out. I can’t front, when I met her I was looking at her jewels like ‘Hmmmm. What can I do with THAT?’ "
But Crazy, who is now president of the Rocky Steady Crew, admits his life with the hip hop group wasn’t always about meeting royals as he claims when he was first allowed into the group people used to try to get him to steal.
The dancer – who was brought up in the Bronx, New York – added to AllHipHop.com: "When I first met people from Rock Steady, they bought me to rob a purse, Unsuccessful, but that was what it was. It was, we were poor and being hungry was always an issue and sometimes getting that money meant getting that pizza too."
Crazy Legs obsessed with Queen’s crown jewels
