Joel Silberg (Hebrew: יואל זילברג; March 30, 1927 – February 18, 2013) was a film, television and stage director and screenwriter in Israel and the United States.

[5] Roger Ebert gave Breakin' 1 1/2 stars, stating that it was a rather predictable story.

[6] The sequel, Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo, directed by Sam Firstenberg, was released 7 months later, and was a Cannon Films productions.

[7] Later on, the subtitle "Electric Boogaloo" would enter the pop-culture lexicon as a snowclone pejorative nickname to denote an archetypical sequel.

[8] Author Kimberly Monteyne referred to films such as Rappin' as "hip hop-oriented exploitation extravaganzas".