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Article: Prophets in Pumas: when hip hop broke out.(Kick it: hip hop special)
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- Dance Magazine
- Article date:
- July 1, 2004
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In the late 1960s and '70s the four elements of hip hop--graffiti, rap, break dancing, and DJ-ing--blasted out from the Bronx in a complete cultural package. Pioneering black and Latino B-boys dancing to "Hip Hop, It Don't Stop!" foretold the future with each move, causing a seismic shift in dancing that set a revolution in motion. They were the original prophets wearing Pumas.
Break dancing ties the world's youth together through the universal language of the beat. This hip-hop world is positive, brilliant, and fresh. The other hip-hip world, the mainstream, is bigger, older, and richer. They are dedicated to big-time money, big-time stars selling sex, violence, ...