What made me discover breaking was when I was watching TV at home in Tanzania in 2002. I was watching music videos and came across :Its Like That- Run DMC. I was fascinated with the power moves, and footwork that the dancers were doing on the floor. Of course at that time I didn't know what the dance was called. We didn't have internet either so I couldn't look it up. The combination of the breaking and the music was what got me hooked. The same year I moved to India, to my hometown Dehradun where I "got down" or was "put down to breaking". I had a friend who liked Hip Hop music whose name was Anand Chopra. He had a big collection of MP3s on his computer and I had a CD case . We would exchange and share music and spend time at his house (he had a much bigger collection at that time). Occasionally we would hang out at the only cafe in town, Barrista which is near Ashley Hall . We would have coffee and since we knew the guys who worked t...
Hello, I wanted to introduce my new blog called Flavacast: www.flavacast.com I started this blog out of inspiration form my current one. I felt the need to create a platform for the Indian hip hop and urban scene. One of the reasons was the poor representation by mainstream media which not only skews the perception of our scene globally, but also among the youth in our country who get inspired by artists they see in traditional and online media. Check out the blog posts. I also re-wrote one of the posts form this blog - "The story of Roc Fresh Crew".
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