Hot Take on Breaking Dancing and The Olympics… What yall think?? 👀👀

@melanymovez Did everybody overlook the fact that the two breakers that represented usa were black and Mexican?

@melanymovez Brother Lee I 🫶🏾 a nuanced and balanced take on the culture🔥 (her@?) Also I feel more so now than ever before every last thing those outside the culture try to morally impune us for is actually something they covet and are just waiting for our grip to be loose enough to sieze.

@melanymovez Agreed. The main issue was that the announcing was all done by outsiders, it became a spectacle of culture. The lack of *foundational* folk aesthetically on stage in the judging and hosting was very noticeable, but I know the breakers are all about the culture.

@melanymovez Early dancers from Black American culture were the influencers /teachers for these dances. Before breaking was called breaking they were doing these moves to jazz, big band, funk, etc before rap came about. No Latinos were around. Latinos and Caribbean people were students.

@melanymovez Breaking never left NYC. Black dudes are out there everyday breaking in Columbus Circle, Times Square, Union Square, Washington Square Park, and on the trains, so what is she talking about?

@melanymovez #faith #Plutonians ##bronx #QueensBabies

@melanymovez This sounds more like Latinos had a hand in the creation of breaking. And that is false. They weren’t even around at the beginning for years before they started joining in. They disliked black people and the music. When things picked up in popularity they began joining in. Truth

@melanymovez Not remotely a hot take

@melanymovez Very simular to vogue/ballroom culture. They also both started in NYC

@melanymovez The MC The DJ Breaking Graffiti The 4 elements of hip hop MCs are a dying dread even though it’s some nice ones out there. The DJs are going strong! I never see breaking anymore and the same with graffiti.