HIP HOP

In 1986 (3rd grade) I had a defining moment, passing by this corner on my bus home from school. It was seeing a group of breakdancers spinning on cardboard. 3 guys had walked through the playground at lunch and spoken to a teacher in the art department, leaving the school grounds with a large cardboard box. It was exciting enough that some older kids had come to school in casual clothes, let alone to later see them breakdancing, out the bus window. Their entrance to the playground had sparked interest and cheers – and they almost certainly set up on this corner to get the attention of the whole bus when it stopped, before turning right along Quarter Sessions Rd.

The next week, yo-yo’s would take a brief hiatus, with the major 3rd grade fashion now being to wear a single glove (fingerless), asserting our allegence to breakdance culture – most likely influenced by the west coast styled Hollywood movie "Breakdance", which had already hit Australia hard by this time. I can vividly remember watching on a saturday afternoon.

As an 8 year old growing up in this neighbourhood, I have no idea why I would identify so strongly with Hip Hop, but it has been a major obsession ever since.

Posted by mark-chronic on 2011-11-01 13:46:19

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