Did the Olympics try to hijack and gentrify hip-hop culture? Did the Olympics try to hijack and gentrify hip-hop culture? Now obviously this question is coming from the breaking competition at the Olympics. We all saw it Especially if you’re my people. I know we was looking at that thing sideways like What was that man? Now I done talked about this before in previous videos on my page where I say from my opinion I Don’t think we as Americans sent our best competition for b-boys and b-girls I don’t think we sent our best competitors to showcase hip-hop culture Our b our b-girls got smoked I don’t think we place shout out to the person who won from Japan and for b-boys I want to say we place bronze third place. I want to say the b-boy name is Victor salute to Victor Now why I suggest that I don’t think we sent our best competitors to compete in the breaking competition at the Olympics Well, one reason is I stated I work in NYC I don’t live there, but I work in NYC and if you live in NYC You saw better street dancers who participate in breaking not freestyling But breaking going in a train station and I got some receipts I’m a show a video clip so after that the question I posed was What was the criteria for trying out for the breaking team on the American side for the Olympics? What was the criteria? Second, what was the access given to the breaking community? such as information wise Because we still have young breakers in America that participate in breaking that I’m gonna show receipts for was the breaking community properly notified to give them ample of time to try out to train to Look at their schedules to see if they had other engagements so they so that if they had to cancel something that they could cancel it Because they were properly notified Another reason why I’m making this video following up on the breaking competition Is in the previous video if you look at the comments there seems to be a chunk of people That are pitching this narrative that we as Americans don’t participate in breaking anymore And that’s why the international community took it over Let me be clear. This video isn’t about discrediting the international community Salute to the international community that participates in breaking especially over there in Asia Just internationally worldwide this video isn’t about discrediting them What this video is about is showing that as we as Americans Still participate in our culture and that is alive and well and we still got b-boys and b-girls Not just in NYC but all over in the United States that are still breaking a Zip it a this is a b-boy out of NYC. I believe his name is b-boy Tata I hope I’m not mispronouncing it, but he’s a legendary street performer. That is not just freestyling, but he’s breaking You can see the elements of breaking. This is on an NYC train station Again, I felt that we did not send our best performers to compete because you can find this in NYC At any trade station shout out to b-boys like b-boy Tata who’s still keeping it going Again salute to the international community that participates in hip-hop and the b-girls and b-boys internationally But we as Americans are still thriving in hip-hop culture We still have a lot of b-boys and b-girls that’s doing that thing here Yeah, let me know your thoughts out there on this on this topic. Do y’all feel that the Olympics try to hijack or gentrify hip-hop culture? Because apparently when the Olympics come to LA where we got breakers in LA Breaking isn’t gonna be on the ticket So the first and last break competition did the Olympics represent for hip-hop culture or did they try to hijack and gentrify it?