In 1994 a 12-year-old illegal immigrant desi boy walked his way home from public school along a sidewalk in Queens, New York City. At the street corner as a deejay jocked, prolonging each rhythmic break of the record, wide-eyed, mouth agape Netarpal Singh watched the b-boys break, doing unbelievable stuff with their bodies and he was mesmerized. "'Yo, teach me I said.' Yeah, they pretty much told me to get lost."
Despite the last decade or so spent in India, Singh's conversation is conspicuously peppered with colloquial NYC street slang and an overarching Yankee twang. From 28-year-old HeRa, as he?s known to his "NYC peeps" and "Dharavi homies," I get the 101 on breaking. Lesson one: don't call it breakdancing.read more
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