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Like said before,
Hip Hop is more than just the 4 labeled elements of Bboying, Graffitti, Dj and MC.
If you Believe hip hop can be summed under all those 4 labels than your wrong.
The dance element covers more than just bboying, theres popping, locking, oldschool, nu school, House and more.
The clip that this post originally was about i wouldn't really label it "Hip Hop" as in the Dance style, not HIP HOP the Culture which makes it a confusing thing. As the styles that i have mentioined above, they all have foundations. What was shown in the clip doesnt really have a foundation. It just borrows from other styles/labels of dance and not just hip hop, but jazz, Ballet, and more.
So it is politically incorrect to call it HIP HOP or associate it with the dance label "Hip Hop" as "Hip Hop" is already a dance style. Which is the style that the dancers from the ELITE FORCE from those clips posted earlier do. Some People call it Mainstream/commercial Hip Hop but again it doesnt have the "HIp HOp dance style" foundation. That's like making up a style called Mainstream Bboying, Or Commercial Bboying, Or Choreographed Bboying, know what im saying...
It's pretty complicated but simple. It's just the confusion between the culture HIP HOP and the dance style/label hip Hop.
Without writing a whole story, i wouldn't know what to OFFICIALLY call the style in the video. In partial it mite be part of the Hip Hop Culture, But it is not the Hip Hop Dance style.
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