Jinjo Crew | Starking 2009

With three members of the Jinjo Crew landing in LA to compete in the 3 on 3 BreakLA battles (Fe, Mold and Vero), I imagined just how much support they have back home. I still find it fascinating the fact that Korean bboys have a huge mainstream fanbase without appearing in big projects like movies and music videos. Simply, they are famous doing just what bboys do – battling and competing.

What I find even more fascinating is when two of my favourite things, k-land stuff and bboy, intersect. The key here is Korea.

Death Of What Bboying Was? | Commercial Culture

It’s been claimed perhaps every day that bboying is dying, that hip hop is dying – that everything that was, is dying. I can see why a lot of idealists and purists think this way, but for me, I see all this change eventually as part of the evolution of a culture.

Surely there will be bboys or hip hop artists out there who will stray too far and still claim it as part of the culture; but at the same time, there will also always be those who stick true to traditions and keep it alive, and therefore I’m not too fazed. Change is inevitable – let’s just not forget the roots.