SameOldShawn You had one final thought about breaking Michael Holman Well, three. Three final thoughts. One is that and this is kind of weird and strange, and I think a lot of people may...I dont know how theyre going to take this. And again, this is just my opinion, but Ive had this verified by many people uptown, who grew up in uptown culture That the downtown impresarios like myself, Charlie Ahearn, Marty Cooper, Henry Chalfant, Fab 5 Freddy, whatever as were bringing the culture downtown and presenting it to our community, to the rest of New York City, to the rest of the world visavis the press, we were naively creating a culture that didnt exist And by that I mean, of course the DJs were doing their thing, and of course the bboys were doing their thing, and the rappers, and the graffiti artist, etcetera, way before we ever got involved. But they werent doing it together, under one umbrella. We sort of thought they were. We sort of assumed that they were. I mean, you know, we went uptown and this was going on, that was going on, within a certain vicinity, so this must be a cohesive culture. It wasnt The idea that bboys were in crews that had graffiti artists representing them, and the DJ thats bullshit. That didnt happen. We thought it did. So we put together this culture and presented it, naively thinking we were just kind of tightening it up a little bit and brushing it off and getting it together and presenting it to our audience. And the whole time, we didnt realize that all these artists were saying, well, were not going to say anything to Michael or to Freddy or whatever, but, uh, we dont know these guys. We dont know these rappers. We dont know these aerosol artists. We dont know these dancers. We wouldnt normally hang out with them. But since were getting paid and this is working out and we got a new audience, what the hell? Lets do it!
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