Ladi6

If you end up being the break dancer at the thing, you're like a superstar, just instantaneously, just due to the fact that you're like one of few in the community anyway.

So there was always this kind of sense that you were sort of important.

That's how I kind of saw it.

And that my whole family was important and that everything we did was important because we were so already sort of isolated within the bigger community.

And we were all doing hip hop by the time 99 came around.

We were all deeply entrenched in the hip-hop movement.

Yeah, so both my parents, social workers, youth workers, my whole life.

And my mum started the local youth centre and then she managed that throughout my teenage years all the way.

Awesome.

Yeah.

It was the spot where everyone hung out, you know.

So my mum was kind of like the instigator of creating whatever was the culture in the place.

So she had like DJ workshops down there.

She had...

B-boy nights, so every Thursday and Tuesday, for example, she'd run B-boy nights right up until the last bus.

Everyone would be there.

You could go there just in the day, hang out.

You know, all the graph writers used to take a little spot where all the – well, they had like a sitting room and everyone would just have their black books out and just be like drawing pieces.

It was like the best possible – and when I was younger –

and hip-hop wasn't around, my mum was doing plays.