Back in my preteens I lived in Toronto, Ontario. I lived in a part of the city which was very multicultural. As a white kid with a middle class upbringing I was almost in the minority. I enjoyed being exposed to different cultures and it was something I missed when I did end up moving into a more suburban area during my teen years in the 90s.

In the late 1980s, much to your grandma’s chagrin I was going through a rap phase. One song in particular that stood out was “Let Your Backbone Slide” by Maestro Fresh Wes. As a rhythmically challenged white boy I was not much of a dancer, but it certainly was fun to try, and that song was definitely one of my go to jams. A few years earlier I watched a couple of the 80s break dancing movies such as Beat Street and Breakin’...

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