Hip-Hop pioneer Richard “Loopy Legs” Colón defined why he’s retiring from breakdancing in an interview with AllHipHop. The legendary b-boy mentioned years of damage and tear from dancing lastly caught as much as him.
“I do the component of Hip-Hop that your physique dictates when it’s over,” he instructed AllHipHop. “It’s the one component in Hip-Hop your physique says it’s completed, you’re completed. So, I truly should get a knee substitute surgical procedure. I’m 57, bro. I’m not making an attempt to be out right here getting harm. I get harm simpler. It takes longer to heal, all that s###.”
Loopy Legs carried out for the ultimate time at Hip-Hop 50 Dwell at Yankee Stadium. The longtime Yankees fan beloved the thought of ending his profession on the crew’s ballpark.
“I simply felt prefer it was a very good alternative to be on a stage throughout the world that I needed to be in within the first place,” he mentioned. “Once I was a child, I needed to be a boxer or baseball participant … I needed to be on the Yankees … So, for me to finish up the place I actually needed to be within the first place for my final present is fairly dope.”
Take a look at Loopy Legs’ chat with AllHipHop’s Chuck Creekmur and DJ Thoro under.
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