 beauty that's coming out of it despite the burning buildings and the rubble that you're trying to put behind us. Hip-hop as a culture is a protest culture. It is trying to show value of a human being than when you didn't actually do that to begin with. Thamaya says that thread remained as breaking evolved, including for him growing up in neighboring Staten Island. Because when I was a kid, I was like a lot of young people, insecure, minority, outcast, all that sort of thing.