The Australian hip-hop community has been shaken by the reaction to Raygun's efforts in Paris.
When breaker Rachael Gunn – aka Raygun – bombed out of the Paris Olympics, the shockwaves hit a tiny hip-hop scene on the other side of the world.
“I feel like it's just pushed our scene in Australia into the Dark Ages,” Australian hip-hop pioneer Spice told the BBC.The fallout has divided and disappointed the Australian breaking community. Like Gunn, breaking was perhaps a surprising candidate for the Olympics. Born in the cultural melting pot of the Bronx in the 1970s, the street dance quickly became a global phenomenon.
Some people shared a conspiracy that she had created the governing body which ran the Oceania qualifiers, and a lie that her husband - who is also a prominent breaker and a qualified judge - was on the panel that selected her.and AUSBreaking, the national organisation for breaking, quickly tried to correct the record, but that didn’t stop the flood.
“All us judges talked about how she was going to get smashed, absolutely smashed … She knew it was going to be rough, so it's actually courageous of her," Wepiha – also known as Rush – said in a livestream Everyone was unequivocal in condemning the sheer volume of abuse, ridicule and misinformation that has targeted Raygun and the broader Australian B-girl community.Many B-girls say Raygun’s performance does not reflect the standard in Australia.On any other stage, Raygun would have been encouraged and supported for “having a go”, Spice says, but people representing the country need to be at a certain level.
"Telling us to be positive and supportive while we are being harmed is unacceptable... allowed to be angry,” she said in a statement.
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