My guest for today is a multi-talented entertainer known for the television series ‘Fame’, the movie, ’Girls Just Want To Have Fun, and has performed in the Equity stage productions of ‘Cats’, ‘Ragtime’ ‘Aida’ on the Broadway stage. You might know him the most from the classic dance movie Breakin’! Phineas Newborn Ⅲ,welcome to the show!
It was interesting because again you don't know when you're a kid the area in which are living in. It's not something that you really know. I later realize that I was growing up in the black arts District of LA which was interesting because it never felt like the black arts District it just felt like my neighborhood. And the only difference that I really noticed was that it was a very segregated neighborhood. Everybody on my block was black. It wasn't until I actually started venturing out I'm going to other areas in terms of my education that I actually incurred a lot more communication and just relationships with other races. So really growing up in Leimert park during that time was kind of a scary time. It was an aggressive time. The Crips and the Brims were two rival gangs and very prominent in our area and I would remember growing up and playing out on the street and someone would say the Brim's are coming Down the street and we all have to run back into our houses. We wait for them to pass down the street and then we all come back out to play. It was that kind of environment.
