Dance craze breaks out

CENTER ATTRACTS NEW GENERATION

By Julie Patel

Mercury News


Before rap videos glorified gangsters, flashy cars and ``bling bling,'' there was a simpler hip-hop culture where rhyming, graffiti, beatboxing and break dancing ruled. It didn't require much more than a street corner, a few friends and a little bit of rhythm.

Now, two decades later, a glossy wooden floor in a Palo Alto community center has become a hip-hop throwback hot spot that's attracting break dancers from Santa Rosa to San Jose.