{"id":41868,"date":"2022-02-21T17:45:27","date_gmt":"2022-02-21T08:45:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2022\/feb\/21\/were-all-hip-hop-family-the-artists-fighting-to-get-afghan-breakdancers-to-safety"},"modified":"2022-02-21T17:45:27","modified_gmt":"2022-02-21T08:45:27","slug":"were-all-hip-hop-family-the-artists-fighting-to-get-afghan-breakdancers-to-safety","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=41868","title":{"rendered":"\u2018We\u2019re all hip-hop family\u2019: the artists fighting to get Afghan breakdancers to safety"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nancy Yu, AKA Asia One is drawing on the hip-hop movement\u2019s activist roots to help a group of artists and their families escape the Taliban<\/p>\n<p>A veteran of the hip-hop scene and internationally celebrated breakdancer, Nancy Yu \u2013 AKA <a href=\"https:\/\/www.redbull.com\/int-en\/asia-one-b-girl-interview\">Asia One<\/a> \u2013 has her fair share of people contacting her looking for advice. But the message she received in 2019 from a young Afghan was a little different.<\/p>\n<p>Frustrated by his breakdancing crew\u2019s inability to get visas to perform internationally, Moshtagh* was wondering if Asia could help. \u201cHe felt they were really good, but they felt, like, invisible to the world,\u201d she says. \u201cI liked him. He wasn\u2019t trying to bug me or say \u2018we need this right now\u2019 \u2026 He seemed rather humble and honest.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2022\/feb\/21\/were-all-hip-hop-family-the-artists-fighting-to-get-afghan-breakdancers-to-safety\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nancy Yu, AKA Asia One is drawing on the hip-hop movement\u2019s activist roots to help a group of artists and their families escape the TalibanA veteran of the hip-hop scene and internationally celebrated breakdancer, Nancy Yu \u2013 AKA Asia One \u2013 has her fair&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2266,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[559,46,71,1078,1441,59,2533,53,717,425,342,80,362,2547,494,61,44,1083,617,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activism","category-afghanistan","category-culture","category-dance","category-george-floyd","category-global-development","category-hip-hop","category-human-rights","category-immigration-and-asylum","category-music","category-olympic-games","category-protest","category-race","category-rap","category-refugees","category-south-and-central-asia","category-taliban","category-us-immigration","category-womens-rights-and-gender-equality","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2266"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41868"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41868\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41869,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41868\/revisions\/41869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}