There are a couple things to know before attending a hip-hop class in North Hollywood, which is to the dance world what Chelsea is to the art world or Atlanta is to rap. The first is that you'll hear the same song—the same few bars of the same song—over and over until it bores so deeply into your gray matter that there are no thoughts left in your head, just Drake lyrics. The second is that it's not a class—at least, not really. Here, dancers don't practice their technique at the barre or perfect spins with hard-to-pronounce names. There's barely even a warm-up, just a minute's worth of moves demonstrated in slow-mo by a choreographer until the whole room can do them so perfectly that, with any luck, millions of people will want to watch.
Because this sleepy, deeply unglamorous outer-L.A. neighborhood is the internet's viral dance factory, the place where sweaty "class videos" shot by increasingly professional videographers catapult once-anonymous backup dancers into mainstream superstardom.
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