B-Boy Park was a Japanese hip hop festival that took place every year in Tokyo.
[1] A prominent player on the Japanese hip hop scene, Crazy-A [ja], organized the annual hip hop festival in Yoyogi Park in 1999.
It was a celebration of hip hop music, dance, fashion and culture.
At its inaugural event, American break dancer Crazy Legs, judged the dance competition.
[2] Author Ian Condry notes that the festival was extremely important to a hip hop scene that many doubted could even exist: “Up until the mid-nineties, people who worked in the entertainment world pointed to hip hop’s rootedness in African American communities as a reason to doubt its possible takeoff in Japan, where different understandings of race, language, and social class prevail.”[3] The festival drew rappers, b-boys and girls, and hip hop fans from all corners of Japan, representing a plethora of styles that reflect the richness and diversity of the Japanese hip hop scene.