Van and car culture at the street dance

Customised vehicles displayed at the dance, parked and shown off as part of the same performance of status as the fashion and the video light. The practice is older than the street-dance era it is usually illustrated with: from the middle 1990s Kingston crews were cutting the roofs clean off pickup trucks and fitting them with body kits, boosted sound systems, graffiti paint, custom rims and, on a few, hydraulics that rotated the cargo bed — the scene the Gleaner later called topless, and out of which the Topless Crew got its name.

By the 2000s the same display had moved to cars and SUVs outside Passa Passa and its peers. The vehicle is not transport to the dance; it is part of what is being shown at it.