A pioneering Ottawa b-boy is hunting for his vintage velour tracksuit after it was stolen this month from a hip-hop exhibition at a local art gallery. Stephen Leafloor, also known as “Buddha,” is one of the founding members of the Canadian Floor Masters. The crew helped bring “breaking” — or what’s often known as breakdancing — to Ottawa in the early 1980s. They opened for James Brown, Ice-T and Grandmaster Flash. Leafloor called the blue and red Fila tracksuit “a vintage relic” from the early days of hip-hop with both emotional and historic value. The theft makes him feel disrespected. “It was a beautiful tracksuit,” he said. “It’s that crushed velvet velour… You feel magical.” The theft
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