70-year-old man dances to hip hop hits in front of Philadelphia City Hall

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Matt Hopkins has reinvented himself six times. Almost once for every decade.

There’s Matt Hopkins, Scrabble master. Jazz musician. Playwright. Actor. Classical musician. Now, there’s Matt Hopkins, hip-hop dancer and rapper.

At age 70, he pops, locks, and occasionally drops on 15th Street near City Hall, and also in the corridors leading to Suburban Station. Recently, he’s been performing at Christmas Village in LOVE Park. He dances to tracks by Fetty Wap, Drake, and Chris Brown.

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