MEC Crew is breakers, DJs and organizers working for and with the community:
decades on the floor between them, battling, judging, teaching and building
events. Breaking, DJing, hosting, teaching, visual art: they live the
elements, and still show up for the cypher for the love of hip hop culture,
breaking and building future generations.
Meet the organizing team
Piecez (Michael Prosserman): breaking since 1999,
Piecez has judged battles and taught workshops across Canada, Europe
and Asia, from the Canadian Arctic to Japan and Hong Kong. He’s
won 26 international breaking competitions, serves as a certified
Breaking Judge and Head Judge with the World DanceSport Federation,
and has judged the World Games and the WDSF World Breaking
Championships. He’s also the founder of Unity Charity, a
national organization using hip hop to support youth mental health
that’s reached over 250,000 youth across Canada, and the
bestselling author of Building Unity.
Boobjester (Roberto Veruela Jr.): repping Winnipeg
since 1994, Boobjester’s musicality and finesse have earned him
respect across the Canadian breaking scene as a member of Dangerous
Goods Crew, Maximum Efficiency Crew and the Wintor Massiv Artist
Collective. He’s organized major events including Red Bull BC
One Canada and Red Bull Dance Your Style, received the Absolute
Canadian B-boy Award in 2008, and is a certified World DanceSport
Federation judge. He now serves as National Program Director at
Unity Charity, delivering hip hop programming in northern
communities and youth correctional facilities across Canada.
B Bad (Andel James): a b-boy since 1999 before
picking up DJing in 2010, B Bad blends hip hop, R&B, funk, breaks
and soul into sets built for battles and cyphers. He’s
performed at Red Bull BC One, Freestyle Session, Breaking Canada and
The Notorious I.B.E., and has worked with youth through Unity
Charity since 2007. A member of Maximum Efficiency Crew and the
Wintor Massiv collective, he founded the 2U4U collective in 2017 to
bring dancers and musicians together around hip hop culture.
Switch B (Adrian Bernard): repping Floor Assassins
Militia and Maximum Efficiency Crew, Switch B has 20+ years of
competitive experience and more than 50 competition wins, including
Skillz-O-Meter 5 in 2015. He represented Canada internationally
after winning The B-Boy Unit Canada qualifier, competed in Seoul,
and served as the Canadian Olympic breaking color commentator with
CBC during the 2024 Summer Olympics. In 2019 he co-created The
Breaking Draft, a concept battle event held in Toronto and
Vancouver.
MEDÊIO (Rei Misiri): originally from Tirana,
Albania, MEDÊIO came up as a breaker in the Canadian scene, winning
15+ first-place titles and representing Canada at events like the
Notorious IBE in the Netherlands, before transitioning into
calligraphy and visual art. He remains active in the breaking
community as a judge, panelist and mentor at events across Canada,
including Yukon Cypher Fest. His visual art practice has taken him
to New York, Miami, Zurich, Barcelona and Los Angeles, working with
brands like Bloomingdale’s, Porsche and Samsung.
