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ABSTRACT This article draws on Wallerstein’s notion of world-systems to contribute to the theorization of cultural hybrids. Through an analysis of hip hop and yoga, as well as their arrangement as a hip hop yoga class in Perth, Western Australia, this article offers a framework through which to explore the social (re)productions, expressions and consumptions, both within and across differing local and social contexts. In the article, we investigate how the emergence of hip hop yoga practices are accepted more easily in some places, but rejected in others. Our analysis does not aim to critique those who identify as members or practitioners of hip hop yoga, either in Perth or other locales, but is concerned more with the power structures that enable, produce and maintain these hybrids and enable them to succeed.