The Hip Hop culture with Break Dance and other scenic arts be come lifestyles and ways of thin king for young people in the diffe rent districts of Metropolitan Lima, particularly the districts of Ate and San Juan de Lurigancho. Cul tural manifestations of young people in public spaces, have managed to transform the stig matization that civil society had generated on their atti tudes, without perceiving that these spaces allowed the personal development of these young people, improving leadership, selfesteem, coexistence and social relations. They are alternative steps away from gangs and drugs, fo cused on selfrealization.