Bobby Mileage

Bobby Barnette, known professionally as Bobby Mileage, is an American hip-hop and street-dance performer, teacher, judge and member of Elite Force Crew. He joined the crew in 1998 on a Mariah Carey tour, entering a collective that had formed in 1992 around dancers in Michael Jackson's "Remember the Time" and had grown through performance, music-video work and the MOPTOP family's club-based knowledge.

By the late 2000s and early 2010s, Mileage's public activity spanned multiple roles. He performed in documented ensemble and solo work, including a 2007 Summer Madness appearance and a 2010 "Hip hop evoliution" solo compilation. In New York, Time Out documented him alongside Buddha Stretch and Mikey Disko as a host of Hip-Hop Generation Next events—platforms that brought multiple street-dance styles and named specialists together as judges, serving as both performance venue and site of intergenerational knowledge transfer.

Mileage's work extended internationally. In May 2011 he taught two workshops in Matsuyama, Japan, where presenter materials described his teaching and judging activity abroad. By 2012, he was listed among judges at Vilnius Street Challenge. In 2018, Dance.ru named him to the artistry panel for Russia's Hip Hop Dance Championship, an event tied to Hip Hop International's world-championship pathway.

His documented value lies not in a single signature credit but in sustained transmission: joining Elite Force in 1998 carried New York crew vocabulary into concert touring, then sustained it through workshops, hosted battles and international adjudication. That combination helped make street-dance knowledge portable without severing it from named crews, peers and community events.