Clip of drone from the French-American city following Hugo half cut and one of The Hoops (4-4)

'one of the hoops' is the definition.
Although both the answer and definition are singular nouns, I cannot understand how they can define each other.

'clip of drone from the french-american city following hugo half cut' is the wordplay.
'clip of drone from the french' becomes 'hula' (I can't justify this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'american city' becomes 'la' (abbreviation for Los Angeles).
'following' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'half cut' means to take half the letters.
'hugo' cut in half is 'hu'.
'la' put after 'hu' is 'hula'.
'hula'+'hula'='HULA-HULA'

'and' acts as a link.

Can you help me to learn more?