Battle of the Year Page #3

who you are.

What's your name?

Seriously?

I'm Franklyn with a

How old are you?

I'll be 23 in December.

Franklyn with a do you know

who these two guys are?

Yeah.

Yeah, y'all were ground-breakers

back in the day.

When I started off

with the crew,

we were called

the Battle Troop Crew.

We battled each other more

than we battled other crews.

Until WB showed up.

Comes up as

a foster kid from Georgia

with this country,

hillbilly-type swag,

but it was something

about him, man,

that he just unified the crew.

He just knows how to

bring people together.

And this is in

the early days of hip-hop,

back before white boys

were rapping and b-boying.

That wasn't around back then.

It was just black and Latino.

That's all we had.

So when we would show up

to a battle, oh, man.

(LAUGHS)

But you know what?

When he'd leave that cipher,

he went from white bread

to Wonder Bread.

That's how good he was.

Guess I know why

you call him WB.

Oh, yeah.

But if he was so dope, then

why did he stop breaking?

He wanted to do

the right thing.

See, back in those days, man,

we were all broke.

There was no money in b-boying.

Sure.

So, when he got his

girlfriend pregnant,

her uncle offered him an assistant

basketball coaching job at St. Mark's,

and he took it.

Wait, not St. Mark's that,

that racked up

all those state championships?

Yeah.

And he was the head coach

at the time that they did it.

FRANKLYN:
Then what is

he doing back here?

Starting over.

I don't follow.

Couple years ago,

WB lost his wife and son

in a horrible car accident.

Completely tore

his world apart, man.

I mean, he just...

He checked out.

And I'm hoping that

he's ready to check back in.

And if I'm right,

you're gonna learn more

in five weeks from that man

than you ever would

in five years in this place.

That I promise.

If it doesn't work out, well,

we tried, right, Franklyn

with a "Y"?

Change how you think,

change your life.

B-BOY:
There it is.

There it is!

See?

D, didn't I tell you?

Bring on the French.

Bring on

the punk-ass Koreans.

I like that.

Looking good.

I like what I see. Good job.

Coach, what do you think?

You saw me clapping.

You guys are good.

No disrespect,

but aren't those

the same moves you guys

brought to France?

That wasn't anything

like France.

I've been

watching your tapes.

European tours, regionals.

You've changed

the sequencing, yes,

but it's basically the same

routine as four years ago.

D, didn't I tell you this

coaching thing wasn't gonna fly?

You don't tell me sh*t.

You understand?

I'm not trying to play

the hard case with you,

but I just want you to know

we do have other options.

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