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in the inner city.

There's always a football team.

Because in the inner city...

we're all thought of to be

sports players, you know.

Everyone is not a sports player.

Everyone

does not play basketball...

and everybody

does not play football.

There... Is there something

else for us to do?

So what we did is...

is a group of us got together...

and we invented this.

In better neighborhoods...

they have

performing arts schools.

You have ballet,

you have modern...

you have jazz,

you have tap...

and this is all those

prestigious academies...

you can go to.

It's nothing like that

available to you...

when you live where we live.

I grew up around here...

Menlo, Normandie...

I grew up in this area.

It's real hard for kids like me,

'cause, OK, you have school.

You go to school,

but you have gangbangers...

and you can't even wear

certain colors around here.

So you tend to have an outlet...

and sometimes...

well, most of the time...

your outlet is music.

This is where a lot of music...

And you just think

of stuff in your head...

it goes through your mind...

and a lot of times,

dancing comes out.

When you know

that there's a krump session...

me, myself, and I know

a lot of people...

will stop whatever is going on

if there's a gathering...

because it's the spirit

that's there.

There's a spirit in...

In the midst of krumpness...

there is a spirit there,

you know.

A lot of people think

it's just, you know...

"Oh, they're just

a bunch of rowdy...

"you know, just ghetto,

just heathen and thugs."

No. No, what we are

are oppressed.

It's more of the...

not the black sheep...

but just a raw version.

Like, you have organized ball,

then you have street ball.

Krumping is the street ball.

You have a boy who gets krump...

and just coincidentally,

his girlfriend gets krump.

They face off. It's the

classic battle of the sexes.

And that's what makes it like...

"Oh, my God.

Females do this, too?"

It looks like we're

fighting somebody...

but we're not fighting anybody.

Like, you can push somebody,

but they see nothing of it.

Fighting is the last thing

on our mind when we're dancing.

It is the last thing.

The style changes,

believe it or not, every day.

Every day, the style changes.

And if you haven't

danced in two days...

if you come to a krump session,

we're gonna know.

"What did I miss?"

"You've been slacking off.

Go home."

Once you see the real thing...

you're gonna know

it's the real thing.

You're gonna know.

You're gonna be, like, "That has

to be the real thing...

"because I will never see

anything like this again."

When they dance,

you know it's on.

Especially if you have somebody

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