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that's wildin' out like...

krumping themselves out.

It gets the girls more amped...

to get out there

and handle their business.

Some of us may look gritty.

Some of us may not have

the prettiest smiles.

You know what I'm saying?

But we are krumping.

That's the part

of what makes us krump.

It seems

a little bit aggressive...

but it's a good way

to take out your anger...

when you go through stuff

in your personal life.

But say people have problems...

you know, didn't get this,

didn't get that.

Short on this bill.

Short on that bill.

Just the fact

that you can get krump...

you can channel that anger.

Anything negative that has

happened in your life...

you can channel that

into your dancing...

and you can release that

in a positive way...

because you're releasing it

through art, the art of dance.

This is our ghetto ballet.

This is how

we express ourselves.

This is the only way

we see fit of storytelling.

This is the only way of making

ourselves feel like we belong.

If I know someone is looking

at me, it's gonna be hard.

Some people can't dance if they

have someone looking at them.

But if you know there's a mask

sort of covering your face...

you know, then you feel that

it's just you by yourself...

and that your identity

is hidden...

so you can dance

as freely as you want to.

There's not just a bunch

of people acting wild.

This is an art form.

It's just as valid

as your ballet...

as your waltz,

as your tap dance.

Except we wouldn't have

to go to school for this...

'cause it was already

implanted in us... from birth.

Tell us what's happening.

What happened? Tell me.

She just struck.

It's what

we all been waiting on.

Yep.

She has reached...

That's what all of us

been waiting on.

I marked my grandfather.

That was the first battle

I really won.

Before he a preach...

he would sing a song, "Lord,

Lift Me Up and Let Me Stand."

So I just followed

the words to that song...

but I was really dancing to

the song that I was dancing to.

But I was just... In my mind,

I was dancing to those words.

I live with Reverend Turner.

He was always there.

I miss my family...

because that is my family,

my blood family.

But on the other side,

I still...

when I need

a family to go to...

I have my church family

to come to.

Clown groups are,

in a real sense, like families.

We laugh together.

We cry together.

We go through... Whatever

one person goes through...

that whole group

goes through it.

Me and my homie,

Baby Tight Eyez...

we went to school together.

He played instruments,

and I was always dancing.

It was this one performance...

when I got into this whole

clown dancing thing.

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