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00:00:50 Six days of rioting in a Negro
00:00:53 left behind scenes reminiscent
00:00:57 More than
00:00:58 were decimated
00:01:00 Civil rights leaders
00:01:02 the unbridled lawlessness...
00:01:04 and Martin Luther King vowed
00:01:08 to prevent a reoccurrence
00:02:11 This is our neighborhood.
00:02:14 This is where we grew up.
00:02:20 We were all kids back then
00:02:24 but we managed to grow
00:02:36 And this is
00:03:17 Well, if you're drowning
00:03:19 for help
00:03:21 you're gonna reach out
00:03:23 And this was our board.
00:03:31 And from this board...
00:03:32 we floated abroad,
00:03:35 And we're gonna sail into
00:03:39 We're gonna take it by storm
00:03:42 This is not a trend.
00:03:44 This is not a trend.
00:04:47 You better give me a hug.
00:04:50 I need a hug.
00:04:52 You don't have to dance.
00:04:53 I want a hug from
00:04:55 You are so pretty.
00:05:01 How'd it get started?
00:05:02 Tommy started it in '92. 1992.
00:05:06 He started off
00:05:08 What's up, baby?
00:05:10 Come on, you guys.
00:05:12 When he first started out,
00:05:14 and had his little sign
00:05:17 He was just starting out,
00:05:19 All you hear is,
00:05:22 "Tommy this. Tommy that.
00:05:24 I have a ten-year-old son...
00:05:25 that's trying to get
00:05:27 So I think
00:05:29 and he needs to keep up
00:05:31 and he needs to be commended for
00:05:33 for the black community,
00:05:35 He has marvelous parties...
00:05:36 so somebody need to call
00:05:39 'cause he give bomb parties.
00:05:42 Tommy is a ghetto celebrity,
00:05:45 somewhere
00:05:47 in the middle of your streets,
00:05:50 because his music gonna be loud.
00:05:51 When my mom was in jail,
00:05:56 and he made sure
00:05:58 Whatever I needed,
00:06:01 If I wasn't dancing for Tommy...
00:06:03 I'd probably be doing
00:06:05 I fear for him sometimes,
00:06:06 'cause a lot of people
00:06:08 and they're
00:06:09 If something happened to him,
00:06:12 We all gonna suffer.
00:06:13 He screams at us.
00:06:15 He screams, "You in trouble."
00:06:17 He basically,
00:06:20 He was really there for me.
00:06:22 And I admire him for that.
00:06:28 See how you powder like that?
00:06:30 Then you got to get the lips.
00:06:33 So...
00:06:44 Yep. And that's it.
00:06:46 Once I put the powder on...
00:06:49 then you try to dust off some
00:06:54 and there you have it.
00:06:58 Your color come back.
00:07:29 People always
00:07:32 I always did silly things.
00:07:34 And this girl,
00:07:36 asked can I be a clown
00:07:38 And I was, like, "A clown?"
00:07:48 I pull up to
00:07:50 I start dancing,
00:07:53 Kids would run out the houses.
00:07:54 People would run out the houses.
00:07:55 And I'll give 'em a card.
00:07:57 "If you need a clown
00:07:59 "call Tommy the Clown,
00:08:01 And it start spreadin'.
00:08:03 Happy birthday, Malik!
00:08:04 Y'all ready
00:08:06 - somebody say, "That's right."
00:08:08 Y'all ready to have
00:08:10 - say, "You know this, man."
00:08:13 Everybody go and give Malik
00:08:16 I'm just playin'.
00:08:19 I'm just playin'. Y'all stop.
00:08:22 You have to remember.
00:08:25 I started from the ground up.
00:08:27 No one offered me no money.
00:08:31 But I'm perceived to be
00:08:34 and ain't got a dime.
00:08:36 You ready for that?
00:08:39 Let me see you break it down.
00:08:41 You ain't gonna break it down?
00:08:43 Back in the days,
00:08:45 of being, I guess you
00:08:50 coming out here and
00:08:54 I came out here
00:08:56 because I saved my money...
00:08:57 and was like one
00:08:59 where I got
00:09:01 And I always liked
00:09:03 to say, "Man, look what
00:09:06 That was back then.
00:09:07 I always say God
00:09:09 'cause either you end up
00:09:12 or you go to jail.
00:09:13 And thank God
00:09:15 And when I went to jail...
00:09:17 I said, "This is not
00:09:19 and I changed my life.
00:09:21 I prayed. I asked God
00:09:24 I didn't know
00:09:26 But if you look at it,
00:09:29 'cause that kid
00:09:31 who wouldn't dance with you...
00:09:32 and you were straight
00:09:34 "Hey, I catch you in a gang,
00:09:37 "If I catch you
00:09:39 "I don't want you
00:09:41 And they listen to me,
00:09:43 So I guess you could say
00:09:45 because if they would've
00:09:46 they would've went over
00:09:48 they would've got shot,
00:09:50 It's the bottom line.
00:09:52 Everybody say break it down
00:09:54 Break it down
00:09:55 Say, "Break it down"
00:09:56 Break it down
00:09:57 Say, "Break it down"
00:09:58 Break it down
00:10:00 Bam. OK, it's about to get down,
00:10:08 As I started gettin' older...
00:10:10 I started lookin'
00:10:12 and I started grabbin' 'em.
00:10:14 I had another girl,
00:10:17 and then it just started
00:11:26 Larry is, like...
00:11:27 one of the oldest
00:11:30 I consider him
00:11:32 'cause he been with me
00:11:39 Tommy is
00:11:41 Sometimes, when Larry
00:11:43 and have the attitudes
00:11:45 I say, "OK, that's it."
00:11:46 See, that's my weapon... Tommy.
00:11:48 I say, "OK, that's it.
00:11:49 "Let me call Tommy right now,
00:11:52 "No more clowning for you."
00:11:53 I say, "OK, Tommy,
00:11:55 So I tell him now. Tommy say,
00:11:58 I say, "Well, that's your son.
00:12:01 'Cause to tell the truth,
00:12:04 Tommy have Larry in the palm
00:12:06 I have been
00:12:09 to where if he's slippin'
00:12:11 I have to smash on him
00:12:12 "Hey, come here and do
00:12:15 and if you get to where I say...
00:12:16 "Hey, you can't clown
00:12:18 it hurts, you know?
00:12:19 'Cause they love to do it.
00:12:23 Hey, I want him to be a Blood
00:12:26 "No, I'm not gonna be either.
00:12:29 That's how
00:12:31 from all the bullcrap
00:12:33 Most of my family is, like,
00:12:37 Man, we... we right here
00:12:40 the pit of snakes.
00:12:41 What's up, Little George?
00:12:43 This is my little brother
00:12:44 Come here, George.
00:12:45 We have all the gangs
00:12:47 and then you have the Clowns
00:12:49 They gonna ask you,
00:12:51 Or they gonna be, like,
00:12:54 So that's why it's either
00:12:57 Dance with a clown group,
00:13:00 They go about their business,
00:13:03 Larry is over here
00:13:06 I thank God for that.
00:13:08 George, when you gonna
00:13:10 You know it's like
00:13:12 Granny used to be a clown, too.
00:13:14 I'm so glad they came out
00:13:17 'cause ain't no tellin' where
00:13:19 or what would they be doing.
00:13:21 What else is there to do?
00:13:22 The clown thing
00:13:25 Everybody want to be a clown.
00:13:26 Everybody... everybody's
00:13:28 What is a clown group?
00:13:30 A clown group is...
00:13:32 Birthday parties.
00:13:34 How do I put it?
00:13:36 Makin' people happy.
00:13:38 Is a group of people
00:13:40 Makin' smiles where
00:13:42 laughter where
00:13:44 See, a lot of clown groups
00:13:46 You can't just go out there
00:13:49 People don't wanna see that.
00:13:51 You have to, like,
00:13:53 You can't just say...
00:13:54 "Uh, I'm gonna do it
00:13:56 It's, like, something
00:13:58 It's like a getaway.
00:14:01 You get to travel
00:14:03 see, meet different people.
00:14:05 And some people don't even
00:14:08 People say, "Why you still
00:14:12 You know what I'm sayin'?
00:14:13 Because I want to.
00:14:14 I been doin' this
00:14:16 I'm 18 now, you know?
00:14:18 So I'm gettin' older,
00:14:20 You know what I'm saying?
00:14:21 This is one of my dreams
00:14:23 is to be an entertainer.
00:14:24 I can do my dance thing.
00:14:27 I can make people laugh.
00:14:31 I can...
00:14:34 make myself a name
00:14:38 and give me my respect for just
00:14:43 and not going negative.
00:14:46 'Cause if I wasn't doin'
00:14:48 I honestly think
00:14:50 a very, very, very bad person.
00:14:54 Yo, Tommy.
00:14:56 Would you happen
00:15:00 No. Who is this?
00:15:02 I told you he don't remember.
00:15:04 No. How you doin'?
00:15:06 - What you been up to, girl?
00:15:08 When they let you out of jail?
00:15:09 Oh, this ain't...
00:15:11 Oh, my bad. I thought...
00:15:14 Well, she look like her.
00:15:16 I wanna see you...
00:15:18 Go, shorty
00:15:19 It's your birthday
00:15:21 We gonna party
00:15:23 We gonna sip Bacardi like...
00:15:25 Hold on, baby. Hold on.
00:15:27 No. No, baby. We not gonna
00:17:40 - Blow it out.
00:17:42 That's all right.
00:17:44 And we gonna sing it for you...
00:17:45 Let it out.
00:17:46 Right here, right now.
00:17:49 And it goes
00:17:51 Happy birthday
00:17:54 dear Liza
00:17:55 Oh, yes, indeed
00:17:56 I don't need y'all to clap
00:17:58 'Cause we know we can sing, yeah
00:18:00 I'm not talkin' to you... ou... ou
00:18:05 Y'all better clap.
00:18:09 How many clown groups are there?
00:18:13 You have House of Clowns.
00:18:15 This is Homeboy the Clown
00:18:17 Cartoonz Clowns.
00:18:18 This is
00:18:20 Check it out.
00:18:22 Rocco the Clown
00:18:23 World Wide Clowns.
00:18:27 Get Em Up Clowns.
00:18:28 We were Get Em Up Clowns.
00:18:31 Just Clownin'. Platinum Clowns.
00:18:34 What's up?
00:18:36 We're Nan Nutta.
00:18:38 Big X, you know what I'm sayin'?
00:18:39 A.k.a. Cereal Man,
00:18:42 You know what I'm sayin'?
00:18:44 Rice Track Clowns.
00:18:45 Holler back.
00:18:51 Titanium Clowns.
00:18:53 I'd say about 50.
00:18:55 About 50 clown groups.
00:18:57 There's, like, over 50.
00:18:59 Basically,
00:19:01 that do the stripper dance,
00:19:02 and go put on a show
00:19:04 What's stripper dance?
00:19:05 What's the stripper dance?
00:19:07 What's the stripper dance?
00:19:13 I don't know where the stripper
00:19:15 It just jumped into the air.
00:19:21 One day, I didn't even know.
00:19:23 Like, I went to a party...
00:19:24 and that was,
00:19:32 The stripper dance is like where
00:19:35 and you bend like this.
00:19:37 And then you gotta be making
00:19:39 But it really be bouncin'.
00:19:44 It be like a lotta guys
00:19:46 "Oh, she's hot. She's bangin'."
00:19:47 So I do the stripper dance...
00:19:49 and I combined it
00:19:51 so I do the stripper,
00:19:53 this just stripper plain.
00:19:54 But then I wobble with it,
00:19:56 and that's the clownin'
00:19:59 'Cause I'm...
00:20:02 Anybody out in Los Angeles,
00:20:04 Out here, it's a flow.
00:20:06 It's like a connection.
00:20:07 Everybody does it.
00:20:10 We do everything.
00:20:12 We'll bounce.
00:20:15 We'll do our little swingin'.
00:20:17 The bleach and
00:20:20 We'll do it all.
00:20:21 The stripper dance
00:22:27 I've seen some parents
00:22:29 out there poppin'
00:22:30 and like, "I would never
00:22:32 "Why? She's out there
00:22:34 "She's not doing anything wrong.
00:22:37 "There's nobody
00:22:38 "There's nobody touching her.
00:22:39 "She's out there poppin'.
00:22:48 You have stripper dancing,
00:22:51 Twerking.
00:22:52 You have... you have...
00:22:56 and then you have
00:22:58 It's like hygiene.
00:22:59 Either you smell good,
00:23:01 Either you krump, or you not.
00:23:02 Basically,
00:23:04 what you would call it
00:23:06 you know, the lower parts
00:23:08 Watts, east side of L.A.,
00:23:11 We don't get the best
00:23:12 So what we do, we come together,
00:24:08 We don't have
00:24:10 When you don't wanna
00:24:12 because that's pretty much
00:24:15 that you can do
00:24:16 There's always a football team.
00:24:17 Because in the inner city...
00:24:18 we're all thought of to be
00:24:22 Everyone is not a sports player.
00:24:23 Everyone
00:24:25 and everybody
00:24:27 There... Is there something
00:24:29 So what we did is...
00:24:33 and we invented this.
00:24:34 In better neighborhoods...
00:24:37 they have
00:24:39 You have ballet,
00:24:42 you have jazz,
00:24:44 and this is all those
00:24:47 you can go to.
00:24:48 It's nothing like that
00:24:50 when you live where we live.
00:24:53 I grew up around here...
00:24:56 I grew up in this area.
00:24:57 It's real hard for kids like me,
00:25:01 You go to school,
00:25:03 and you can't even wear
00:25:05 So you tend to have an outlet...
00:25:08 and sometimes...
00:25:09 your outlet is music.
00:25:10 This is where a lot of music...
00:25:11 And you just think
00:25:13 it goes through your mind...
00:25:14 and a lot of times,
00:25:17 When you know
00:25:19 me, myself, and I know
00:25:21 will stop whatever is going on
00:25:24 because it's the spirit
00:25:25 There's a spirit in...
00:25:28 there is a spirit there,
00:25:31 A lot of people think
00:25:34 "Oh, they're just
00:25:36 "you know, just ghetto,
00:25:41 No. No, what we are
00:26:38 It's more of the...
00:26:40 but just a raw version.
00:26:42 Like, you have organized ball,
00:26:45 Krumping is the street ball.
00:26:47 You have a boy who gets krump...
00:26:48 and just coincidentally,
00:26:52 They face off. It's the
00:26:55 And that's what makes it like...
00:26:57 "Oh, my God.
00:26:59 It looks like we're
00:27:00 but we're not fighting anybody.
00:27:02 Like, you can push somebody,
00:27:05 Fighting is the last thing
00:27:07 It is the last thing.
00:27:51 The style changes,
00:27:54 Every day, the style changes.
00:27:56 And if you haven't
00:27:58 if you come to a krump session,
00:28:01 "What did I miss?"
00:28:02 "You've been slacking off.
00:28:04 Once you see the real thing...
00:28:05 you're gonna know
00:28:07 You're gonna know.
00:28:09 You're gonna be, like, "That has
00:28:11 "because I will never see
00:28:13 When they dance,
00:28:16 Especially if you have somebody
00:28:19 krumping themselves out.
00:28:20 It gets the girls more amped...
00:28:22 to get out there
00:28:23 Some of us may look gritty.
00:28:25 Some of us may not have
00:28:28 You know what I'm saying?
00:28:30 That's the part
00:28:32 It seems
00:28:34 but it's a good way
00:28:36 when you go through stuff
00:28:38 But say people have problems...
00:28:39 you know, didn't get this,
00:28:41 Short on this bill.
00:28:43 Just the fact
00:28:45 you can channel that anger.
00:28:47 Anything negative that has
00:28:50 you can channel that
00:28:52 and you can release that
00:28:55 because you're releasing it
00:28:58 This is our ghetto ballet.
00:28:59 This is how
00:29:00 This is the only way
00:29:03 This is the only way of making
00:29:11 If I know someone is looking
00:29:14 Some people can't dance if they
00:29:16 But if you know there's a mask
00:29:20 you know, then you feel that
00:29:23 and that your identity
00:29:25 so you can dance
00:29:28 There's not just a bunch
00:29:30 This is an art form.
00:29:31 It's just as valid
00:29:33 as your waltz,
00:29:36 Except we wouldn't have
00:29:38 'cause it was already
00:33:07 Tell us what's happening.
00:33:11 What happened? Tell me.
00:33:13 She just struck.
00:33:15 It's what
00:33:17 Yep.
00:33:18 She has reached...
00:33:21 That's what all of us
00:33:30 I marked my grandfather.
00:33:32 That was the first battle
00:33:34 Before he a preach...
00:33:36 he would sing a song, "Lord,
00:33:40 So I just followed
00:33:43 but I was really dancing to
00:33:47 But I was just... In my mind,
00:33:52 I live with Reverend Turner.
00:33:54 He was always there.
00:33:56 I miss my family...
00:33:57 because that is my family,
00:34:00 But on the other side,
00:34:03 when I need
00:34:06 I have my church family
00:34:08 Clown groups are,
00:34:13 We laugh together.
00:34:14 We go through... Whatever
00:34:17 that whole group
00:34:19 Me and my homie,
00:34:20 we went to school together.
00:34:22 He played instruments,
00:34:24 It was this one performance...
00:34:26 when I got into this whole
00:34:28 I was just beginning.
00:34:30 and I was already labeled
00:34:34 I said to myself,
00:34:37 "I wanted to take him under
00:34:39 'Cause I think he got potential
00:34:42 because I see some
00:34:44 I knew about his background
00:34:47 'cause people would tell me,
00:34:50 "He doesn't go to school.
00:34:52 "His brother stays
00:34:54 I used to be like that.
00:34:55 My moms, she... she in jail.
00:34:58 She in jail 'cause...
00:35:01 She been smoking dope
00:35:05 since I was a baby,
00:35:09 He's had a lot of obstacles.
00:35:10 His mom, um,
00:35:14 and he's had to face a lot of
00:35:18 more so
00:35:21 who has the advantage
00:35:24 or a dad who was sober.
00:35:25 He calls me mom, you know...
00:35:27 but not just his mom,
00:35:29 but I'm proud to be his pastor.
00:35:32 My dad, he was my idol...
00:35:34 'cause I never saw
00:35:37 and make so much
00:35:41 I saw him
00:35:43 and a role model
00:35:45 He was my friend, also.
00:35:48 I see, like, lights
00:35:51 Then my mom comes,
00:35:53 she's like, "I'm gonna tell you
00:35:56 You know...
00:35:57 shot hisself in the head
00:36:00 You know, came home,
00:36:02 He was the only child
00:36:06 kind of quietly inside of him.
00:36:08 I felt as if...
00:36:10 I was his only child
00:36:13 you know, at the funeral
00:36:16 I didn't, you know,
00:36:18 So for a long time,
00:36:20 does that mean
00:36:22 And I realized
00:36:24 It's just that everybody
00:36:27 I've been in a lot
00:36:30 I've been shot
00:36:32 My grandfather
00:36:36 Right here.
00:36:39 Went in through this way
00:36:43 I was trying to protect
00:36:46 And I was looking at my body,
00:36:50 and I seen blood.
00:36:51 We didn't know where
00:36:54 Chance was standing
00:36:57 I don't know how...
00:37:00 and the gun was pointed directly
00:37:03 She was holding
00:37:04 It must have been God,
00:37:07 from when it hit the middle,
00:37:10 It ricocheted off
00:37:12 and went straight
00:37:14 If the bullet
00:37:16 the bullet would have hit
00:37:20 It would have tore him up.
00:37:22 But it turned, and it got him
00:37:25 and it went in, and it went out.
00:37:27 I had to go to a crackhouse...
00:37:30 to get my mama
00:37:32 That's not a good sight
00:37:34 I don't remember how old I was.
00:37:36 I just remember that vision.
00:37:38 It hurts, yeah, but that's
00:37:43 That's why I get krump.
00:37:45 Some people don't feel safe
00:37:51 I mean, I've seen a lot
00:37:54 and come and visit
00:37:55 "How do you live here?
00:37:58 "Oh, it's so...
00:38:02 Like... it's not dangerous.
00:38:05 A lot of the kids out here...
00:38:06 they don't have
00:38:09 to go and be in Hollywood...
00:38:11 because so many people
00:38:14 So their comfort is the 'hood.
00:38:16 It's scary to go to Hollywood...
00:38:19 if you're coming
00:38:21 for the simple fact that
00:38:25 When I first got
00:38:28 everybody seemed
00:38:30 and I felt like this...
00:38:34 Everybody's so uppity.
00:38:36 Everybody has so many things
00:38:39 and here I am.
00:38:41 And that's how
00:38:44 We're just some...
00:38:46 some gutter kids.
00:38:48 Tell me something.
00:38:50 What has your big homie
00:38:53 done for you lately?
00:38:55 I don't have no big homie.
00:38:57 In a gangbanging world?
00:38:59 I'm just Baby Tight Eyez.
00:39:01 I walked in a room...
00:39:02 and the boy
00:39:05 So I beat him up real, real bad.
00:39:08 That's what I did.
00:39:09 What are you doing on the 5-5...
00:39:11 whatever hood street
00:39:14 I went over there with my dad!
00:39:18 Oh. So's your dad gangin' now?
00:39:21 Daddy's been a gangbanger.
00:39:23 He just started back again?
00:39:26 You could say that.
00:39:27 If I had to go in that 'hood,
00:39:30 and tell them that...
00:39:31 that you not gonna be
00:39:35 If I have to go
00:39:37 to show that you ain't
00:39:41 I know I'm not
00:39:42 but I feel like I have
00:39:45 and a positive role model to
00:39:48 'cause I know
00:39:49 I know he looks up to me.
00:39:53 I never tell him that, but I do.
00:40:00 So all we gonna do
00:40:04 and he'll overcome this.
00:40:09 He needs to be somewhere
00:40:11 whether his dad likes it or not.
00:40:13 'Cause his dad doesn't even
00:41:29 Krumpness is
00:41:31 of your life of hurt,
00:41:34 that people don't know about.
00:41:37 Kids these days
00:41:44 Maybe he's angry that he's
00:41:48 We seem to be
00:41:51 Maybe he's angry
00:41:55 He'll say,
00:41:57 "that dad wouldn't be here."
00:42:51 Hey, mama, look at this.
00:42:56 "Baby, you're gonna give
00:42:58 "You know you got asthma!
00:43:01 Cartoonz, they was krump.
00:43:02 I got a black eye.
00:43:06 Mama, that's part of dancin'.
00:43:09 That's part of my moves. See?
00:43:11 They like it out there.
00:43:13 They krump.
00:43:14 I used to be a dancer for Tommy.
00:43:17 I, too, as he said...
00:43:19 used to be one of
00:43:23 I thank Tommy the Clown
00:43:27 and startin' the movement...
00:43:29 but what we do now
00:43:31 "I thank Tommy
00:43:33 "but we do it different now."
00:43:35 No, you might do it
00:43:38 It became boring,
00:43:41 You need more.
00:43:44 Stop.
00:43:47 Let me alone.
00:43:52 I wanna get krump.
00:44:02 And everybody that got skills,
00:44:06 If you're not dancing,
00:44:09 We need hot dancers
00:44:11 You look at gangbanging,
00:44:12 The Crips go against the Bloods.
00:44:14 They wanna be better than
00:44:16 So by this clown war
00:44:18 and the BattleZone
00:44:20 it's like
00:44:21 but it's on the flip side.
00:44:23 Having so many clown groups,
00:44:26 You know, somebody
00:44:28 Somebody wants to be number 2.
00:44:30 So that's how Tommy started
00:44:33 You know how battle-dancin'
00:44:38 I just brought it back.
00:44:40 With makeup.
00:44:47 - BattleZone.
00:44:50 It's like fightin',
00:44:53 but on the dance floor,
00:44:55 We have the little mama match...
00:44:57 where it's little mamas breakin'
00:45:01 The community
00:45:03 We got big boy match.
00:45:05 We bring out the big people.
00:45:08 You don't have
00:45:09 'cause you can do it, too.
00:45:13 These are matches
00:45:18 and the crowd, you be the judge.
00:45:22 The crowd judge.
00:45:23 You know, millions watchin'.
00:45:24 I don't care if you get
00:45:27 You better blink that eye like
00:45:29 You got to show your skills.
00:45:30 To me, when I'm dancin'...
00:45:31 I don't care if the ugliness
00:45:32 'cause I'm dancin'. It's me.
00:45:34 So that's the difference
00:45:37 It's, like, a big difference
00:45:40 When you say La Niña,
00:45:42 When you say Miss Prissy,
00:45:45 a pretty girl, like...
00:45:46 You'll see a side of Miss Prissy
00:45:50 I'm gonna be the total opposite
00:45:52 but that's how it happens.
00:45:54 I'm prissy all day,
00:45:56 it's something
00:45:59 I never lost before. I don't
00:46:01 They tellin' the people
00:46:04 'cause, uh, they're
00:46:07 We couldn't be centered anymore.
00:46:09 So you, they, them,
00:46:12 Different style of paint.
00:46:13 November 15.
00:46:14 Different style of dance.
00:46:15 At the Great Western Forum,
00:46:17 Different style of everything.
00:46:19 You goes down.
00:46:21 I guarantee you that.
00:46:31 Here's your Oscar now.
00:46:33 Tommy's got krump!
00:46:41 El Niño Boy,
00:46:43 You goin' down. I see you
00:46:46 but they gonna get beat up, too.
00:46:47 Every time I think
00:46:49 it's like, oh, it's over.
00:46:50 I ain't even started
00:47:14 I want everybody to win.
00:47:18 Whoever lose...
00:47:19 I repeat: Whoever lose...
00:47:22 is out!
00:47:24 I ain't gonna even
00:47:28 There goes the game! Game over!
00:48:35 Hey, y'all, get ready.
00:49:10 If they beat us,
00:49:18 What would you do?
00:49:21 If they beat me?
00:49:24 Hey, I'll probably be
00:50:10 Let's get ready to rumble!
00:50:13 Get ready to make some noise!
00:50:16 La Niña, you ready, girl?
00:50:20 Miss Prissy, you ready, girl?
00:50:21 We about to kick it off.
00:51:49 Let's make some noise for...
00:51:53 La Niña!
00:52:03 Do me a favor and make
00:52:17 And the world-famous, undisputed
00:52:21 is...
00:52:26 Miss Prissy!
00:54:53 Say, "Larry!"
00:54:54 Larry!
00:54:56 Say, "Larry!"
00:54:57 Larry!
00:54:58 Say, "Larry!"
00:56:14 Larry!
00:57:14 Give it up for Lil Man!
00:57:25 Give it up for Lil Mama!
00:57:41 I cannot believe!
00:57:44 This is ludicrous.
00:58:04 It's all good.
00:58:05 I ain't never got
00:58:08 I came out there,
00:58:10 and came up with
00:58:12 A beautiful show.
00:58:32 They cheated my cousin.
00:58:34 That's some bullshit.
00:58:38 All them niggas is weak!
00:58:40 All y'all battle! All y'all!
00:58:43 Battle! Right! Battle!
00:58:45 You all did not win
00:58:49 I'm gonna tell you that.
00:58:51 You didn't win 'em all...
00:58:53 but you got cheated out
00:58:59 Told y'all we were gonna do it!
00:59:01 That wasn't no BattleZone.
00:59:05 And he won.
00:59:06 We won! We won!
00:59:07 We won!
00:59:09 Thank you, Jesus!
00:59:11 How you doin'?
00:59:13 Larry!
00:59:26 He probably worked
00:59:27 for about 3 weeks,
00:59:30 You know what I'm saying?
00:59:31 I'm real with this.
00:59:33 Everything I do is pure.
00:59:34 I don't have to practice it.
00:59:36 I don't have to want it.
00:59:37 You know what I'm sayin'?
00:59:39 And it's done.
00:59:41 I'm done.
00:59:47 Feel good to wear this, baby.
00:59:50 Be all I am the way I am
00:59:53 'Cause I'm...
01:00:23 Tell us... Tell us what happened.
01:00:25 Somebody done broke into his...
01:00:28 Everything OK?
01:00:30 They just broke...
01:00:32 While we was on here
01:00:33 they broke in my house.
01:00:38 You try and work hard
01:00:41 but people
01:00:45 Doin' stuff,
01:00:48 It's hard, man!
01:00:54 They can't do that.
01:00:58 Stand over here, sir.
01:01:04 While I was
01:01:06 I was losing
01:01:09 They came in the house...
01:01:10 broke in the house,
01:01:12 The front door is over there?
01:01:13 No, the front door
01:01:15 This is the sliding door...
01:01:16 and there's a door through
01:01:18 OK. I'm gonna check this out.
01:01:27 You just have to know that...
01:01:30 because you're doing
01:01:32 this is happening.
01:01:34 OK? These things happen...
01:01:35 only when people do
01:01:40 And, you know,
01:01:43 something very good
01:01:46 for the kids, and this is
01:01:48 Hey, baby.
01:01:49 Hi, daddy.
01:01:51 How you doin'?
01:01:52 Fine.
01:01:53 Yeah, I feel you.
01:01:55 Daddy.
01:01:56 Th... there.
01:02:00 There you go, daddy.
01:02:02 Something's missing.
01:02:05 My DVD player gone.
01:02:07 Did you dust the front door?
01:02:10 We dust the whole house, sir.
01:02:11 We dust the whole house.
01:02:13 Don't trip. Forget this...
01:02:14 'cause we fi'n
01:02:18 We're gonna have a mansion
01:02:20 Amen.
01:02:21 They can trash it...
01:02:23 'cause we movin'
01:02:25 Everything happens
01:02:27 and that lets you know
01:02:28 Right.
01:02:29 We have to get out of here.
01:02:32 They heard you weren't
01:02:34 They was tryin' to help you.
01:02:35 Everything happens for a reason.
01:02:37 That's how you
01:02:38 I remember that.
01:02:39 We fi'n to go in a mansion.
01:02:41 We're gonna have a 20-story.
01:02:42 Let's go!
01:02:43 Clownin' is cool,
01:02:46 is the life outside of clownin'.
01:02:49 This is Inglewood.
01:02:52 Inglewood is set up
01:02:55 just like South Central.
01:02:57 South Central is a deadly place.
01:02:58 A couple of weeks ago,
01:03:01 First time I seen something
01:03:04 We're drivin'.
01:03:05 I'm in the truck.
01:03:08 Tommy's drivin' the 5.0.
01:03:09 You know, he stops.
01:03:10 He bent over
01:03:13 and soon as he leans back up,
01:03:16 Man, laid out
01:03:18 I ain't never seen
01:03:20 Head blown all off.
01:03:22 Drivin' down the street
01:03:24 We just finished
01:03:26 All the kids, everybody saw it.
01:03:29 It was just... too dramatic.
01:03:32 Ain't nothin' for them
01:03:35 I mean, if you
01:03:37 that got a kick
01:03:40 or got a kick out
01:03:43 and that's all
01:03:47 that means eventually...
01:03:49 you gonna start catching
01:03:52 It's so much violence
01:03:54 and, I mean, you know,
01:03:58 you know, the kids just
01:04:01 The way life is out here...
01:04:02 it's hard for you
01:04:05 and not know that you're
01:04:09 You don't even have to be
01:04:13 You could just be that person
01:04:16 Just walking
01:04:18 you could get shot
01:04:20 Just for looking like somebody,
01:04:50 There she goes. There she goes!
01:05:00 Family members of
01:05:02 say she simply
01:05:04 to walk to the store
01:05:06 when she was gunned down.
01:05:08 Her 13-year-old friend
01:05:10 Demario Moore,
01:05:12 Authorities say
01:05:14 known gang members
01:05:16 and killed them as they
01:05:19 between Budlong and
01:05:22 She was one of those victims...
01:05:23 an innocent victim,
01:05:26 that do everything
01:05:28 and was at the wrong place
01:05:31 to say hi to somebody
01:05:34 when the store is right there.
01:05:36 From crazy people
01:05:40 shootin' out of a car, and
01:05:44 They shoot old people,
01:05:47 They didn't care.
01:05:49 They came around the block
01:05:51 And she happened to be...
01:05:52 in the wrong place
01:05:55 'Cause she had so much to do.
01:05:56 She loved dancin'.
01:05:59 She loved cheerleading.
01:06:13 His father, I think,
01:06:17 And his father's enemies
01:06:21 and they shot at them.
01:06:24 See, that just
01:06:26 I don't wanna be
01:06:28 But you just can't leave.
01:06:29 Amazing grace
01:06:36 How sweet
01:06:41 The sound
01:06:46 That saved
01:06:51 A wretch
01:06:57 Like me
01:07:03 I once
01:07:08 Was lost
01:07:13 But now
01:07:18 I'm found
01:07:22 I was blind
01:07:26 But now
01:07:31 I
01:07:34 See
01:07:49 Austin Harris is my name.
01:07:52 Selling caskets is my game.
01:07:54 I've been neighbors
01:07:57 and we all get together
01:08:03 Lot of people think...
01:08:04 the old folks the one
01:08:06 but you young folks
01:08:08 You know that?
01:08:11 Don't make sense.
01:08:13 But anyway, to each his own.
01:08:16 You just tell your parents
01:08:19 When we throw
01:08:21 Right.
01:08:22 After we throw our clubs...
01:08:23 people be out there
01:08:25 and drinkin',
01:08:26 and they look in here...
01:08:27 that's like givin'
01:08:28 Right, right, right.
01:08:30 OK, you have fun, but if
01:08:31 you're gonna end up right here.
01:08:33 Reality, it sets in.
01:08:35 You need to come
01:08:37 I do?
01:08:38 You do, 'cause
01:08:40 Do a little boogie?
01:08:41 You still doin' a little boogie.
01:08:42 Oh, yeah, well, I need that.
01:08:45 I mean, I done seen a lot
01:08:48 A whole lot.
01:08:49 And I'm only 20 years old.
01:08:51 Swoop, horrible where he lives.
01:08:54 Horrible, you know?
01:08:56 And it's good that,
01:08:59 'cause he was... he was...
01:09:02 but he twisted it,
01:09:06 Been here ever since,
01:09:08 'cause he was there.
01:09:12 Life is not a game.
01:09:14 That's right. I hear you.
01:09:15 I'm serious.
01:09:16 Take advantage of it
01:09:19 Yeah, you better clown right.
01:09:20 I know y'all's
01:09:23 but y'all better clown right.
01:09:24 'Cause if you don't...
01:09:25 I know where
01:09:27 Right here...
01:09:29 with me.
01:09:32 Go on in. Take a look.
01:09:34 Not now.
01:09:35 No, come on in here.
01:09:36 You wanna go in?
01:09:38 Yeah. Find a casket
01:09:40 We can have one special made.
01:09:43 Don't worry.
01:09:50 I used to be... Back in the day,
01:09:53 My mother and my father
01:09:55 so the only family I had was
01:09:57 that showed me
01:10:00 You know what I mean?
01:10:02 It's like, "We loyal to you
01:10:04 and we're hangin' out and,
01:10:06 a commitment,
01:10:07 And sometimes, unfortunately...
01:10:09 kids that don't get it
01:10:11 have to go and get it
01:10:13 And when they get it
01:10:14 it's mistaken, because
01:10:17 On the streets, I found,
01:10:20 and street brothers
01:10:24 that kind of looked out for me.
01:10:25 At least I thought
01:10:28 What happened?
01:10:29 Well, I ended up
01:10:31 where people ran out on me...
01:10:34 when my life took a bad turn,
01:10:38 I had a bout
01:10:40 for about 15 years, you know.
01:10:42 And nobody was there in the end.
01:10:45 And that's
01:10:46 I just said,
01:10:48 "I don't wanna die this way."
01:10:49 When did this happen?
01:10:50 6 years ago.
01:10:52 And so Dragon was around...
01:10:53 Dragon was... Dragon took care
01:10:57 when I went through my bout.
01:10:59 Dragon was father to these kids.
01:11:01 Dragon would cook, clean,
01:11:03 And he was the father.
01:11:05 Statistically,
01:11:07 My kids are great.
01:11:09 They're well-disciplined.
01:11:11 And I got great kids, you know?
01:11:16 Dragon here.
01:11:21 Hey, old bat.
01:11:22 Don't say that.
01:11:24 Oh, Dragon.
01:11:26 Why'd you say that stuff
01:11:29 Thank you, Dragon.
01:11:31 The first time
01:11:34 I thought he was on drugs...
01:11:36 or maybe somebody had
01:11:38 He was just, like,
01:11:40 and screamin,
01:11:42 And I didn't know
01:11:43 Then he explained to me...
01:11:45 that it was
01:11:47 that kind of took 'em
01:11:48 I love it now.
01:11:50 I can krump, too.
01:11:51 I get krump for Christ,
01:11:55 Is there a difference?
01:11:57 I don't think
01:11:59 I think when they dance,
01:12:02 And when I'm... when I'm at
01:12:13 If you go
01:12:14 you go to a Pentecostal,
01:12:18 these same movements
01:12:20 Dragon brought me
01:12:22 One day, we were getting
01:12:25 and he told me,
01:12:27 "if you start going
01:12:29 And I was, like, "Please."
01:12:31 I forgot what
01:12:34 and it was God,
01:12:38 "My child, this is your gift.
01:12:40 We're not gonna be clones of
01:12:43 because that's been seen
01:12:47 Somebody's waitin'
01:12:50 another generation of kids
01:12:54 that they won't need...
01:12:55 what's being commercialized
01:13:00 custom-made, because I feel
01:13:03 And we're of more value
01:13:08 or any car or any big house
01:15:08 I lost my house, got evicted...
01:15:11 and I had to move in
01:15:14 And where I'm at today, movin'.
01:15:16 If I end up with nothin',
01:15:19 but it's like... I mean, dang.
01:15:23 There's a lot of things I wish
01:15:27 if I could start back over.
01:15:28 And after taking a major loss
01:15:32 Iosing all your money, you got
01:15:35 yeah, survivin'
01:15:38 where they say
01:15:42 When they get to hatin',
01:15:46 All right. Let's get ready
01:15:49 This is it... showtime.
01:18:47 I think I was
01:18:49 to be dancin' like this.
01:18:51 And when I first seen it,
01:18:53 I mean, I wanted to do it.
01:18:55 It was hard for me to do it,
01:18:57 "This white boy,
01:18:59 "he ain't doing this,
01:19:01 When I was jumpin' out the car,
01:19:03 They mouths dropped like...
01:19:05 "Oh, my God, they got a white
01:19:08 "How is he gonna
01:19:09 Yeah, we get respect,
01:19:14 'cause they don't think Asians
01:19:26 You got a certain talent...
01:19:28 don't be... don't be
01:19:40 We have the belief
01:19:43 and that we're
01:19:45 We're gonna... we're gonna rise,
01:19:54 The sky is the limit,