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Anthony: It's a lot of misunderstanding

what goes on with what we do.

♪♪♪

Anybody that needs to judge us needs to know us,

needs to know where we're coming from.

You know, a lot of these guys are working

for major hospitals and corporations,

and, you know, doing major things in their life,

so we're not just some kids on the street.

- I have two businesses of my own.

I am the CEO of my own nonprofit organization.

- I'm a teacher, and so I'm a little worried about this.

If they knew I did what I do now or someone found out,

I might lose my job. But I'm like,

I went to school, and I got two degrees,

and I can go somewhere else.

- All the members of our teams have corporate jobs.

They go to work, everyday normal lives,

just like everybody else.

- However, when the music plays, when the beat drops...

my mission is to take over the world.

[ Electronic hip-hop plays ]

Dominique Young Unique: ♪ Don't make me throw it down ♪

♪ Da down Da down ♪

♪ D-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-down ♪

♪ D-d-d-d-d-d-d- d-d-d-d-down ♪

♪♪♪

♪ Put me on this song Now you give me da da business ♪

♪ Now these ... ask me who I is ♪

♪ Tell them none of their business ♪

♪ Then I bend it over, then I let them kiss the Assquake ♪

♪ I'm a freak, little ... ♪

♪ You gonna count down with me, baby ♪

♪ I'm finna set it off ♪

♪ All the way, all the way down, down, down ♪

[ Laughing ]

[ Indistinct conversation ]

[fingers snapping ]

- Ah! Hey!

Come on. Come on.

Uh! Ah! Ah!

Ah! Ah!

Uh! Ah!

Ah!

- My name is Anthony.

I'm originally from Atlanta.

I've been here all my life, all my schooling.

I grew up in the hood, you know.

But I grew up in a single-family home

where my mom made sure

I had something to do in the summertime.

I always had a love for music. I grew up around it.

And from the beginning of time,

I knew dance was a part of who I was.

I tried the whole thing of doing what they say boys should do.

And once I got to realize that, um, you know,

that, uh, hey, it is who I am.

The Lord's gonna love me for who I am.

I know that I was born this way.

From the beginning of time

when I seen Lynda Carter playing Wonder Woman,

I knew that's who I wanted to be instead of Superman.

♪♪♪

Marching band and all of that was just second nature for me.

It was like a pageantry of everything.

When I would look at the girls dance,

and it was just like, "Wow."

So, you know, I was having these feelings on the inside,

and I wanted to pick that up, and I wanted to do that,

but I couldn't do it.

Marching in a band was an experience

that I would never change.

The whole atmosphere of being in a marching band.

And that's where a lot of this comes from.

[ Drums beating in rhythm ]

♪♪♪

[ Cheering ]

- My name is Tiara Lewis.

- My name is Jewelle Ashanti Smith.

- And my name is Morgan Jackson.

- I am a Prancing J-Sette.

- I'm a Prancing J-Sette.

- And I am a Prancing J-Sette.

- From Jackson State University.

- Smith: The ideal image of a Prancing J-Sette

is the prettified females.

They're talented. They're beautiful. They're smart.

It's what every girl wants to be and what every boy wants.

♪♪♪

- Anthony: They are the premier team

of HBCU dance teams.

That particular team was the team

that everybody decided to mimic at that time

because they were the girls that did the things

that nobody else done.

- Jackson: You're on that field

and you're executing all these stunts

and cohesive movements there

and everyone goes, "Whoo! Ah!"

♪♪♪

The Prancing J-Settes are known for bucking.

- It's kind of like-- You know how a horse go like that?

That's what a buck is. That's a buck. That's a buck.

- We're the only team, I would say,

that does bucking with class and style and form.

- Lewis: Bucking has always been in our choreography.

But it wasn't as hard-core and edgy as we put it now.

- Like you wanted to buck

where people can see across the field.

So it became bigger and more dynamic.

- Anthony: You can feel the power.

You can feel the wind if you're sitting next to someone.

Like, "Wow. I just almost got slapped."

- Jackson: This actually should be a sport,

to be honest with you, because we throw our bodies

in so many different positions

that you'd be like, "How you do that? Wait. Hmm?"

- Flash: They're also graceful.

And, you know, it depends on, like, the category.

When it's time for field, you're gonna get stunts,

you're gonna get shows, you're gonna get agilities, flips.

Cartwheels. Oh, my God.

And then when it's time for slow,

it's gonna be quick, sassy, and sexy, you know?

So I could do whatever type of movements I want.

I could be feminine. I could be masculine

whenever I wanted to be. It was no--

Like with hip-hop, I can only do this,

or jazz, I can only do this.

No, I can put all of it together. We're bucking.

- Anthony: You have to understand.

We're sitting there with an instrument on.

And we are seeing these girls standing in front of us,

and they are poised, and they're sitting there and they're ready,

and we like-- [ bleep ]

You see Miss Rachel?

Do you see her standing over there like a stallion?

You hear me?

And to see them get to do what we know we couldn't do.

I was having these feelings

like I was the only person in the world.

Like, "Lord, why me?

Why am I the only person that's feeling like this?

You know? I know this is not the way I was supposed to feel."

I went to the club one night,

and I seen guys that were in school with me.

I went to the youth center,

which is Morehouse, Clark, Spelman.

And I was like, "Wow. I'm not the only one."

Guys that were in the school, they would go to the club

and they would mimic what they would see that Saturday

at the game.

- [house music playing] - So Saturday night,

they would battle each other.

♪♪♪

At that time, everything was underground.

You know, it was done out of respect.

We wouldn't go to a game and do it at a game

out of respect for the girls.

♪♪♪

I probably was, like, 18, 19.

And going to where I could go and be me

was going to a house club like Traxx.

This is it. This was the club.

The parking lot.

- Second level. - Uh-huh.

- This is where it all went down.

- For real? - Dance floor and all. Yeah.

- Wow. - Yeah.

- Where was the dance floor? - Right here.

- Dance floor here? - Here. Stage right there.

- Uh-huh.

- Steps right there with this white van.

-Uh-huh.

- Go up the steps to the second level.

- Uh-huh. - Yeah.

- And it went down. - And it went down.

- Wow. - At 306 Luckie Street.

- Man.

- This was amazing.

Looks like some of the dance floor is still here.

[ Jamal laughs ]

- Anthony: It's gone, but the memory still lasts on.

- Crystal Waters: ♪ It's 12 past midnight ♪

♪ Don't close your eyes ♪

♪ Your soul's half alive and I'll be by your side ♪

- We've been catering to the LBG crowd here in Atlanta

since the early '80s.

- ♪ You'll have to share ♪

♪ I want your love ♪

- Bucking, from the beginning,

we saw these guys acting very feminine.

- [ Camera shutter clicking ] - They had leotards.

They had fringe. They had sequins.

We were like, "Whoa." [ Laughs ]

What happened?

- They had that little area downstairs in the back room,

kind of couple of steps down,

where they did all the dancing and stuff.

So we went back there, and there they were,

doing their rounds and, you know, tearing it up.

And I was like, "What is this?!"

I was like, "This is awesome."

And we spent the rest of the night back there.

- Jamal: Big Tony was really the spearhead

of all this happening.

He was really the one that kept everyone together

and recruited guys and showed them the moves.

I mean, everyone wanted to work with him.

♪♪♪

- Anthony: I had another guy that I didn't know

that was from Mississippi. He was in the club.

We decided to dance against one another.

Decided nobody was gonna win, so let's join forces.

So that was the first beginning of an organized team.

[ Laughing ]

[ Indistinct conversation ]

- Anthony: Let's get down to business, guys.

- What's up? - So we're getting ready

to get dressed for the night.

Everybody got their shoes?

- Check. - Yes.

- Do everybody have their shoes?

- All: Yes!

- Thank you, Jesus. That's all I asked you.

We love dance. This is what we do.

So we created a community amongst ourselves.

And we created teams to, you know-- to have that outlet

where we can communicate and we can go to the games

and have a good time and still, you know, be who we are.

[ Indistinct conversation ]

- Child, what we wearing tonight?

- This right here.

- Okay. So what kind of bottom? - Baseball pants.

- It's a baseball jersey. - What color?

- You ever seen baseball pants? - I have. But what color?

- White with a green stripe, like baseball players. Duh.

- Anthony: I'm from the old school,

where we don't feel that we have to have the leotards

and the lashes and the makeup.

Child, look at my eyebrows.

I think they need to be snatched.

- Who gonna do 'em? - You.

- Child, bye.

- So what a minute. We supposed to wear white socks?

- Yeah. - Yes.

- Have no fear, co-captain is here.

- Is here.

- Anthony: Even what we do, we get the backlash from it.

So we have to be able to accept what comes along

with what you decide to do.

- Father, thank you for allowing us all come together

on this evening,

even though some of us have to work in the morning.

We pray and wish this buck goes very, very well.

In Jesus' name we pray. Amen.

- All: Amen.

- J-Phi! - J-Phi!

- Phi Phi! - [ Laughing ]

- You're such a saint.

- Let's go, let's go, let's go, let's go.

[ Indistinct conversation ]

- All right, we'll see you there. We'll see you there.

When we walk through the door

you're gonna prepare.

We are like soldiers.

You are looking to do your best.

- ♪♪♪ - Man: You guys on one aisle.

- Anthony: The feeling in going into battle is to slay.

I wanna slay you.

- ♪♪♪ - [ Crowd cheering ]

- When you're on the floor, everybody's your rival.

Friends. Everybody.

♪♪♪

♪♪♪

- There is a lot of strategy that goes into bucking.

When you're going against a team--

Like, there are some teams that are acrobatic,

and there are some teams that are not as acrobatic.

We are one of those teams that is not as acrobatic,

so we have to have certain counts of our own

with our own type of flavor.

So you have to know exactly when to throw those counts.

You have to know exactly when to throw your heavy hitters

and when to scale back a little bit.

♪♪♪

- To see somebody like, "What this big [ bleep ] finna do?"

♪♪♪

I did it to you. Now, what you gonna come back with?

♪♪♪

It may sound kind of cocky,

and you gonna get your stuff together,

you know that we didn't come to play with you.

Deejay:

- Anthony: A lot of times when we're in the club,

they ask us sometimes, over the microphone,

would we please let the dance floor be open

for the patrons that are there.

And sometimes if we don't apply, they will turn the music off

- and we have to leave. - Patron: Whoo!

- Anthony: With the size that-- the space that we had,

y'all did good.

But the deejay-- We have to respect the deejay.

He gave us our props, and we got on out the way.

So we did what he asked us to do.

- Well, can we get one drill in for the streets?

- Anthony: One drill for the streets.

- [ Indistinct conversation ] - Right here. Crank that B.

- All right. One, two, three.

- All: Phi Phi!

[ House music playing ]

- Come on. Come through.

♪♪♪

[ Indistinct conversation ]

- Come on with it.

Here we go. Yah!

Ah!

- ♪♪♪ - [ Horn honks ]

♪♪♪

- Get it up! Get it up!

♪♪♪

Ha!

Ha!

- ♪♪♪ - [ Indistinct conversation ]

- Dance! - Come on! Give me this!

Let's go, goddamn it! Let's go!

-Ooh. - [ Horns honking ]

- Aah!

[ Indistinct conversation ]

♪♪♪

- Well, some people-- I'm gonna keep it real.

You know, a lot of African-American people,

they just have the knack to pick up dancing.

♪♪♪

So some people don't need trained dancing,

but if you are trained, it makes it a little bit easier,

but you still have to adjust to the style.

[ House music playing ]

- Lavar: With each song, you have a different feel.

You don't just buck to every song.

If I'm gonna play a Chris Brown song,

sometimes I wanna feel sexy.

When you're thinking of something

that you will buck to--

Like if you do that-- Kind of like just feeling it.

- Yeah. - You feel like actually moving.

But when you're feeling Stingettish,

you're feeling real sexy, you're going to, like...

I'm gonna touch myself. I'm gonna feel it.

- You can't be so close-minded to one style.

And the reason's because-- If you guys, like, have ever had

the opportunity to go to a J-Sette competition--

If we are a team that, you know, only focused on house counts,

which is like fast music, beats that they play in the club--

If we only focused on that, then when they play something--

When they play a hip-hop beat, we don't got no hip-hop counts.

We can't do no house counts on hip-hop counts.

Or if they play, like, a sexy song--

If they're playing "Body Party" by Ciara,

we can't buck off "Body Party." You know? It's not gonna work.

So you just ultimately have to be well-rounded, you know,

in your-- in your style of dancing.

We're like basic ballet and jazz dance, you know.

Your jazz fingers and stuff. People are gonna have that.

You know, that's just the base of everything.

So I might stand like this,

but you better make sure your fingers are right.

Or I might be here.

You better make sure your jazz hands are straight.

You better have blades. You know?

There's, like, small things that every squad looks at.

If you don't see it, it's not together.

It's all about the form. - Yeah.

- Anthony: You have to know when to dance hard

or when to slack up, you know.

And it's not a competition when you're on a team.

You have to be unified.

- [ Fingers snapping ] - Five, six...

- Anthony: With this right here, you have to be able

to pick up choreography.

You have to be able to follow the leader.

- One and two, three and four.

- Anthony: You have to have those things

or the team won't survive.

- One and two, three and four.

- Stop. You, baby, you got to see what he's doing.

You can't just-- I know you're new,

but we-- we in full load.

I can't have you slowing everybody else down.

If so, I'm gonna have to pull you out of line.

- Let's try it again. - Okay.

- Six.

Five, six, seven, eight.

- Anthony: To be a great leader, you still have to realize

that you have to change with time

and that you have to also be able to take creative criticism

and continue to grow in your craft.

- Two, three, four.

- I'm not understanding. You just learned this yesterday.

Why are you not doing it today?

Dance in your space.

You're all over there in the fireplace.

What are you, wood?

Damn. Come on. Let's go.

Anthony: What a lot of people don't realize

about gay individuals is--

Like, some families may not accept that person,

so we become that family, and I think

that's where a lot of the head-butting comes along.

- Your feet on two. Two.

- Anthony: These guys are like brothers to me.

We have our fights just like anybody else.

We go through breakups.

Somebody in our family...

maybe not accepting who we are.

Um...

You know, we are there for each other.

God knows we love each other.

[ Laughter ]

- You late for work? - Napoleon: No, not late.

Got like 20 minutes to get up

and then get dressed and do all this stuff

and then be out the door,

so I always move at a pretty fast pace.

- I think you're late. - Huh?

- I think you're late. - I'm not late. I'm not late.

My name is Lynell Goodwin.

I am also known as Napoleon.

Authentic Atlanta native.

I teach on an elementary school level,

and then I teach on a high school level.

And then I also am the CEO of my own nonprofit organization,

Which is a music advocacy group.

So I do a lot of things for a living.

Today, for example, I woke up at 5:00.

I went to my first job. Got off at 3:00.

Had to be at the next job at 4:00

to practice with the band from 4:00 to 6:00.

After I practiced with the band from 4:00 to 6:00,

we have a football game, which will last undoubtedly

until 10:30. At that point,

then I will have to travel back home, get in uniform

and go out to this event that's going to happen tomorrow night.

So that is just a peek into how hard it is

to juggle everything, to keep everything in a perspective,

to keep your priorities straight as well.

Because as much as I love bucking,

as much as I love doing it,

I have to make sure I'm dedicating 100%

to those kids that I'm teaching.

You know? Because they deserve it the most.

Another form of bullying

that's becoming really, really big nowadays,

it's called cyberbullying.

You saw a little bit of it here.

I love kids. I work hard for kids.

That's what my whole life is pretty much centered around.

What I notice coming out of school

is that everybody is competing to impress the next person.

You know? That's what they dedicate their lives for.

It's almost like people are living for other people.

What do I tell them? I say, "You're not cool

unless you're okay with being lame."

As they stop trying to live for other people,

release your inhibitions. Do what it is

that makes you laugh or makes you happy or whatnot.

And until you're comfortable doing that,

that's when you're actually going to be cool.

I think there's a misconception

that because we choose to do something that is unpopular,

that is mainstream,

that we're, you know, not fit, I guess,

to do certain things in mainstream, and more--

I guess what I'm talking about is a specific event.

I was called to the principal's office

at my job like last year some time

because a parent had googled my name

and found an image of me in uniform.

And it wasn't even a feminine uniform

'cause, you know, I don't really do the feminine uniforms.

And the principal was just like, "You know, there are parents

who, you know, have an issue with this."

Yada, yada, yada.

Well, just because I dance doesn't mean I'm unfit

to give your kids opportunities, you know,

and guide your kids on a path in life

and give them different opportunities through music

that they would not have ever gotten, you know.

Because I work hard for kids.

Just because there are people that do things

that you might not have done,

that doesn't mean that we're bad people

or that we have any malicious intent

towards, you know, the students or anybody else,

you know, in society.

We're just having fun

and doing what we do and, you know, loving it.

[ Drums beating in rhythm ]

♪♪♪

[ Fingers snapping in rhythm ]

The stigma that comes with J-Setting--

Which one? It's so many different stigmas

that come with J-Setting.

First, there's-- that all J-Setters are feminine,

that all J-Setters wish they were girls.

- You're a bottom. That's the first thing you're gonna get.

You're a bottom. You're extremely feminine.

And, you know, you don't know how to conduct yourself.

You're too involved in the gay life.

- J-Setters all are just flamboyant, feminine.

They don't do nothing else. They just go in the club and twirl.

- They might assume that since when I dance,

I'm in makeup and shorts and bras,

that I'm gonna live my day-to-day life that way,

and it's not the case.

- As you can see, I'm not feminine.

You know, and a lot of people in the community are not feminine.

We just so happen to be bold enough

to do what the hell-- what we wanna do. Excuse me.

What we wanna do without being scared of somebody judging us,

so to speak.

- "A man is supposed to be a man,

and he's supposed to do this."

I feel like

times have changed so much that I don't have to conform

or put myself in a box and say, "Well, me, as a man,

I have to do this, and I have to do that."

I'm gonna do what I wanna do.

- But I know there's plenty of people--

Some of my friends, they'll be like,

"Okay, I can't go to practice today

because my boyfriend don't like me doing this"

and stuff like that. That happens.

I don't have time for that.

You know, I have one life to live,

and I'm all about doing what I feel is real for me.

[ Laughs ]

[ Fingers snapping in rhythm ]

[ Train whistle blowing ]

-Anthony: So let me ask you this.

What brought you to the organization?

- Who-- - What brought me to Atlanta...

- Anthony: When he first came, I didn't care for Mike.

You know, he was quiet. He was kind of reserved.

And that kind of scared me. You know, they say, you know,

"Quiet people get to you."

But you was like dry turkey.

I couldn't get a feel of you.

It was like, "Hey, Mike." "Hey."

I'm like, "This [ bleep ]-- Who she think she is?"

- I ain't gonna say I didn't like him

like he said he didn't like me.

I had heard about y'all, and then I heard about you.

"This big dude up there, he be dancing." Uhh, uhh, uhh.

- That's what the girl was saying in Texas about me?

-Well, child. - Mm-hmm.

-Eh. - I was amazed

because he was a big dude

doing stuff that I've never seen a big dude do.

- But I didn't like your outspokenness.

- What was outspoken about me, Mike?

- Like you be so raw, uncut. Even sexual stuff.

- Ooh! - "Did he just say that?"

- I'm not afraid to be myself when I'm around Michael.

Especially since I don't talk to my family about my sexuality.

I think it was just something that out of respect for me

and me out of respect for them that I never spoke about it

to them, but I don't feel like I should have to

because we're a family,

and they love me unconditionally for who I am.

I mean, ain't nobody mom's stupid.

You around your baby all this time and not know...

It never have came a time

when my family have asked anything about me.

But I am who I am.

You know, I don't go around and be the whole flamboyant thing,

but I'm gonna be me, and I know I have that in me,

and they love me for who I am.

I felt for the longest that I was by myself.

Because growing up in an area that I grew up in,

either you was in the closet or you was flamboyant.

And you didn't wanna be the person to be picked on.

You know, sometimes I will pick fights

just to say I wanted them to think, you know, he's crazy.

'Cause, you know, crazy will keep people off of you.

In reality, I was scared. I was a scared child.

If you hadn't been down that road,

you can't tell me how bumpy it is.

So you can never understand where a person had never had

has to go through

and what people have to do to survive.

Michael Jackson came in in 2006 as team captain

to fill in for me,

due to the fact that I had been still going through

some trying times, so...

♪♪♪

I stopped being active with my team around 2003.

It was one late night...

coming from a friend's house...

and decided that I wanted to go to the store.

Got to the parking lot and got out of my car.

- [ Car alarm chirps ] - And as I proceeded

to go into the store

I can hear footsteps running up on me.

Da-da-da-da-da-da.

And as I looked,

I can see this dude coming at me,

saying, you know, [ bleep ] "Give me your keys."

And I was thinking like,

"You must be out your rabbit-ass mind." You know.

He swung at me. He missed.

And I turned around, and when I hit him, he fell.

So I was like, "I'm finna beat your ass."

Once I went to hit him a second time,

he lift up his shirt, and I can see the handle of a gun.

And I was like, "Oh, [ bleep ], he got a gun."

At that point, he shot.

The second time he shot, all I felt was like fire

just going through my leg.

The third time I heard the shot,

my hand was, like, full of blood.

And he proceeded to run.

[ Siren chirps ]

That was a major changing point for me

as far as my faith,

as far as thinking why me.

You know, I hadn't done anything to anybody.

It still kind of hurt today, you know,

just to think about it, that you got people out there

that are willing to take your life.

♪♪♪

You know, it was just like--

Dance is like my first love of something to do, you know.

Now can I dance again? You know, be able to do

what brings joy to me, you know.

Can I even walk again?

There's a point when I didn't even wanna be here.

♪♪♪

[ Exhales ]

But there's a strong-- a stronger power.

And you can get through it.

♪♪♪

I had to give it to God.

I had to let him make the decision, you know,

and put it in his hands and just trust in him

that he would guide me to the right situation.

And God has been good to me, you know.

110%. You know.

And I learned to not question him about anything.

'Cause he may not be there exactly when you want him,

but he'll be there on time.

- Anthony: Oh, guys, wait, wait, wait.

The trophies over there.

Y'all gonna have to take those trophies off of that desk.

That's the HIV table. [ Groans ]

- J-Phi members, I need for y'all to help me

'cause y'all just standing. I'm not just talking to you.

I'm talking to anybody that's standing around.

- Y'all know I get real-- - Calm down, Ma.

- Anthony: Every morning I wake up I'm just grateful

to see another day that I hadn't seen before

and thank the Lord for being able

to instill in me and my organization

to give back to a community

that sometimes I feel is misled, you know,

in a lot of different ways, from the way that people portray us.

We're trying to take our craft in a different level.

Tell it from a positive aspect.

Instead of somebody just looking at us and boys in drag.

The way they see it. So we're gonna make it right.

- [ Indistinct conversation ] - January,

and this particular holiday, means a lot to us

because of what Dr. King stood for.

[ Crowd singing ]

What he fought for for nonviolence

and for people to have the rights

to do what they wanna do,

even though he was fighting for voting

and for black people to be able to have

the same equality of life as whites.

- Crowd: ♪ Freedom ♪

- Today it's different situations but the same thing.

- Crowd: We will never live in fear!

- The competition was called Live the Dream.

Because we can live the dream that he wanted us to have,

when he spoke about having all these different rights

and different things for people to be able

to do what they wanna do.

Okay, let me go greet my judges.

I have all-female judging panel,

which all of the ladies are from HBCU bands,

and they are very particular about the way you do things.

If you're gonna portray it, do it the correct way.

- You're welcome. - From the bottom of my heart.

- Thank you. - I don't wanna cry.

- Ohh!

- Having these ladies judge my competition,

it means the world to me.

Having to do what they did gives me inspiration

to wanna do what I do now.

Thank you, guys, for coming out to the Fourth Annual

Live the Dream competition

This is Phi Phi's 23rd-year anniversary

that we'll be celebrating, so give it up for my guys.

- Woman: Whoo-hoo!

- Uh, I wanna say, you know,

MLK is much more than what we're here for.

There's a meaning into everything that we do.

And giving back to the community with a clothing drive.

There's a HIV table. Thank you, Andre.

He's over there if you need condoms or anything.

Better know your status than not to know it at all

and it's too late.

So with that being said,

we're gonna get the first category started.

- Napoleon: All right, all right, all right.

We're gonna go ahead and get it started with Intros and Exits.

So this is the opportunity where the teams get to come in

as if they're marching into the stadium for the first time.

[ Cheering ]

- Anthony: Today consists of five categories.

We base it majority off of historically black colleges

and universities marching band styles.

Like when you see a band come in,

you see the girls giving the pageantry

of how they bring it in in their own way.

So that's Intros and Exits. Bring it in

like you would come into a stadium

and if you was leaving a stadium.

♪♪♪

[ Cheering ]

- Well, being the only white guy,

I get a lot of attention from everybody.

A lot of people get shocked when they see me dance.

They really can't believe that I have the rhythm and the moves

and that I'm able to keep up, but I got it.

- ♪♪♪ - [ applause ]

Napoleon: All right, give it up for Most Wanted. Yeah.

[ Drums beating in rhythm ]

[ Cheering and whistling ]

- Yeah!

♪♪♪

[ Cheering ]

[ Cheering ]

- Yeah!

♪♪♪

- Man: Ohh!

♪♪♪

[ Cheering ]

♪♪♪

- Man: Ohh!

♪♪♪

[ applause ]

- Napoleon: Tip, tip, tip, tip, tip on out.

[ Laughs ]

[ Indistinct conversation ]

[ Screams ]

[ Audience laughing ]

[ Indistinct conversation ]

Napoleon:

- We're just gonna do a little impromptu thing.

Is there anyone in the audience that would like

to come up and tell us what do MLK Weekend stands for you?

- Well, um, MLK Weekend is very special for me

because last year was my first competition ever.

[ House music playing ]

- My name is Johnny Borders III, so I am a third.

When I'm bucking, I almost feel the chemistry

and the connection with everyone

because it's such a repetitious style.

You really, really can feel your team.

We kind of build a brotherhood and sisterhood behind it.

I was born in Pontiac, Michigan.

We kind of don't perform as much in Michigan

because the gay community,

they're not as welcoming to it.

A couple of times I have bawled my eyes out,

you know, from different conversations with my team.

I'm just sitting there feeling helpless.

And this is why I push now because I want us to get big,

and I want to take everyone out of here.

I know that what I'm doing, I'm gonna pull you in.

I'm gonna make you stand and watch me,

and my team is gonna make you stand and watch us.

- All right, thank you, Johnny. Thank you again, Johnny.

And we do appreciate it. I'm gonna turn it over to Flash.

We're getting ready to go into the next category.

- Crowd: Yeah!

- Y'all ready for the next category? Say, "Yeah!"

- Crowd: Yeah!

- Anthony:

House is, you know, whatever you can do in the stands.

So if you can't split in the stands or if you can't kick

or flip in the stands, you don't do it

in this portion of the competition.

That's the third category.

[ House music playing ]

- Yeah!

♪♪♪

[ no audible dialogue ]

[ Crowd whooping ]

Napoleon: Tip, tip, tip, tip, tip on out.

- Around Labor Day, we had a member

that passed unexpectedly to cancer.

And we had literally spoken with him, like, the week--

maybe a couple of days before, and he was supposed

to come to the competition.

And at the end of the night, we found out he had passed

that same day.

- Anthony: From day one, from the first one,

first person to be there for the new kids,

the current line, to cheer them on.

You know, I love him being a helping hand

in whichever way it was, financially, emotionally.

There's not a day that go by that we don't think about him.

So... Yeah.

- I put together a little show to give people an idea

of some of the people we lost.

Basically to let people know

that express themselves while people are here.

Like, it was some things that I didn't get to tell my mom

when she passed because she passed unexpectedly

when I got the call.

So most of the words that you see are my words.

Um, I mean, it's how I feel, but I think it's universal

'cause I think everybody feel the way that I feel.

- Anthony: Within 23 years, we lost five other members.

[ Sighs ]

And I just feel that it's only right for us

to-- to honor these guys, you know.

[ House music playing ]

♪♪♪

[ Crowd whooping ]

- Whoo-hoo!

[ Man laughs ]

- Y'all give a round of applause for J-Phi.

- Phi-Phi. -[ Cheers and applause ]

Y'all can do better than that. Give a round of applause now.

- Anthony: I really think Dr. King would be pleased

with the progress that we have made

in the things that we're doing, along with the outside work

that goes along with this competition.

I think he would see that part to be justice.

And from our heart. We do it from the heart.

- [ applause ] - As my husband,

Martin Luther King, Jr., said,

"I have fought too long and hard

against segregated public accommodations

to end up segregating my moral concerns."

- Man: Whoo! - [ Cheers and applause ]

"Justice is indivisible."

- Anthony: This winter was one of the coldest winters

that I have experienced.

We had six degrees weather,

and I was like, "God, Atlanta don't get that cold."

You know, and I was thinking,

as I was trying to stay warm in my own house,

that somebody's homeless and don't have blankets

and don't have coats and things to keep them warm.

And we're fortunate enough to be able to have that

and that somebody can use things that we don't even wear anymore.

So for Phi Phi, it was kind of like,

"Hey, guys, we need to do a clothing drive.

We're more than just dance. We need to give back

to people that need it."

Anybody can just do one thing and stick to that

and not have a purpose with what you do.

And you have to have a purpose in life for something.

And giving back is one of 'em.

- [ Indistinct conversation ] - [ Laughter ]

- Anthony: Thank, everybody, for coming, by the way.

[ Indistinct conversation ]

Good food.

Y'all done got all the cheese out the macaroni?

- No. - I'm gonna sit at the table.

I want some potato salad on here.

You can keep that fish. I don't know who cooked that.

- I did. - Anthony: Mm. I may be big,

but I'm picky about what I put in my mouth.

- Tony just said something about putting something in his mouth.

- We ain't gonna stop him from putting something in his mouth.

[ Laughs ]

- This is the portion of the captain's dinner

where we kind of sit around and just have open discussion.

Any issue at all.

It could be big girls not wearing enough clothes.

Just lay it out there. Just come on. Lay it out there.

- Oh, okay.

- Napoleon: Absolutely not. - My thing is this,

if I'm gonna allow somebody of a bigger proportion on my team,

then we have to dress accordingly

for my whole team to look as one.

Now, when you put on a two-piece

and you look like a Michelin tire--

and I'm one of the biggest [ bleep ] out there--

I'm just gonna go on and put it out there--

- Napoleon: Really? - I'm not-- But--

Blushing baby.

[ Laughter ]

But I just think that there should be a standard.

Just like with a collegiate line. They have body cuts.

If you are too small, if you're not gonna fit that Nancy boot,

if you're gonna wear French cuts

and there's nothing French about your cut--

- Hello.

- You're not gonna make the line.

It is what it is.

But the fact of the matter is

we all have different body shapes.

And we have to be aware of what we do.

- Like, for real. No, for real.

I don't wanna be shown up on the same thing

where the mayor is apologizing to their city

for these folks J-Setting in Santa Claus jackets

and belly button rings for Christmas. I'm sorry.

- Female news anchor: ...Christmas parade

was all over social media today.

It wasn't the Santa float that had people talking.

One dance act left some parade goers

and even the dancers themselves in shock.

- The very last thing at the parade

was a group of men dressed as women

gyrating their hips

and moving around in very suggestive, inappropriate ways

in front of hundreds of children.

They should've notified the people of Semmes

so that we had a choice whether we wanted our child

to attend and see something like that.

- That's a good question, though.

How do we feel as a community about that?

Because if we're trying to advance this--

Like, darling, y'all aren't getting us good publicity.

They're talking dog [ bleep ] about y'all.

They are picking at you. I watched that white woman say,

"If I would've known my daughter

was going to see female impersonators,

we wouldn't have gone. I am appalled."

- And not just-- I was outraged and appalled.

- 'Cause I think it's not our environment.

You can't force-feed and make people accept it,

especially children.

- I'm not gonna go to the community parade

with my belly out.

You know that's wrong.

- A Christmas parade. - For a religion

that is vocal against homosexuality.

So you know...

- Anthony: It never have been a moment that I didn't think

that I should be doing it,

but I knew the places that I would do it and would not do it.

We've been doing it underground for so long

because we know society really gonna look at us the wrong way.

You know, and they're not gonna accept us for what we are.

You're in a small town in Alabama

where these people probably don't like black people

first and foremost,

and then you're gonna bring your ass down through there.

You could've wore a jogging suit.

- I'm also one of those ones,

yeah, I'm right here in a six-inch pump

and doing what I want to do.

But my father, me and him have not had that conversation.

He would be highly pissed.

It would be the one 6'2" [ bleep ], 287 pounds

to approach you at the football game

going "I got my kids here.

You need to take your ass somewhere else."

[ Laughter ]

Okay? Pumpin'.

- With children. - But I'm not butt naked.

- Parents. - But I'm not butt naked.

- Babies. That's still inappropriate, is it not?

- I don't-- Prince been in heels for yours.

Prince been in heels for years.

Don't play with me. Don't play with me.

Hell, nah. Don't play with me.

- Did I get her?

- Prince been in heels for years, baby.

- Don't play with me. - Yeah, she has.

- Everybody gonna see some stuff in their lifetime

their parents ain't gonna want them to see.

But this is real life. It's reality.

I don't personally feel like it's nothing wrong

with you explaining to your child, "This a gay man.

He out here and doing this." That's how I feel.

I'm a firm believer in you represent yourself.

You know? What you do, it reflects you.

So I think a lot of the masculine people feel like,

okay, you gay and you do this, so what you do,

everybody gonna think 'cause I'm gay, that's how I am.

And I think it's just a personal issue,

and people just have to get over it, you know.

It's to each's own.

I don't feel like it's a problem with that.

Because it's life, you learn, you grow up.

- It's not your place to say what you feel

that parent should do with who they made.

They put that sperm in that egg, baby, not you.

And they have the right to go to a family venue,

like a football game, and not to have to tell their children

if they're not ready.

- That's the thing about us, though.

We look for every reason or excuse

to point blame or point the finger at somebody else

as to why we can't get further.

But yet, we won't reach out

and expose ourselves to try and get there.

It's like, "I do this, but don't tell nobody I do this."

- Anthony: Right. - So how you gonna advance?

- It's taboo. Something that people are afraid to talk about.

Some people are afraid to be seen doing

or to share with their friends or anybody out in public.

A lot of the boys are young, and they are afraid.

They're in school. Some of their parents don't know about them.

So to know that you're out at the club in booty shorts

and sequins and lashes and all that other stuff

that, you know, "we" do,

it's something that people don't wanna be seen.

Everybody not ready to take the risk.

- During a football game back in Savannah,

I was dancing in a little circle

with a couple of other guys from different schools,

and people started throwing bottles at us.

But it made me feel like, "Well, gosh, is it that bad?"

We're out here dancing to band music,

and you feel like you wanna throw glasses at us.

- I was worried about this. I was worried about that.

I was worried about all these other different factors

or whatnot.

And then as we got older, it transitioned

into a threat to our professional lives as well.

I just want fades out. Temp out. Temp fade.

Myself, personally, I'm an educator.

There are several people who buck,

who are in the education system, who are teachers,

who have some of the same fears that I do.

Every time somebody used to text me or send me a text message,

"I saw you," exclamation point, my heart would drop.

They see me, you know, on social media, dancing.

You know, so there is that fear that, you know, it's your time.

Every single time we step out on that floor, it's a risk.

But it's like as soon as they see something

they don't agree with, they want you out of there.

And I want people to be more open-minded, you know.

- It's still under construction. Where the hell are the lights?

So this is where the summer's gonna be for SRDC.

- It's very important to me

to be able to start my own business

so I can live how I wanna live, just in general,

with everything that I do.

Just renting it out for producers, movie producers,

people who wanna do photo shoots or music videos.

- If I had my own business,

I would make it to where everyone was accepted.

I don't like to think or say that I had struggles

'cause I'm the kind of person--

Either you take it or leave it, which is it is what you get.

I don't let people get close to me at my job.

And it's not so more of me not trusting them

or letting them know all of my business.

The fact is, it's none of their business.

But ultimately, I would love to be able

to have my own dance line.

There will be no need to keep secrets

because I feel that everybody is entitled to be able

to learn this type of art form.

Yeah! Y'all feel it?

- I think at home is what helped me the most

because I was able to be myself.

I ain't have to pretend, so when I left out the house,

that's when I had to deal with it.

'Cause I was confused. "What are y'all talking about?

This what I do at home, you know."

♪♪♪

Uh! Ah! Ah!

Ah! Ah! Uh!

Ah! Ah!

- Okay. Attributes. I believe this is my favorite part.

Passion-- Whatever it is,

you must have passion for what you're doing.

Live, breathe, and eat, sleep your mission.

Growing up, we grew up in Atlanta

on the west side of town.

Real close-knit family.

Just, you know, typical.

So it was me and my sister, Valencia,

and my brother, Greg. All three of us

grew up with my grandmother, so she was Mom to us.

- Grandmother:

- We didn't have the best,

but we had, you know, what was necessary to survive.

She taught us how to just take care of our stuff

and make the best out of it.

- And this is some fried chicken.

- The biggest thing I could say I could appreciate about her

is not being judgmental.

You know, I never heard her ever say, "You gay."

I never heard of that.

And, you know, in my mind,

I thought, "She didn't 'cause she don't know." But she knew.

I'm gonna stop back by so I can get this plate, for real.

We were kind of like the favorites of the family,

just because we were different and we were striving

for better than what our family was known for.

A lot of the men in our family went to jail, went into prison.

Me and my brother were expected to do more

and not go down that same path.

- Get the dozen eggs out.

- My mom, of course, she was in prison

for, like, half of my life.

- You come in here. You ain't-- You don't eat eggs.

- Yeah. - Okay then.

Ain't nobody eating but me or Junior.

- I'm insured.

- Me and you the only ones eating eggs.

- My birth name is Angela Body,

as in your body, my body,

but my street name is Little Man.

Little Man I got when I got locked up

'cause I looked like a little man walking through the yard.

They said, "Hold up. Stop that little man right there."

- How many more minutes on this, Mama? 'Cause I'm hungry.

- Angela: Flash was born in Baldwin County

'cause I had him in prison.

I was selling drugs.

Marijuana. Weed. Crack.

Poosh!

[ Angela shouting ]

Come and get it. He about to faint.

- Just grab it with your hand. - It's too hot.

- Bam. Ghetto style, baby.

- Angela: Y'all don't let this food get cold.

- We were all-- My mom's gay. I'm gay. My sister gay.

My brother gay. We were weird.

I understood that I came from her,

but it didn't affect me too much mentally and emotionally

till I got older, till I understand.

Like, "Hey, well, maybe if you was around,

some days would've been a little bit different."

Asaad: I'm gonna be able to handle all that, so yeah.

- Angela: I know this morning. - Yeah, 'cause I'm hungry.

I think me and you the only one that can tear it up in here.

- I've become so desensitized

because I was so emotional growing up,

dealing and soaking all that stuff in.

It's been people who've hurt me.

Even when my mom first moved in, she stole something from me.

And I was more focused on the situation at hand

than her stealing-- the meaning, the detail of the situation--

to get some clarity and to get that fixed.

- Back in the days, I really didn't have support

'cause I was on drugs real bad.

That crack was my pimp, my ho, my family, you know.

It didn't matter.

But when I got with my sons, they came at me and said,

"Mom, we don't like you like that."

And I took myself a look in my mirror, and I told them, "Okay.

Y'all gave me the support to keep my mind off things,

had me something to do every day."

- The reality of the situation is that it's happened,

and I can't do anything but keep moving forward with my life.

What's going on? What's going on? Welcome to the show.

Welcome to Buck Radio.

I started Buck Radio

simply because I felt like I had a voice.

And I still do. And I wanna speak to the community.

But without further ado...

I felt like if I created a radio show to keep everybody informed,

then while I got their attention,

let me bring up the issues in the community.

First of all...

We actually have some very, very deep conversations

about marriage, STD prevention, all that stuff.

We try to enlighten the community

instead of talking about negative stuff all the time.

- So with that being said, you guys have a great night.

And we're gonna end this all

with the traditional "Get Ready"

by Jackson State University.

- I don't know when, but Atlanta has become

like gay mecca or gay, like, Hollywood or something.

Everybody flocks here.

♪♪♪

The Temptations: ♪ I never met a girl who makes me feel ♪

♪ The way that you do You're all right ♪

♪ Whenever I'm asked who makes my dreams real ♪

♪ I say that you do You're outta sight ♪

- It's an amazing weekend because so many people come here

from everywhere.

- Louisiana. Alabama. Mississippi. Texas.

And they're coming, if not to even dance,

just to be in the mix of the big celebration.

We don't go to the park just because it's open.

It's just like a feast.

You know, everybody got camera phones. Everybody got this--

So, I mean, we have a lot to lose.

- ♪ Get ready 'cause here I come ♪

♪ If you wanna play hide-and-seek with love ♪

♪ Let me remind you it's all right ♪

♪ The lovin' you're gonna miss and the time... ♪

[ Indistinct conversation ]

- To be here.

Yes, in the room with all these people.

[ Laughing ]

My first time seeing him was at Traxx.

And he had a cheerleading outfit on.

And I said, "Who is that big guy

with this cheerleading outfit on?"

Throwing his legs up, and I was like,

"I got to get to know that one right there."

- He used to sit there and wait for them to come out

and just sit there for hours, watching them,

wondering how they do that.

For hours and hours and hours and hours.

And this one right here could tear everybody up.

Everybody.

- You know, he is fabulous and bold.

To know him is to love him, you know.

- I have a great biological family,

but I have an extended family

that loves me unconditionally.

The rest of these guys, these guys right here,

these are my folks, these are my people.

And I want all y'all to know that I love y'all dearly.

- We love you, too. - We love you, too, Tony.

- Even though we fuss and fight, but I love them.

- That's right.

- ♪ And I'm bringing you a love that's true ♪

♪ So get ready So get ready ♪

♪ I'm gonna try to make you love me too ♪

♪ So get ready So get ready ♪

♪ 'Cause here I come ♪

♪ Get ready 'cause here I come ♪

♪ I'm on my way ♪

[ Indistinct conversation ]

- I still think it's sad that y'all not dancing.

- Anthony: We're not saying that we're not dancing.

- What we're saying is-- - You just said y'all wasn't.

- No, we said-- - You said that as a whole

- that y'all wasn't dancing. - Jermaine.

- When?

- Jermaine. - This weekend.

- He said y'all didn't say that. - Yeah, we did.

- I said yeah, collectively, as a whole y'all not dancing.

- No, I'm not talking about that either.

- I got something up my sleeve.

- That's what I'm talking about.

- Anthony:

- [ Doorbell rings ] - Who is that at the door?

Hey, who's late?

- Y'all did that triple threat, she would see.

- Anthony: Labor Day, we got second place.

We lost by seven points. You know.

So I instilled into my kids win, lose, or draw,

say "nice job."

I don't care what you feeling, because the feelings

are raw at times.

We are in competition, you know.

But always be humble.

- So when is the next one?

- It may be in April. Maybe The Big Buck.

- If it's big, I wanna go big or go home.

- Okay. - And if it's big...

- We come from old school where I can be tired, dog tired,

and feel like I am not gonna be able to walk out of this club.

But you're not gonna come in my face and outdo me

or outshine me.

♪♪♪

- I'm excited about The Big Buck

because we never compete for anything.

And for us to compete,

everybody's already excited to see us

and just wondering what we're gonna pull out of the bag.

But on the flip side of it, it's draining.

It's non-stop rehearsing, rehearsing, rehearsing.

- Anthony: Everything is not given to you

on a silver platter.

You have to know on any given day, anybody can be--

I don't underestimate anyone.

The one that you underestimate,

the one that you don't worry about,

will be the one that will come and snuff your ass.

And that's why I always say that my biggest competition

is my team within itself.

I can't worry about what the next team's doing.

[ Indistinct conversation ]

- One and two and three.

- I'm actually really excited about the team for The Big Buck

because I'm hearing a couple of rumors about who's doing it.

And it's making me excited because I respect these teams.

And I've never went against some of them in a competition.

And so I'm really, really excited

to see what everyone has to show.

I know with me and my team,

we really don't focus on winning.

We really focus on really performing,

giving people a reason why we are here.

We're gonna make you guys feel somethng.

And so that's what we're focused on.

If we win from it, hey.

But if we don't, I know that you guys are gonna love it, so...

- Anthony: It's like a puzzle.

You have to realize who's strong where.

You know, it's like an illusion.

I'm giving you a show.

And it's the greatest thing you will ever see.

- We have a festive weekend.

We have the First Annual Big Buck.

- Anthony: Five, six, seven, eight.

One, two, three, four, five,

six, seven, eight.

My concern is making sure that the material is up to par

to compete on that level with A-1 teams.

- Our biggest competition would be Sundari.

Only because they beat us at the last competition.

They have some strong points. We have some strong points.

And going off what they did at the last competition,

it could go either way.

- Five, six, seven, eight. - [ Fingers snapping ]

- One and two and three and four

and five and six, seven, eight.

- I have every single person that's been on Sundari.

A lot of times, not everyone can do it.

But for The Big Buck, this is such a big performance.

It's every last person.

- Sundari is coming to a Buck near you!

Sundari is coming to a Buck near you! Ha ha!

- Anthony: It is very stressful. It is very time-consuming.

We are definitely gonna make it work

and make it do what it do.

You know, there's no ifs, ands, buts about it.

It's gonna get done.

Payback is a [ bleep ].

[ Cheering ]

- We just wanna say that we never thought

that this would come so far.

Just the sacrifice of being shunned away

from different clubs where you couldn't dance.

- Thank you, Lord, for bringing us together.

- And we gave you that opportunity

because we were welcomed to all.

- Let this show be strong. Let it be together.

- And we just wanna thank everybody for their support

here in the city of Atlanta.

[ applause ]

- Man: Phi Phi.

- One, two, three. - Phi Phi!

- Let the show begin. - [ Cheering ]

- The first category of the evening, round one,

Entrance, Field Show, and Exit.

♪♪♪

[ Applause, whistles ]

All right, introducing, all the way from Atlanta, Georgia,

give a round of applause, y'all, for the legendary Phi Phi.

[ Cheering ]

♪♪♪

- Man: Phi Phi! Phi Phi!

♪♪♪

[ Cheering ]

[ Cheering ]

[ Cheering ]

[ Cheering, whistling ]

[ Crowd whooping ]

- Y'all ready for the next team?

Y'all ready to see Sundari come out here and rip the floor?

[ Laughs ]

- ♪ She in love with the Phi Phi ♪ [ Laughs ]

All right, without further ado,

let's go ahead and give a warm round of applause

to our next team, coming all the way from Detroit, Michigan.

Ooh, that was a drive. Y'all give it up for Sundari.

[ Cheering ]

♪♪♪

[ Crowd murmuring ]

-Yeah! - All right,

- give it up for Sundari. - Man: Whoo!

- Our next round will be hip-hop.

[ Hip-hop playing ]

♪♪♪

- Crowd: Whoa!

♪♪♪

- Whoo!

♪♪♪

[ No audible dialogue ]

♪♪♪

- Man: Work, brothers!

♪♪♪

- Crowd: Ohh!

[ Cheers and applause ]

- He was trying to talk to you.

Well, bring your ass over here.

[ bleep ]

- That's from dancing hard.

- I'm trying to keep calm.

I feel like everyone is really bringing their A-game.

- Anthony: So far, my team's done everything

that we planned to do,

from the first and second round.

[ bleep ]

- We got one more round to go.

You know, just trying to keep 'em--

keep their energy up, keep the endurance up.

- House is our thing.

- Emcee:

All right. Three rounds of house.

The same as that way. Pump it up, deejay.

The same as that way as the hip-hop round.

Three rounds. And then we'll be done.

First, B-A-N-J-I.

- Woman: Come on, babes. - Pump it up, deejay.

[ House music playing ]

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[ Cheering ]

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- [ applause ] - Emcee: Tip, tip, tip,

tip, tip on out.

-[whistling] - Y'all make some noise.

All right, why don't all teams go to the back.

And then we'll be up to announce

the winners of the First Annual Big Buck.

- Everybody brought something different to the table,

so it's gonna be kind of up to the judges at this point.

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- Honestly, I think that it

probably is out of us and Phi Phi.

I can't really say anything bad about them.

It was good.

- Each team that performed today,

you can tell that they really have passion for dance.

And it was so interesting to see them battle

because it's like non-stop.

I'm used to 8 and 16 counts.

These were 32 and 48 counts, so I wasn't used to it,

and I'm like, "That's bucking."

- Emcee: So without further ado, let's just go ahead

and get to what really matters.

Who won?

- It was very close, y'all. It was three points away.

Okay, the winner is...

I'm nervous. Let me walk towards the door.

- The legendary Phi Phi! - [ Cheering ]

Clap it up. Clap it up, ladies and gentlemen.

- Man: Phi Phi!

- Big Tony. Come on up here, girl.

[ applause ]

- The icon.

- Congratulations to everybody that came out

and traveled from Michigan, from Texas, from Alabama,

to the people that are here in Atlanta.

These teams do so much for this community.

They stand up when other people tell us that we can't do it.

And I'm so proud of all of y'all.

Thank you, guys, for everything,

even the teams that are sitting in the audience.

Uh, it's been a long time coming.

I feel like if this community is gonna stay strong

and keep pushing on,

it's gonna take a plethora of people, not just one person,

because, you know, a fire from a torch can be put out.

But a true fire will always, always burn.

And the love of dance is what it is.

It burns in my heart. It burns in my chest to dance.

And a lot of them have the same thing.

- When you see these guys, you see professionalism.

And you're like, okay, this is here at the club,

but these guys look like they should be in Las Vegas,

like they should be on anyone's stage performing

and to crowds that appreciate them

because they're really doing something that's amazing

that we can't do, and they're in unison,

and it's like, where have they been rehearsing,

and how can they be so good?

- Anthony: We're not hurting anyone.

We're doing what makes us feel good and what makes us thrive.

And we are part of this earth and this creation

that the Lord has put upon us to give us this talent.

When you see a band come in,

you see the girls giving the pageantry

of how they bring it in in their own way.

Just the synchronization of 12 people doing the same thing

and looking as one, like, "Oh, my God. That was amazing."

You know.

Dancing is a high for me.

So to see anything that you have created

or anything that you have a part of

and to see people on the outside enjoy what you do,

it's like a feeling like none other.

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[ Indistinct conversation ]

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♪ I been that ... Yes, I love that drama ♪

♪ Fishy, feminine, up-and-comer ♪

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♪ From the Clintons to the Obamas ♪

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♪ Mother, Mother, Mother ♪

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♪ Na-na-na-na-na-now Giggity-giggity, how ♪

♪ Brrat, get back Ba-pa-da-pa-pa-pow ♪

♪ A cunty hunty, a cunty hunty A hunty ♪

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