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and came out through here.

I was trying to protect

my mom 'cause he was drunk.

And I was looking at my body,

looking at my baby's body...

and I seen blood.

We didn't know where

the blood was coming from.

Chance was standing

on the right side of me.

I don't know how...

how the bullet hit me...

and the gun was pointed directly

to my little brother's back.

She was holding

my little brother.

It must have been God,

'cause turned the bullet...

from when it hit the middle,

it must have turned the bullet.

It ricocheted off

of something...

and went straight

through my arm.

If the bullet

hadn't have turned...

the bullet would have hit

my little baby.

It would have tore him up.

But it turned, and it got him

right in this arm...

and it went in, and it went out.

I had to go to a crackhouse...

to get my mama

out of the crackhouse.

That's not a good sight

to see as a kid.

I don't remember how old I was.

I just remember that vision.

It hurts, yeah, but that's

what I got krumpness for.

That's why I get krump.

Some people don't feel safe

outside of this place.

I mean, I've seen a lot

of people come from Hollywood...

and come and visit

my home and be like...

"How do you live here?

You live in South Central.

"Oh, it's so...

it's so dangerous."

Like... it's not dangerous.

It's life.

A lot of the kids out here...

they don't have

that push or that drive...

to go and be in Hollywood...

because so many people

have knocked them down already.

So their comfort is the 'hood.

It's scary to go to Hollywood...

if you're coming

from the 'hood...

for the simple fact that

everything is so intimidating.

When I first got

my first glance at Hollywood...

everybody seemed

like this to me...

and I felt like this...

Everybody's so uppity.

Everybody has so many things

going for themselves...

and here I am.

And that's how

the kids here feel.

We're just some...

some gutter kids.

Tell me something.

What has your big homie

in the gangbangin' world...

done for you lately?

I don't have no big homie.

In a gangbanging world?

I'm just Baby Tight Eyez.

I walked in a room...

and the boy

socked me in my head.

So I beat him up real, real bad.

That's what I did.

What are you doing on the 5-5...

whatever hood street

you at, anyway?

I went over there with my dad!

Oh. So's your dad gangin' now?

Daddy's been a gangbanger.

He just started back again?

You could say that.

If I had to go in that 'hood,

as dangerous as it is...

and tell them that...

that you not gonna be

a part of this gang, I will.

If I have to go

to your school...

to show that you ain't

a part of this gang, I will.

I know I'm not

a parent or anything...

but I feel like I have

to be an older mentor...

and a positive role model to

keep him on the right track...

'cause I know

that's all he needs.

I know he looks up to me.

In some ways, I look up to him.

I never tell him that, but I do.

So all we gonna do

is show him more love...

and he'll overcome this.

He needs to be somewhere

with me...

whether his dad likes it or not.

'Cause his dad doesn't even

look like he cares about him.

Krumpness is

the closed chapter...

of your life of hurt,

sorrow, anguish...

that people don't know about.

Kids these days

have a whole set of anxieties.

Maybe he's angry that he's

seen me work all my life.

We seem to be

in a standstill pattern.

Maybe he's angry

that he doesn't have a dad.

He'll say,

"I just never envisioned...

"that dad wouldn't be here."

Hey, mama, look at this.

"Baby, you're gonna give

yourself a heart attack!

"You know you got asthma!

Who taught you that?"

Cartoonz, they was krump.

I got a black eye.

They said it looked beautiful.

Mama, that's part of dancin'.

That's part of my moves. See?

They like it out there.

They krump.

I used to be a dancer for Tommy.

I, too, as he said...

used to be one of

Tommy the Clown's dancers.

I thank Tommy the Clown

for doin' what he did...

and startin' the movement...

but what we do now

is totally different.

"I thank Tommy

for startin' the movement...

"but we do it different now."

No, you might do it

a little retarded, you know.

It became boring,

and it's, like, you need more.

You need more.

Stop.

Let me alone.

I wanna get krump.

And everybody that got skills,

I want you to go to the front.

If you're not dancing,

please go to the back.

We need hot dancers

in the front.

You look at gangbanging,

it's a competition.

The Crips go against the Bloods.

They wanna be better than

each other, stuff like that.

So by this clown war

being created...

and the BattleZone

being created...

it's like

that same competition...

but it's on the flip side.

Having so many clown groups,

somebody wants to be the best.

You know, somebody

wants to be number one.

Somebody wants to be number 2.

Somebody wants to be noticed.

So that's how Tommy started

the thing called the BattleZone.

You know how battle-dancin'

was back in the days.

I just brought it back.

With makeup.

- BattleZone.

- BattleZone.

It's like fightin',

like getting out your anger...

but on the dance floor,

with creative moves.

We have the little mama match...

where it's little mamas breakin'

it down, showin' skills.

The community

is, like, "Oh, my God."

We got big boy match.

We bring out the big people.

You don't have

to worry about nothin'...

'cause you can do it, too.

These are matches

that we have inside of a ring...

and the crowd, you be the judge.

The crowd judge.

You know, millions watchin'.

I don't care if you get

out there and blink an eye.

You better blink that eye like

you never blinked it before.

You got to show your skills.

To me, when I'm dancin'...

I don't care if the ugliness

come out or not...

'cause I'm dancin'. It's me.

So that's the difference

between me and her.

It's, like, a big difference

between La Nia and Miss Prissy.

When you say La Nia,

I was, like, "Whoa."

When you say Miss Prissy,

you're thinking of, like...

a pretty girl, like...

you know, like that.

You'll see a side of Miss Prissy

you've never seen before.

I'm gonna be the total opposite

of my name...

but that's how it happens.

I'm prissy all day,

but at night...

it's something

totally different.

I never lost before. I don't

know how it feels to lose.

They tellin' the people

that they better than us...

'cause, uh, they're

not with us no more?

We couldn't be centered anymore.

So you, they, them,

made Tommy? No.

Different style of paint.

November 15.

Different style of dance.

At the Great Western Forum,

baby.

Different style of everything.

You goes down.

I guarantee you that.

Here's your Oscar now.

Tommy's got krump!

El Nio Boy,

you goin' down tonight.

You goin' down. I see you

with your little bodyguards...

but they gonna get beat up, too.

Every time I think

about Larry...

it's like, oh, it's over.

I ain't even started

dancing yet, and it's over.

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