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just fine.

Lot of people think...

the old folks the one

all doin' all the dyin'...

but you young folks

beatin' us out of here, boy.

You know that?

You're killin' yourselves.

Don't make sense.

But anyway, to each his own.

You just tell your parents

where I am.

When we throw

our club nights...

Right.

After we throw our clubs...

people be out there

hangin' out and everything...

and drinkin',

whatever they doin'...

and they look in here...

that's like givin'

them a message like...

Right, right, right.

OK, you have fun, but if

you clown around too much...

you're gonna end up right here.

Reality, it sets in.

It will. It will. You know.

You need to come

to the club, though.

I do?

You do, 'cause

I think you still got...

Do a little boogie?

You still doin' a little boogie.

Oh, yeah, well, I need that.

I used to do it.

I mean, I done seen a lot

of things happen in my life.

A whole lot.

And I'm only 20 years old.

Swoop, horrible where he lives.

Horrible, you know?

And it's good that,

you know, he stopped...

'cause he was... he was...

he was in that direction...

but he twisted it,

he changed it, came to clownin'.

Been here ever since,

which was good...

'cause he was there.

He was almost there.

Life is not a game.

That's right. I hear you.

I'm serious.

Take advantage of it

while you can.

Yeah, you better clown right.

I know y'all's

some good clowns...

but y'all better clown right.

'Cause if you don't...

I know where

you're gonna end up.

Right here...

with me.

Go on in. Take a look.

Not now.

No, come on in here.

Come on.

You wanna go in?

Yeah. Find a casket

that's big enough for you.

We can have one special made.

Don't worry.

I used to be... Back in the day,

I was a gangbanger.

My mother and my father

were both addicts...

so the only family I had was

the family in the streets...

that showed me

what I thought was love.

You know what I mean?

It's like, "We loyal to you

and we sisters"...

and we're hangin' out and,

you know, kind of like...

a commitment,

we were down for each other.

And sometimes, unfortunately...

kids that don't get it

at home...

have to go and get it

in the streets.

And when they get it

in the streets...

it's mistaken, because

in the end, nobody's ever there.

On the streets, I found,

like, street mothers...

and street brothers

and street sisters, you know...

that kind of looked out for me.

At least I thought

they looked out for me.

What happened?

Well, I ended up

in some situations where...

where people ran out on me...

when my life took a bad turn,

that they bailed out, you know.

I had a bout

with substance abuse...

for about 15 years, you know.

And nobody was there in the end.

Nobody was there in the end.

And that's

when I had to turn to God.

I just said,

"God, please help me.

"I don't wanna die this way."

When did this happen?

And so Dragon was around...

Dragon was... Dragon took care

of his siblings...

when I went through my bout.

Dragon was father to these kids.

Dragon would cook, clean,

get them to school.

And he was the father.

Statistically,

my kids should be messed up.

My kids are great.

They're obedient.

They're well-disciplined.

They're respectful.

And I got great kids, you know?

Dragon here.

Hey, old bat.

Don't say that.

Oh, Dragon.

Why'd you say that stuff

on the phone to me?

Thank you, Dragon.

The first time

I saw Dragon get krump...

I thought he was on drugs...

or maybe somebody had

given him somethin'.

He was just, like,

runnin' around...

and screamin,

tearin' off his clothes.

And I didn't know

what happened to him.

Then he explained to me...

that it was

a new form of dancing...

that kind of took 'em

back to their roots.

I love it now.

I can krump, too.

I get krump for Christ,

but I get krump.

Is there a difference?

I don't think

there is a difference.

I think when they dance,

they dance from their spirit.

And when I'm... when I'm at

church, I dance from my spirit.

If you go

to a Christian church...

you go to a Pentecostal,

a Methodist, a Baptist church...

these same movements

can be found in church.

Dragon brought me

back to Christ.

One day, we were getting

krump in my garage...

and he told me,

"You'd be a lot better...

"if you start going

back to church."

And I was, like, "Please."

I forgot what

started me on my way...

and it was God,

and it was God telling me...

"My child, this is your gift.

Use it."

We're not gonna be clones of

the commercial hip-hop world...

because that's been seen

for so many years.

Somebody's waitin'

on something different...

another generation of kids

with morals and values...

that they won't need...

what's being commercialized

or tailor-made for them...

custom-made, because I feel

that we're custom-made.

And we're of more value

than any piece of jewelry...

or any car or any big house

that anybody could buy.

I lost my house, got evicted...

and I had to move in

to an apartment.

And where I'm at today, movin'.

If I end up with nothin',

I mean, it hurts...

but it's like... I mean, dang.

It's like start over again.

There's a lot of things I wish

I could change if I could...

if I could start back over.

And after taking a major loss

like losing your house...

Iosing all your money, you got

to start over, and, uh...

yeah, survivin'

in South Central...

where they say

bustin' a cap is fundamental.

When they get to hatin',

start shakin'.

All right. Let's get ready

to rock 'n' roll, baby.

This is it... showtime.

I think I was

the first Caucasian...

to be dancin' like this.

And when I first seen it,

I just loved it.

I mean, I wanted to do it.

It was hard for me to do it,

'cause they was...

"This white boy,

he ain't got no rhythm...

"he ain't doing this,

he ain't gonna do it right."

When I was jumpin' out the car,

they just surprised.

They mouths dropped like...

"Oh, my God, they got a white

boy. What is he gonna do?

"How is he gonna

go about dancin'?"

Yeah, we get respect,

the way we dance out there...

'cause they don't think Asians

dance like black people.

You got a certain talent...

don't be... don't be

afraid to express it.

We have the belief

that we can be somebody...

and that we're

gonna be somebody.

We're gonna... we're gonna rise,

no matter what.

The sky is the limit,

and there is no limit.

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