:23:09
We don't have
after-school programs.
:23:11
When you don't wanna
do football...
:23:13
because that's pretty much
the only thing...
:23:15
that you can do
in the inner city.
:23:16
There's always a football team.
:23:17
Because in the inner city...
:23:19
we're all thought of to be
sports players, you know.
:23:22
Everyone is not a sports player.
:23:23
Everyone
does not play basketball...
:23:25
and everybody
does not play football.
:23:27
There... Is there something
else for us to do?
:23:29
So what we did is...
is a group of us got together...
:23:33
and we invented this.
:23:34
In better neighborhoods...
:23:36
they have
performing arts schools.
:23:39
You have ballet,
you have modern...
:23:41
you have jazz,
you have tap...
:23:44
and this is all those
prestigious academies...
:23:46
you can go to.
:23:47
It's nothing like that
available to you...
:23:49
when you live where we live.
:23:51
I grew up around here...
Menlo, Normandie...
:23:55
I grew up in this area.
:23:56
It's real hard for kids like me,
'cause, OK, you have school.
:23:59
You go to school,
but you have gangbangers...
:24:01
and you can't even wear
certain colors around here.
:24:04
So you tend to have an outlet...
:24:06
and sometimes...
well, most of the time...
:24:07
your outlet is music.
:24:09
This is where a lot of music...
:24:10
And you just think
of stuff in your head...
:24:11
it goes through your mind...
:24:12
and a lot of times,
dancing comes out.
:24:15
When you know
that there's a krump session...
:24:17
me, myself, and I know
a lot of people...
:24:19
will stop whatever is going on
if there's a gathering...
:24:21
because it's the spirit
that's there.
:24:23
There's a spirit in...
In the midst of krumpness...
:24:25
there is a spirit there,
you know.
:24:28
A lot of people think
it's just, you know...
:24:31
"Oh, they're just
a bunch of rowdy...
:24:33
"you know, just ghetto,
just heathen and thugs."
:24:37
No. No, what we are
are oppressed.