Sitdown w/ The Turffeinz

Fillmoe Mike got a chance to sitdown with the legendary dance group, The Turffeinz in this latest episode of The Wash Ya Back podcast. They discussed the past ,present, future, and legacy of The Turffeinz and An upcoming event they have on Saturday April 29th in The Town.

Episode Transcript

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You chilling with film on mic rightnow. We got some real legends in
the building, man, And thisis kind of different because they're actually not
rappers or singers. So we gotsome real legendary people, man. People
really that's been a part of themovement. You might have heard of them.
They go by the turf fiends.What's up y'all? What what y'all
doing in the building? Man?What's up? What's cracking? Everybody but

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the show? Man? So,uh, what's your name again? I'm
sorry? Hi goed bad? Ijust go three thousands of the building.
Man. We reached out to eachother maybe some while a while ago.
We was doing something with uh withFantee and quas in them, And I
know I heard of y'all for along time, man, So look,
uh you know, welcome to cameYale. Thank you for pulling up on

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me late night. And I appreciateyou, man. Yeah, man happened
man for us, man, becauseuh, you know, we just some
legends. Yeah, yeah, we'refor real. So tell us like,
not like your your your story,but tell us like when did y'all start?
When was it? When did y'allstart the turfs? Because y'all being
around man and putting it work foryears. Man. Yeah, man.
The turfing started in two thousand andfour. It was started by four friends,

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four or five friends, Looney Kicks, uh, the Real Tasks and
mister Wiggles. Okay, two thousandand four. What city, Oakland,
California? You know? Was itall? Was it all? Yeah?
I was gonna ask you that wasit all? Different different parts of Oakland.
I'm from film Oh, but it'sall different parts of films, different

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parts of all parts of different partsof the city. So it is it
West Stokland? He's Stokeland only depsokay, dbs. You know back then
you had you had like three differentonly like three different groups. So it
was like the architects and the maniacts. That was West Stokland, you know,
the Turfings. We held it downfor the East. Can I ask
you a question? Was there everyever beef within that? It was?

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I can't remember because I'm now andI'll be forgetting. I think it was.
And the Turffens was born. Itwas beef. It was one huh.
It was beef because it was reallylike Turfens was like, was all
wanted to be architects and they wasn'tmessing with us. Okay, you know
what I mean. So it wasn'tlike we went and made our own group
because they wasn't messing with us.So they was you know, that's instantly

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made. Then the arrivals. That'ssick brod because now, for real,
for real bread like me being fromSan Francisco, I was in I was
in radio at the time. Iwas a young one, but I remember
hearing all them the Animaniacs turf fasarchitects. So the architects can't before y'all,
yes, okay, the original originatorsokay, and y'all wanted to be

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in their group. So because y'allcouldn't be in the group for whatever is
deal, I'll just say ef it, I'm just gonna and you can curse
on this too. This on thepodcast said, I'm just gonna do my
own. I'm gonna do my We'regonna do our own, our own thing.
Type of situation. We was.We was fucking with the we were
working with the architects. Pretty tough. Okay, they had some you know,

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some trying to bring them. Ohnothing, they just had some disagreements
and they split off into you knowwhat, I mean, okay, they
left the young protege's okay, tofeed for themselves, seen for themselves.
Okay, for themselves, okay,okay, So tell me about ourselves,
two thousand folks, what was thefirst not the big break like with the

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major artists, but the first timeyou kind of was like, oh snap,
we kind of like you. Youmight have been at a performance that
eyl East Oakland you exactly, youmight have been over the air or been
off the one off international first classinternational, you feel me, I say
one folks sometimes but the spot offerInternational, I mean one fold. They

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had another spot off from Acarthur thatpeople used to be the turfing and stuff
like that. They with what's hername, Jenny, the little white girl.
She used to do say Jackie exactly. So she used to have people
out there doing this stuff. AndI used to actually pull up on their
because I was working on the CameoStreet team at the time. We used
to pull up and so we usedto kind of like seeing what was the

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first event or first couple events thaty'all noticed that, Okay, this is
like we did it, but nowlike people noticing us and then they recognize
us, recognizing our talent. Doyou remember? I feel like it was
it was at Okay, thank youMac. I'm gonna keep it going for

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me. I want to say personally, it was when when uh, E
F and G touch one or sixsome park. Okay, when they touched
one on six some park, itwas like, yeah, yeah, it
was global. Okay, yeah itwas one from here? What year was
that that was? So that wasbefore you got with the real artist.

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You just did you'all thing on theYeah, I remember that blood wasna it
was in Friday, right, Okay, Okay, so y'all went on wild
Iday, y'all came back to theBay and it is everybody like, man,
we need to work with Charles.Okay, it's up. But then

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we got that big boost from Eftywith the videos that that's something else that
put us on the map though Iknow, I mean we was gonna get
to that, but we didn't.We did. So you got that,
you you got the you got thelittle black and white screen and shit,
y'all going crazy on there? Didy'all? Was it a tour? Was
it was? It was? It? Hell of features? Like what did

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it like? Okay, what didthat do? Like? What did it?
I? Know it puts you outthere. It was damn there a
tour for us, Okay, butit wasn't a tour, but we was
touring. I got you, Igot you. We was moving and we
was moving me okay, like itdidn't it didn't matter what it was.
We we did the Oakland Museum,right, you know what I mean?
Oakland Ballet. All this shit,isn't it. I feel like at that

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time that took us in the grindmode. It really is like grind now.
It was like we know we cando it, but now we got
to grind. What Okay, letme ask you this. Now, this
is some deep shit because you guysare dancers and so like not to say
it like or turfert you feel me? So like, my question is when
is it? It's like it's likeyou know, you are you rapping and

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then you're doing your thing and atsome point it's gonna become serious. Either
you're gonna feel me start making moneyor you're not gonna cheap doing this because
you can't sat and you feel mefulfill what you need to do in your
pockets to keep your dreaming, yourpassion going. So like, was that
the time when you were just saying, like you really went in the grind
mode during that time when you startthinking like, man, we need to

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get on this that in the thirdso that we can support ourselves. Not
it's it's fun if you feel mebeing a video, but if you're not
getting no money from the video,fuck you're doing it for Not to say
it like that, Mama, youfeel me, but like I think,
you know, eventually, eventually likethat became our mentality. But in the
forefront, in the beginning of thebirth of all this shit, it was

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just for the love of it,right, It was for the passion.
It was for the emotional you know, outlet for us to you know,
express our emotions in any way necessary, and we put that all on the
dance floor. You know. Itturned into a business situation, right once
it got serious. Yeah, Sowhen did he get serious? It got

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serious when us only got serious whenafter the rain video, when viral became.
After that, that's when we wasoverbooked to the point to where we
had to split up and people weregoing to different states. We couldn't even
all do shows together. We rarelycould do shows together. So many shows,
so we had to send people here. We had to send people there,
We had to go here, likewe was never together. They were

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stretching us real thin, real thin, and then we said they who was
they like you were ain't too alabel? But what the fuck is good
I've done to this? So letme know. I mean, I mean
it's kind of like a rap careerthough, except we're not tied to a
record label. It's independent. Yeah, we are the record label like Turkey's

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have been looked at like that,like like we have put people on,
like we have got many features frompeople. It's like you know what I'm
saying. It's like we always includedwith everybody's success. There's not one person
in the Bay Area whose success youcan't tie us too. So I'm sorry,
I'm sorry for this cold, butlet me introduce everyone, even in

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people that's not talking. You know, A cuse was like she gonna be.
We want you on the mic too, introduce yourself everyone on the mic,
even you, because we want everybodyintroduced himselves. So I'm doing a
proper introduction because we set it upand you feel me. So I just
want to know who who? Letme know, cause yo, yo,
what's good it is? Yeah?Yeah, Okay, okay, al got

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a great boy, you got agood radio voice? Show yeah Jo yeah,
yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah yeah. Y'all for
Shaw? Who else your boy Currywith Okay Curry you now you guys are
part of the group or y'all justwere Okay, got you got your new
generation? Hell yeah, hell yeah, we got generations. Let me know.

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Yeah, my name is Luni toosmooth. You know what I'm saying.
I am one of the originators.Yeah, I heard, I've seen
you befo for show? Who else? Who else we got? Who?
We got the camera girl, acamera woman behind the scenes. But okay
for show, and we got cussright here? Sell me it's your boy
T seven aka Bridge you know originalTurfy. Okay for show. That's beautiful.

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Shout out to the members that's nothere right now, Chunky Active Frenchie,
y'all. I mean like, yeah, that's it. So Leon and
Leon Leon, my bad man,I'm man. Yeah. Shout out to
our choreographer too man. And shoutout to the falling fiends too. Rest
in peace peace. I had aquestion. It's for us somebody. I

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think I've seen your live for somebody'slife. It's talking about between like dancing,
dancing and turfing, and you know, can you explain that for it?
For the people can do it,but I'd rather listen to bro do
it. Okay, let me letme put me on, put me on,
so and forgive me if I'm ignorant. I just like to know,

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and I want the people to know, you feel men, turf turfing is
dancing. It's a it's it's it'san acronym they gave to what we go
by used to go buy it backin the days gigging. Ye, what
I'm saying, it's not really seeit's not really just dance. It's more
expression and showing of where we camefrom and where we came through and poverty

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of living in Oakland. I'm saying, really it's really like an expression of
the struggle. You know what I'msaying, Like the turf moves that we
do today that they used to doback in the day was to represent your
hood, right. It wasn't reallyto oh, I'm dancing the battle this
than that. It was really torepresent, oh, if you dance like
this, we know you from thispart of time right straight up. So

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I recognize that. So it's reallythat's what it really was. It really
more of a form of expression ofself and where y'all come from, and
y'all probably this is probably born iny'all. But you feel me with like
I know y'all trying to talk aboutthe alliance, the thing that y'all got
going to the dance battle Saturday,April twenty ninth, But like that's a
trip because I can't recognize the factthat certain cities dance differently, like dance

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a different way, you feel me, Like growing up in Frisco, niggas
dance are certain like niggas from thepoint dance a certain way. I feel
I don't even want to do onedance. All I know to do is
to get low. You feel me, I'm like corrupt when it comes to
that motherfucker with corrupting cookwalking, you'refeeling, I'm like, snoop, I'm
one of the ones that know howto get low. That's all I know
how to do. Though, youfeel me, Um, it's a trip,

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how it kind of like just navigatedto whatever, Like you guys are
doing a battle, and obviously youcan't do a battle in the bay right
now, and on some shit likeyou're trying to like you just like niggas
this hood versus that hood. Itcan't be like that. It's like,
like you said, where it started. But it's so sick that y'all got

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the Lion's dance battle. Dance battle. Excuse me, it's going down.
Let's see every twenty ninth. Whereis this at fifty Livingston Oakland in the
town? Okay, you got yougot red Rock there. I see the
sci fi the here. That's agood guy. Okay for a show.
So it's going down. They gota three hundred dollars dance battle. So
why did you put this dance battlearound on? What made you do it?

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Because I've been seeing a lot ofbattles because a turf game getting watered
down. Okay, let me knowspeak on it. It's getting watered down.
When you say water down, whatdoes that mean, Like, explain
it to me, like it's hellaweak ass dancers. No, it's not
weak ass dancers. Just the wholeorigin of the movement is getting watered down.
So they're not appreciating the essence ofwhy you guys are dancing. And

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you said earlier it was an outlet. Yeah, it's an out Yeah,
it's not just yeah turning up ina club. It's like it's it's an
expression of yourself. Yeah right,okay, And I feel like, you
know, somewhere along the line thathas been misinterpreted in so many ways,
and that we all feel that way. So I got even even the new

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ones are they? Are they youngerthan you? Or are they younger seasons?
Okay? Younger but well seasons?Okay. So how did y'all find
these two? So did they approachy'all like y'all approached? Uh, I
can touch I can touch on onon fine the these too. So my
boy, y'ah, y'all right here, y'all, y'all is the little brother

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of a turf legend okay, andhis brother was killed in Oakland, okay.
Which his brother is one of myclose friends from childhood. Okay,
So you feel me, right?Me and Ice Cold we took it up
on ourselves to take him under ourwing after his brother passed away, you

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feel me, And he'd been rockingwith us every since. That's what's up,
real loyal cat got you. CurryCurry was the Curry was one of
us. He was he was oneof us before he knew he was one
of us. He was like hewas like the one everybody doubted. Oh
that's always that's always been up.Yeah them cash that they doubted. Yeah

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we have. He didn't have peopletell him he was never gonna be a
turf fing Wow, you know whatI'm saying, haters, and and they
was mad when he was sitting rightthere on the side of him as a
turfing right. You know what I'msaying. It's like, that's we We
had to bring him because it's like, bro, you you USh You fit
so perfectly because you you getting thatback, Like you know what I'm saying,

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We went through that, right youfeel me, and we know what
it feels like to go through thatright right, you perfectly. You fit
right in with us right off top. Now that's sick. Uh. Have
y'all all been dancing forever? Andmy second part of the question is have
you ever seen somebody that was whackedthat couldn't dance and then all of a

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sudden, not all of a sudden, but over the years, it's like,
bro, you really got gigs outhere, because like what the fuck?
Yeah? Yeah, yeah, definitely, like no, why really don't
matter? Right back then, thatI can really go crazy. But that's
one thing I can say about theturf Fings though. We It's like we

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have something we call fiend juice.What the fuck feend juice? Basically,
it's an energy. It's an energywhere you get from being with the Fiends,
like when you Okay, got you? When you with the Fiends,
you can go to any other team, man, right, any other team.
You can be with the rash Cats. Yeah, but they're not gonna
give you that juice got you.What I'm saying, we don't. We

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ain't never even really train y'all.Y'all right, Like we ain't never really
give him no moves. But it'sjust him being around our energy, that
force. When we go out androck shows, right, we go do
videos, right, it makes youwant to go hard, you know what
I'm saying. What's your favorite thingto do? Do you guys like just
doing the freestyling and just kind oflike freestyle it, or do you guys

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like doing Koreya grabbed like things pertainingto certain videos or certain tours or whatever.
I think when it comes to ourvideos, we specialize in concepts,
and I think that we leave thegame and the inspiration when it comes to
concepts, because we've been doing theconcept of the video since we were seven
team, and it's now it's popularto do that, you know what I

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mean. So it's like we're mogulswhen it comes you know what I mean.
It's like you're ahead of the gameexactly. So everything that we do
and have done, people are doingit now. People are using the Turfens
as a template, whether they wantto admit it or not. Like we
are the example to people can askyou a question like when y'all niggas be
doing the ship with your arms andshit, right, when y'all be doing

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hella shit right, I can't becausethey can't see what I'm doing, But
they'll be doing hella weird as shipwith the arms and shit. What the
fuck is that? That's niggas begoing through the box and shit like Nigga
Big can not get through that box. But I don't, I can't.
We gotta we gotta shout out inNew York for that from the East Coast,

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that niggas be doing this and shiteinto this name some shit like our
niggas be like slang from the Bayname some moves from the bay uh and
some news from LA and some newsfrom New York. If you don't mind,
because you guys seem like y'all niggasis like dancing stories. I'm asking

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all the type of question just hittingme without love it. Y'all can hit
it with the LA said. Okay, So besides the bone breaking inflection ship
from New York, that all inthat all in dance that everybody be doing
that prices a rod got in thissong? Okay. When we was in
New York, they taught us thatshit. Like okay, the street niggas
out there taught us that ship.And that's not something that people not from

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those New York hoods is supposed todo, like, Okay, got you,
got you? That dance is literallythat serious to them. Okay,
it's like show you how much respectwe got. Un don't let them,
don't let them catch y'all doing thisright? Got got you? Anybody just
can't do it? Got you?Yeah, it's like that. What else?

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What else I want to touch on? La? The archaeolos? I
remember crumping yeah, yeah, yeah, the jerking movement. So do y'all
battle all the characters and rise tighteyes? Tom Y Clown you got y'all

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one of course. Okay, isit college? I think I remember that.
That was like twenty fifteen, NewYork. We was at the Oracle.
Who wasn't that said? Is itthe Bear? New York? They
don't be lying. Okay, letme ask this question. It's Chicago.

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It's the south of Chicago got somelike the Midwest got influence as far as
the dance movement and shit like that. I'm just asking because I don't want
to lead him out. Ye Memphisgo Crazy, got Chicken Boy that okay?
Him? Okay, about you,but we did a lot of shout

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out a lot of a lot ofYates, you know what I mean?
They the pillars and the show crazything is about it about a lot of
she she's on the turf team,Okay, part of bah. That's a
lot okay. And then as faras you are, what name some places

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like like some places or some interestingplaces that you've gone. It don't have
to be for it could just say, man, because I was dancing,
I got a chance to meet thisperson or go here, and I was
like wow, like for me right, I'm simple, Like sometimes it don't
be like I mean, I didn'tmet a lot of motherfuckers. But sometimes
you just want to meet one person, you know what I'm saying, Like
I was hell of juice, Imet Snoop, you know what. I

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was just you know, or dassDealinger like random niggas. You know what
I'm I'm say, Man, outof everybody that we met, we didn't.
We didn't we didn't open up formac Miller before. So that's legendary
in itself, right, And it'slike, like, honestly, out of
everybody, I didn't seen like Ireally felt what starstruck was. I never
thought I would be star struck outto all this shit that we did.

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You feel me? But when Iseen Terrence Howard Bro, I couldn't see,
like like real shit though. WhenI seen Terrence Howard Bro, I
really couldn't say nothing. I'm literallyjust saying what's up, bro? Like
I'm like, what's up? Man? Like what's like? That's all I
can say, Like, man,what's up? Like you, Terence?
Did you sound like did you dowhat? You trying to sound like him

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and hustling flow? I wasn't.I wasn't trying. Hey, I wasn't
trying to do it, but Iwas doing it. It's just like brothers
thinking right here though, like like, I don't know what's it was.
It was nervous when you met acookie. I mean, whole girl,
I was not your name. What'sthe chick name you're talking about? The

(21:56):
one that back for me? Whowas it for you? That's tough because
I really don't or anywhere you've been. It could have been like, man,
I'm in fucking Miami right now.I ain't even gonna hold you.
Though. The one place that thatreally just took my heart away was being
in the performing in the Oracle atOracle. Yeah, okay, in my

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city. That that's just like you, you know, that's made it.
That's your Madison Square gardens. Andit was the last season exactly at the
Oracle. It was what was stillgoing on the basketball It was a basketball
game, got you. I'm keepit real with y'all. Existence this ain't
has nothing to do with basketball butor dancing. But now I'm from y'all

(22:42):
from the town, right. Yeah, So I get mad. I do
get mad. And this we're gonnaput this on the thing. It's on
the thing, it's recording. Yeah, I get mad when people say the
Warriors left they left the town.They didn't they left. No, they
mad when they say they left thetown. No, I don't care because

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because well that's the reason why youcan't really say they ever left, that
they were ever really Oaklands. Theyare Bay's team. They was never they
were San Francisco Warriors. But beforethat they was Philadelphia Warriors exactly. But
my question is to you because whenI say that the Niners didn't leave,
the Niners just went down the street. They didn't leave San Francisco. Right,
So when people get I had toHolland Fabio, I don't like break

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they never left. They went toSan Francisco. Nigga, take your ask,
come to Frisco. I mean,I mean, that's my point.
But I understand what you're saying,Like, oh man, they left.
I'm like niggay Steph Curry himself,he said, Man, we gotta play
at the Oracle again. Man,it's nothing like that energy. So it's
nothing like Nigga that township, bro, you don't get that all the time.

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With all due respect to the townand the town energy, the town
is the black Mecca the Bay andit's nothing crazy about the energy. But
you gotta it's like Sacramento right now. They ain't been in a playoffs Nigga
in eighteen years. Seventeen years sack, Yeah, that's true. That's so
what I'm saying, like I wasthere for we believe, Yeah, yeah,

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I was there there. Okay,So who is Okay, what's my
nigga's name that uh that played forthem now that they didn't play for them?
Zeus us he was a turf forright, he's an animania Okay,
okay, okay, for sure,that's what I'm saying, like architect.
Yeah see, y'all gonna have tosee, but we're gonna have to do

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it part two. We're not donewith this interview. We have to do
it part two. And then Itold him what I want to do next
time. I want to get inthe game here freestyling, and then I
want you to do y'all thing.We're gonna put that bitch on camera,
you me, and that is likeyou said that, that's never been done
before. Nigga's doing the freestyle andy'all doing the freestyle and y'all ship,
I'm doing my hands and ship likeI'm in New York, Nigga. Nil
now look back, So who theagency. Who's the agency? The agency

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is, Yeah, that's that's actuallythe name of the building where Okay,
okay, but those group of peoplehave been like so good to us,
and we've been good to them.It's been like an awesome partnership. And
you know, we you know,we look out for each other, you
know what I'm saying. So wecollapsed us on this event. They gave
us a nice event be oh mamas, they gave us a nice venue to

(25:18):
throw the event at, so youknow what I mean. So it's gonna
look good. Mom got a cameraman, camera, female or whatever. Uh.
Two versus it is two versus twopeople, two on two. Let
me know, so two on twotournament is like we're gonna have it to
where do you just sign up atthe door? Sh we gonna pick pick
you with a random teammate. It'slike a freestyle tournament. That's why.

(25:45):
Let me ask you a question.So is it is it two on two?
They got to kind of like dosome shit real quick or is it
two on two? You do yourmoves, You do your moves. Whoever
got the better score, okay,got you, got you got chemistry with
it, got you all about yourstrategy. High, y'all, come at
it. I got you got itto help if you know. The motherfucker
kind of like, oh, y'allknow what you doing. He could be

(26:07):
that John Cena, Randy or Topmight not like this nigga, but we
gotta dance again. But then hey, Curry, talk about the prizes that
some of the prizes that we gotwe're giving out, man. So some
of the prizes we got. Wegot some T shirts coming from who is
it? Oakland Dish Oaklands Oaklandish andthen um cipher he um, we got

(26:32):
some the Cipher. Yeah, that'smy first place. We're gonna give one
hundred fifty dollars gift card out forthat shop. You get to go up
there and you know, buy whateveryou want, get your size in.
Um, we're not gonna have theexact T shirts at the place because we
want you to actually get what youwant and you know, have it fit
you. Second place is gonna bea baked side bag, and then you're

(26:52):
gonna get your Cypher's tuck your littletrucker hat. Third place is gonna be
a vintage T shirt and then abucket hat as well. Oh that's lit.
So you know also and then withOakland Dish, I believe we got
like two to three T shirts withthat um and then shout out to get
wet Frog is gonna be a judgeon that. She says she's giving out
an extra hundred dollars to the bestperson that got that's that's fucking with it,

(27:15):
the best for me. So okay, that's going crazy gig and the
hardiest and we ain't out there laughing. We want to see some key.
That's the seven to seven to smokeone hundred. That's that's what you drop
them out, so you get anextra one hundred just for whoever. She
feels like she's giving a hundred too. Yeah, whether you win or Louis.
She's looking for like somebody with thebest performance basically like a Deer and
Fox Award or something. So Iso I could pull up film, Mike

(27:41):
could pull up and I'm only doingthree moves and I could and I and
I could if she's feeling it,and I could win. Oh Man.
Also shout out to HiFi culture.Man, you know what I'm saying.
They pushing it to. You knowwhat I'm saying. Shout out the sponsors.
I donna say Shout out Oakland Dish. They've been really rocking with us
from long time. Shout out Veggies. They're gonna be out there. Uh,

(28:03):
powder Dunnus, they're coming through.Powder Donuts will be in the building.
We got that batch. Um,I can tell you. But he
doing all that. He do alot of the interviews. Up, he
hit it. He know how todo it. It's curry. You knew
up. Yeah, I wanted.I can tell I can tell you kind
of fresh. You can take yourboy, been doing it for many moons.

(28:25):
Here he's like the billing. Fuck, I love it, go ahead,
finished. I'm sorry bro, Nowyou are good. Um. And
then like I said, we gotDanny with the shot. Who else?
Let them know how much? Letthem know what kids, kids is free
rings trying to fake this ring,you can charge that chilling ages ages kids.

(28:52):
What we said. We cut itoff twelve, so twelve and under
thirteen A team general mission is tendollars. If you want to your VIP.
We don't have a little VIP sectioncloser to dance for so you can
get see all the action. It'sgonna be twenty five dollars. Okay,
show I don't want to drinks.No, we are not serving drinks because
there will be kids in the building. We don't get your body tripping,

(29:12):
so you know what I'm saying.If you want some drink, bring your
own personal and make sure you respectthe venue. Also, we have performing.
We have finete Real Repti and hewill be bringing some friends. You
know what I mean. I heardthat he's bringing Chippers out through the building,
so you'll also have a surprise guestfrom Chippers and my home girl.
It's Bliss music. She go crazy. Her voice is so soothing. Hope

(29:34):
y'all be there to hear it.Man. Also our host bait area.
If the foods is in the foodthose, that's my god. You didn't
get me the host though. Ohman, I got you. I got
you for show. I gotta learnthe culture. I'm really coming then,

(29:56):
sto. Just come through and tryingto I'm gonna trying to beat y'all.
Nig competitive that when you first starteddancing, was you nervous this is for
all y'all, like your first danceor was you just own it? It

(30:19):
was you just ready and active?No, it was it was more so
a confidence thing. Like once oncewe stood out in front of that crowd
and and just felt that energy outthere. Energy changed your life. That
energy exactly stole the words right outof my mind. I know what you
mean. Real really changed my realshit out of me way down under.

(30:45):
Always I was struggle to the bubble. I was always that kid that parents
and grandparents always threw out at theparties all you was ready dance, you
know, I've been top yeah,And then being in the hood, I
was also you know, one ofthem kids that instead of you know,
ripping and running and flipping off thecars or flipping out the tree, I

(31:07):
was in the streets dancing. That'ssick, you know what I'm saying.
He was nervous at Oracle though,huh, definitely was your first one.
But it wasn't my first rodeo.But fold he had to tell me,
like, get out there, man, go do your thing. That's tight.
I was that kid flipping off thetrees and shit like for me,

(31:29):
like I didn't. I didn't growup dancing like my brother did, but
I knew all the moves and shit. I knew how an airwalk before him.
I wasn't focused on desk and Iwas like flipping and ship like I
said, like I was just runningthrough the hood, Like dancing didn't get
here for me until I got older, and then I wanted to dance at
the parties and shit like I didn'treally care about like being nobody with the
ship. But then I became somebody, you know, accident, you know

(31:52):
what I mean. So hey,it is what it is, man,
It's beautiful. Curry was Curry withthe case, same shit. I was
always that kid. I started offjerking at your jerk movement, like all
that footwork dug in and then fromthere on I was watching them on YouTube
and like I would study them andI wanted to, you know, learn

(32:13):
the culture to it. So umkind of came out to battle and from
there on out of his history.So uh from I wasn't really nervous,
I could really. It was justlike like you said, it's an exciting
feeling. You get out there,and once the crowd is giving you that
energy, you want to give itright back to him off to exchange.
No robbery, right that part.Real talk though. Yeah. I always

(32:42):
been a fan of just the dancein general, got you growing up,
Always been like a fan of justlike Michael Jackson and everybody else James Brown
wherever really like dance. And thenI started getting into death with it and
start looking into styles and like Curry, I was a jerker too, and
then moved into the shuffle movement anddown see I was the energy of like

(33:06):
shuffling. Yeah, jurking just wasn'tthere for me. I couldn't feel it
in my chest. Big brother wouldn'thaving man, Okay, he wasn't gonna
let him do that lead him downthat road. Yeah yeah, then,
um, he like told me aboutmy brother told me about turfing, and
I'm like, what is that?You feel? Me? So I didn't
get it. I didn't think aboutturfing too much until I started really like

(33:29):
I need a style and I lookedup turfing and I've seen these brothers right
here in the rain dancing the rain. I'm like, I know what I'm
about to do. That's sick.Um, y'all fuck with? What's my
nigga from the city that'll be dancingdopey fresh Fresh? Yeah? Okay,

(33:50):
I'm just asking because again I don'tI can't remember, but I don't want.
I don't want to bring up nothing. If we could stop, Okay,
Okay, I'm gonna say this,man, let me know the team.
The team's just like, Man,it's just this shit is a sport.
Man, like this shit a sportscompetition. I might, I might
hate this nigga when when a battlewas coming up or an event coming up

(34:13):
because one of his teammates are goingagainst mine. But then at the end
of the day, shit, Ican shake these nigga's hands. Not really
work, but I'm gonna say itlike this. Man, I'm gonna say
it like this man. For allthe other teams out there. Man,
we all brothers. Man, weall in the party, and we all
the turf nation. Man. Atthe end of the day, we all
you all pushing it forward. AndI understand what you're saying because with my

(34:34):
boy right, we had the samething. It's like a friendly competition.
I don't know if y'all know youngboy Fresh, he'd be on the mic.
I'll be on the mic, soI'll be hosting parties and shit.
So I'm niggaing the mic. Thatlike, in my opinion, how y'all
feel like y'all started some shit.I started some ship before me, like
for real, for real, Likeyou had a couple of niggas talking on
the mic, but not like howthey do now, like every every party

(34:55):
go to sending on the mic tentwelve, thirteen years ago. Doesn't like
that, so like you just tryingto you see him do something sick,
it don't it don't make you jealous. It kind of like motivates you to
black bro, I'm finish shit onthis, nigga on the next when I
help with them, Mike, I'mfinish on it. It's nothing against it.
It's just a friendly competition. SoI totally get what y'all saying.

(35:16):
I mean, it'd be like thatwhen we have our freestyle videos, because
if I do something shady, thenext nigga gonna want to do something too.
And that's like I feel like shit, that's making my teammates better.
That's why I like star. Who'sy'all? Um? Let me ask you
a weird question because you get thisis interesting. I'm sorry I'm taking y'all.
I said it was gonna be wereabout thirty five minutes, and you

(35:38):
don't want to keep going a littlebit longer? We can. We got
time, okay for sure? Dancers, Uh do y'all look up to?
Like he said James Brown like howmuch appreciation do you guys have for like
dancers before y'all and like going forwardfrom James Brown to Chris Brown, I

(36:01):
mean, all right, let meknow, just let me know, Like,
do y'all really be like, damn, this nigga was really because I'm
looking like, Bro, he wassick brother to be doing what he's doing.
I was saying some of his beats. I was like, this nigga
made that B nineteen fifty five.Like what I respect all the turf.
I respect all the turf dance legendslike Chris Brown. That's a studio dancing.

(36:22):
Okay, That's what I'm asking,ain't That's what I'm asking? So
do you respect or do you doyou look up to any dowdy like a
Michael Jackson, a fresh Michael Jacksonwhen it comes to R and B artists
at street dance, I'm looking upto a Mariam before Chris Brown because he's
a real street dancer. Okay,you pull up to street dance sessions in
LA and Chris Brown don't. Okay, he turned down Okay, and he

(36:47):
turned down dance, Okay, gotyou got you? It's like yeah,
yeah, and didn't do my niggamoved. Do you you've guys worked with
dancers as will right, So whois it? Is a dancer that you
guys worked with that you kind ofwas kind of like damn they got they

(37:08):
picked it up hella quick like ormost dancers like that, or is it
some people get it faster than othersor just whatever you say, Oh I
need you to do this, likewhatever you need them to do, Like
do y'all work like that with theartists or oh some artists. That's what
I'm saying, Like you're not askingforty know what I'm saying. I'm saying,
like a dancing artist that you mighthave worked yea artists that I worked

(37:30):
that I worked with that actually didfunk with it is dancing dancing fun with
it? Um yg that's one niggathat like he with the Bay So he
like, yeah Kaylani two dance,yeah okay, and she got the bounce

(37:50):
but you know, yg, hedo that la gangster walking shit. So
it's just like he liked that BayAreas ship though, so he'd be requesting
niggas. He's like, yeah,give me them bang niggas okay for you
don't know nigga's names, but hewhen he requests, like, man,
I want them baiting niggas me.So every time we see us in the
video, he didn't say and don'tget it wrong, folding me fake win

(38:12):
too, the folding around that's toolong. Could He tells stories about him
dancing back in the day though,So it's crazy to hear his stories.
Bro like a pop blocking and shitlike that. Shit it's like the robot
and ship. All that shit issteam from the Bay Area. It was

(38:37):
steam from the Bay Area and thisis a new It's like the Corter Roy.
Yeah, that's full circle, nigga. Look, you got to tell
you rh I swear to guy.It's just it's full circle. It comes
full circle, all right, forsure. Anything y'all want to add,
anything y'all want to say, don'tforget. We got the Alliance Dance Butter

(38:59):
going on Saturday, April twenty nine, seven to eleven. General mission is
ten kids under thirteen is free VRPtwenty five dollars, presented by Turfys and
an Agency Man two on two dancebattles three hundred dollars, and then we
have a random we have seven that'sgonna get a hundred bonus one hundred dollars
from Get Wet Entertainment, Get Wetin t what's up? Let me know

(39:22):
what y'all got cracking? We're alltrying to go. We are trying to
push this ship to how do y'all? You don't mind me? I ain't
give it? I know y'all youngsters. Yeah, I'm I'm I'm I'm thirty
three. You thirty three? Yousaid you started in two thousand and four.
No, no, No, Ididn't start in two thousand and four.
He started. And two. I'vebeen dancing probably since I don't really

(39:44):
know, but I've been dan sinceI was like like sixteen, Like okay,
got you something like that? Sowhere we trying to take it?
Where we trying to take it too? Where have you been? Take a
roll? You've been, You've beenaround like you've been, You've been like
we did on the country. Ohyeah, there's there's nothing that's sick.

(40:08):
There's nothing in the entertainment industry thatthe Turfings has not done. Got you
when that comes to acting. Butin the movies big screens, small screen,
we ain't going nowhere. Hold wegot to talk about that. We
wrapped before we got songs. So, I mean, what do you want,
man country, y'all been on thenews in other country. We was

(40:28):
on the news in France. Ohfrom from going viral wild circus in Romania.
That's sick. Oh yeah, Iknow, what's his name, French?
That's right, that's my boy.That nigga is sick. He was
in the turffings. Yeah, youguys and Chunky got the uh that shit

(40:55):
is crazy. That's like a it'slike a bay Alien staple. We we're
do wool tang man like if Imean, just keep you one. Oh
yeah, turfs used to like thewool tang of the dance, like the
dance the turfing woutang yea as theyused to call us that because we used
to have straight up, So,what's up with the blind spot? How

(41:17):
did that happen? And then likelike they happened the first year or the
second it's the first yeah on thefirst year, yeah yeah yeah, so
season one, man um kind ofwe kind of knew about that before,
you know what I'm saying, Butit's like for them to bless us with
that. It was it was youknow, huge, it was it was
huge because dancing wasn't in the background, it was in the forefront, and

(41:38):
a lot of people stick to youknow, calling us background dances, background
in this background that. But whenthey see us in the foreground, you
know what I'm saying, because theyused to seeing us in music videos and
and ship but then they see inthe own TV shows and movies now,
so it's like we got a differentrespect, you know what I'm saying.
And a lot of people don't lookat us as easy, easily accessible,
you know what I'm saying. Soit's like when it comes not or they

(42:00):
do, they don't. Okay,got you know what I'm saying, even
though we are, it just doesn'tseem like it, you know what I
mean, It don't seem like ita lot. But um, I think
that added to help add to ourbrand because it's like we see, we
used to see these dudes just battle. Then we just saw these dudes and
music videos. Now we see thesedudes on movies and TV shows now.
So it's like, I think thecontinued inspiration is one of the goals because

(42:23):
as long as we transcendent time andcan inspire a lot of people, and
especially our younger teammates, and thenthey keep it going once we've done,
it's like you can't beat that,you know what I'm that's huge. Now
that's real because one thing I know, I'm older, I'm thirty year Like
I said, one thing I realizedis that as you get older, you
really start giving a damn about yourlegacy. You feel me like, you

(42:45):
really give a damn about Like howare people like if I leave right now,
what would people say about me?Regardless that that's your legacy? Think
so all the time. Bro.So that's some real shit. I'm glad
you're thinking about that. And thenwas sick with y'all. Is y'all gay
the game where I mean y'all capacitykeys over to the youth, whereas in
rappers they don't do that for real, real like that's some six ship that

(43:07):
y'all could just they're gonna keep itgoing and then y'all gonna look, y'all
gonna be like e forty and twoshort dancing when y'all fifty and sixty.
That's exactly expect. Touches back onthat fiend juice. That's right, straight
ungevity. That's that's really what itis for us though it's really about longevity.

(43:30):
Man, right, it's like wesay longevity mean for the name brand.
Yeah yeah, It's like it's like, you know, our brand,
our brand has been here for aminute, and it's like we we we
just want to keep it tradition,you know what I'm saying, Like we
we got a real tradition of theway we do things, how we move,

(43:52):
how we do business, how hewas saying that earlier. We try
to iterate that into our new generations. So when it is our time,
you know, we gotta hang itup one day, you know what I'm
saying. So when it is ourtime, it's still gonna be rain,
just like if we were still here. When he said that the is getting
water down, I kind of correlatedwhat he just said, what you just

(44:13):
said with the water down part andthen the other part which you said the
business and before we go the businessaspect. I was trying to get to
that earlier. I was just like, how did it, like y'all go
from just dancing to get to thebusiness part. So like talk about that
because it's like it's a lot ofmotherfuckers that's dancing, and you could dance

(44:34):
for your love and your passion,but you guys have managed to monetize and
capitalize off the craze of you.All right, so can you talk about
that a little bit. I thinkwhen we went viral in two thousand and
nine, that helped a lot,because then we became a commodity, you
know what I mean, dancing theRain. It's like you ask people do
they know us, and they werelike, nah, Then you actually have
they seen that video? They likeyeah, yeah, yeah, And that

(44:58):
video is way more important than right, you know what I mean. That's
like like I'm saying that because it'slike like one, like, I know
a girl and she ended up paintingthe mural of me, you know what
I mean. But that same girlwas inspired by that rain video back in
two thousand and nine. She movedfrom New York to the Bay Area just
because of that video and became anartist. Now she's one of the biggest

(45:21):
artists out here. Shout out toRachel Wolfe, you know what I mean,
She's one of the biggest artists outhere because of that a dance video.
Crazy. She's not a big dancer, She's a big artist because of
that video, right, you knowwhat I mean. Yeah, it's bigger
than whatever people feel, and that'swhat helped us. But she didn't even

(45:42):
want to be a dancer. She'sjust the artist. Yeah, has some
deep shit, bro. And thenyou said that, you was like,
man, we've been in the videoin fairs France, so it's obviously it's
bigger than individually. You all,like you said, who's the turf fence?
I don't know seen that video,Ohio? And that was exactly what
I'm saying. I get it.I get it, bro, Really,

(46:04):
I ain't gonna hold you. Whatreally started us big on the business aspect
was Fody. It's just like seeingthe way he moved and was it a
direct conversation or just visually watching it. He made sure that he was kind
of looking out I mean, andy'all took it further. It's different because
sometimes with me, I'm gonna keepit real. Just same with me,

(46:25):
I'm gonna keep it real sometimes reallylike it was really like it. He
showed us that we can get paid. Yeah, you know what I'm saying.
But my questions sometimes I have to. He'll keep asking y'all, literal
ask questions. I'm not afraid ofthat no more. I used to be
like man, I'm gonna be lookedat it stupid. I just don't know,
so help me. It's just likewe all got it. Like it's

(46:45):
like our relationships with Forty. Itis all different, so we all hear
different shifts. Okay, got you, So we don't all hear the same
shit. He won't telling shit likeat a music video together when we all
as a group got you. Butit's like, you know what I'm saying,
like the time sometimes Okay, Igot you. Might some game there.
So it's like it's not like,hey, guys, sit down.

(47:05):
I mean he was one of theniggas panis what I mean. He was
one of the niggas helping us monetizethat opened your eye first. And then
it was like this like I rememberperforming with him at Red Rocks, right,
and uh that one in Colorado?Yeah, oh man, I want
to go there. How was that? I was dope and a sat rocky
and then was there like the sadwhole a sat mob and said Rocket,
can't we perform with him? Andhe said, only if that's okay with

(47:28):
Forty For me, I don't wantto step on those toes fault. He
was like it's good and that justshow you how much people like respect they
got for Foldy. You know whatI'm saying, Like he wouldn't even go
if Fody would have said no,he wouldn't have let us, right,
you know what I mean, Likelike that's crazy and Foldy don't even own
us. It's just that he justdidn't want to step on bro toe.
Right. He seen us out thererocking with Folding, and it's like Voti

(47:49):
is a big dude man. Andthen and then knowing that he and he
also told us that fucking Snoop dogput him on with the alcohol game.
He was explaining how that was going, right, you know what I'm saying,
It's like he got an alcohol becauseof Snoop Dogg. He got y'all
it's alcohol, No, he Snoopgot it. Y'all needs to get in
the alcohol with that fiend juice OMama, sweat of God. No,

(48:10):
that's good, that's more like anenergy dream. Okay, yeah, shit,
but you always have a chasers.Also, like seeing Poldy changed his
whole camp like Fody. A lotof people don't know Fhody went from the
underground to the main stream. Hechanged his whole camp. Yeah, like

(48:32):
he switched up his whole game.Got a blue manager. Yeah, I
didn't see that. I did seeseeing that movement is is y'all have a
manager? Nope, we've been managingourselves this whole time, the whole time,
the whole time. We've been learningas we go. Bro. It's
like, yep, y'all sick.Just not do everything. You're manager sells

(48:53):
all that, like we all seethe plates. At the same time.
We got cooks on our team.Nige got to eat. We got brands,
brands, definitely. That's what's up. I got you, Bay,

(49:14):
that's what's up. Hey. Iswear to guy. I appreciate y'all.
I swear to guy. We appreciatey'all for coming through. We normally do
you know, artists and shit likethat, but you guys are artists and
y'all expressing. Y'all ship visually throughthe dance, through the works. We
love it. Don't forget the AllianceDance Battle to excuse me, April twenty
ninth, Saturday, April twenty nine, seven to eleven, turf Fens Agency

(49:37):
presents the Alliance Dance Battle three hundreddollars for the two on two extra hundred
dollars, a lot of other pricesand gifts you can get. It's going
down. We got food, we'llhave breverages and a photo booth and Morris
twenty one and up. Kids underthirteen are all free. Shout out to
the trendary, to Scipee o' glandish, that batch, Danny shot, friends

(50:02):
with bands and all that good stuff. Man, y'all want to say anything
on the way out? Yeah,Man, go follow our Instagram man turfings
Man, yeah saying check us out. Man. You can check out all
our other pages, all the memberson their You know what I'm saying.
We got a lot of good stuffcoming to y'all this year. Man.
We got a couple of more eventswe're gonna be throwing this year. You

(50:22):
know what I'm saying. Yeah,don't touch on it. Oh yeah,
one more thing, man. Weare also dropping a visual album with Droopie.
Droopie so and we will be gettingfeatures from some major artists. Man's
that's gonna be dope and different.So, like I said, man,
we have we I think we alsoreleasing a song too, so we might

(50:43):
be rapping on one of the trackson there. And Droopie wants to do
like a trilogy, So you knowwhat I mean, he does like doing
like projects like that, So that'she gets real deep in that. Ship's
gonna be one of the first projectsdone like that. It's gonna be like
a three album thing. So welook out for that. Man, you
heard it here time. So yeah, shout out to Jupie Man. Oh

(51:05):
yeah, mate, our part youknow some are our family and the turf
Nation and we got they got acouple of battles coming up this year.
Feemy, Rock Paper Scissors, mayfeel me give away the entertainment is made
made twenty May twentieth. Yeah,That'scisco. That's a free event as well.

(51:25):
That's a free event and you're notgonna have to pay for that at
all. RPS is free. That'sMay twentieth. You know they got red
Bull coming up May fifth, sayingthat's a big dance battles. Yeah,
that's the that's the big that's thebig dogs right there. You know,
I'm saying, where's that gonna beA that's gonna be held in front of
the Oakland like city halls. Yeah, it's gonna be at Yeah, Frank,

(51:51):
I always forget that A good allright, I appreciate for those who
try to always stereotype us as freestyledancers. Were coming with that Correo two
so we could check us out.In September, we'll be at the Yeoba
Brain of Gardens for Coreo face.You know what I before, y'all go
go ahead, Kurt my bad,y'all, y'all have to teach me how

(52:12):
to do a little bit better dancewith the females. Bro y'all gonna have
to give me some little three folks. There is confidence I do it,
but I don't be feeling like I'mdoing it right. I don't want to
be that dancing again. It's likedancing. I just want to get on
it. I just want to feelthe buns. Talking about that clapping when

(52:38):
you dancing right like a creep.I sound like a creep. We might
have to edit that. We're good. We're good. Thank ye let them
know, thank you. Building.This was a lot of fun, man,

(52:59):
y'all have a nice one. Weout of here. Yeah, watch
yeah back. Don't be trying todo ella dance moves and go to the
lines dance. Watch that thing