DEFJAM HERE IT IS. OKAY. CUT IT.
HEY, I'M DANA. LOOK AT MY FEET. My feet are straight ahead.
You don't want to do that. You want to turn your feet out. I'm going to do this backwards.
And that's what makes it look like hip-hop. What this is with hip-hop is everything's down low. It all is in a plié.
I think the first thing that you need to know about hip-hop it's all about your posture. And you know, growing up my posture was really bad. My mom used to tell me all the time, "Stand up straight.
Stand up straight. " Well, you know what? I was standing up straight.
And hip-hop is this. 1 2 3 4 hit ah and ah. The The more relaxed you are, that's what makes it hip-hop.
This is the first thing I want to say to you. You want to do hip-hop? You got to stand like this.
In a hip-hop head, we have this. Boom bam. Every time.
Uh uh or uh uh. Your hands are always like this. Start out just hitting it.
Hit it. Hit it. Ah.
This is what we call popping. Ah straight. Ah straight.
I went to this club, right? And um they had no baggy pants and no sneakers. I was wild.
I could I didn't know what to think about that. I took some of this from an African piece. Um in the African piece, it was like this.
But in hip-hop, it's like this. See, there's a difference. This is me.
This is how I am. This is a lifestyle. This is it.
I'm into points a lot. But they're not your AVERAGE POINTS. DEFJAM PEOPLE ask me all time, "What are you going to do when hip hop goes out?
" Hip hop is an attitude. It's right here. It's how you feel.
It's a style. So, it can't go out. Hit.
Hit. Ah. Ah.
Flex foot. Bent back. It's all in your attitude.
It's right here in your face. It's in how you dress. It's the way you look.
I want to tell you another thing that makes hip hop hip hop. I do this at the end of class every class. I hit here.
And I hit here. Hit here. Sometimes I vary it.
I'll give them a ba. They look at me like I'm crazy, but then they know this right here is me. And then I give them the peace.
I'm out.
