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00:00:04

Ben(B-Tek) Chung: How's everybody doing today?

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It's a blessing to be here

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to just be able to share with you guys a piece of inspiration that we have.

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I just want to start off by asking: --I even ask myself, you know--

00:00:18

what is possible nowadays?

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We were born in the 80s, '80s babies, grew up around that time,

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everybody knows kind of what I am talking about.

00:00:27

Obviously, we got a little edge to us,

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you know, grew up in the gang violence, seen the drug dealing,

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the bad parts and also the good things.

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Just because we are from these urban areas,

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doesn't necessarily mean that it's all bad,

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we just, for some reason, became more creative with what we had,

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we became artists,

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we became inspired.

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So, obviously, myself, I was like the baby of the group.

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Growing up around that time, we got to watch, I don't know

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if you guys are familiar with the beach streets and the breaking,

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and watching out hip-hop... --yeah, please, please, it's a good time!

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(Applause)

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We were born into this culture

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and I didn't realize that we were born into this culture called hip-hop.

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And for those of you who don't know,

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hip-hop, yes, was birthed and created on the East Coast, in the Bronx,

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(Applause)

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but it created this ripple effect and it inspired the world.

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And we are just one of the many that have been inspired by this movement,

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and so that's what we started to do,

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we didn't understand what there was out there for us

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but we had to keep pushing,

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so we became these 'garage kids,' that's what we were called.

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We didn't have a dance studio, we didn't have hardwood floors,

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we made it work.

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And myself, being 10 years old, seeing these guys run around...

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We would be at house parties and we would be in the garage,

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dancing and fellowshiping...

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Joe "Punkee" Larot: ...and oil stains on our shoes!

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B.C.: ...on the carpets and things like that, oil stains and...

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We used to wear helmets,

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because we didn't have the hardwood floors,

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we didn't ever dance in front of a mirror,

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we didn't go to a performing art school,

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I didn't even know those existed at the time.

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And what's beautiful is that we had a piece of carpet,

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it wasn't red and it wasn't round, but it was a lot dirtier than this,

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(Laughter)

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because a lot of our cars were leaking and things like that,

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and we had to make it work.

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But we were these garage kids in this garage,

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labbing, creating, having an idea.

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He has an idea, he has a philosophy, I have a concept

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and we were in the garage and we tried to stay out of trouble.

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Try to stay out of trouble but for the most part, obviously we did,

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otherwise we wouldn't be here today.

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We put this crew together, called The Jabbawockeez, in 2003,

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so we are fastforwarding now.

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It's a collective of different individuals from up and down California;

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different ideas, different dreams, but also very similar.

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One person that I would say, Gary Kendall --we call him Gee 1--

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he was like our Yoda, and he really believed that...

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J. L.: ...make it possible! B.C.:...we can.

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He believed that we can take over the world,

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he literally said that in a prayer, and I am here in a circle and he's like:

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"You guys, you guys need to stop playing around,

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I've been working so hard."

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This guy, Gee, he used to be a backup dancer for Stevie B.,

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he wanted to battle MC Hammer,

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so he's a little bit older than myself but he really saw the talent that we had,

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and he would just tell us we can take over the world, and we were like,

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"That's pretty bold, Gee." (Laughter)

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J. L.: I don't know about the world... B.C.: The world, Gee?! The world?

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But I had to ride with them, I have to believe the things

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that I don't necessarily see in front of me.

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I have to sometimes lean on my brother to enlighten me,

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I don't know everything, he doesn't know everything, none of us do.

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So, ultimately, that's what we leaned on.

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I'm like, "OK, Gee. Whatever you want to do. So, let's ride."

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I love this, he knows that we love it.

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We auditioned for "America's Got Talent," we got shut down in the second round,

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J.L.: Lost, lost.

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B.C.: We auditioned for ABDC,

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Gary Kendall actually realized that he was sick,

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passed away after we found out that we made the audition on ABDC.

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We got on ABDC and rapped for Gee,

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rapped for our history and our family and everybody that supported us,

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and we won.

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And from there on, it's been a blur.

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We've been meeting everybody that we've been looking up to on TV,

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our dreams have been coming true, it's alive, it's happening right now,

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and that was impossible to us, that was impossible.

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Now, we believe that it's possible,

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and it would bring us a tremendous amount of joy,

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for these underdog stories to be told to us one day,

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so that we, together kin, make these things more probable.

00:05:40

From impossible to possible, to probable.

00:05:44

We are The Jabbawockeez, you guys, walk as one!

00:05:46

Thank you so much!

00:05:47

(Applause)

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