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CBS News compared the intensity of krumping to that of moshing. [11] Although krumping was not directly created by Tommy, it was inspired by his “clowning”. [1] [9] [12] Originally, Willis and Ratti were clown dancers for Tommy, but as their dancing was considered too "rugged" and "raw" for clowning, they left and developed krumping. [2]
Thomas Johnson, also known as Tommy the Clown, is an American dancer best known as the inventor of the "clowning" style of dance, which evolved into krumping.Johnson invented the style in 1992 to enhance birthday party clown acts, thereby creating the concept of "hip-hop clowns".
Rize is a documentary following an interview schedule of two related dancing subcultures of Los Angeles called clowning and krumping. [3] The first series of interviews introduces, describes and develops the dance style known as clowning. [3]
Hip-hop dance is a fusion dance genre with influences from older street dance styles created in the 1970s. These include uprock, breaking, and the funk styles. [1] Breaking was created in The Bronx, New York, in the early 1970s. [2] In its earliest form, it began as elaborations on James Brown's "Good Foot" dance, which debuted in 1972.
In the 1980s, [3] the Bovan Crime Family created a dance in Memphis, Tennessee known as the Bovan Walk, from which Gangsta Walking later derived. [4] Prior to its growth in local popularity when the song "Gangsta Walk" debuted, Gangsta Walking was frequently done when songs, such as Triggaman, were played by DJ Spanish Fly at Club Expo and Club No Name.
2 Lyrics and meaning. ... one of the creators of Krumping) ... is a spoof created in November 2013 about the kidnapping of Serge the Llama from a circus in Bordeaux.
African Americans created uprock and breaking in New York City. African Americans in California created locking, roboting, boogaloo, and popping—collectively referred to as the funk styles. All of these dance styles are different stylistically. They share common ground in their street origins and in their improvisational nature of hip hop.
Popping is a street dance adapted out of the earlier boogaloo cultural movement in Oakland, California.As boogaloo spread, it would be referred to as "robottin'" in Richmond, California; strutting movements in San Francisco and San Jose; and the Strikin' dances of the Oak Park community in Sacramento, which were popular through the mid-1960s to the 1970s.