0:00 [Music] what's up everybody welcome back to another awesome episode of the careful boys we got a careful boy guest right here dante bosco and building [Applause] [Music] the dog really wanted to know we were just talking about head in the clouds and it was it was a ████ crazy week right and the clouds what is it exactly explain to me this musical festival that's put on by 88 rising at the record label that not only hosts and promotes a lot of uh asian asian american talent but now they've even broken 40 000 asian kids they don't they don't care about us they don't invite us to ████ ████ idiot i've been to some of the indian rising stuff the the
0:51 chinese new year stuff or lunar new year's stuff is pretty dope go and say say your piece today not finished okay cool yeah hey anthony i saw that head in the clouds the kenjas were there and my favorite you guys performed there dude all red leather jackets you know and matching is this how many day festival is it it's in l.a two-day festival it's like asian coachella yeah it's it was at brookside golf course at the rose bowl was it really i'm playing brookside on monday i love i like brookside i'm playing it monday when i saw you guys perform i was like do you guys just show up at like the men's warehouse and be like can i get 12 red pets and then they're like that is all the red pants we got you already know that men's warehouse doesn't have that look which one the red panther the king aesthetic they went to fire tonight do you guys are you guys taylor gang or you guys gotta go you shop and find where
1:41 you guys go burlington coat factory half and half house they go to chinatown i only know that because you know i come from a break dancing group and i know we all had we always my mom made some more stuff look and then some it's hard again you need 12 of the same costumes with guys on different body types you know what i mean like you got you got yeah you got to work with both but the jackets are custom because i see the kenja's in the back custom so the jacks were custom everything else we had to put together piece by piece and figure things out the t-shirts which are maroon we got one of them little five for ten shops wow i didn't know they still existed pro club were they shaka's hanes lululemon wow but you gotta get extra large because fashion nova is like them skinny you know urban look and stuff like that plus you guys are dancing so you need some material that has some stretch
2:31 or you're gonna have a little bit four-way stretch and they got quick shipping and those those pants are like 21 they don't really need stretchy clothing they don't do that much you know so you spend hella money you spend for us we spent a hell of money and and resources just be standing here to put things like a custom jacket together that's the hot part and then you got to make sure the shoes are obviously ill you know we got these like nike utility boots and stuff like everything else we try to save money on yeah everything else as long as it fits right how is it like performing in front of 40 000 people was that sick the stage looks sick you know what's interesting i think uh because after like what ████ a decade of getting on big stages and stuff like that festivals are always fun and unique but they're never like the most appropriate for like a dance performance one the live feed always has some sort of lag
3:21 music to video and then two when there's like giant barricades and stuff like that there's kind of a disconnect right you like even if you're at the front of the stage you're still like 30 feet away from like the closest fans so so the actual energy is a very unique experience you're just more like a sea of people and that is cool and 80 of people are on drugs or just eating a hot dog yeah but i feel like what one of the sickest things or at least like what we've been experiencing this year alone by way of performing things like coachella and head and clouds is just being the only dance crew on an entire lineup of musician that's true cause you can finally rub it you could finally rub it in our faces that hey you're only in vegas but like you know what we're actually doing festivals ████ now we can't use this video anthony
4:11 okay first of all is he shot up jab jab jab walk is ghost for that okay this whole guy is still different hey that's the wrong hat that's the wrong hat get out of here y'all oh my goodness wow whoa with overalls and abiding hat bro give us your breath break down real quick this fool got no shoes or socks on you're the magawackies you got you did both sides we're just keeping it equal oh my god where are we going what's happening dante's like where are we going what's happening right now so we're just getting variety um shout out to the job but that is cool though that you guys are like you guys are put in the same like
5:02 um i guess the same realm as a performing artist that's what i'm saying that that's so weird to me because you know like to to see an entire lineup of musicians like establish incredible musicians right people coming from ████ like korea and stuff like that people have been in the game for like a long time and people like dumbfoundead coachella i'm all over the i mean you got the highest of the high at coachella it's so cool you feel like you don't belong with those names um no it just feels like uh moving the needle for like the dance community yeah i feel like it's a no-brainer for you guys to be up there no i'm proud i come from the world you know but frozen actor i was a p boy like that was what we did so when ████ started popping like jab walkers on abc quest crew cabba kenji's i was like all of a sudden i was like it was exciting now like you know so you
5:52 think you can dance so all these other dances were really for a lot of years it was like dancing the the secret of the dance is like it's a gl it's a ceiling yeah where the highest you can get is back up dancing for something like me and my brother we danced for mike like oh that's your back of dance for michael jackson madonna janet jackson you did it yeah that was pretty and then from there you know that wasn't even the highest echelon for me for even for my first like 10 years of dancing right right then you got to go into choreography or something right yeah or but you're always background but what you guys did what your generation did what i loved is you guys bursted through that ceiling and went no no no no like we would do this we can definitely people too but then your names and your crews became on par with some of the artists and you maybe live beyond some of the artists actually the top of the top which is great and it becomes like doing ████
6:43 like this like we're going to see the kanjis we're going to see jab rock we're coming to see quest we're not coming to see you dance behind justin bieber mm-hmm even though you can't do that make some money it's all ████ good but also you can open up for them also yeah that's great it's a totally different thing to like like for example um even at coachella which is like obviously a whole different that was the first thing that we did this year that was just like that bloomberg yeah and it's like we're on the coachella live stream and it says kendra's and i'm like wow like from that level i'm like this is the most ridiculous ████ we've ever done but even then it's like that's just coachella so it's like you know we had some fans but people people aren't going to coachella for kindred you know dude why are you downplaying it though that's big time i'm only saying that stage on coachella any way shape or form you the top tier of the artist that year i think it's coachella
7:34 the reality is you're here right you're ████ with these a-less celebrities who are doing it and then next week you come to jk news and that sets the real of like what your real world stay humble dude you're just like all i'm saying i'm saying it's like coachella no matter how sick that was it's crazy because when you go to something like head in the clouds it's like our community yeah so that's something i was gonna ask you like how does it feel performing to like your people and thrown by like like our people and then also it almost feels like like you know how there's a whole like black excellence movement it feels like there's this giant asian excellence movement right we randomly see michelle yao pop up on stage you're just like what the ████ is going on that's what made the class feel so special too right like comparative even to like again ████ apples and orange is different in one sentence but even at coachella
8:25 like we'll we'll hear a couple fans like yeah kendra's you know people are down for it ahead in the clouds it's like people knew us you know what i mean it was a totally different like we were stressed the whole time i'll give the scenario like how this even thing uh went down this this is the most ironic and stressful show i did all year and the reason why it's ironic is because since coachella we already we performed at the 88 rising set at coachella so we already knew we were locked in for head in the clouds months later coachella's in april and the clouds in august we knew in april we're performing ahead in the clouds we had all this time to be like all right cool kenja's going to perform and the original thing is we were going to have a 10-minute slot all right what had happened as we got really close is this i'm not going to say the name but a large chinese public company came in as a client they do apparel footwear and stuff like that large chinese public
9:16 company they came in as a client miniso they wanted uh to put together because they're they're debuting a whole new apparel line and all that stuff so they wanted to hire us to choreograph for artists including people like rich brian and like you know this other upcoming arts to put together a set where we would rep their clothes and shoes and then it makes sense for them yeah totally that would have been way better than fashion nova yeah thank you and in this ten minute set right because other artists were there we only can just our obligation was only performed two minutes it was my as a choreographer it was my obligation to direct and choreograph the whole entire thing for 10 minutes with other artists and us be like dance and hype and stuff with them so they're not on stage by themselves you know they're not dancing but they can just dance argument was two minutes so i'm i'm leading up to the ████
10:07 show for the like the the last three weeks i'm back and forth with the client from china with the account manager on our side with 88 we're doing all this stuff i'm choreographing so uh routines to like respond stuff there's other artists two songs with other artists cause this is the whole fashion show plus dance show they're switching songs midway because they need to switch i'm like ████ but i gotta re-choreograph whole numbers meanwhile kendra's only focusing on two minutes of our own ████ damn and then remember i told you it was the thursday before aka one one week and some change before the event that suddenly political tensions because we talked about this here scrapped it scrapped it because pelosi brought her heavies to taiwan exactly dude with china dude because political tension this large public facing chinese conglomerate had to pull out from this us basis
10:58 so heavenly class was still going on but the particular client that we had the whole job with that i i had hired my whole crew and ████ like that bought studio space all this ████ the world's crazy right they just had to pull out for political reasons sorry so big that we can't even handle ugh so far that's crazy 14 hours no matter how much it sucked and i had to hit up all my guys i'm sorry man thank you for like you know uh blocking out your time and stuff but the gig is canceled nobody's getting paid blah blah blah it's like one of the s█████ ass things that you know it happens yeah did you blame it on nancy though you should have i kind of blamed it on her heavies good so for a couple hours i'm like i'm like almost as s█████ as it was i like all the anxiety and the stress went away it's like i don't it's a force beyond my control we can't do it it sucks but uh whatever like great luck to everybody else perform right yeah i set up like a ████ golf tee time
11:48 and you're like that i'm trying to like get my head out of my game and then on my way to see time like later on that day management hits me back now all right so you guys still doing your 10 minute slot right oh my god so because the client bounced out they still have the slot and so they just assumed miscommunication assumed but like assume that we were big fat miscommunication on my i'm like no way like we're one we're less than a week like a week out i can't put 10 minutes together when when i had eight minutes of other no dude it's so easy like we got just bring out three tables three cameras in the middle and we'll do just kidding live in the middle of head in the clouds bam right there yeah i mean so you know i we have to renegotiate you're not good at brainstorming stay realistic you know if we're gonna go to like even kendrick standards like being i can't believe he didn't call me yeah dance with a dancer you know i'm the
12:39 greatest choreographer this was my call to the kinships man i could have did some bicep curls on stage so dude six minutes right here one minute each we could have ████ done it dude you could have talked about macros counting calories i would have made a protein shake on stage you know what do we got like like i said standards easy it'll take me more time to freaking pour one from each dead homie wow we could have had dante fly in and ████ with his rubio outfit i would have i want to just 10 minutes on stage it could feel like a lifetime guys i can do it right now all you do is me and joe battle each other if you play that wrong even if it doesn't feel like a lifetime you could
13:29 choreograph it wrong where it feels like a lifetime to the audience and that's the bad that's worse right that's worse well the problem is you guys count by like five six seven eight so it's like no ████ it's gonna feel like a long time too slow counting the wrong way transition you need some ████ where are the quarterbacks you know what sucks about dancers it takes 40 of them to fill up 10 minutes it takes only me to fill up 10 minutes yeah so anyways like you said you know and i want to get to some other the juicy stuff anyway you know we had to like pull some one piece of old material but we didn't want to do the same show you know we got to wrap ourselves so in three and we only had three rehearsals now because that's all i scheduled with the guys and we had to cancel two rehearsals because at that time the day i was supposed to rehearse with them was the day that the
14:20 game the gig got pulled so i canceled that day's rehearsal and the next day and then the next day is when we get the flight you have to do your round on the court yeah you have to play your round so we had to put the ████ pedal to the metal you're all at different place now back in the 80s when we was doing it this one was when we called time uh solo time we're gonna break it to solo time instant break off we're gonna break off so everyone just goes like this then we gotta go back in the end after we all did like you but you gotta be out there for a hot second don't just do one goddamn move at any regular corporate job easy but when it's like no no not for sure the pressure of being the only dance crew rep in yeah you know yeah i want to see some ████ and everybody knows who you are you know that's high stakes that's how i stated
15:10 yes so either way the point is on saturday we were performing that and like we barely literally that morning i finished a ████ transition we're like going to the studio finish transition get dressed then we head over and we're performing it was like that day damn y'all ████ procrastinating you guys can get all you guys you procrastinate but you guys are professionals you don't take your work seriously get the ████ out of here so that whole day you can't prepare it goes by like a blur we're ████ stressed out the whole time we finish our performance and you know how it is you ████ get on stage you blink it's over you know what it's like to start planning you can't hear can you hear can you hear that i don't ████ know go up my big go up my account cause the s███'s off and there's no st we don't get a shut down no no texting that ████ just look
16:00 we're gonna follow you like one two then you start dancing to someone's rhythm that's literally what we did we brought in we're like hey look spread out as much as you can hit the front and at the end of the day just back up center we ain't got no tech time so just ████ follow ████ show you guys a hundred percent so we do that ████ and then once we're done there's so much anxiety so everybody's just ████ drunk it's a blur ████ dude but it's the next day that the real real epic ████ happened so we had done our performance and stuff and that was that was sick that was already such an honor thank you 88 having a class festival everybody for having us where can we watch it it was we will probably upload a video bits and pieces on guys i want to see the whole thing dude all right all right all right all right but all ten the next day sunday right here's here's where the most epic and juicy ████ happened that's going like mad viral right now you guys performed twice so we had a secret performance a surprise performance
16:51 with jackson wang on sunday and jackson wang was the closer of head in the clouds as an individual artist he's a he's a big biggest dude there right i know jackson literally from korea uh both technically he's chinese but but he he's on got7 in korea as well he looks really young for his age he's the man dude he's he's younger he's in his mid-20s i thought he was 40. oh yeah so we we had no time obviously so we only uh came out my boy vane was choreographing for jackson uh his lead choreographer for his show he did like a 30 45 minute set or something like that and we come out for his finale number and it's only like four eight counts so it's like we're not to what we were even stressed this channel can you show them four accounts so we're coming in all right we're coming in super super just like the relief from the day prior
17:42 feeling good knowing we're gonna come out for a surprise performance right for the biggest star of that day we go out there we do this number kill it right ████ great time but what people didn't know backstage is that when we got off and we came to the back what jackson didn't know is we brought him out of his camper and in fingers backstory me and him had like this multi-year-long agreement when he had like eight million followers on ig he like he was hey make a deal with you i was all right he's like when i get 30 million followers on instagram you have to announce that i'm a kendra and he said that that's not that he wanted a big one too yeah hell wanted to be on for a long time you know he said that like you know a lot of the kenja's uh inspired him to really get into dancing and like he was on like k-pop like competition tvs back in the day where because they do this a lot in
18:32 korea where they're like different challenges like you have to learn dance for me he would like off of youtube learn different changes dance routines and perform them for like reality tv shows like years ago so the history runs real rich and deep right and the thing is for me i'm like 30 million ████ all right i'll give ████ cards to whatever you want like sure let's go kendra's for sure and then lo and behold like every single time he saw me it'd be like 15 million i remember our deal 20 million remember 25 million followers hey remember our deal and you continue to say that i'm like oh ████ this this is like he's pushing for it's the real deal now he's sitting at 29.8 million followers all right by time sunday so there's no at the end of the day this is the moment yeah you know i was like look destiny is is writing this ████ story you guys are together yeah right we're here
19:24 we ████ just got on stage as a surprise performance to close out him closing head in the clouds which is a big ████ deal for him chinese star came over here and just rocked it like that we get off stage pulling out of his camper and then uh we gave him this custom one-on-one jacket we took the signature uh we don't even have bombers anymore can't produce him when we're like that uh we have the signature alibaba bomber and then we took some of his team stuff cause that's that's his you know his clothing line deconstructed some of ████ combined it made this custom 101 jackson bomber we gifted tim and that's when i announced him and you can see this video online and stuff yeah that's crazy that's why i announced him like yo you know that deal blah blah play that ████ the reason why i danced so we made a promise yes and uh this is
20:14 one of those moments where uh when you had like eight million followers right now we want to formally and officially ask you to join the crew and this fool literally like drops to his knees and he's like so honored about it like we're like chanting together and stuff like that we would love to formally and finally actually ask you to officially get down and become a member of the campaign [Applause] we dropped this video right and literally it starts going viral it becomes the number one trending thing on weibo in china wow i nev we have never hit yeah number one trending anywhere like that before we we like top 10 on weibo before and we're already jumping for joy
21:05 number one ████ trending like it's got millions of views on on my social media accounts on his account and stuff like that and the crazy thing is i'm so just like blown away by how his fans are rallying and all the comments the crazy things nobody's like yo congrats kendricks you got everybody's like yo like we're so happy for jackson to like have the support and have the encouragement of like his brothers that like push him to further his own like you know stretch his limits for like his dance journey like to to be comfortable and to be like honored with such like uh inclusion is rallying behind the fact that like it's a wonderful thing to have for him in his life so i'm literally just like it's one of the most mind-blowing experiences
21:55 because for us you get it it's just like this is our relationship has just gotten so real so authentic so close we ████ love this guy we've been working with him constantly for like years and stuff he's always been family to us but the rest of the world the way they perceive it as well which is in in their truth as well is like this is such a huge and amazing thing for him and i'm like holy ████ i thought it was just amazing thing for us yeah yeah but really it's this beautiful mutual thing where like what he gets from what we get from it like is is just actual bond but in an official way it's not like this mutual like this business transactional like we do work it's like hey like regardless all that ████ for the rest of our lives i'm gonna call you crude you're gonna be fam to me you ever need anything you know what i mean and we just were able to officialize in that moment so that's an amazing story that's dope man that's
22:45 awesome i want to make a wager with you ████ so now that means i'll never be a king dude when jk news loses another million subscribers i want you to promise me you will announce that i am a kinja because i'm going to need something else this ████ ain't going to be working for me jake would you he loses another million hey nick end the video bro every so often he's gonna be like hey we lost another hundred thousand times we lost two thousand dollars y'all should be like you know dude when you guessed it on the thing private guess then when all sudden middle at the end of it someone takes off the mask and it's ████ homeboy jackson went like oh ████ he's been in the crew the whole ████ time he's so gangster what if jackson was like jabberwocky and then you're like oh ████ and he's like just kidding i'm really a kenja and he does this so stupid
23:37 if he missed he missed the next rehearsal and he goes jackson you're out of the crew bro yeah jackson you're always ████ late you're always ████ late it's like number one training all the way but oh yeah he just got kicked out actually miss rehearsal because he's in korea couldn't fly out had a show jackson's always late dude you know what i'll say you're like crazy weekend then that weekend huh you had a crazy ass it was a wild weekend and you know what you know obviously it's not just about like a deal or a bet or anything you know but but it is dope that like one i'm a man of my word regardless how crazy it is i'm mad at my word but two duffle is a matter of his word too that's that's ty and he didn't have to keep it on his end he's such a superstar yeah but he genuinely wanted it i feel like and in the video the thing is ████ funny that you can see the hominess is like literally he he's ████ honored he like drops he comes back up he's like he's like kendra's is an artist i'm like whatever the ████ you
24:27 want cuz obviously you know he's not gonna dance with us all the time [Applause] five times salary for everyone what's the current salary if it's zero then people you
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