Freestyling with Josh Peck & 'Battle of the Year' Crew

Freestyling with Josh Peck & 'Battle of the Year' Crew
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YH is at the dance studio with actor Josh Peck, who plays the assistant coach in Chris Brown's dance crew flick 'Battle of the Year', and he's on hand to give us some guidance as we head to the floor to get some lessons from the movie's professionals! See if we can keep up with their dope moves and be sure to stick around for the freestylin'! Hosted by Lesley Robins (@lesleyrobins).
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Okay, we have something in common. Jewish, New York.
Nah. I dance, you don't though.
Who says I don't dance?
You said you don't dance. The a character in a movie.
Well, you didn't dance in the movie. That's true. But you were really funny.
Thank you so much.
Yeah, did you want to dance though?
I did want to bust out some moves here and there. But when you're with guys that are this good, you kind of like feel as though if I make one wrong move, I'm going to be so badly embarrassed that I'll never live it down.
Well, what you learn? What'd you learn?
I learned more like hip-hop, like the attitude. Like like how to have like the dope high tops, how to have like the hat. Like I could fake it really well. Like I could be in the back of a B boy crew and be like, "Yeah!" But I wouldn't be the one like dancing.
How do you do that? Can you teach me the "Yeah!"
All right, you need to have more like echo. Go.
Yeah.
Well done.
Thanks.
I'm really proud of you.
Thank you.
You should be proud of yourself. You are the assistant coach. That is true. So give me some coaching tips. What do I need to go in that room with?
No fear. No fear. Zero fear. Uh, you better be ready to laugh at yourself hard. 'Cause I had to. Uh, and just, you know, channel channel people like like, you know who was one of the original B boys? Bruce Lee. Bruce Lee. You know what I'm saying? Drink that in, 'cause it goes down smooth.
Is that like hip-hop talk? Is that hip-hop talk?
Pretty good.
Well, let's talk about your Vine videos because they're ridiculously funny. I mean, funny.
I, you know, Vine is truly what's going on in my brain when no one's watching. So you're getting an inside view.
But yet everyone is watching because you have the most Vine followers on the face of the Earth. No big deal. Everybody's watching. I love it. I'm it's addicting. Now I feel like I have to put one up every day, but Vine, there's a lot of pressure. And like I get Vine block.
Yeah, where I can't come up with ideas.
Really?
Oh, yeah, 'cause I just want to impress. I just want to like please the fans.
Okay, so I'm here to dance. I'm dressed to dance. We're going across the way to dance. Yes. But are you going to dance with me or are you just going to do assistant coaching?
I'm probably going to assistant coach. Okay. But I'm so there with you, emotionally and spiritually.
But you're not prepared. You know what you're missing. What am I missing? What are you missing? What is the one thing that you need as an assistant coach? What's missing?
Courage. Got that? Check. There you go.
What am I missing? If I knew how to whistle, I'd whistle to say you're missing your whistle. Get in there. Go for it. Assistant coach, listen to me. Know what I'm talking about. I don't know what I'm talking about. Okay. Battle of the year, I saw it. How long did it take you guys to learn moves like that?
To film for like 12 hours to do it again and again. You know what I mean, we're human. We feel like we're robots, but you you start to feel it. And then the pressure of it is going to be released worldwide. Yeah. You can't fail. That's the thing.
Okay. Let's get it good. Get it up. Set it up. Now go now go easy on me. This is the battle of the hour, not of the year. Coach, stands over there? Yeah. You're coaching, right? Observation. What I'm saying? So wait, wait, after the clap, you're stepping on your left, right? Two, three, four. Oh, whistle. You go back, sorry. Seven, eight. You're going back. Sorry. One, two, three, four. Okay. Get in. The more attitude, the better. Okay. Yeah, you want to intimidate your opponent. Coach, how are we doing?
I was almost proud of you.
Yeah?
Almost. I want to see more style. I want to see more attitude. Okay. You know what I'm saying? Look at that confidence. Look at that face right there. Look at that. Take that. Gassy. Lactose intolerant just had an ice cream sundae. I'm standing next to Chris Brown and I possibly can't look cool, and I'm so I'm going to do my best impression to be cool. That's true. Yeah. Let's do it. I can't look cool around Chris. I'm going to try and channel her. He takes up all the cool in the room. So routine and then freestyle. Oh, no. Freestyle right away. Yes. Let's go. Yeah. Get it, get it. Yeah! Woo! There we go. Here we go. Woo!
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PEOPLE MENTIONED
- Josh Peck
Featured guest and actor in 'Battle of the Year'
- Lesley Robins
Host of the Young Hollywood segment
- Chris Brown
Stars in 'Battle of the Year' with Josh Peck
- Bruce Lee
Mentioned as an 'original B-Boy' by Josh Peck
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