- Performing live is Southwest elite, Texas finest.
Tobechukwu Dubem Nwigwe
When they hit me up and said that I'd be a part of BET hip
hop awards.
I a hundred percent knew that the song that I'm performing
is "Fye, Fye" the energy behind it,
and the message behind it is we want to smack me one to face
with pure unadulterated, black joy.
And this performance will be one of the best performances
that I've experienced.
So offsite rehearsal was literally rehearsal that happens
before you actually come to the show.
It is just practice. That's not on the game field.
It's like pregame.
(singing)
Yeah.
My expectation for the offsite rehearsal was pretty much
just to make sure that the dancers understood what the
vision was.
And we executed the vision of one month to do exactly what I
did kind of in the video and just present that energy live
to the people.
So they could feel like exactly what we felt like making the
video
Colby when it comes to practice,
trying to destroy everybody. They like, man,
why are you doing this only practice? I'm like, yeah,
it's practice. How you gonna play in game?
One thing we look for, for sure.
And we're looking for dancers is the ability to adapt to
what specifically what it is that we're doing and for our
specific vision, especially for a firefighter,
if you black we're sync.
(drums banging)
One thing that I understood clearly when I left the onsite
rehearsal is that these are high level professionals,
The band and squad, we rehearsed offsite as well at home.
I even saw Nelly down in front. I was like, whoa,
that is Nellie Jermaine, Dupri Paul Wall.
My people call him a long hair.
He had one of the greatest point guards of all time.
- But I'm saying.
- I did way too much. The very first time we rehearsed,
Mainly because Nellie and Jermaine Dupri,
but I saw Nellie and I thought to myself, it's go time.
Nellie is watching.
This is everything you got to show him that you can rise to
the level that they laid the path for us. I was like,
I saw Nelly and I was like, Hey, fact,
I'm fin to go all out. I ain't warm up or nothing.
Real dry scratchy real quick at the producer board,
I was just trying to make sure that everything was what I
wanted it to be.
Yeah. Just spread out all over the stage.
It's not be congested. And then for the actual show,
can we only do the meat and greens and white?
I was checking to make sure that fast energy was where it
needed to be.
None of that was the energy that you're going to bring with
fat or with us being life partners on or off the stage.
It's how can I gently nudge fat now push to her greatest
potential because she's so naturally talented.
I know when she on the stage and it's go time,
she's going to give her absolute best.
My intention with the choir is just to make the performance
just feel bigger than life.
The far shot both panels for the baby.
I wanted the last shot with my babies and the screen.
Cause we got that deal. being active.
They said babies couldn't be on stage. I just said,
all right, cool.
Let me figure out a creative way to make sure my babies are
apart of this.
So I'm about to head out and head over to rap city.
How that big ticket anybody's.
5,4,3,2
- Welcome back. Rap city, 21.
I'm sitting here with my brother toe bay wig way. Hi,
I got it.
promise. And his beautiful white fat, Hey,
what's happening with it? Well, I'm going to rap city, bro.
Man, it's a dream come true like this.
This is like a really iconic moment for this.
It's been a really a dope family. Phil Toby, miss Valerie.
Like he says, y'all get ready for this award.
So hip hop is the biggest night.
- It's about to be the first time I'm performing in front of
people. Live, they about to get all of this
real Negro energy
all the chairs. I saw the crowd.
I was like, oh, it should be definitely legend.
(Choir singing)
(coughs)
Are you ready?
I'm extra
(rapping)
We got a scorpion
Like a scorpion do
(rapping)
Ready to Stomp ya
Extra
To me to be able to be with my wife on stage and for her to
be able to experience everything with me and see all the
people and like how they react to us doing what it is that
we're doing.
Phenomenal. I feel like this is an amazing experience.
(crowd cheering)
This just came up just to show love and just say, yo,
I appreciate what it is that you're doing. Tobe's amazing.
- And a lot of times you get artists who have great music,
social performance,
you got some artists that have great performances,
social music, and you get artists that,
that combines it all together and they bring it from the
sound to the look to the energy is incredible, man.
Like yo, he's dope.
He's dope.
- When people see our performance,
hopefully they see themselves somewhere in the midst of what
it is that we doing.
And you can feel the joy and experience what it is to have
real raw, authentic, genuine black energy.
Everybody, all the dancers too
I want to be remembered as a person that died that did
everything that I was supposed to do while I was here.
I left no potential on the table.
I want them to say that he woke up every single day,
did what he was supposed to not necessary more
because I'm
not here no more celebrate the fact that I did it all.
YEAH
(Cheering)
Bye
Thank you