CLAY: Whoa!
This is how–
Oksami's music makes me feel..
[fish noises]
JESSIE: What's up everybody!
[blows hair away]
What's up everybody, welcome back to STEEZY's YouTube channel!
It's your girl, Jessie,
and Miso has to sub in for Clay today because Clay's BUSY being–
IN the episode!
You heard right!
Our dancer for this episode of Reverse Choreography
is our very own Claydohboon,
and our producer is Oksami!
But before we get into it,
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CLAY: Hi, my name is Clay,
I am the Director of Video here at STEEZY,
I've been a part of a bunch of random dance crews,
like GRaVy Babies,
Family Bizness,
and I like to battle.
It was different choreographing to no music because
I like music-
that- is very..
PLACED.
I- I like when the music tells me what to do..
Parts where I imagined specific sounds?
There's this– the-
the intro part- I think I go like,
"DONGG" with like my hand or something.
It could be like a bell, or like a–
like a SONAR like-
BUM!
Ooh that felt good..
I like the weird stuff...
like "scoodido! Bee bee, ba, DO!"
"KA, COO, COO!"
I like to do the suction sounds, I go like-
[suction noise]
and I always do that when I dance,
but then everyone around me thinks I'm insane..
[suction noises again]
We'll see if the music..
fits that moment- it probably will–
because, you know..
Oksami..
the god.
[chuckling] CLAY: Tongue woah..
OKSAMI: Hey, I'm Eric, or Oksami.
I am a music producer based in Los Angeles, California.
KENNY BEATS: Oksami has the best beat breakdowns
of anybody in the whole Discord.
TIMBALAND: Oksami..
LET these people know!
You done set the bar high,
you are now Thor!
OKSAMI: I thought it was really interesting how certain parts of the choreography
put harder restrictions on what I would make,
especially when he's doing like popping, you have to be more on rhythm
versus when he's doing some more free-flowing movements,
you can kind of improvise.
For my inspirations, I did some research on Clay's older dances,
uh- just to get a sense of how HE thought about sound and movement.
I really wanted the atmosphere to be
really high energy and suave.
I think Clay came in with so much confidence in his choreography
that I felt like I just had to live up to that energy.
I.. originally saw his-
he was doing like- this hand movement
and.. I thought it was really free-flowing
and..
came up with this bassline that I thought kinda fit.
and then when you add the drums in
to start accentuating all of those small movements,
it starts to really come together.
And I saw him do like these double-fist-pump things-
I hope I didn't butcher that move name.
[Woah]
But..
I knew I wanted to do these double chord stabs,
sooo- I ended up writing this.
So that's pretty much it!
And uh..
looking forward to seeing Clay's reaction!
CLAY: No music?
Comes in..?
Oh I caught my hat there!
Whoa!
Ooh he caught the little baby hits!
[laughs]
Bassline?!
I hate this part!
I don't know why I did this part-
it's so stupid!
[laughs] Ohh he added a little jingle?!
Nooooo!
Not the ugly woah's with the–!
good music..
[laughs]
I didn't deserve that!
That was rude of me,
to have ever made you
make music to that Sami..
Ok Sami?
More like-
Fantastic Sami..
More like–
TOP TIER Sami..
It filled my soul-!
to the core!
You know? I was just like–
OOooooo-
FUNK!
BABY!
[laughs]
I like– when it- it picked up
when I was doing the- the really stupid like tutting walk thing..
it was like,
"doon, digga-doon, digga-doon, digga-doon–"
If I would've heard the track prior,
I definitely would've RODE
with the beat a lot more-
I wanna be like, PULLED in different places.
Getting yanked in different positions,
but allowing the funk to take over my body.
I want to do..
the music justice..
the way the music made my movements..
look like- they were cool.
Tongue woah's are not cool.
NEVER do a tongue woah.
DON'T be like me,
be- the better person..
I wanna re-choreograph that, man!
See you in the next one!
..And then can you make me like cartoon-run out?
OKSAMI: This is already so good..
the horns..
Oh that hand was so good too..
[laughs]
That's actually sick.
Hi-hat..
WOW...
[laughs]
Man, that was seriously good.
This dance definitely felt like it- told more of a story.
He took it up to the next level
with this level of dexterity that I can't even imagine having,
especially with his hand movements.
I- thought every single detail of the track was..
uh- interpreted in a very clever way.
He kind of starts bending out of shape
during the drop before the beat comes in,
and then snapping back into- to position.
And lastly- I mean, he turns his head into a hi-hat
at the end-
which, I just- don't understand how..
So absolutely was a blast working with Clay,
I definitely hope we will work together again!
JESSIE: Thank you all SO much for tuning into our FIFTH episode of Reverse Choreography!
You can find these two on Instagram- right here!
And if you liked the track that Oksami whipped up for this episode,
you can find the link for that in the description box below!
And if you would like to formally petition for Miso to replace Claydohboon
as one of your hosts for this channel,
then hit that thumbs up button,
and we'll make it happen!
Nahh I'm just kidding!
Come back Clay, he doesn't even talk..
One last thing...
[hypnosis voice] You will subscribe to the channel..
You will hit the notification bell..
Unh!