I've had a lot of good ideas, but this one
might be my best yet.
It's going to be hip hop.
JOJO: I love you!
Nobody expects us to be good at hip hop, but we are.
MACKENZIE: I don't know about Abby, but I think I killed it.
ABBY: I think the kid's a nervous wreck.
MELISSA: I just want to talk to you real quick.
That woman is crazy.
Watch out.
Be tough.
This is a tough crowd.
You're dealing with these mothers here, OK?
Hip hop was difficult enough back in Pittsburgh
when they had Maddie.
Now we're here on the west coast in LA without Maddie.
I don't think the girls are going
to be able to pull this off.
Hi.
ASHLEE: They're adorable.
ABBY: This is Ryan.
RYAN: Ryan.
Blake and Kenneth, OK?
So they're in your dance.
Yeah, what do you think the surprise?
I brought three guys just to hang out?
CHOREOGRAPHER: Five, six, and seven, and eight.
Abby thinks it's a brilliant idea to add three random boys
to the group.
What is up with that?
The girls have never danced with these boys before.
They're learning the choreography now,
and now we're going to add more people to the group.
That's insane.
I've had a lot of good ideas, but this one
might be my best yet.
These three boys can pop and lock.
They're incredible.
And they're taking my beautiful lyrical dancers,
and they're making them be tough and rugged hip hop stars.
I think we have a good dance this week.
We have a good chance to win.
This is like nothing we've ever had before.
This week we have boys in, and we're doing a hip hop dance.
And nobody expects us to be good at hip hop, but we are.
OK, just going to say that.
ANNOUNCER 1: Next up, we have number 35, "Straight Out
of Pittsburgh."
[crowd cheering]
MUSIC: I never give up.
I refuse to lose.
I do what I got to do.
I'm paying my dues.
Yeah.
Never give up.
I refuse to lose.
Never give up.
Refuse to lose.
Do what I got to do.
I'm paying my dues.
Got to stay focused.
Won't lose control.
Then I make it happen when I'm selling my soul.
[crowd cheering]
For team group, in first we have number 35, "Straight Out
of Pittsburgh."
[crowd cheering]
Oh, yes.
The dance Gods us singing today.
ABBY: This weekend, Jojo, you will be doing a solo.
It's going to be hip hop.
I love you!
ABBY: Brynn, you will be doing a solo.
It's also hip hop.
My last solo for this week goes to MacKenzie.
Yay, Mackenz.
Hip hop?
Actually, you are doing hoedown showdown,
a gymnastic routine.
It's what you do.
MacKenzie's amazing at hip hop.
JILL: You should let them all three do hip hop.
I have never done a hip hop solo.
And I feel like I'm really improving in hip hop,
so I hope she changes her mind.
So then you're not going to do a solo.
That's what's going to happen.
Oh my god.
ABBY: MacKenzie will soon be moving on.
Why not take the opportunity to work with me on her technique,
her relev .
Dumb mistake, MacKenzie.
Dumb mistake.
Oh well.
You know, the fact that you have never ever in five years
asked for a solo--
No.
--and you asked, and she did that is a shame.
HOLLY: What do you have to lose?
This is the right thing to do.
Say something.
Why wouldn't you?
I'm going to stand up for my daughter.
That's it.
She's the best hip hopper on the whole team.
I just want to talk to you real quick.
[gasps] ABBY: Go on.
Shut the door.
Get out!
I'm done.
That woman is crazy.
All right, I have three hip hop solos in the 11-12 age
category.
Who will be the prized fighter today?
I'm really nervous because I have never competed a hip hop
solo, so there's a lot of pressure on me.
[music playing] (SINGING) Forget about things
that you used to know.
Everybody talking like they think they know,
but I'm the real deal, baby.
Yeah, for sure.
Can't tell me nothing when I'm on a flow.
When I walk by they be like there she go.
I bet that you ain't never seen a chick so bad.
Is it bad that I'm so confident.
I know what I got and they don't ask what.
How could it be wrong when I feel so right?
I'm bad.
Just say I own what's mine.
Mine.
Give me, give me that.
Don't hold back.
Give me competition just like that.
I bet that you ain't never seen a chick so bad.
Give me, give me that.
Don't hold back.
Patty cake, patty cake baker's man.
Mine.
[crowd cheering]
MACKENZIE: I don't know about Abby,
but I think I killed that.
But Jojo and Brynn, they're both really good hip hoppers,
so I don't know what place I'm going to be in.
But let's hope it's first.
In fifth place, number 12, "Million Dollar Baby."
It's fine that Jojo got fifth place.
As long as Jojo doesn't lose to Brynn, I will jump for joy.
Fourth place, number 11, "Break."
[applause]
Are you freaking kidding me?
Third place, number 8, "I'm Not Afraid of the Dark."
Second place, entry number 6, "Burn It Up."
Oh, no.
And your highest scoring junior solo, number 13,
"Bully" from the Abby Lee Dance Company.
Junior dancers take a bow.
It feels great to win because Abby didn't think I could win
with a hip hop solo, so that's her fault.
I think I proved Abby wrong with the hip hop solo.
ABBY: Maesi's routine is a hip hop number called "I'm Alive."
I think Maesi does have a lot of potential
to be a professional working dancer in LA,
but I think the kid's a nervous wreck.
Try to pick it up.
And Maesi forgets her dance.
That's just probably over-rehearsed.
Wait.
She's over-rehearsed, and she can't remember it?
You're done.
Go.
Until you get in front of Abby?
I know.
This is a lot of pressure to come in.
I hope she can pull through this because Maesi wants
more than anything to dance the solo this weekend.
You're OK.
If you have to throw up, you throw up, OK?
She's going to throw up I think.
If you throw up, we clean it up.
It's that simple.
MAESI: [gags]
JILL: Maesi's throwing up.
MELISSA: Maesi's sick.
She not here?
JILL: She's like-- she's in the bathroom.
I think she's, like, throwing up.
If God gave me that mother, I'd throw up every day.
She's just going to practice her dance and vomit
in a giant garbage can?
ANNOUNCER 2: Up next is entry number six.
We have Maesi performing "I'm Alive."
[crowd cheering]
[music playing] (SINGING) I've seen the truth.
You need to love.
They try to bury it, but they just can't hide.
Went through the darkness and found a life.
The world is changing right before my eyes.
I'm alive.
[crowd cheering]
Maesi, it was so good.
Thank you.
You did everything Abby told you to.
ANNOUNCER 1: All right, in second place is entry number
six, "I'm Alive."
[applause]
She beat Brynn.
No one, except for me, thought that was possible,
and, hopefully, this will make Abby see Maesi
in a new bright shining light.
ABBY: Back let higher, Kalani.
OK, here's the deal.
I think that you know it, but faces,
there's nothing happening.
The meanness that you start out with dies very quickly,
and then I get nothing.
This is it.
I think people continue to try really hard to bring down
the ALDC, but I think our girls are strong.
I think they're survivors, and they're fighters.
And they're going to fight on the dance floor.
ANNOUNCER 3: We are starting with entry number 70.
Please welcome to the stage "Stomp The Yard."
[applause]
[MUSIC - BECKAH SHAE, "HEARTBEAT"]
(SINGING) And his blood has ransomed people for God, hey!
From every tribe and language, people, every nation, hey!
Where warriors have fallen, there's a resurrection coming.
It's your time to rise and shine.
Oh, wake up, you sleeping giant.
The wounds of injustice are being healed by the peace, hey,
of YHWH, who's bringing us power through unity.
Yeshua, bring us together.
Bring us together.
Together we cry out, out for your heartbeat.
Your heartbeat, oh.
Give us your heartbeat.
[crowd cheering]
I thought the group dance was excellent.
Time for the awards.
Now, if we lose to Jeanette and Ava, watch out.
And our top scoring energy junior small group is entry
number 70, "Stomp the Yard."
[crowd cheering]
Congratulations.
You got served.
The next solo is going to Jojo.
You are doing the hip hop dance entitled
"I'll Show You The Dark Side."
GIRLS: Oh!
Jojo's solo is called "I'll Show You The Dark Side,"
and I'm thrilled because I know Jojo is going
to pull this character off.
And this is Jojo's opportunity to go 110%
and show everyone what she's made of.
Competition is tomorrow.
So tomorrow, you have a solo to do.
You're going to be in makeup for a long time,
and you're going to have to keep your mouth shut while they're
doing it because you can't move your face.
Darn.
[laughs]
ABBY: OK?
HOLLY: This is so creepy.
Oh, Jojo, look at your eyes.
Is that crazy?
Let me see.
As much as Abby comes down on Jojo,
she knows deep down Jojo can play a character.
Kendall got the opportunity, and she didn't embrace it.
Jojo is Abby's star.
That's who Jojo is.
[music playing]
MUSIC: (SINGING) Middle of the night
I can hear your heartbeat, heartbeat, heartbeat calling
out my name.
Yes, I know it must seem strange.
And I know these things are going on in your brain.
I know what you're looking for.
I know what you need.
[MUSIC - MIDI MAFIA FEAT.
BEBE O'HARE, "CLOSET FREAK"] (RAPPING) Mark be all
on my case.
Jacob all on my mind.
Stacy good on his feet.
Adam all on my line.
I got a bald man I call Balmain.
Spoil me on the weekend and then take me out to the ballgame.
Jordan fresh and he tall, man.
Cartier got them dollars.
I'm a closet freak.
No time to speak.
I ain't saying it like I'm proud or something.
Bang.
Ow!
[applause]
In second place, "I'll Show You The Dark Side."
[crowd cheering]
I'm super excited for Jojo.
This is a really good way to start out the year for Jojo.
ANNOUNCER 3: Wonderful job.
You will do a hip hop routine in the competition
this weekend.
Yay!
Maddie and Kenzie's last number, Abby's
not even teaching it.
She doesn't care.
Aren't you kind of glad that you're not going to have
to deal with that anymore?
Yeah, you know you are.
We'll have to hear it, but she won't have to hear.
ABBY: How is everybody?
Melissa, how you doing?
MELISSA: I'm good.
You good?
You relishing in the moment?
JILL: I think she's ecstatic.
No, I cried.
I was crying down there.
Oh, stop.
I will say this week has been a weird week for me
because you have been, in some way,
very much in denial that they're leaving.
Melissa just wants everything to be happy,
and it's really hard for some people
to process the closure of what it means to move on.
Our elite team will never be the same anymore.
ABBY: Girls, this will be the last time--
[clears throat] --that I work with Maddie and MacKenzie.
So it's kind of like when you graduate from high school
and you're off to something maybe not better--
maybe not bigger.
You never know what your future holds.
ANNOUNCER 4: Small group hip hop, number 128, "Boss Ladies."
[crowd cheering]
JESSALYNN: This is Maddie and McKenzie's last performance
with our team, and we've got a lot of cards stacked against us
right now.
If we lose this week, it is going to be devastating for us.
[MUSIC - PHOTRONIQUE FEAT.
SHARI SHORT, "WE ON TOP"] (RAPPING) Put your hands up
in the air.
Put your hands up in the air.
I turned nothing into something.
I work hard then I play.
I be chilling, but I'm business.
Call me boss lady.
Don't be jealous my hustle because I'm killing all day.
I be flexing my muscles.
I don't care what they say.
See the watch.
See the Benz.
I can spend my money.
So much dough, so much bread.
I could have a bakery.
Watch out.
I'm in my zone.
Hand me the microphone.
They say when in Rome.
Yep.
Me and my crew, although we made it, yeah, we on top.
We keep on pushing.
Bars are raising.
We don't stop.
No one can replicate the magic that we unlock because we
on top.
Put your hands up in the air.
We on top.
Put your hands up in the air.
We on top.
Me and my crew, although we made it, yeah, we on top.
We keep on pushing.
Bars are raising.
We don't stop.
No one can replicate the magic that we unlock because we
on top.
We on top.
Hands up in the air.
Put your hands up in the air.
That's right. Listen.
No tripping.
Put your hands up in the air.
We don't stop.
We on top.
[crowd cheering]
Good job, girls!
Woo!
I did it!
Oh my gosh!
That was so fun!
Are you guys ready for some awards now?
That's why we're here, right?
This has been a really long amazing journey with the ALDC,
the junior elite team.
And to think this is our last awards ceremony,
I don't want Maddie and MacKenzie
to leave on a low note.
I want them to leave as champions.
Top senior group of the day, it goes out to 128,
"Boss Ladies!"
[crowd cheering]
MADDIE: This is exactly how I wanted
to end my whole experience on the team.
I ended it with a bang.
It's great.
I wanted to win.
And it happened, so it was just a great day.