SLIM: I'm going to be choreographing to no music..
A producer's going to be making a song..
to MY dance,
I'm just..
THEN I'm going to be choreographing to a custom song..
after that.
CLAY: Welcome back to
STEEZY!!
Just kidding. [laughing in background]
Welcome back to STEEZY's channel,
it's your boy Clay,
and today, we have another episode of Reverse Choreography!
Today's dancer is Slim Boogie,
and our producer is Bad Snacks.
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Let's-a-go!
Lezz go.
SLIM: Yo what's up, this is Slim Boogie,
representing Criminalz Crew,
The Lot Original
and Machine Gone Funk.
I'm NOT so big on choreographing things,
uh- although I DO do like-
you know, routines and stuff.
But I really feel like there's a purity
in just straight freestyle,
especially to the metronome.
For me, I think the challenging part was just-
not KNOWING what was going to be the next step ahead of it
or what was going to happen afterwards,
and just.. uh-
just going in and going full-out.
There's a few moments,
especially like with the tutting-
kind of combos and stuff like that that I was doing.
Maybe even like some of the waving stuff
that was in there would be really cool to see
what she's going to implement into it.
I have no idea what's going to happen.
[laughs]
I just wanna see what she's gonna do with the whole thing,
especially since it's the metronome it's like-
you're able to-
kind of- play off of everything, you know?
BAD SNACKS: Hey guys, my name is Bad Snacks.
I am a producer based out of Portland, Oregon,
and I make electronic instrumental music
that's like pretty hip hop derivative and sometimes kind of experimental.
I've never worked with a dancer before,
so to have somebody actually kind of like-
DICTATE my composition was super, super fun.
And also, I'm a huge Slim Boogie fan, like-
we've been in contact for almost a year now,
and I've just watched him from afar and he's an AMAZING dancer,
so it was really, really cool that we got to work together on this.
The very first thing that I did
was I actually mapped out every single one of his hits
to either a kick or a snare.
We have like this.
So, I did that for the ENTIRE track
to give myself a framework to work with.
Usually in my music,
my drum programming is- is fairly linear,
but this was REALLY fun to be like,
"kick kick kick snare kick snare snare kick–"
It really felt like he was conducting.
Like there was something about his motion
that really just made it easy to play violin to what he was doing,
so I just let him-
actually kind of dictate what I played on violin,
and it sounded like this..
[violin playing]
For the grand finale,
there's this moment where he like, looks up
and he looks kind of like, fierce or like, "go" mode,
so I just put this SUPER mean bass.
So lots of little details
and a LOT of it is just about following-
those micro movements.
I'm super stoked to see what he comes up with after this..
SLIM: Is there a bass coming somewhere?
Oh was coming from the TV..
Ooh!
Oooh!
Wooohf!
Yoo I was not expecting that-
I got chills right now..
Ooh.
OOHF!
Yo, I'm TRIPPIN' right now.
Wow!
Yo, Bad Snacks-
tsh..
WOW.
Yo that was CRAZY,
I was NOT expecting that at all!
Ho ho ho..
Wow..
If I could say bad words on camera,
there would be tons of them, but I can't–
DEVIN: You totally can say them dude. [Slim laughs]
My initial reaction was like-
chills and-
tears almost of-
of like, surprise, you know?
I was trying to hold it together though,
because y'know, I am 36 so I'm a grown man..
hold it.
KEY: Those are MANLY tears!
Okay?!
SLIM: Really feels like-
she was connecting with what my thoughts were with my movement.
Even I wasn't thinking about this kind of thought with the music but,
it connected perfectly
even with just dragging certain sounds with like my feet kind of sliding
and her dragging that sound along,
was really cool.
I think the part with the tutting going around
and then the wave going into like, the kind of violin sounds
that part was REALLY unexpected too.
It's just like everything is so..
insane, yeah..
THANK you,
Bad Snacks
for just being dope.
I'm looking forward to choreographing/freestyling the next one.
BAD SNACKS: Oh my God, this is already so cool.
Whoa..
Whoaa..
Wha–
This is cool.
Yeah dude!
Whoaaaa-ha-ha-ha-ha!
That was crazy!
Like I just– I was like, almost-
[gulp]
not breathing.
[laughing]
I love how..
there was so much intention in the first one
but this one really-
like you could see him really kind of-
digging into his movements a little bit more.
There's a part where he like-
there's no way I can imitate it,
but he like- does this thing where he like, sends a movement
up into his body
and it kinda creates this like, giant wave along with that
watery sound,
and then like, kind of grabbing the air when the bass comes in it's just–
It feels like it's LOCKED in a lot more.
I'm like at a loss for words!
This is just such a treat for me,
it really was,
it was SO fun to make through and through
and seeing Slim's interpretation of it
and being inspired by him-
This is what I LOVE about making music and making art.
So, yeah.
LOVED collaborating with Slim.
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