(upbeat music)
(hip hop music)
- Hip hop is a lifestyle.
It's the way you live, it's the way you eat,
it's the way you listen to music, it's the way you talk
to your peers, your parents, your family.
It's a positive energy and that everything that we do
is for the good and the social gathering.
- [Cheng] We are the Hmong Breakers Leadership Council,
we are also known as HBLC.
HBLC's mission is to bridge the Hmong community
with different modern and traditional talents
by initiating opportunities with hip hop
and the arts as a platform.
So we are a coalition of different artists
of different genres founded by breakers and with our work,
we hope to build a community that's
multi-generational and multi-diverse.
- [James] We reach out to other communities
by hosting events, during those times when we host these
we invite as many people, as many dancers, to our events
and usually during those times we get
a variety of different people.
- [DJ] Thanks you guys, welcome to Little Mekong night
market, I got HBLC who's not only an organizing group,
HBLC's made up of beat boys, beat girls, pounclers,
and they're gonna break it down for you guys,
a little showcase.
- [Cheng] Little Mekong night market is a event done back
in Southern Asia where it's too hot to be selling food
and to be gathering people so they do it at nighttime.
We want to recreate it in to St. Paul
and the Minnesota community and we have all sorts
of hip hop elements into this one event.
- [DJ] B Boy Teknika
- [Robert] We're exposing hip hop to the community,
we're bringing it to them, they're coming out
for their own reasons, such as night market,
but why not expose you to hip hop
and you know all that we have to offer.
- We bring a different atmosphere that maybe the
Little Menkong wouldn't have had if we wasn't there.
It was just something that was different, something new,
something that we created, something original.
- [Judge] I am looking for execution,
complete battle mentality,
that means you're facing your opponent
but you're also making sure we can see your moves,
musicality, musicality is how well you are interpreting
the music, you don't even have to know it,
but you just gotta be on beat.
- [Robert] A battle is a street fight without the fighting
- A battle is definitely a competition,
who does the best of this, who does the best of that,
strength, speed, cleanliness, originality,
- [Robert] And that involves bringing a lot of different
aspects from all other, like your life into it
- And then the person that comes out on top,
that the judges like better or the crowd likes better
tends to win the battle.
- [Cheng] The Hmong community, our elders, all they want is
their kids to be doctors and lawyers, to be,
to get that professional life and income,
but they don't know about the possible success of dance
and especially what we're doing, breaking and hip hop.
And so, myself, I went to school for dance
and so I have a degree in dance.
- [Robert] All the individuals in the group bring their own
backgrounds, like Cheng's a professional dancer,
James is a professional lifter, and I'm just a big advocate
for the youth and so we're all bringing different views
and goals and collectively pulling it together to create
these awesome events that will bring the community together
and also help us in our own individual fields
- [Cheng] Breaking has so many moves that aren't even
in a category or doesn't have a name for it.
But the basics, there's six categories, there's top rocks,
wop rocks, get down, foot work, freezes,
hard moves and then there's get ups.
- [James] The Hmong community we also have like
traditional dances and other stuff that we do.
You think about dancing or in a battle and, you know,
you're always starting with up rocks and stuff but you know,
Hmong people we have like dance moves where like our hands
fold and stuff, you know, so when when you come out
with that people are just like, whoa, what is that, you know
so I definitely like the fact that when we express
what we have, you know, that only our culture has,
and we show it off on the dance floor,
people are like, who are you, where did you come from,
where did that dance style come from,
and I can just be like I'm Hmong and this is what we do.
- In this community we're all actual dancers
with our own experiences and were putting it all together
to create these opportunities for other dancers to network,
join and meet us as well.
- [Cheng] From our meeting with Red Wok
they have another room open for us
and they want us to help find a way to promote
Red Wok more by us gathering activities or open sessions
so then they can gather more so we can gather people there
which will gather more customers actually they want us
to use our first kickoff as an event.
We as a council, we meet weekly at
the Center for Hmong Studies at Concordia University
- A typical council meeting, we usually review
what was last said and just looking at new opportunities
that were presented to us.
- If we're trying to I guess bring as much traffic
as we can for Red Wok I think the idea would be
maybe have a little bit of everything.
- I do really like our meetings because again we joke around
we do a lot of stuff but at the end of the day
everybody loves dance, everybody loves something
about why were doing what we do.
- Any questions or concerns or are we done?
- We're good? - Yeah, good.
- Good job, team.
- [Cheng] The Hmong community has such a sudden
spurse of population into the US
and especially in St. Paul and California
that a majority of us youth found a connection with hip hop
'cause its really the same thing, we live in the poverty
and we try to find a way out by speaking
and telling the world who we are.
- Nice! Come on!
- [James] With Hmong people, I feel like we might live
in poverty in terms of like financial
but I feel like the Hmong people we have other things
that we're really rich at and within that
richness is where we gather, and hip hop is kind of like
the platform that kind of brings those richness together.
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