So then, like Nick Cannon’s Devon in Drumline, DJ finds himself in a historically black college, making waves and pursuing the hottest thing he lays eyes on.ĭefinitely one of the more unusual plot points in Stomp the Yard was the life-size Stratego reenactment…
This is a very similar set up to Served, minus the bullet part. He leads a troupe with his brother, Duron (Chris Brown), and battles the wrong group, which ends in Duron getting too familiar with a bullet. STY features DJ, a street dancer who can bust it out better than anyone, and his dancing is exceeded only by his mouth. In Drumline’s case, it’s Nick Cannon who’s a drumming savant who goes to college and in Served, it’s real life brothers Omarion and Marques Houston who are the best street dancers in LA. There’s a Civil War times African American situational joke here that even I, as part African American, wouldn’t touch with a 10 foot pole.įirst of all, STY more or less follows the exact same formula of Drumline and Served: cocky young dancer/musician/singer has an incredible talent in his particular field and isn’t afraid to show it through battling. When DJ decides to pledge Theta Nu, the battle is on for the stepping championship, as well as for April and DJ’s self redemption from his past. In the process, and through his pursuit of April, DJ, who frequently shoots off his mouth, manages to make himself an enemy of Grant and Mu Gamma. After winning a dance battle against Grant, DJ finds himself courted by both fraternities: Mu Gamma to continue their winning ways, and Theta Nu to finally break Mu Gamma’s stranglehold on the title. Mu Gamma is one of two rival fraternities (the other being Theta Nu) who annually compete in a national stepping competition, which Mu Gamma has dominated. There he quickly finds himself drawn to the provost’s daughter, April (Good), who happens to be the girlfriend of Grant (Henson), who’s a stepper for Mu Gamma. When his younger brother is killed after their troupe wins a local dance battle in LA, cocky street dancer DJ (Short) relocates to live with his aunt and uncle and to attend college at Truth University in Atlanta.
"Yeah? Well…uh, what were we talking about?" "Oh don’t worry, when I dish, you’ll know it." "I can handle anything if you can dish it." "Oh, I’ll bring it, but can you take it?"
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