Dancing's like my fountain of youth, so it's like you're in Neverland, you know, you kind of feel like Peter Pan for a second while you're on the dance floor, like time stops.
Before and after culture to me is what you do, this is how you live.
It's something that's never failed me, that's something that I've always stuck by because it's never failed me at all.
So it's always something that I did and I always grew up dancing and being performing, but Bebo has always been my foundation and I see a lot of other, you know, older to newer cats and they all have different reasons why they break,
but I just feel free when I break, there's something I can't go wrong with that, you know, and it's just something that I have to do.
I can go three or four days without dancing and I'm itching, you know what I mean, I'm ready to go, I need to throw down, I need to get everything popping.
So Bebo and to me it's just that culture, it's the way of life, it's something that you do and I'll do it whether I'm making money or not.
I'm a BB born for the rest of my life, I already know it.
My name is Phlips, one of the co-founders of Skill Methods Crew.
I was born in Puerto Rico, raised in Florida and my dance style, my whole dance life, it evolved in Tampa, Florida starting in 1995.
I think breaking chose me in a way, in the sense of I used to like tumble, I used to do flips and I used to play baseball and ride BMX bike.
And I was always looking for my next like brush, my next thrill, my next something that excited me because I have ADD and I'm super hyperactive.
Some people take it the wrong way and they think you're like a hood rat or they think you're like, you know, you're up to no good.
It's gang related because you wear your pant leg up or because you're out in clubs late at night trying to win a dance competition.
They think you're like doing drugs or drinking beer or whatever.
So once you get past all that and you see that it's still in your life, you're not in any negative way, you're not in any negative path.
You're not doing drugs, you're not abusing anything in any way, you're just dancing.
Then things started to fall into place and I started, I guess, being able to publicly showcase my talent.
Right out of high school, I had a career welding, a career job full on nine to five.
I mean, it was good. It's just not my passion, but it's good work. I liked it. I'm not going to say I hated it.
You know, I like going to work. I like the craftsmanship of being a welder, you know, like putting things together, you know, like seeing the progress of put like bonding metal.
That's an art form too. You know, like I enjoyed doing that. I just wasn't passionate about it.
If I continued to be a welder, I was going to be just like my parents. There was nothing wrong with that because my parents work.
They are hard workers. You know, they raised me, my brother, my sister, correct.
My mom is a really hard worker, but I realized that maybe that wasn't my path.
I wanted to take a chance and try something else. If it worked out great, if it didn't work out, I was already a certified welder.
I can go anywhere in the world, anywhere in the world and get a job welding.
So I told myself, you know what, like I went to school, I graduated school, I'm a certified welder.
I got to try to do this because otherwise I'm going to regret my life.
I'm going to regret living this life. I'm not going to be happy.
You know, so I put in my two weeks notice and I said, I didn't want to work there anymore.
And I left. I left to pursue dance.
I left to pursue dance.
I left to pursue dance.
I think God blessed us all with enough knowledge and talent deep down inside that if you dig deep enough, you're going to find what your talent is.
And it doesn't have to be dancing, man. It could be anything. It could be anything.
Because we wouldn't be in this world with all this technology and all this around us and all this access.
And you still have the excuse that I don't know what I'm going to do with my life.
I don't know what I was meant to be, you know, deep down, you know, everybody that could tap into themselves and tap into, you know, that higher knowledge, which I, you know, it's God for me.
But whatever you believe in, if you tap deep enough, you're going to find something.
Some people weren't meant to find it, you know, some people are like scared to death of it.
And some people go, it's a lifelong journey, but once they find it, that's when you know you're there. You're at peace.
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