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JONATHAN LEGACY PEREZ: I just take movement to a whole nother level and I incorporate all
styles, all genres. DESTORM POWER: With my music I'm trying to uplift, inspire, motivate,
bring creativity back to hip hop. That's my goal. JONATHAN LEGACY PEREZ: I think it's
gonna be a really cool, weird mix of a collaboration. DESTORM POWER: We're gonna really shock people
and wake people up. Thing's gonna be magical. JONATHAN LEGACY PEREZ: He's rapping and I'm trying
to keep up. That mix is gonna be crazy.
DESTORM POWER: My name is DeStorm Power and
I am a rap-aholic. JONATHAN LEGACY PEREZ: My name is Jonathan Legacy Perez.
I dance, I love creating and I love just being.
I was born in New York City, I moved to Miami.
It was the ghetto, very drug based slash violent. Almost got kidnapped when I
was young. Very tough. DESTORM POWER: Growing up in Baltimore it was eight
of us and my mother and we were in a one bedroom apartment. JONATHAN LEGACY PEREZ: You know
I lost a lot of friends because of drugs and because of gangsters. DESTORM POWER: When
you see a lot of things that we saw, like fights and there's gun shots and dead you
know bodies we've seen a lot. JONATHAN LEGACY PEREZ: Yes, I loved school and I wanted to
accomplish, finish it, but when I had a passion for something, which was this and it was so
great, I couldn't let it go. DESTORM POWER: I was living in New York and I got evicted.
I bought tinted windows for my car, I had this old beat up Eclipse, a 92 Eclipse and
I bought a keyboard and I would you know sing in the subway systems and rap in the
subway systems to make money so that I can survive and live in my car. My mother would
call when I was in New York, "How's my baby doing? You doing all right?" And I'm like "Yeah,
ma, I'm fine, I'm good." You know like I would just make up something to make her proud so
she can know that things were going down, so she can have you know a torch to hold on
to because I was the one that made it out. I was more afraid of failure and that's the
biggest fear. You know it's like you don't wanna fail. I remember in 2010 I did a video
twice a week, a full music video. So I would just do the entire video. I would stay sixteen
hours a day, spend sixteen hours every day, seven days a week, sleep four hours a day,
didn't worry about eating, didn't worry about working on anything and just do it every day
for almost a year. JONATHAN LEGACY PEREZ: We gotta be in LA, that's where it's at. Picked
up, left, we slept in Tallahassee, street performed in New Orleans and entered LA
four days later. I had two hundred and forty dollars in my pocket, just that and a whole lot of ambition.
Dancers are a channel of the gods. You know some people know how to
do tricks, some people know how to do stunts, and that's amazing and appealing for the for
the eye, but when you watch somebody come out of their shell and not care about anything
and connect to the rhythms and, it's funny, I get emotional because it's so like, it,
because I feel what I say because I feel what I what I do, you know what I mean? When I'm
dancing it's like you take all the anger that you've ever had,
you take everything that you've had from your childhood. You take you know your daily
activities, what whatever makes you feel a certain way, and you put it into your movement.
You express yourself. DESTORM POWER: Music and movement is synonymous because when
you think of music you think of movement and when you think of movement you think of music.
JONATHAN LEGACY PEREZ: There's no rules in that dance, there's no rules in how you're
listening to the music, the ins and outs, the cuts, the sound, the silences.
When you connect to all these things that are sounding and you're trying to move your
body to shape it, it's incredible. All I know is that when I'm in the moment I'm just feeling
and I'm being and I'm present. DESTORM POWER: What's up world? JONATHAN LEGACY PEREZ: Ha,
ha, DeStorm. I've never met DeStorm, although I feel like I know him through his videos.
Guy's got a hundred and forty seven million eighty two thousand and like sixty four channel
views. He's got a million subscribers. He's phenomenal. He does many things, many
things. DESTORM POWER: Legacy is this awesome dancer. He does stuff that I will never be
able to do and I can't physically do with my body. He's one of the best dancers in the
world I would say. I can't wait to actually work with him to see what he does to the a
the actual music that I have. JONATHAN LEGACY PEREZ: You know, when you meet somebody first
impressions are everything, and I really didn't know what was gonna happen.
What's up man? DESTORM POWER: Nothing, man.
DESTORM POWER: No, I ain't going around, I ain't going there. JONATHAN LEGACY PEREZ: What's up brother?
DESTORM POWER: I expect it to be unique, I expect him to bring his A game, I'm gonna bring mine.
JONATHAN LEGACY PEREZ: All right, talk to me, man. I feel like I've known you for like fifty
years. When we first met we we were like okay, cool. Let's figure it out how
this collaboration is gonna work out and what we need to do in order to make it successful.
I love that. DESTORM POWER: I was working on track. JONATHAN LEGACY PEREZ: Okay.
DESTORM POWER: It's actually kind of inspiring. Wanna play it? JONATHAN LEGACY PEREZ: Um, absolutely.
DESTORM POWER: Let's do it. JONATHAN LEGACY PEREZ: Let's rock it. DESTORM POWER: We came in, we listened
to the track. From there we were trying to find how we were going to interpret to the
people and I think that was the hardest part. We'll like, so we'll be like "Yes, story of anyone
who came before me" and I just be talking like low like that. JONATHAN LEGACY PEREZ: I like
that, I like that. DESTORM POWER: Yeah. And then I'll just build up.
You know you put the egos aside and it's like right by each other and you're projecting
passion, you're projecting love, the love that you have for whatever it is that you
do. Really it's really like passionate and detailed. DESTORM POWER: Yeah.
JONATHAN LEGACY PEREZ: It feels like, it's like a grand entrance.
DESTORM POWER: This one idea where I was gonna be the puppet master. JONATHAN LEGACY PEREZ: I'm like a reflection
of you. DESTORM POWER: Okay. JONATHAN LEGACY JONATHAN LEGACY PEREZ: So I don t know if maybe we don't have
to interact with each other maybe we do? DESTORM POWER: So I'm telling the story, you'll just
be acting out what I'm saying pretty much. JONATHAN LEGACY PEREZ: Yeah, like I don't know.
For right now just try to try to throw gestures at me, like if it was your rap to
your words. DESTORM POWER: "Intense, ain't it? I've been training." So I just keep throwing
it at you? JONATHAN LEGACY PEREZ: Yes, yeah like move my, move me. Bam, bam.
DESTORM POWER: Okay, yeah. "Intense ain't it, I've been training." The puppeteer is coming from
my lyrics, so basically he, I'll shoot a lyric out like if I was to use the word glory, he
would he would interpret the word glory. As the as the puppeteer I will control
whatever he does. So I would say the words and then move forward, and he would kind of
react to it. JONATHAN LEGACY PEREZ: Go individual body parts. Hit the legs. Wooo.
For me it was, it's a little scary. You know how b-boy, break boy started, I'm b-boying
in this. A b-boy comes from the terminology break boy, which is breaking on the break
of the record. The break of the record is never more than eight eight counts, an
excerpt of a hundred and fifty percent energy constantly and then you chill. This piece
that I'm jumping into is about two minutes and thirty seconds. I'm afraid that
I'm not gonna have enough lungs to to continue the song. DESTORM POWER: "I've been training
blood, sweat and tears, you can see my skin is whoooa, man.
DESTORM POWER: I like pressure, man. And I I'm sorry, I love, the pressure is what
makes me work harder. I love when when there's doubt, because then you get to prove it.
You know just experiencing life and make you say, "Okay, you doubt it? Here we go, this
is what you gonna take." I don't think it's pressure. I think it's more excitement. I
think it's a thrill. JONATHAN LEGACY PEREZ: I am your fear. DESTORM POWER: Right. JONATHAN
LEGACY PEREZ: And and. DESTORM POWER: And eventually I start to control it. JONATHAN LEGACY PEREZ:
You're confronting your fear. When he starts to create this song, I know that he's gonna create
from a place of his life, of his obstacles, his pain, his frustration, his anger, which
everybody in the world can relate to. DESTORM POWER: My mother as a person to me was my best
friend. She didn't care, she never cared about herself. She would put the world first. She
was just a very loving person. But I lost my mother to cancer in 2008 and when I did
it just gave me strength and I said I'm gonna use this as inspiration. JONATHAN LEGACY PEREZ:
When I create my dance to his movement, in my consciousness I'm going to have my pain,
my frustration, my anger, my insecurities, so I think together throughout the whole piece
is gonna be an up and down adventure where he actually feels he has to tell everybody
his life story in two minutes and forty seconds. And I have to show everybody in those two
minutes and forty seconds what my life story is through movement. Together we conquer the
whole like, the whole environment. DESTORM POWER: This becomes…
JONATHAN LEGACY PEREZ: becomes one, yes. We unify, like absolutely
unify. DESTORM POWER: It's an emotional piece, and it climbs. You will feel passion,
you will feel triumph, you will feel failure, you will feel excitement, you will feel saddened.
When people see this video I hope people say, I hope they don't say anything. I hope they
just push repeat. DESTORM POWER: Can I get a version with the lyrics real quick?
Let me just see if I can get this to the band.
JONATHAN LEGACY PEREZ: How you doing, man? Good? Everything's good? Remixed.
HARRY SHUM, JR: So it's like you're kind of, you're never like this to each other, like this.
DESTORM POWER: Okay. HARRY SHUM, JR: So when you hit that part it's like nice and…
DESTORM POWER: Love happened out there. It was amazing. JONATHAN LEGACY PEREZ: I put my soul, my heart,
everything on the on the floor, on the stage and I felt the same from DeStorm as well.
DESTORM POWER: From point A to Z, I felt like he was with me the whole time, just like
"Yo, where you at?" JONATHAN LEGACY PEREZ: My my soul was poured out on that stage, so great
feeling. DESTORM POWER: My mom would've been dancing in the aisle one. She would
like, "Get out of my way, I'm gonna be in the middle," she would've been there, she would've
she would've tried to get on stage. The security would've had to tackle her because
she would've been proud, definitely.