The finale for MTV’s America’s Best Dance Crew was last night, and surprise surprise, the Jabbawockeez took home the top prize, in a decision where a record 38 million people voted for the winner!!  They dominated the entire season with something new and creative every week, on top of their world class talent, style, and technique.  While accepting they were sure to give props to Status Quo, a deserving opponent, who they said they considered as family.  Judge comments for the Jabbawockeez included, ‘You guys are the sickest group I’ve seen in my life’...‘You all set the standard for the next 10 seasons’.  In the final episode, the judges mentioned how the Jabbawockeez have inspired a new culture, a hybrid genre of dance which mixes hip hop and theater.  In fact, here is a Youtube clip of an eight-year old imitating them, even the mask!  Additionally, this victory was even more emotional, considering they overcame the loss of one of their crew members (Gary).

America’s Best Dance Crew was ground-breaking in its representation of Asian Americans, featuring two amazing AA teams (Jabbawockeez and Kaba Modern) who proved, week after week, that Asian Americans not only can dance, but have style and personalities.  Far too often in media, Asian Americans as a group are stereotyped as stiff model minority types (engineers, scientists, geeks), or accented foreigners.  America got to see another side, letting people know Asian Americans are American too, and can have endearing personalities and artistic creativity and talent in dance.  Who knows, maybe this will also influence Asian American youth, into not being afraid of expressing themselves and pursuing dance or other creative pursuits.  Additionally, this show should be commended for showing stories of all the dance crews from different parts of the country, of all kinds of ethnic, cultural, and socioeconomic backgrounds.  It showed how the fabric of America is a lot more multicultural than we are used to seeing.

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More Articles of Interest:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2008/03/26/apop.DTL
http://www.asianweek.com/2008/03/13/jabbawockeez-unmasked/
http://buzzkilled.com/blog/2008/03/21/oh-my-the-guiltiest-of-pleasures/
http://www.zap2it.com/tv/news/zap-story-americasbestdancecrew-winner-jabbawokeez,0,7864849.story

Their website can be found here: http://jabbawockeez.com/thefamily.html



33 Comments

These files are high quality so they’re pretty big, ranging from 13 Megs to 90 Megs. If you have trouble downloading it, try right-clicking and save as.

This is a big upgrade from youtube. Enjoy them while they last. I’m really happy they won.

Thank you so much. I’ve been looking for the Jabbawockeez video everywhere!

Niiiccceeeeee! I love the first one the best. I mean, they’re all good, but I just can’t stop watching the Apologize one.

I love the superman episode! They’re so cool!

Thank You very much for all of this! Will we be seeing the finale episode anytime soon? Because I thought that Jaa+Kaba+Fysh was really a good routine!

I luv them so much. And thanks for uploading them.

Is there any way to make Ep. 6 as large as all the other ones?

Thnx for all you’ve done !!! ^_^

Yea we’ll try to get better quality for eps 6 and the finale. Kaba Modern’s videos will follow in a few days.

They were all so good! The only one I was slighly disappointed with is #4, where they gave the pink mask to lil Mama. Though I blame the show for a stupid theme raspberry

YES!! finally! thanks! Eps seven would be great, looking forward to Kaba’s! btw eps 7 killed!

Thanks yo.  Finally able to watch this in better quality than Youtube!  Jaba forever ROOOOCKKKK!

I’ve been looking for videos of these guys everywhere. Thank God they were right here!

I think I’m going to cry...thank you all!

Nice-suh. Been looking everywhere for this.

How cool! thanks!

the last place to actually have them!

you guys think you can find their “red pill” performance

thank you thank you thank you!
& yes, if you could, do you think you guys could put up the “red pill” performance or any of the finale performances?  thanks! smile

We have the red pill performance. Wasn’t sure how much of an interest there was for it. But we’ll make another Jabba post soon.

thanks will be waiting for it, well we all are jabba fans here.

Thanks so much for this!! Much appreciated! The evolution one was also my fav!

Downloading!

Why doesnt any of the sites work @_@

right click save as

have the final videos been put up yet? smile

Total fan obsession here. I *LUV* the Jabbawockeez. It is so amazing to watch them dance, and even just watching them joke around. They are so funny! And cute.^^ I have blogged about them, and I am spreading the word about what the Jabbas are all about. Thank you all who voted for them! They were so amazing and totally deserved the win (although I agree the producers rigged it for an East-West showdown ;p). A day has not passed where I havent watched their videos, sometimes twice, from both ABDC and previous performances. The Jabbas have my heart. All the best Jabba Crew! <3 xxxooo ^__^