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Krumpety Sax: Tommy the Clown and hardcore krumpers get Benny-Hillified
04.01.2015
08:55 am
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If you’ve never seen David LaChapelle’s eye-popping 2005 documentary on “krumping” and “clown dancing,” Rize, then you should absolutely drop whatever it is you’re doing and watch that film right now.

Rize documents an early 2000s aggressive style of battle-dance, popularized in South Central Los Angeles, which is a hardcore fusion of tribal, slam, stripper, and break dancing. There were two factions at the time using different forms of the dance, known as “krumpers” and Tommy the Clown‘s “clown dancers.”
 

Tommy the Clown with his dancers
 
It just so happens that this aggressive style of fast-breaking generally tends to synch up pefectly with Boots Randolph’s signature tune “Yakety Sax,” which is better known as the theme to The Benny Hill Show.
 

Popular ‘70s British pervert, Benny Hill
 
The Internet has asserted for years that “Yakety Sax” supposedly makes everything funny, but in the case of these krumpers and clown dancers, it makes a sort of musical sense in creating a totally new reality, separate from what is normally associated with this style of dancing or this particular musical trope. It just fits in a bizarro world kind of way.

If you care to experiment with adding “Yakety Sax” to dance videos yourself, there is the amazing online BennyHillifier, which will allow you to waste hours of time adding the Benny Hill Show theme to absolutely anything you can think of.

In the meantime, get down to these hardcore street dancers going off to some brutal Boots Randolph yaketing.

Yakety Tommy the Clown and his clown dancers:
 

 
More yakety krumpers after the jump…

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Posted by Christopher Bickel
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04.01.2015
08:55 am
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