It was Kendrick’s idea, and it was my job to figure out how I can technically make that happen. He said that he wanted these guys to come out in the chain gang and suddenly they transform into these African dancers when they go into the second sequence. Where did the idea to transition into the African themes come from? Larry Busacca/Getty Images for NARASNARAS Kendrick Lamar during opening of 2016 Grammy performance. It took about seven people - a crew of seven to eight.Īnd how many people did you have to dress in total?įour dancer inmates, 4 extra inmates in the cell (non-dancers), 2 “bone breakers” (the African dancers painted in bright UV paint, as opposed to white UV paint), 4 female African dancers, 4 male African drummers, and 5 band members. I’d heard about and thought about it for months, but we started really prepping about a month before, and that was basically doing all of the research and pulling photos, making references and going back and forth with Kendrick and Dave, the so-called “little homies.” And we really started fully prepping, pulling, dying fabrics and getting stuff made about two weeks prior to the performance. When did you start preparing for the performance? Morale & The Big Steppers' Is Coming Soonīillboard spoke exclusively to Garcia, an L.A native and stylist for over eight years, about the symbolism permeating each look, the challenges of working with glow-in-the-dark paint (“it was quite disastrous”) and how Lamar “deserves all the good that comes from this performance.”
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