ALLSTARS: Thoughts on the 2009 World Hip-hop Dance Championships By: Chelo Aestrid

The Silent Defeat

August 2, 2009…Sometime a little before or after mid-night…

I stepped out of the dressing room the Philippines share with New Zealand and I bump into this tall, happy, black guy from the competition. He says something like, “Hey you know, the Allstars really makes this competition special.” I don’t really remember exactly what he said. But the feeling he gave me was that we already accomplished so much more than a gold medal. Right after that, I ran to my group to tell them what I just experienced as we all waited for the Final results of the World Hip-hop Championships. read the full article..........

ALLSTARS… BEYOND HIPHOP: WE DIDNT BRING HOME THE LECHON, LET'S STILL CELEBRATE!

LAURENCE: "God works in mysterious ways =) just when d routine was actually cleaner, we went from 1st place to no place. bottom line, our mission was complete. seein the world unite, having diffrent race put there ones up in the sky and most of all puttin the letter L with their fingers for our former president corry was an overload of love. we apologize for not taking d letchon home, but this is still His story 2 unfold."

IT'S STILL A CELEBRATION!

World Hip Hop Dance Championship: Philippine Allstars Prelims Performance

Defending World Champions, the Philippine Allstars, show the 2009 competition how it's done. They advance from this performance in top position for Sunday's World Finals.

WE PLACED 1st IN THE ELIMS!!!

God is good! This is also for Madam Cory. Like her, we are warriors for our country. Please pray more so than we get the GOLD on Sunday (Finals at Orleans Arena).
Performance already on youtube! Search for it on OfficialHHI's Channel.

Mainit" Music Video By Q-york Feat. Kenjhons, Chelo Aestrid

Philippine All-Stars: The World's Best

For few short days this summer hip-hop America got served. It was introduced to something much of the hip-hop world already knew: the Philippine All-Stars are the world’s best.

Take notice America, there’s a new definition of what it means to “represent.” With their gritty urban style and mind-blowing choreography the All-Stars showed up on our national stage and rocked-it all the way to another world title at the World Hip Hop Championships in Las Vegas this summer. While Rapper Nas is proclaiming that “hip-hop is dead”, and that might be true in Queens, the Philippine All-Stars showed-up like Doctor Frankenstein re-animating the impossible all the way to another world title.

Yeah, they’re for real.

Their style is original and might as well be from another planet because this crew is stellar. With moves that would have Cirque du Soleil fiendin’ for fix like a side-show wannabes, All-Stars brought their show to America’s biggest hip-hop stage opening-up MTV’s hit reality show America Best Dance Crew … and left the house breathless. The Philippine All-Stars are officially serving notice to America’s best that there is another rung to the ladder of excellence and it’s a ‘thrilla from Manilla.’

As for America's best dance crews...

Get in line Jabbawokeez.

Take a number Super Crew.

Kaba Modern, you know the score.

But wait, it only gets better….

In an interview to be released at length in our January 2009 issue, Risen magazine’s witnessed a selfless and God loving crew whose message of hope and change can come from the most unlikely of messengers. All-Star KenJhons Serrano says it best with, “Look, its not about us and our story. Without God none of this achievable. It’s all about His story. We are blessed to be representing the best, you know? With God’s story in each of our lives everyone gets to be a champion. Because we – everyone on the earth – are all stars in God’s eyes.”

And this unending passion to represent “His Story” is what is so refreshing about this young dance crew from the Philippines. Many of the All-Stars have life stories of poverty, homelessness, and tremendous personal conflicts. Their very lives are stained with the toughest that life can throw at them. Yet through a collective desire to stay grounded on God’s love for them, prayer, and an undying faith that through God all things are possible they stand victorious in God’s light.

So do your YouTube, Myspace, and Google searches on the best of the best, the Philippine All-Stars. Get your popcorn ready and be ready to be rocked with a Filippino pride and a love for the one true God!