Jabbawockeez Performs Live at Teen's Choice Awards

Jabbawockeez Performs Live with Chris Brown at the annual Teen's Choice Awards.

JabbaWockeeZ is an all-male hip hop dance crew, established by Joe Larot, Kevin Brewer, and Phil Tayag from San Diego, California. The group gained fame by appearing on America's Got Talent before winning the MTV hip hop dance reality series, America's Best Dance Crew in 2008. Their name is derived from the dragon in Lewis Carroll's poem Jabberwocky. Their unique signature is the use of white masks to create a faceless troupe so that the attention is on the dance movement.

On week 7 of Americas Best Dance Crew Week 7aired on March 20, 2008. Thefinal 3 contestants; Status Quo, Kaba Modern and Jabbawockeez have to illustrate the evolution of hip-hop using the same music. The final three crews have to perform to the songs Funky Town, Its Like That, It Just Begun, Push It, Bye Bye Bye & Get Buck In Here using some classic hip-hop styles, such as breaking, popping, and locking. The saved crew was Status Quo and stirred the hip hop community because they like to see a Jabba Kaba face-off.

The 6 Jabbawockeez crews in that event were composed of three Fil-Ams; They are shown above from left to right: Chris Gatdula, Phil Tayag and Rynan Shawn Paguio.

Kaba Modern is a street dance group established in 1992 by a group of Kababayans at the University of California in Irvine, originally to perform at their Pilipino Culture Night. Since then, the group's legacy has lived on, first and foremost as a family, embracing different styles and aspects of dance, creating quite a name for themselves as one of Southern California's most cutting edge dance groups. A 6-person segment of their team auditioned for, and succeeded in, the right to compete as one of 12 dance crews in the first season of Randy Jackson's interactive reality show, America's Best Dance Crew broadcast on MTV in early 2008. In a twist of irony, none of the Kaba members on America's Best Dance Crew were Filipino, since two Filipino Kaba Modern members who were originally going had to leave the show due to being the Kaba Modern 2008 coordinators. Although the group made it to the top 3, they were eliminated in week 7; the two remaining crews, Jabbawockeez and Status Quo, advanced to the finale. The 6 Crew Members in ABDC were Tony Tran Mike Song Yuri Tag Lawrence Kao Cindy and Minowa Jia Huang.