Jaquel Knight ’s talent has opened doors for him to work with some of the industry’s top talent including Beyoncé, Chris Brown, and Brandy, but the Atlanta representative still remembers the first choreography he ever memorized.

“The first song I learned the choreo too was ‘Real Love’ by Mary J Blige when she performed it on Soul Train ,” he revealed to VIBE at the Red Bull Dance Your Style World Final. “Then it was every TLC performance. My favorite one was when they did the MTV VMA’s [1999]. That’s probably one of my favorite things I remember learning. Then I became a pop kid. All the Brittney Spears performances. All the Janet Jackson performances. I can go on and on.”

Enthusiastically, he continued to elaborate on his relationship to street dance as the competitors at the Red

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