We’re more like performance, freestyle, and we used to battle dance too. HipHopDX: Why do you think he called on you guys? What sets you guys apart from the other viral dancers?Īyo & Teo: There’s battle dancers, Instagram dancers, choreographers. He brought us to Tampa, to the Barclay’s center on tour - everywhere! It all helped us prepare for when our song took off, and we toured for ourselves. We had to learn that in three days, it was 12 hour days. He’s the first to have formally taught us choreography, he taught us to dance to every beat, hi-hat. ![]() He’s fun, he always wants to play Fortnite with us. We’ve known him almost five years now, so it’s really solid. I didn’t get to perform because I was too young and I didn’t know about the talent permits until the day before the show.Īyo & Teo: It’s butter. ![]() to perform with him at the 2016 BET awards, and that’s when we did the music video. How did you first link up with Usher?Īyo & Teo: He was the first big big celebrity who hit us up, he found us online. HipHopDX: You were in the “ No Limit” video even before “Rolex” came out. HipHopDX: Who was your inspiration, growing up? Was Usher one of them?Īyo & Teo: Growing up we watched Usher, Michael Jackson, Chris Brown, James Brown, Otis Redding. Of course the comments are going to discuss us, they’re going to say who did better - but that don’t mean nothing. HipHopDX: Do you guys get competitive with one another?Īyo & Teo: We’re real brothers, so we do what we do. And for dancing, we have more muscle strength in certain areas, but overall it’s equal.Ī post shared by 7 ? | Search 4 Ayo & Teo on at 11:26am PST HipHopDX: Since you’re so multi-talented, is there one thing one of you is good at, one isn’t good at?Īyo & Teo: We’re both good at a lot, but we played different instruments. When we were like 14, finally we got online and were able to share our talents with the world. We had talents our whole life but our dad didn’t let us have wifi. We’re very multitalented and our parents put us in lots of activities growing up - anime clubs, drawing, instruments. We got more serious with dancing as we got older. When we first got into music, Teo was a singer, Ayo was rapping, but we would also dance together and win talent shows. HipHopDX: So before that, you initially intended to be a dancer or musician?Īyo & Teo: We were always creative, it was both. We were looking at it like, “we already know how to dance, we have the fans,” and we tied the music thing, and it went crazy. And it’s crazy that we were just having fun and the result was, we made a song like that. HipHopDX: Talk to me about your first big hit, “ Rolex”, and how your life changed after that.Īyo & Teo: It’s still overwhelming, even now, years later. HipHopDX spoke to the duo ahead of the show’s launch date to discuss everything from their distinctive talents and TikTok challenges, to working with Usher and what fans can look forward to on The Sauce. #TheSauce now on post shared by Usher on at 9:00am PDT
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