Exclusive interview with Lil Mama after ABDC7 Finale: A Perfect ending & what she'd want from a Season 8

 Victor Kim (Quest Crew) and Chris Trondsen interviewed America's Best Dance Crew judge Lil Mama just after the ABDC Season 7 finale. She talks about her love for both 8 Flavahz and Elektrolytes, how she talked to all the crews during the season, her love for Quest at the Season 6 all-star finale performances, and how she's happy with the results, what she'd like to see in an ABDC Season 8, and what she wants to see the crews do next. As she says, "super passionate we be crashin it".

Video: Lil Mama describes the crews for America's Best Dance Crew Season 7

DanceOn taped Lil Mama talking about the 10 crews that have been chosen for America's Best Dance Crew's new season. It's the same info as found on HipHopInternational.com, but it's fun to listen to her enthusiasm and watch the short clips that illustrate her narration. Thanks for the tip, PerezOverride!

Audition to join Lil Mama's own dance company -- Brick Nation!

 Lil Mama --  Musician and Judge of America’s Best Dance Crew-- decided to highlight dancers who may not have equal opportunities and exposure as professional dancers by developing her very own dance company called Brick Nation.

The Auditions Will Be Held Saturday September 17th, 2011 at Quebeey (15462 Cabrito Road,Van Nuys CA). It will be open to dancers aged 5-25 on the following schedule:
- Age 5-12: 9-10:30 am
- Age 13-17: 11am-12:30pm
- Age 18-25: 2-3pm

If you go, let us know -- leave a report in the comments. And good luck!

Lil Mama's latest music video: "Scrawberry"

Lil Mama's latest musical offiering is "Scrawberry", and the video centers around a doll house set and Harajuku look. The refrain: "Let's scraw berry milk... in some way to tangle in the...(Scrawberry) keep full tang so I go long way in my dash... clean And my truck don't stand." Please discuss. And if you recognize some of the other dancers, please identify them!

Audio: Lil Mama team with Snoop Dogg on new single: "NY NY LA LA"

Lil Mama just got busy. She just released a single with Snoop Dogg called "NY NY LA LA" This video has a cartoon of the two and the audio.

Mailbox: Lil Mama vs. Nicki Minaj; ICONic Boyz; Instant Noodles performance

• Vibe Magazine interviewed Lil Mama. She complains that Nicki Minaj jacked her haircut after the superstar appeared on ABDC6, and talks about her place as a female rapper.
• ICONic Boyz were part of a show and meet-and-greet in New Jersey. As you can tell from the video, they were greeted with fan screaming and adulation.
• Instant Noodles performed at a launch party:

Video: the making of Lil Mama's latest song "On & On & On"

ABDC judge Lil Mama has released a new song:- "On & On & On." The lyrics are ...interesting. Click here to listen to the track on Youtube.  Here's her video on the making of the recording.

Freeze's report on the ABDC Battle Challenge

Freeze attended the May 28 taping of America's Best Dance Crew's penultimate episode -- the Battle Challenge. Click here to read the full report including the individual crew challenge, the battle, the scene in the stands (ICONic Boyz fans vs. IaMmE fans!), Lil Mama's outfit, and much more. 

And, BloggingBestDanceCrew.com readers will be represented on that episode. Both Yoo and JabbaJake have material used in the video packages. Well done!

ABDC Recaps a-rama

- Too Interesting for Twitter goes ballistic and implores people to vote for IaMmE

- Ology rates Phunk Phenomenon's Kanye West Challenge as the best of the night and asks if Lil Mama is trying to become the black Lady Gaga

- Reality Wanted gives just the facts, in case you forgot or don't feel like watching
-We'll Fix it In's recap from Nicki Minaj week: better late than not!

Exclusive interview: Lil Mama on ICONic Boyz; "I'm running with you!"

 Lil Mama talked to Glenda Morales (Fanny Pak) and Chris Trondsen before the taping of ABDC's Kanye West Challenge. Lil Mama talks about the inspiration behind her wardrobe choices this season,  ICONic Boyz's place among the older dancers,  and what she thinks about IaMmE, ICONic Boyz and Phunk Phenomenon. Thanks to MOVeMEDIA Productions!

Video: DanceOn's promo for ABDC's Week 2 Kanye West Challenge

DanceOn's latest promo for ABDC features interviews with IaMmE, ICONic Boyz and Lil Mama (with a very brief shoutout by Phunk Phenomenon). The themes this week: describing how they prepared for the Kanye West Challenge and dealing with nervousness. Lil Mama talks about why she thinks ICONic Boyz are inspirational to other young people.

Byeynyn's review of ABDC6's nicki Minaj Challenge

One week ago, the five crews were subjected to the songs of Justin Bieber, and Instant Noodles got the instant boot. Now there are four crews remaining, and they will have to perform to songs by the kooky Nicki Minaj, who personally showed up to give all the crews their task, as well as give Lil Mama competition for Most Crazypants Rapper. In addition, each of their routines will have to incorporate one of Nicki’s alter egos. Because this is Nicki Minaj Week, the crews basically have free reign to act as crazy as they can be. Will any of the crews take the bait like Fanny Pak did during Missy Elliot Week in Season 2? Click here to read the full review.

Video: Lil Mama dances and talks about her inspirations

Lil Mama has a video to promote the new movie "Go For It" since she supports the film's message and dancing. The video shows clips from her video "Doughboy" as well as advice to young people and her personal inspirations.

Non-spoiler reports from ABDC's Nicki Minaj taping

Crazed Beats and Jaycee attended the taping of ABDC's Nicki Minaj Challenge, and reported back.  Crazed Beats promised to return with a more detailed report but did say that "Nicki Minaj was there herself and handed the crews the challenges.She called Lil Mama beautiful so theres no hate between them if anyone was wondering."

From Jaycee (edited by Nancy to keep it completely non-spoilery): 
Just got back....Crews did their same signature moves, nothing different or special, but overall great solid performances..  The group performance was cool...My favorite part of the group performance was when the other crews incorporated krump...One crew was critiqued for thinking before going into a move...one crew member fell during some tricks...and the last crew was critiqued for wasting 20 seconds of their performance...Lil mama looked like a cracked out super hero...

Also the crew that was eliminated pulled a 787 to the 10th power!! They hugged the judges forever THEN their family and friends came down from the bleachers to hug them as well...this was the first time where the WALK IT OUT music ended because the crew was too busy saying goodbye...they had to restart the track lol
Photocredit: rap-up.com
Thanks Crazed Beats and Jaycee for the reports!

Zekeish's Review of ABDC's Justin Bieber Challenge

Hola Blogging Best Dance Crew, its ya man Zeke-ish (AKA Zakeesh) here for another brutally honest review. Well,  this week was a very disappointing week. No one really blew me away, and all of the performances lacked that “certain something”. This episode could have been considered a primetime comedy. With D’trix’s constant sarcasm by adding Justin Bieber memorabilia and Lil Mama’s ridiculous wardrobe this show was just as memorable as it was forgettable. Anyway,  take out your autographed Bieber posters and never say never cause IT’S REVIEWIN TIME. Ya dig? Click here for the full review.

MTV Sneak Peak videos: Lil Mama cries, D-trix gets hot and bothered

MTV released two very short segments of judges' remarks as a sneak preview. In the first, Lil Mama talks about a personal tragedy and gets teary talking to Street Kingdom. In the second, D-trix expresses admiration for Street Kingdom's Melissa.

Katy Perry Recaps

• We'll Fix It In commented on the ADD Cam that seemed especially sugared up this episode and analyzed Lil Mama's driving glove, makeup, phrasebook, and pivotal role in the ICONic Boyz judge dustup
• Too Interesting for Twitter gave JC Chasez the quote of the week award for telling D-trix "Come on man, don't be a crackhead" and thought ReQuest should have stayed
• Psycho Pixie provides bilingual commentary (Portuguese on top, English on the bottom), loved 4 of the performances and found the episode bittersweet
• Ology judged ICONic Boyz as the 'best performance of the night'
• Reality Wanted still describes everything but the dancing
• A.C.Slater thinks this is the worst season of America's Best Dance Crew ever.

D-trix Pre-taping interview video: Lil Mama impersonation. love for ICONic Boyz and more

 Matt "Dumbo" Nguyen (Poreotics) and Chris Trondsen interviewed ABDC judge D-trix backstage before the taping of ABDC's Katy Perry Challenge. Dtrix talks about how he's excited to see people dance to Katy Perry, the action at World of Dance Dallas, how much he likes the other judges (and doing some impersonations), advice he'd give to IaMmE, and why he really likes ICONic Boyz. Thanks to MOVeMEDIA.

Late is better than never: We'll Fix it in recaps ABDC's Black Eyed Peas Challenge

Since some of our readers are desperate for their weekly fix of Howard and LeKeith, here's the We'll Fix it in Recap of the Black Eyed Peas Challenge.  It contains the usual acerbic insight, along with  theorizing that ICONic Boyz 'copied' a move from Lil Mama's "G-Slide".

Recaps galore!

• Too Interesting for Twitter   liked almost everything but was extremely distracted by Lil Mama's eye makeup
• Ology thinks ReQuest had the performance of the evening and also wants Lil Mama to change the makeup
• Reality Wanted still describes everything but the dancing
• A.C.Slater was bored.