Amazing Race to Hip Hop Royalty (with Matt Steffanina)

Leave It On The Dance Floor

Hurrdat Media

Society & Culture, Tv & Film

3.6 • 969 Ratings

🗓️ 13 August 2024

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Hip Hop LEGEND, Matt Steffanina who has had a stellar career in this industry is joining Leave It On The Dance Floor to shed some light on how he got his start in LA, becoming friends with Abby and dancing with stars like Taylor Swift, Jason Derulo and competing/winning on a small show you all might know called THE AMAZING RACE! He also shares advice to young professionals looking for their big break and more about his new online interactive dance program.

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0:00.0	Get up, get on my world is with my girls living on the dance floor.
0:07.0	Hello everybody, welcome back to leaving on the dance floor and I have a hip hop
0:17.3	superstar today I have Matt Stefanina in the chair. Hello Matt.
0:24.0	Abby Lee, good to be here. How are you?
0:26.0	It's so great to see you again.
0:29.0	Matt and I go way back.
0:31.0	We do.
0:32.0	In case you're interested, you know, my, I don't get enough street cred for my, my
0:35.2	hip-hop vocabulary. I feel like not a lot of people know that we go way back. I think people would be
0:40.0	surprised to maybe know that we've actually known each other for a long time.
0:43.2	A long time yes. All right Matt so you grew up in Virginia you're much much much much
0:49.0	much younger than I am but you grew up in Virginia and you were a snowboarder I was that is that true yeah I
0:57.2	actually wanted to be a pro snowboarder from 10 years old until about 19. That was my whole life. I competed not quite at the
1:06.0	intensity of the Abbey Lee dance competition level of snowboarding. But yeah it was
1:12.4	training you know I was actually homeschooled in high school so that I could travel for snowboarding and compete.
1:18.0	Yeah. See, homeschooling really wasn't a thing in Pittsburgh.
1:23.3	We had great public education in Pennsylvania and I'm sure you guys did too,
1:26.8	but on the East Coast, you know, it's better.
1:29.1	But I, nobody would homeschool.
1:32.2	Yeah, that ruined my business. It was it was really rare.
1:34.7	Honestly my parents took a lot of heat for it at that time. Okay. But you know just like
1:39.8	dancers if you wanted to travel and compete and train at a really high level and still
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