After "crossing over" to become official Theta members, DJ, Rich, and Noel join the Thetas' step crew. The next day, DJ learns about the significant number of African-American historical figures and celebrities who were members of various Greek-letter organizations, and decides to pledge for the Theta chapter along with Rich and their friend Noel. During their date, April discusses the importance of black fraternities and sororities with DJ, and tells him to visit Heritage Hall on the campus' Greek Row. The two slowly begin a friendship and DJ takes April out to dinner.
DJ turns down both Zeke's offer as well as an offer from the Theta Nu Theta chapter's leader Sylvester.Īfter learning that April is a student history tutor, DJ signs himself up for tutoring so that he can spend time with her. Despite the animosity between DJ and Grant, the Gammas recognize his skills as a dancer and their chapter president Zeke invites him to pledge for Mu Gamma Xi. Hoping to impress April and upstage Grant and the Gammas (all of whom are also in attendance), DJ takes to the floor. That night, DJ, Rich, Byron, Paul and East go out to a local club called the Phoenix for the Rep Your City event. The Mu Gamma Xi crew, seven-time national stepping champions, easily steals the show until DJ sees April across the way and runs right through their step line in an attempt to speak to her. Rich meets DJ at a stepping competition on the green between the Truth chapters of rival fraternities Theta Nu Theta and Mu Gamma Xi. After registration, he moves into his dorm room, where he meets his new roommate Rich Brown. Nate, the physical plant director at Truth, aims to teach DJ responsibility and puts him to work doing maintenance as part of a work-study program.ĭJ sees April Palmer, to whom he is immediately attracted. The rival pulls out a gun and shoots Duron to death, devastating DJ.Īfter DJ is arrested and convicted of assault, his mother, (wanting him to avoid prison) sends him to live with his aunt Jackie and uncle Nate in Atlanta, Georgia, where he is to attend historically black Truth University. Duron pushes him away and starts fighting him. A fight breaks out, and the leader of the rival crew starts beating up DJ.
The Goon Squad wins the second battle and the losing home crew responds by ambushing DJ and his crewmates after the show. During the battle there are backs and forths, but in the end of the battle the Goon Squad win a cash-prize, and Sphere, the leader of The Thug Unit goes all in for a double or nothing battle, which DJ accepts much to the dismay of his brother who knows that if the opposing crew leader thinks he got hustled the crew won't be able to spend the money they win. He and his younger brother Duron compete in local dance competitions as members of a crew known as the "Goon Squad".
Elsewhere Short, Alonso and Brown had also starred together in the film This Christmas.ĭJ Williams is a young man in inner-city Los Angeles. Stomp the Yard was filmed in Atlanta, Georgia, on the campuses of Morris Brown College, Georgia Institute of Technology, Morehouse College, and Clark Atlanta University, and in the MAK Historic District of Decatur, Georgia. The film stars Columbus Short, Meagan Good, Darrin Henson, Brian White, Laz Alonso, and Valarie Pettiford, with Harry Lennix, and, in his film debut, R&B star Chris Brown. Delta Sigma Theta along with other sororities like Gamma Theta were in the movie. The film was originally titled Steppin', but to avoid confusion over the 2006 film Step Up, the title was changed. The film's script was written by Robert Adetuyi, working from an original draft by Gregory Ramon Anderson. The film's central conflict involves DJ's fraternity competing in various stepping competitions against a rival fraternity from the same school. Directed by Sylvain White, Stomp the Yard centers on DJ Williams, a college student at a fictional historically Black university who pledges to join a fictional Greek-letter fraternity. Stomp the Yard is a 2007 American dance drama film produced by Rainforest Films and released through Sony Pictures' Screen Gems division on January 12, 2007.
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