Jabbawockeez

Jabbawockeez
Jabbawockeez performing "The Red Pill"
Background information
Origin	San Diego, California, U.S.
Genres	Hip-hop dance, B-boying, Popping
Years active	2004—present
Associated acts	Super Cr3w Kaba Modern Kinjaz
Website	www.jbwkz.com
Members	Kevin "KB" Brewer Joe "Punkee" Larot Rynan "Kid Rainen" Paguio Jeff "Phi" Nguyen Phil "Swagger Boy" Tayag Tony "Transformer" Tran Simran "Crookmaker" Banga
Past members	Gary "Gee" Kendall (Deceased) Ben "B-Tek" Chung (with Kinjaz) Chris "Cristyle" Gatdula Eddie "Eddie Styles" Gutierrez Saso "King Saso" Jimenez Randy "DJ Wish One" Bernal

The Jabbawockeez (stylized as JabbaWockeeZ) is a hip-hop dance crew best known for being the winners of the first season of America's Best Dance Crew. They were initially formed by members Kevin "KB" Brewer, Phil "Swagger Boy" Tayag, & Joe "Punkee" Larot under the name "3 Muskee". By 2004, their members included Ben "B-Tek" Chung, Chris "Cristyle" Gatdula, Rynan "Kid Rainen" Paguio, and Jeff "Phi" Nguyen. Tony "Transformer" Tran joined the crew in 2013. The Jabbawockeez do not have a group leader; choreography for their performances, as well as music and design choices, are made as a collective unit.

Phil "Swagger Boy" Tayag, Kevin "KB" Brewer, Joe "Punkee" Larot began performing as a trio called "Three Musky" in Sacramento, California while wearing white masks and gloves. The mask and glove motif was adopted as a tribute to the 1970s San Francisco strutting crew Medea Sirkas. Gary "Gee One" Kendall and Randy "DJ Wish One" Bernal were both members of the MindTricks dance crew who were active in the San Francisco Bay Area. Both the MindTricks dance crew and the Three Muskee were friends and associates with each other. Tayag, Brewer, and Larot all later moved to the San Diego area, and what began as an effort to start a Southern California chapter of the MindTricks crew later evolved into JabbaWockeeZ.

"We want you to experience Jabbawockeez as a group and not just follow or be fans of one individual person. There's no lead dancer in our crew. Our philosophy is that when you watch us perform, you have to watch us as a whole... When we put [the masks] on, it's not about who we are or where we came from. We're all one."

Established in 2003 in San Diego, California, Jabbawockeez is the brainchild of the "Three Musky" who wanted to showcase freestyle dance. The name Jabbawockeez, coined by Joe Larot, was inspired by the fantastical monster from the Lewis Carroll nonsense poem Jabberwocky. The white masks and gloves from Phil, Kevin, and Joe's performances as Three Musky were adopted as the visual signature of the group. In San Diego, through Gary's connections, the Jabbawockeez added b-boys Rynan "Kid Rainen" Paguio and Chris "Cristyle" Gatdula to the group. The original seven member iteration of the Jabbawockeez began performing as a group in 2004. This lineup consisted of Gary, Randy, Phil, Kevin, Joe, Rynan, and Chris.