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 and kills Duron, 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 their film debuts, R&B singers Ne-Yo & 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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