ok for people that dont know what stomp the yard is about, its a 2007 drama/musical film produced by Rainforest Films and released through Sony Pictures' Screen Gems imprint on January 12, 2007. Directed by Sylvain White, Stomp the Yard centers around DJ Williams, a college student at a fictional historically Black university who pledges to join a fictional Greek-letter fraternity. The film's central conflict involves DJ's fraternity competing in various stepping competitions against a rival fraternity from the same school. The film's script was written by Robert Adetuyi, working from an original draft by Gregory Ramon Anderson. The film was originally titled Steppin', but to avoid confusion over the 2006 film Step Up, the title was changed.
the film almost did happen because A boycott of the film was threatened by Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity and supported by Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority to protect the fraternity's history and its legacy. A conflict between the producers (Will Packer and Rob Hardy; members of Alpha Phi Alpha) and the fraternity stemmed over the unauthorized use of some of the fraternity's trademarks in the film. The trademark infringement is evidenced in the two versions of the trailer.

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