Lil Yachty, Good Day @SheLovesMeechie @TheRealYvngQuan

The models for The FADER’s Fall Fashion editorial are SheLovesMeechie and TheRealYvngQuan, Atlanta-based dancers whose videos bring to life the lyrics of great songs, and whose Instagram and YouTube channels are becoming a new kind of radio for music to be promoted and discovered on. Cara Stricker photographed that story, and to go along with it directed this dance video, choreographed by Meechie and Toosi, as Quan is known to friends, and soundtracked by Lil Yachty. Meechie, 21, and Toosi, 19, both began dancing as kids, but neither has formal training. They connected after both had made names on the internet, and are together best known for their innovations on a dance called the Hit Dem Folks, which originated about two hours south of Atlanta, in Columbus, Georgia. Meechie and Quan have performed with Yo Gotti and Rae Sremmurd, and made a fan and friend in pro football player Odell Beckham Jr. Currently, they’re traveling on Drake’s Summer Sixteen tour, dancing with Future. Their place at that show is a testament to the renewed prominence of dance in rap music today — where songs go viral faster if they’ve got viral dances attached, or at least are enjoyed more. But among the thousands of teens who’ve cammed themselves hitting a hit, Meechie and Tossi stand out because they have star power, radiating out from their big-ass grins. Their moves are democratic, but their happiness is aspirational. “We make fun. We make it feel like you can do what we doing,” Toosi said in August, in a conversation with Meechie that’s excerpted below. “I'm smiling cheek-to-cheek in every video. Back then in dance, people were battling each other. We're not battling each other. We're just expressing ourselves.” http://www.thefader.com/2016/08/22/shelovesmeechie-realyvngquan-meechie-toosi-interview-lil-yachty-good-day-dance-video Subscribe now for more The FADER  http://bit.ly/XPZVfG Read the FADER: http://www.thefader.com Follow the FADER on Twitter: https://twitter.com/thefader Like the FADER on Facebook: http://on.fb.me/11JaNSJ Follow the FADER on Tumblr: http://bit.ly/xerObW Director: Cara Stricker Featuring: SheLovesMeechie & Yvng Quan Producers: Naomi Zeichner, PET, VAVLT Executive Producers: Joseph Patel Co-Producer: Robert Semmer Production Coordinator: Madison LaClair DP: David Vollrath Steady Cam Operator: Steve Cantrell AC: Doug Durant Gaffer: Greg Tango Editor Wranger: Michael Bell Fashion Editor: Shibon Kennedy Photo Director: Frank Seidlitz Photo Assistant: Jonnie Hokklo Fashion Assistants: Ian Mcrae & Pauline Seng Grooming: Colby Smith Designer Credits: BVNDO, LACOSTE, Nike, Token Compositor: Michael Bell Editor: Cara Stricker, Michael Bell Colorist: Cara Stricker Music: Lil Yachty f. Skippa Da Flippa - “Good Day” Special Thanks Attic Studios Coach K