Clowning is a dance made popular in the 1990s in Los Angeles. Tommy the Clown is the father of the movement, and was featured ...

Tommy The Clown, the father of hip-hop clowning, is the subject of a documentary that will be screened at the upcoming Pan ...

If you’ve been paying attention to hip-hop — and particularlyKendrick Lamar’s moves the past few weeks — you may have noticed a colorful afro’d character named Tommy the Clown.

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Thomas Johnson, also known as Tommy the Clown, is an American dancer best known as the inventor of the "clowning" style of dance, which evolved into krumping.