Stomp the Yard is a 2007 drama (drama film) and dance film produced by Rainforest Films and released through Sony Pictures Screen Gems division on January 12, 2007. Directed by Sylvain White, Stomp the Yard centers around DJ Williams, a college student at a fictional historically Black university (Historically black colleges and universities) who pledges to join a fictional Greek-letter fraternity (National Pan-Hellenic Council). The films central conflict involves DJs fraternity competing in various stepping (stepping (African-American)) competitions against a rival fraternity from the same school. The films script was written by Robert Adetuyi, working from an original draft by Gregory Ramon Anderson (Gregory Anderson). The film was originally titled Steppin, but to avoid confusion over the 2006 film Step Up (Step Up (film)), the title was changed.

The film stars Columbus Short, Meagan Good, Darrin Henson, Nadia Feseha, Brian White (Brian J. White), Laz Alonso, and Valerie Pettiford, with Harry Lennix and, in their film debuts, R&B singers Ne-Yo and Chris Brown (Chris Brown (American singer)). 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.