Street Dance

Today's HH news is about DANCING!!! When I say hip hop dance, y'all automatically think of break dancing: the popping and locking, the spins, the freezes...I remember watching these incredible international battles, these "b boys" were like stars, my favorite dancer was mr wiggles from the legendary Electric Boogaloos and way after salah (a french champ) but ever since hip hop has changed a lot... so as dancing XD

I remember right After break dancing, I discovered the C walk (Crip walk) and I said to myself this is definitely me XD, it's cool, easy and very rhythmic, unlike break dancing where the song is by itself and the dancers is trying to do extremes moves that has nothing to do with the beat XD but still c-walking was not really easy to do, u need a lot of practice and a very good pair of sneakers XD

So recently, this past few years, there is this wave of new street moves...finally some easy stuff for us XD I mean frankly who can break dance nowadays??? It's certainly entertaining but that shit is hard to learn -_- u need to be strong, flexible and in good shape in order to do just the basics, actually is more sports than a simple dance to me -_-

But anyway, I'm happy we got some new stuff XD for me, personally, I kinda grew out of break dancing, I mean I'm not into it anymore like before, common! even if I knew some moves right now, I don't see my self swapping the dance floor with my shirt and standing on my head in a club hahaha...Of course I respect bboys, Break dance is one of the oldest dance and still remains, all the new dances r derived from it, when u dance to a HH beat, u def would use one or two tricks from the old school times XD whether it's waving, tutting or gliding...

So from where these new moves came from?? n who created them?? I don't really got the answers to all but I have some ideas ;)...most of these moves r related to a precise song, the more u love the song, the more u get hooked to the dance XD So let me give you a list of the latest dance I know:

I'm gonna start with my favorite one, easy and super catchy XD

- "The snap dance" or the "lean wit it rock wit it" : I dono if there is a difference between both, I hope i'm not saying non sense XD but they look pretty much the same to me, so these two dances appeared respectively from the song "snap your fingers" by lil jon and Lean Wit It Rock Wit It by Dem Franchise Boyz

- ''Harlem shake'' this one is quite old actually

- ''2step'' by Unk

- "Chiken noodle soop" by Dj webstar

- The "wu tang" still dono who did it but not the wu tang clan XD (this one sux btw)

- "Pop lock n drop it" by huey, actually this one is for them girls with big booties XD

- "Crank that soulja boy", that dance was really a hit for a big time XD

- "Stanky legg" buy GS Boyz

- "Thizzle dance" by mac dre (RIP)

- "Doogie" by cali swag district

- Krump (this one when also very big, there is a nice documentary on it calledRize )

- Clow dance (inspired form c walk but without all the gang thing envolved)

- Shuffling (more for electro music)

- Turf dance

- Flexing

And last but not least, this one I definitely got to learn it, I think it's the newest: "the jerk dance" or "jerkin" by new boyz, the bangz, the rej3ctz, audio push...dono who started it but I got a feeling that its becoming a movement if not already like the hyphy movement with their thizzle dance...