So I know there are many precedents for this sort of thing in punk and who knows what else; its an interesting, super-masculine aggressive communal thing, and apparently it's been around a long time even though it will probably come to be associated w/ crunk should it have some sort of return simply bcuz of the easy parallel...anyway there's a free mp3 of a david banner, 3-6 mafia and 8ball and mjg song as well as a v. brief history on the "gangsta walk" over at the shrimp
Gangsta Walking and aggressive communal dance
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captain easychord
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seems to me that any scene populated largely by dudes finds itself with a mosh pit at shows: dark d n' b, grime, gangsta rap, hardcore. metal....
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Re: ManyShrimp - "If you watch the Dirty States of America DVD they show footage of kids gangsta walking as far back as like 91."
Circa '91 people often talked about walking with a 'gangsta limp.' It wasn't dancing though (this was the era of the Brooklyn stomp), just a way of walking as if you had a bunch of lead in your right shoe. I remember my dad not being too impressed when I started to do it. He said it'd ruin my posture.
Circa '91 people often talked about walking with a 'gangsta limp.' It wasn't dancing though (this was the era of the Brooklyn stomp), just a way of walking as if you had a bunch of lead in your right shoe. I remember my dad not being too impressed when I started to do it. He said it'd ruin my posture.
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I've only ever heard of having a "gangsta lean" in the context of driving. Slouched down at an angle to provide a smaller target (or more likely to look like one is obviously trying to present a smaller target).
artdamages
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Slam!!! Let the boys be boys!
originaldrum
from start till done
artdamages said:
i haven't thought of onyx in pertineer 30 year
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puretokyo: It is pretty funny, along with "word is born"/"word is bond", I've had people very emphatically explain to both to me as being the expression and give big backstories and everything. I love how phonic muddly uncertainty has really pretty much made the expression "word is bon" and it doesn't mean much of anything beyond "word is bon."
Yay for the oral tradition! Fuck writing.
Yay for the oral tradition! Fuck writing.
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Well for sure.
At speedcore parties around here it used to be even more overt. Instead of slamming into each other at high speed, everyone would bounce up and down, shoulder to shoulder, packed like sardines, for hours. You could cut the tweaky homoerotic tension with a knife. I think if you actually observed that out loud, though, you *would* have got beat down. Guys get anxious about that kind of thing.
At speedcore parties around here it used to be even more overt. Instead of slamming into each other at high speed, everyone would bounce up and down, shoulder to shoulder, packed like sardines, for hours. You could cut the tweaky homoerotic tension with a knife. I think if you actually observed that out loud, though, you *would* have got beat down. Guys get anxious about that kind of thing.
i'm not really saying its homo-erotic... just that its considered homoerotic unless you can excuse the behaviour in some way, like that its gangsta, and gangstas cant be gay just look at the crays...
i dont think boys dance like that cos they secretly want to fuck each other but people do want to be able to touch each other because its natural. the image accusing people of having homoerotic rituals is, for me, really just a joke i like to imagine playing on iidiuts (how would u write it how riko says it??) who 'dont have a problem with it, as long as they dont make a show of it'.
so yeah i like dancing cos it can be a good excuse for people who are a bit caught up in thier social scripts (gender or whatever) to break that ... except 'bad' dancing which is scared-of-letting-it-go dancing is pretty upsetting to watch.
hmm dance dance revolution... only that games like a fake co-opting of dance as rules following.
(sorry i'm on control room shift at my particle accelerator... so my brains a bit fucked)
i dont think boys dance like that cos they secretly want to fuck each other but people do want to be able to touch each other because its natural. the image accusing people of having homoerotic rituals is, for me, really just a joke i like to imagine playing on iidiuts (how would u write it how riko says it??) who 'dont have a problem with it, as long as they dont make a show of it'.
so yeah i like dancing cos it can be a good excuse for people who are a bit caught up in thier social scripts (gender or whatever) to break that ... except 'bad' dancing which is scared-of-letting-it-go dancing is pretty upsetting to watch.
hmm dance dance revolution... only that games like a fake co-opting of dance as rules following.
(sorry i'm on control room shift at my particle accelerator... so my brains a bit fucked)
artdamages
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its both one after the other. let the boys be boys is the better line though. BcDaFucUp is pretty great - I wish I still had the case and booklet cos I'd like to know who the producers were.