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Dougie. The Dougie ( / ˈdʌɡi / ⓘ DUG-ee) is a hip hop dance generally performed by moving one's body from side to side and passing a hand through or near the hair on one's own head. [ 1] The dance originated in Dallas, Texas, [ 2][ 3] where it took its name from similar moves performed by 1980s rapper Doug E. Fresh. [ 1][ 4][ 5] The Dougie ...
New jack swing, new jack, or swingbeat[ 1] is a fusion genre of the rhythms and production techniques of hip hop and dance-pop, and the urban contemporary sound of R&B. Spearheaded by producers Teddy Riley, Bernard Belle, Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis, new jack swing was most popular from the late 1980s to early 1990s.
Hip hop dance is a range of street dance styles primarily performed to hip hop music or that have evolved as part of hip hop culture. It is influenced by a wide range of styles that were created in the 1970s and made popular by dance crews in the United States. The television show Soul Train and the 1980s films Breakin', Beat Street, and Wild ...
The history of hip-hop dances encompasses the people and events since the late 1960s that have contributed to the development of early hip-hop dance styles, such as uprock, breaking, locking, roboting, boogaloo, and popping. African Americans created uprock and breaking in New York City. African Americans in California created locking, roboting ...
Litefeet. Litefeet, also referred to as "getting lite," is a type of street dance / vernacular dance that emerged from Harlem, New York in the early 2000s (was established in 2006) . [1] The term comes from dancers dancing as though they have "light feet," or are weightless. [2]
Grime is a genre of electronic dance music (EDM) [ 3] that emerged in London in the early 2000s. It developed out of the earlier UK dance style UK garage, [ 4] and draws influences from jungle, dancehall, and hip hop. [ 2] The style is typified by rapid, syncopated breakbeats, generally around 140 beats per minute, [ 4][ 1] and often features ...
Chuck Philips, Los Angeles Times, 1992 Gangsta rap is a subgenre of hip hop that reflects the violent lifestyles of inner-city American black youths. Gangsta is a non-rhotic pronunciation of the word gangster. The genre was pioneered in the mid-1980s by rappers such as Schoolly D and Ice-T, and was popularized in the later part of the 1980s by groups like N.W.A. In 1985 Schoolly D released "P ...
Devon Turner [1], known as Punchmade Dev [2] is a rapper and songwriter based in Chicago, Illinois. [3] [4] Best known for the popularization of scam rap, a sub-genre of hip hop, [5] he has produced various songs and videos relating to fraud, such as a "Wire Fraud Tutorial", [6] "Internet Swiping", and "Million Dollar Criminal" [7] which have obtained several million views on social media ...