>that's not dancing alone and i'm not sure it's personal
>expression. that's dance as battle which is a key element
>of hip-hop cool.

let's put it like this
- they aren't b-boys

1 guy is on the floor, ostensibly by himself, but in view of others.

He's feeling the music so much, he leaves the wall.
As long as it's an acceptable get hype song, he doesn't get clowned.

But it's not the same sort of thing you see a girl do - where they hear their song and run out to the dance floor.
Even with that, they bring their girls as well.

The "solo" dancing thing, is very much some white boy steez, kinda thing you'd see @ a rave more so than a black club.

So this idea that people 1) don't dance, 2) don't dance by themselves, 3) dont' dance with the opposite sex - makes no sense to me - the theory doesn't match every night observation. And I stay on the floor watching this.

>it's NOT cool for a guy to run on the floor and dance alone
>b/c "Drop It Like It's Hot" is 'his song'. can you imagine
>standing at the bar and putting your drink down and running
>to the floor alone b/c that song came on?

But i've seen it happen.

It's just not dramatic like a female.

The typical one is when the dj plays an old school cut - cats react and do their Michael Jackson impersonations - or whatever is appropriate.

That's very different from an "Ooh girl, this is my song"

That's not the only way that people react to music and start to dance.

>>The more regular thing I see is after all the radio shit is
>>played, a real G song would come on, and cats would throw
>>they sets up and get krunk. And not just on some black mosh
>>type shit/not on some new orleans shit either, on some I
>>know 5 or 6 dances that you do to this song in particular.
>
>isn't that posturing though? is that really dancing?

You want to define that?

Cause 25 lighters will come on, and a bunch of cats will start doing the southside. Whoa by black rob will drop, and everyone does that GI Joe/running man thing that Black Rob does in the video.

Chicago doesn't get down like that?

Houston does. Austin does.

>dancing in public in and of itself isn't cool and if it were
>men could do it alone.

I'm not sure how you've figured this out.

>>That might be the South, but it's pretty normal.
>>
>>So when cats say dancing is dead, I dont' see it at my local
>>spots.
>
>oh, i agree. ppl dance to hip-hop here...but it's not about
>the dancing itself it's about something else.