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1895, you just said it yourself, man.
Posted by SoWhat, Wed Dec-22-04 06:17 AM
>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.

yeah, i feel that. if dancing in and of itself were cool...if it were cool to let loose to music in that public situation it wouldn't matter about the song. to me the fact that there are all these restrictions on when/where/how/why dancing is accepted means dancing isn't cool.

>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.

word.

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

right...b/c dancing isn't cool.

>>>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?

sounds like ppl are re-enacting moves they copped from videos...that's not really dancing to me. that's posing and posturing.

>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?

nope, not really. not from what i've seen.

>>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.

it's the restrictions...the restrictions.

like you said, dancing alone is some white boy/rave/gay shit and i didn't know until i was in those environment. those ppl dance however they want (basically) to whatever they want w/or w/o whomever. it's totally different. and to me it means that to us dancing isn't cool. i guess i've overstated it by saying ppl don't dance alone in Black clubs but it's still just not cool. or maybe this is my hang-up...i dunno. but i know that i'll dance alone more in a white/rave/gay club than in a Black/str8 club b/c i've learned it's not acceptable.