Please tell me Barack is in the middle of that crowd lol
https://www.instagram.com/p/BM4pRGFgeRE/


http://www.spin.com/2016/11/swag-surf-white-house/

Earlier this week, BET aired Love and Happiness: A Musical Experience—a concert tribute to Barack Obama. This was the same event that Dave Chappelle referenced in his recent Saturday Night Live monologue—you can spot Bradley Cooper in the audience, just like Chappelle promised.

The overriding tone of the BET special was bittersweet, a look at black joy in the White House. The show was taped in late October, well before anyone knew the presidency was doomed to Donald Trump’s hateful worldview. It wasn’t that long ago when black people couldn’t even get into the White House; on that October night, it became a free black space for a short time. But white nationalists will soon be walking its halls.

If it doesn’t hit you that this the cruelest hairpin turn in American history, there’s this clip of the show’s predominantly black audience surfing to Fast Life Yungstaz’s modern nightlife spiritual, “Swag Surfin’.” DJ D-Nice, who held down after-party duties at the White House’s East Room, reposted a clip of the attendees dancing in unison. The Washington Post published an account of the iconic moment in after-party DJ’ing history.

At about 10 p.m., attendees headed to the East Room for the after-party starring DJ D-Nice. And that is when things really got loose. According to one source, folks tried to “look cute” while the legendary DJ spun old- and new-school hits but “that ended quickly.” By this point in the night the president was sans jacket and tie, with his shirt sleeves rolled up dancing with abandon to Drake’s “Hotline Bling.”

“You could see that the Obamas felt very comfortable,” said our source. “They were with their people — and I don’t mean African Americans — people who’d supported them and held them up and allowed them to do what they do. It was a really special night.”
You smile at this anecdote until it hits you: It’ll be a long while before we ever see this display of preternatural rhythm and jubilance in the White House. The Unblackening has happened and for the next few years we’ll look at these seconds-long clips as distant, idyllic memories. Chappelle thrives in absurdities, but they’re often grounded in truth. He wasn’t lying when he said that night at the White House was a beautiful thing.

And I think the other side saw it and made a pledge to make sure we will never see that again...in their lifetime.


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"Everyone has a plan until you punch them in the face. Then they don't have a plan anymore." (c) Mike Tyson

"what's a leader if he isn't reluctant"

i mean, i fucked w/ F.L.Y. and swag surfin back in '09 when it dropped and i'd be swag surfin to NON-"Swag Surfin" songs (cuz they didn't even play Swag Surfin in Seattle except in my apartment).

now, it probably was always a thing in the south and i just don't know about it, but i feel like it caught on in NYC clubs a couple years ago and here we are.

it's just so odd for something like this to still be culturally relevant so many years later. it's not like people are still cranking that soulja boy.

after people left the south and hbcus to go back where they came they took it with them.

we used to do it at HS football games all the time. it's hella fun at sporting events. im surprised it isnt more popular tbh.

>after people left the south and hbcus to go back where they
>came they took it with them.

i just wondered because i always loved it and it never caught on 'round these parts then when i saw NYC clubs doing it, it just seemed to be so random years later but your explanation might be right on.

for emphasis).

"By this point in the night the president was sans jacket and tie, with his shirt sleeves rolled up dancing with abandon to Drake’s “Hotline Bling.”

i liked the song, but i didn't know there was a dance to go along with it.

now back to crying because it will never happen again for a long ass time.