How to do the crank that dance
How to Do the Soulja Boy hip hop cranking move « Hip Hop :: WonderHowTo
- By Linda Chang
When rap sensation Soulja Boy came out with his namesake hit "Crank That (Soulja Boy)" in 2007 you could walk past a single neighborhood block without witnesses at least one kid out in his driveway practicing the arm swishes and leg pops.
Even three years later, the Soulja Boy crank is still one of the most popular and widely known hip hop dance moves around. If you want to learn it for yourself, check out this dance tutorial.
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The Complete List Of All The "Crank Dat" Songs That Came Out Between 2006 and 2007
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Many may not realize it but the first wave of viral dance videos hit hip hop culture between 2006 and 2007 and changed hip hop culture forever.
For the first time ever, young people could shoot videos of themselves dancing in their homes and broadcast them to the whole world. This, along with the advancements that allowed rappers to create their own followings via social media(Myspace) and produce and record their own music with software like Fruity Loops, pushed a whole new wave of D-I-Y hip hop culture that still resonates today.
If you’re a millennial, you definitely remember the “crank dat” era popularized by Soulja Boy, in which artists created their own song with a dance video accompanying it that listeners could log onto YouTube, watch, perform themselves and then record their own versions of the dance and upload it. This virality spread these homemade songs across the United States and even the world.
It’s surprising to realize that while this craze started almost a decade ago(10 years ago… yeah…you are old now), you can still see its impact on the internet, social media and music today. (Just look at songs like “JuJu On That Beat”)
There has even been academic study done on the category of “African-American social dance” that these “crank dat” dances fall under.
Check out this video by TED Fellow Camille A. Brown on the history of “African-American social dance.”
Just to take you on a trip down memory lane, we at WatchTheYard.com created a complete list of all of the popular “crank dat” songs and dances that came out between 2006 and 2007. After scouring the internet, and our old iPods, we came up with a whopping 23 dances.
Do you remember doing any of these?
Crank dat Soulja Boy
Crank dat Batman
Crank dat Lion King
Crank dat Forest Gump
Crank dat Yank
Crank dat Roosevelt
Crank dat Spiderman
Crank dat Sponge Bob
Crank dat Supermario
Crank dat Ryu (Street Fighter)
Crank dat Fundip
Crank dat Urkel
Crank dat Juggernaut (Marvel Comics)
Crank Dat Watcha Call It
Crank dat Temptation
Crank dat Aquaman
Crank Dat Head Banga
Crank dat Iceman
Crank dat Jumpman
Crank dat Cool Whip
Crank dat Jump Rope
Crank dat Grandpa
Crank dat Robocop
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