twerking
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Short-Sleeved Turtleneck Restaurant Owner Stars in Step Up: True to Twerking Respectability Politics in a Pandemic
We have BREAKING NEWS via Associated Press-N-Curl. According to a completely made-up Hollywood trade magazine called Variation, there is a new film in the popular dance franchise, Step Up, coming to a social media screen near you. The owner of Black-owned restaurant TRUE Kitchen & Kocktails has been tapped to star in Step Up: True…
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'Houston We Have a Problem': Megan Thee Stallion and Lizzo Team Up for the Most Pure Hot Girl Video
We are one day away from the release of Megan Thee Stallion and Nicki Minaj’s much-anticipated collaboration, “Hot Girl Summer,” but Meg found it in her heart to gift us with one more blessed hangout: her and the incomparable Lizzo. The link-up started out as many Megan events do, with the Houston rapper pouring a…
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Be Careful: A Wardrobe Malfunction Forces Cardi B to Finish the Bonnaroo Festival in a Bathrobe
The show must go on, or so they say—and Cardi B’s never been one to shy away from a big reveal (see: her pregnancy announcement last year). So, when the rear zipper of Cardi’s bedazzled, multicolored catsuit couldn’t take the well-rounded pressure of holding for the entirety of her set at Bonnaroo on Sunday, the…
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Granny's Still Got It: Senior Citizens Twerking Should Be Your New #Fitspo
After over two decades in the contemporary lexicon (and approximately two centuries of historical context), twerking (or as us oldsters used to call it, “booty-popping”) is proving to be as enduring and evolutionary as hip-hop itself. So much so, many of us who grew up with the dance are now technically years closer to being…
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City Girls and Cardi B Give Us the Ass-Clapping Video Anthem We Never Knew We Wanted
I know I am not the only person who was mesmerized by Cardi B’s stripper dancing and pole work in her video for “Money.” The truth is, I have long been a fan of watching women with delightful asses throwing them around in a circle to ratchet beats. I was there in 2011 when the…
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Move Over, Twerking … There’s a New Dance in Town Called ‘Figuring’
In a recent New York Times Instagram post, the media company explored a new form of dance called “figuring.” Figuring seems to involve sporadic movements and body contorting, which the Times referred to as “spooky.” Created by choreographer Moriah Evans, figuring is said to be a reaction to the current political climate. In an attempt…
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10 Raunchy Twerk Anthems to Get Your Booty Moving
I know I am not the only person with a playlist full of raunchy songs that get me in the mood to twerk all over my apartment whenever I play them. I actually have two: one I call the “Ratchet” playlist and the other called “Let’s Twerk.” They are my guilty pleasures. There’s a lot…