Busta learns from Ice-T, takes cue from Soulja Boy, T-Wayne
Arab Money, Busta’s latest stews up two of my favorite recent trends - excessive auto-tune and dance crazes - with economic anxiety and a hooky slice of the ever slippery arab face. I thought rupture had said all that needed be blogged about this thang until I saw the blatant Cash Camp bite in the Arab Money dance!
Busta bouncing around at the Knitting Factory last week.
Cash Camp dancing to V.I.C. “Get Silly”
The “Get Silly” track (ft. Soulja Boy, por supuesto) dropped last winter but Cash Camp has been doing the shaking-fist, knee-knocking “Silly” dance since the original Soulja Boy Crank Dat video (See ~0:48.)
Not to mention the prominence of this particular move in their own Crank Dat Yank. (See ~2:25: “Yank that bitch back / Get jiggy with it real fast.”)
(Did you catch the awesomely DIY biotech zombie narrative? Crank Dat 28 Days Later!)
With a history like his, I didn’t expect Busta to go the wah-wahhhh old fogey route but his wholesale embrace of the young dance culture is still surprising. The remaining question, inspired by Soulja Boy’s financial transparency, is the degree to which Busta Rhymes needs to give credit (and/or cash) where credit is due. Should he reach out to Cash Camp and do a video with them or can Busta claim to be just another node in the teen dance craze network?
Sharing and adaptation are social norms of the teen dance culture. Authorship (biting) seems less often contested than it is/was in other realms of hip-hop but Busta comes from one of those “other realms”, the lyrical, bite-phobic 90s NYC generation. Is it within the mores of the dance culture for him to borrow so liberally from the Cash Camp clique?
Or do the kids need a new mantra?
Don’t trust anyone over thirty … with your dance?
(Note: Just when you thought it couldn’t get any weirder: fake al-jazeera, keffiyehs, actual arabs, and ACTUAL “A-RAB MONEY”??!)
Tags
autotune, bustarhymes, cashcamp, craze, dance, hiphop, souljaboy, t-wayne
Tags: autotune, bustarhymes, cashcamp, craze, dance, hiphop, souljaboy, t-wayne
