The hottest dance move you’ve never heard of.

There’s nothing that reminds you of how irrelevant you are like discovering every high school across America is sneezing into their elbow and calling it a dance move. I’m talking about the dab, a high octane, staccato dance accoutrement to the popular song, “bitch dab” by the Migos.

In 2015 the dab joined the ranks of twerking, the whip nae nae and every other rap based dance style to have been endeared by even the whitest corners of mainstream music. But unlike other dances, the dab owes its popularity to Atlanta’s original rap genre, “trap”.

If trap music reflects the grim realities of the poor man’s urban struggle; then trap is Atlanta’s black music culture at its grittiest. Embalming the cities explosive urban sprawl filled with dead end streets and opportunities. The style originates back to the 90’s where rap groups like Outkast, and Ghetto Mafia were some of the first to use the term in their music. Fans and critics started to refer to rappers whose primary lyrical topic was drug dealing, as “trap rappers.”

I’ll leave you with this music video of trap’s most recent expansion into South Korea where rapper Keith Ape has exploded with his debut hit “It G Ma”.

Post by: Nicholas Graham Platt