WHAT IS CRUNK DANCING?
A lot of people don’t know what crunk is.
First of all, the word crunk was coined by Lil Jon because by combining the words "crazy" and "drunk." That gave us the word crunk. No, you don't have to be drunk to learn how to crunk dance, but you can always pretend. It’s all in how you want to do it. You make it your style. As for the crazy part, you do need it to crunk—it’s just a metaphor but crunkin’ needs that crazy in it. Crazy and drunk were just words combined to describe an aggressive form of dance.
Most people think you need fast music just to crunk, but you really don’t. For example, you can crunk to a “twist-heart beat”, which is a kind of slow song, but it really doesn’t matter. But to really get crunkin’, it’s like a mad type of dance, so you just find anger with in you and you bring that force out and just let go. When you battle, it’s really a play fight. So you’re really going to be swinging but you don’t hit each other for real; it’s just an act.
Before its new use, the word crunk was a new way of saying hyped, or pumped up… Crunk originated in the mid 1990’s. It’s often paired with a Hip-Hop style of dance. Many popular dance crews and solo choreographers create and freestyle dance to crunk. Two of the most popular crunk dancers are Mike Song and Victor Kim. Crunk can also be paired with other styles of dance, such as Krumping, B-Boying, Funk-style, Popping, and Electro-House dance. They all have that angry feel to them.
Well that’s a little something on crunk that a lot of people don’t know about.
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