May 3, 2004

Krumping

From MTV - a report of a new dance craze. bq. If You Look Like Bozo Having Spasms, You're Doing It Right We've been deprived all these years. We've never seen Krusty the Clown popping his booty, Ronald McDonald never C-walked, and Bozo ... forget about it. He could probably barely do a jig, let alone shake his whole body like an enraged zombie from "28 Days Later." bq. Well, the dark ages are over. There's a group of California clowns doing the thang. We've gotten a potent dosage of clown dancing — or krumping, as it's called — in videos such as Missy Elliott's "I'm Really Hot" and the Black Eyed Peas "Hey Mama." Now the ringleader of the crunk circus act says the mainstream had better look out, because he's bringing more than balloons and giant shoes. The krumping era just may be upon us. bq. "The clowning and the krumping dance movement, it is a very positive thing because it really does keep kids off the streets," krumping originator Thomas Johnson, a.k.a. Tommy the Clown, explained in Los Angeles recently. "Kids really don't have too much to do around here. This is something exciting for them. To Missy and everybody that has grabbed this whole clowning, krumping, hip-hop style of clown dancing, I want to say thank you for putting it on the national scale. You're doing it." Human creativity is awesome. Now if we can get the mullahs in Iran to take some lessons in this... Posted by DaveH at May 3, 2004 11:45 AM