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Discussion: Had Beyonce twerked before the BEYONCE era/twerking trend?
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Originally posted by Trent W
Hummmmm............. Okay?
I'm not offended at all when people call me white, but this is not about race.
Rihanna is way more associated with the term than Beyoncé
The Pour it up video alone is proof, also what impact on twerking has beyonce had besides dancing it her concerts?
Nicki had also way more impact in that term with Anaconda
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Listen, Tiffany
Unless you've been sheltered from actual black culture your entire life, then you have no excuse to be saying all this ******** you've been saying these past pages. You obviously don't know what twerking is or where it came from so stop acting like you know what you're talking about because you clearly don't. Rihanna =/= twerking. This is fact.
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Originally posted by Bey_Rihstan
Beyhive, why are we arguing with people that don't know two things about culture?
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Yes the person brushing away that black people brought twirking and running around saying Miley made it big when i been around for decades :deaddbanana2:
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Knowing about twerking isn't something I would catalog as being cultured 
Besides today twerking= Nickis Anaconda then Miley then it gets blurry
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Even tho a lot of people don't like it
Miley Cyrus had more impact than Beyoncé on the twerk term since she made it available to other cultures, I know that she sucks at it, she really does, but a lot of people outside the US didn't know what twerking was until Miley did it. Then Rihanna with pour it up soldify it, and Nicki's Anaconda too.
I know Beyonce is good at dancing with her booty, but culturally she didn't provide anything to the movement. So she didn't twerk before the BEYONCÉ era IMO. It was some different kind of dance.
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Originally posted by Crimson18
nnnnnnnn y'all don't sift poor DENT's wig too far back now. 
And the thread asks did Bey twerk before Miley and the answer is emphatically yes and there's hella proof in this thread. She mentioned it in one of her iconic hits and she made a WHOLE SONG about this a DECADE AGO.
Why is DENT so pressed? 
Go focus on FFS sliding down the iTunes Chart and SIT. |
Dent 
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Originally posted by YeaBey4ever
So let me get this straight, despite using the term in lyrics from the 90s and early 2000s and doing the actual thing, Bey hopped on a "trend" that is actually something that has been around in the black community for YEARS?
Let's pretend this is true for a second: You all accuse her of "shaking her ass 24/7" on stage so is it a reach for her to do it? |
Clock it 
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Yes. And that is racist.
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You have the NERVE
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Originally posted by Crimson18
Funny when I looked up twerking on Wiki this came up:
Twerking first received national recognition in the United States in the early 2000s, when the song "Whistle While You Twurk" (2000), by Southern hip hop duo Ying Yang Twins, peaked at number 17 on the Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs component chart. It was later referenced in their later track "Say I Yi Yi" (2002), in which the lyrics "she got her hands up on her knees and her elbows on her thighs / she like to twerk and that's for certain I can tell that she fly" are heard. In her 2005 single "Check on It", American recording artist Beyoncé sings "Dip it, pop it, twerk it, stop it, check on me tonight."[11] Beyoncé's single reached number one on the US Billboard Hot 100, following its release. "Twerk" was also sung in Destiny's Child's pop hit "Jumpin' Jumpin'."
DENT-explain.
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Nnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn
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Originally posted by Trent W
Hummmmm............. Okay?
I'm not offended at all when people call me white, but this is not about race.
Rihanna is way more associated with the term than Beyoncé
The Pour it up video alone is proof, also what impact on twerking has beyonce had besides dancing it her concerts?
Nicki had also way more impact in that term with Anaconda
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You continue to embarrass yourself. Mainstream pop music from last year is all you know or what?
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This is the most bizarre thread. Clearly Beyonce is the twerker of her generation. Black women have been twerking for decades. Twerking isn't new. It's only new for people who foolishly associate it with Miley Cyrus.
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Yikes. This is the same "Iggy brought hip-hop to pop" logic.
What a mess. But whatever, something else stolen from us.
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Slay On It is just life 
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I grew up with Louisiana rap where the twerk term came from and it's basically booty popping. When we was kids we used to do it at birthday parties back in the mid 90's. When a lot these bamas today was in pampers. Beyonce has been doing it since the 90's. The whole "twerk" thing is like " Bling Bling" all over again.
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Originally posted by Trent W
Even tho a lot of people don't like it
Miley Cyrus had more impact than Beyoncé on the twerk term since she made it available to other cultures, I know that she sucks at it, she really does, but a lot of people outside the US didn't know what twerking was until Miley did it. Then Rihanna with pour it up soldify it, and Nicki's Anaconda too.
I know Beyonce is good at dancing with her booty, but culturally she didn't provide anything to the movement.
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You're saying that about the woman that put Bootylicious in the dictionary
And TWERKED in the music video.
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all I'm gonna say is Beyonce did not actually do the twerking motions of today before the BEYONCE era. However, if she was the one to coin the term, it probably just turned into what it is today based on her booty popping of her early career.
btw I'm not saying a particular pop star is the one who made it popular, coined the term etc. Just that in the last few years twerking has been displayed as something totally different (by women in hip-hop videos) than what Beyonce's is doing in these gifs.
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Originally posted by Crimson18
Funny when I looked up twerking on Wiki this came up:
Twerking first received national recognition in the United States in the early 2000s, when the song "Whistle While You Twurk" (2000), by Southern hip hop duo Ying Yang Twins, peaked at number 17 on the Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs component chart. It was later referenced in their later track "Say I Yi Yi" (2002), in which the lyrics "she got her hands up on her knees and her elbows on her thighs / she like to twerk and that's for certain I can tell that she fly" are heard. In her 2005 single "Check on It", American recording artist Beyoncé sings "Dip it, pop it, twerk it, stop it, check on me tonight."[11] Beyoncé's single reached number one on the US Billboard Hot 100, following its release. "Twerk" was also sung in Destiny's Child's pop hit "Jumpin' Jumpin'."
DENT-explain.
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Oh Oh Trent explain ?
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Originally posted by MaoMars
Brazilians have been doing the so-called twerking for DECADES
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So have the descendants of African slaves in all the diaspora but let's disregard that since they only heard about it in 2013.
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Originally posted by Monceau
Knowing about twerking isn't something I would catalog as being cultured
Besides today twerking= Nickis Anaconda then Miley then it gets blurry |
tf are YOU talking about? Follow the discussion next time you make a comment plz! 
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This thread 
The clocking
But really though, how are you going to ask US if our fav had twerked before this era and when we provide extensive receipts, you try to tell us we're wrong as if we don't know our own culture  okay sis 
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Originally posted by Monceau
Knowing about twerking isn't something I would catalog as being cultured
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Good thing no one asked you then.
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Originally posted by Trent W
Even tho a lot of people don't like it
Miley Cyrus had more impact than Beyoncé on the twerk term since she made it available to other cultures, I know that she sucks at it, she really does, but a lot of people outside the US didn't know what twerking was until Miley did it. Then Rihanna with pour it up soldify it, and Nicki's Anaconda too.
I know Beyonce is good at dancing with her booty, but culturally she didn't provide anything to the movement.
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You're off topic. The thread title states:
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Had Beyonce twerked before the BEYONCE era/twerking trend?
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The answer is YES. She did it before all these other pop girls out here. Now shut down the computer and say goodnight, hunny.
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