Hip-Hop Songs That Set Dance Trends: Then Til’ Now

Hip Hop Dance Trends Dance and Hip-Hop go hand-in-hand and feed off each other. We took a look back at some songs based off dance moves and vice versa to remember the moves, the music, and the moment.


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Baauer’s “Harlem Shake,” went viral this year producing ‘original’ videos that consisted of absurd dance moves, wacky costumes, and straight comedy after the beat’s drop hit.

None-the-less it was still a dance move that sparked a movement, song, and video outburst.

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Currently, the “Twerk,” videos have taken over the Internet and pushed the “Harlem Shake” phenom into the past like other break-out songs that packed the dance floors.

Celebrities like Miley Cyrus have made the term “twerk,” which can be simply defined as shaking one’s a**, into a house-hold term or phrase used.

What will be the next dance-move craze? Well, we’re not sure yet, but we had the time to reflect on dance moves that became songs, and vice-versa, that we grew to love and grew to forget.

Hit the jump and get jiggy with it.

– John Weber (@JohnPaulWeber)