Amongst fellow Howard DJs and classmates, this became lore. DJ Detroyt was originally rejected from Howard after applying late, but he was offered a scholarship when a faculty member heard his percussion skills. He considers that moment in the gym as proof he was meant to be at the institution. So her and her friends ever since she passed away, get together and swag surf. The song does not explicitly do that. One of them is the establishing of a communal bond.
That Howard video resonates not only because of the sheer number of students involved, it also displays a healthy representation of the black diaspora connecting over this one thing within seconds. But songs of resolve are adaptable. Wolfe would step down a day later, and Missouri students swag surfed in front of ESPN cameras to mark their victory.
Music Style Culture Video. Twitter facebook youtube instagram. By Brian Josephs. Hip-Hop, Issue He got his start banging drums 26 years ago at a Dade City church. Now, he's a music producer who has composed tracks for names as big as Jay Z and Nicki Minaj.
Swag Surfin' came out in Since then, instead of fading from DJs' rotations, it found its way to pep rallies and political protests. It became a phenomenon, as did a requisite dance: rows of friends and strangers linking arms and swaying from side to side. Videos of swag-surfing students at historically black colleges go viral, football teams set recruiting videos to the song and Twitter users joke it's become the new black national anthem.
Erondu gave the bouncy club beat a suspenseful opening, four long synth horn notes, inspired by movie scores, all of it so slow that the word "swag" stretches across three beats.
He kept playing in churches after his family moved to Valdosta, Ga. Eventually, churches paid him to play on Sundays, the first money he ever made off music. As a teenager, he noticed a neighbor rapping and inviting people over to record at his house. I bet I could do it better than the people that come over,' even though I didn't know how to make a beat.
Bouncing between day jobs and spending nights producing, he built up a local following in Valdosta. Collaborators circled in and out of the house he shared with his ex-girlfriend, listening to songs, sometimes buying them. One day, someone broke in and stole all of his recording gear. Want more of our free, weekly newsletters in your inbox? Still, he recorded some synth horns, created the instrumental that would launch his career, and posted it on his MySpace page, where it sat for months until the Stone Mountain, Ga.
They released Swag Surfin' in March Within two months, they told him it was a hit, a claim he had heard plenty of times before. But YouTube views piled up, his phone rang and rang, and, finally, he drove to Atlanta to see for himself.
He thought it was just F. It was his big break. The WNBA Finals favorites have been guided through the playoffs by an obscure hip-hop song from over a decade ago. With just under six minutes left in the game, and the Mystics leading , Cloud heard those synth horns and iconic opening lyrics.
As if by instinct, the Mystics guard hooked arms with her teammates on the bench and began to fluently motion left to right to the rhythm of the beat.
And then the bass hit. Mystics winning it all. From Atlanta hip-hop trio F. The song peaked at just No. But at the halfway point of this decade, the song and dance had a resurgence on social media, in part, some believe, because of a group of students at Howard University, a historically black institution located in the district, Swag Surfing in unison at a school sporting event in , which was subsequently uploaded to Twitter.
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