Mike Clark Jr. - "Keep On Steppin" (Line Dance Remix feat. Big Boogie) video, lyrics, and comments

Mike Clark Jr, Oct 1, 2025  #KeepOnSteppin #BigBoogie #MikeClarkJr

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Edited by Azizi Powell

This pancocojams post showcases an October 1. 2025 YouTube video of a remix of Mike Clark Jr.'s line dance song "Keep On Steppin" featuring Big Boogie.

This post also features an April 2025 YouTube video of this line dance. 

Lyrics for this song are included in this post along with selected comments from the discussion thread for that video. 

The content of this post is presented for historical, socio-cultural, and entertainment purposes.

All copyrights remain with their owners.

Thanks to Mike Clark, Jr, Big Boogie, and all others who are featured in this YouTube video. Thanks also to all those who are quoted in this post, and thanks to the producers of these YouTube videos.

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YOUTUBE VIDEO #2-  Mike Clark Jr, Ms Shirley and West Love “Steppin at The Park” #KeepOnSteppin

Mike Clark, Jr., April 17, 2025

GOD has been blessing me so much my team wanted to give back! We did a FREE cookout with giveaways for the kids in my community and with the help of local businesses and friends it was a major success! #MikeClarkJr #KeepOnSteppin

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LYRICS - 
(Mike Clark, Jr.)

YJ
In your dreams, and there's law, how!!
And they don't like it, uh, but Imma keep on stepping, (come on)
They don't like it,uh, but Imma keep on stepping, (sh&t)*
They don't like it,uh,Imma keep on stepping
(Hold on) one, two, three
Now step, then step, then turn (come on)
Now step, then step, then turn (come on)
Now step, then step, then turn
Now step, then step, then turn
Now step, then step, then turn
(Hold on) one, two, three
(Hold on) we gone start right here one, two, three
Do my ladies run this party, y'all
Do my ladies run this party, y'all
Down in the country they gone party hard
Down in the country they gone party hard
Now step, then step, then turn (come on)
Now step, then step, then turn (come on)
Now step, then step, then turn (come on)
Now step, then step, then turn 
(Hold on) we gone start right here one, two, three
(Hold on) one, two, three
They don't like it, but Imma keep on stepping, (come on)
They don't like it , but Imma keep on stepping, (yeah)
They don't like it , but Imma keep on stepping
(Hold on) we gone start right here one, two, three
Down in the country they gone party hard
Down in the country they gone party hard
In the meantime between time (c'mon)
We gone shake it on down
Check it now
We gone go to church right here y'all
Clap it up now
They don't like it , but Imma keep on stepping, (yeah)
They don't like it , but Imma keep on stepping
Come on let's go
They don't like it , but Imma keep on stepping
(Hold on) we gone start right here one, two, three
Now step, then step, then turn (let's go)
Now step, then step, then turn (let's go)
Now step, then step, then turn (let's go)
Now step, then step, then turn 
(Hold on) one, two, three
(Hold on) one, two, three


Source: https://open.spotify.com/track/2GWsyI5MeizWUXIqgt9D2P

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SELECTED COMMENTS FROM THE DISCUSSION THREAD OF THIS VIDEO

Numbers are added for referencing purposes only.

October 2025

1. @roses4me45
"@OfficialMikeClarkJr  This is FIIIIIIIIIRRRRREEEE!!!!🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥"They don't like it, but you keep on STEPPING!" HOLD ON!!! Mike, you brought out the whole posse with Big Boogie, Ms. Shirley, "Aunties", everybody and they grandma! 🤠👢🎶🎤"

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2. @mikaylajackson9321
"Y'all killed that with big boogie 🔥🔥🔥 and west love and the cute lil one Mrs. Shirley"

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3. @OfficialMikeClarkJr
"✊🏾✊🏾✊🏾✊🏾"

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4. @MapleBizzell, November 2025
"🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥"

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5. @madeleinegeorge27
"Hold On!! There goes Miss Shirley! 😍🤩💃🏾💃🏾💃🏾"

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6. @mikaylajackson9321
"Yay, Ms. Shirley!!!❤🎉 Get it, Baby Girl!💃🏾👑🎶💖"

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7. @danapatilloytf2024
"This remix is so Dopeeeee 🔥"

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8. @Rockie54
"Chicago love y’all dowwwnn 🤭🔥💃🏾👢👢🔥💃🏾💃🏾🙏🏾✨✨✨✨✨✨"
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9. @mz_marmar89, November 2025
"Cause y’all line dance DOWN 🔥🔥🔥"

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10. @chelseataylor8874
"Perfect collab 🔥🔥🔥🔥  absolutely killed this periodttt ‼️ y'all together 🤌🏽😩🔥🔥"

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11. @OfficialMikeClarkJr, November 2025

"Thank you ✊🏾"

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12.·@StaceyHolloway-u6r
"Mike Clark jr 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥"

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13. @CheyenneHenderson-e7u
"HERE BECAUSE IM A BIG BOOGIE FAN👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾🔥🔥"

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14. @TJDuncan
"Here cause I’m a MIKE CLARK FAN 🔥🔥🔥👩‍🚒"

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15. @robinsampson8573

"👢 🥾 👞 🤠 👠 👠 👠 🎉🎉🎉❤❤❤THEYYY  DONT LIKE IT 😢🎉🎉🎉BUTTT WEZZ GOINGG 2 KEEP ON STEPPNN🎉🎉🎉PERIOD 🎉🎉🎉LETZZ GOOO FAMILY 🎉🎉🎉🎉"

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16. @DiannaJohnson-0321
"Detroit salute."

**  17. @kimberlygreene9195
"I like that fye!!!"

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18. @Little_s
"Ayee I love this "

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19. 

@TanishaMobley
"Ayeee, this was 🔥 🔥💯😍😍"

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20. @In.erTone
"This look soo fun"

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November 2025

21. @MrSatisfy39
"❤❤❤🔥🔥🔥Y’all need to come to Cali"

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22. @jasomega2446
"AYE!"

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23.@olove6091
"I love My People 🤎🤞🏾✊🏾🤏🏾🦶🏾 The world don't like us but "We" gon keep on Stepping!!!"

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24. @sebastiangalindo4991
"Saludos desde México"
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Google translate from Spanish to English:
"Greetings from Mexico"

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25.@nenanenic4108
"Wow great voice style dancing line ..bravoooo..great job sweet Mike Clark Jr.GREETINGS FROM EUROPE"

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26. @markelprince708
"I love my ppl"

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27. @aliciahentz-xq9xx
"Its the growl for me "

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28. 
@TyroneKangg
"We need this y’all! Line dancing, stepping and soul music I love my people"

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29. @AliceBridges-u3y5x
"I'm here for everything 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥"

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30. @JustCallMeBrandi81
"Love ️from Houston byway of Louisiana ️"

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31. @teambeta11
"Yeah this getting added to my party playlist"

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32. @leshajenkins1979
"SHOUT OUT FROM SHREVEPORT, LOUISIANA!!!!!!!

💪🏾💜💛

KEEP STEPPIN' ON EM YA' HEARD ME!!!!!!!

🔥💪🏾🔥"

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33. @CleopatraLJ
"Line dance songs are so refreshing 🤎 loving the positivity 🙌🏾"

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34. @AmayaMoore-m7k
"I love to see the movement to Southern soul we got Boosie ,we got fantasia now big  boogie and msny more"

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35. @EdwardMills-j9d
"These some real boot stepping 💪💯🔥"

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36. @unashamedconnie2732
"Hello Miss Shirley from South Africa 🇿🇦 ❤️ ♥️"

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37.@KauanSantos-pf1td
"BRAZIIIL"

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38.@TableBook
"Big Boogie always comes thru ✌🏾😘🖤🖤🤠🤠Keep on Stepping Let’s Gooooo"

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39. @brendalockhart6322
"Dang! I still learning Boots on the ground. 😂😂😂"

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40. @Toy703
"Lada Yates as a judge ok Memphis in the house"

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41. @robinsampson8573
"They don't like it I'm gone keep on Stepping Philly "

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42. @VERNA0625
"Islander feelin d vibez mashed remix.....tyvm."

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43. @JoeyTheTravler
"This song rocks!!!! 🔥🔥🔥🔥👟👟👟👟"

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44. @sheenacoppage6738

"️ Ms Shirley was the icing on this video I love her facial expressions so serious "

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45. @karenmininni4962
"Miss Shirley got the crowd wild now. We rocking now yeah. The vibe is delivering. Wow."
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46. @laserXperience
"I'm from the Mississippi country I'm feelin this... Lil mama gettin on down"

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47. @shaunasherree9524
"Country girl here for it"

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December 2025

48. @kimberlybutler6192
"Southern Soul ❤️❤️❤️. I'm here for it."

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49. @TT-ik3zq
"Big Boogie never disappoints "

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50. @laserXperience
"I'm from the Mississippi country I'm feelin this... Lil mama gettin on down"

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Koo Koo Kanga Roo - "Gobble Gobble Turkey Wobble" (Dance-A-Long Video & Lyrics)

Koo Koo Kanga Roo, Nov. 22, 2016

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Edited by Azizi Powell

This pancocojams post showcases the 2016 YouTube video of the line dance entitled "Gobble Gobble Turkey Wooble".

The lyrics for this line dance includes movement instructions. Two popular examples of this type of line dance are the 2009 video "The Wooble" by V. I.C. 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fE_64SdD27w&ab_channel=superstarvic and the 2009 video "Cha Cha Slide" by DJ  Casper 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZv62ShoStY&ab_channel=MrCTheSlideManVEVO .

As these videos show, line dances are healthy ways to excercise and can be fun for people of all ages.

The content of this post is presented for cultural, recreational, and entertainment purposes.

All copyrights remain with their owners.

Thanks to Koo Koo Kanga Roo and all those who are featured in this video. 

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Pancocojams Editor's Note:
The main purpose of pancocojams is to showcase Black music and dance from cultures throughout the world. However, exceptions are sometimes made-as in this case- when certain songs and dances appeal to me.

Showcasing this video/song on this blog doesn't mean to indicate or suggest that this song was composed by a Black person.  

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LYRICS: GOOGLE GOBBLE TURKEY WOOBLE

(as sung by Koo Koo Kanga Roo) 

You put your foot out
and you flap those wings
bring your foot back
and you shake that thing

You put your foot out
and you flap those wings
bring your foot back
and you shake that thing

put your arms out to the side right side
put your arms out to the side left side
put your arms out to the side right side
hey flap it out, flap it out, flap it out

We do the gobble gobble
We do the turkey wobble
We do the gobble gobble
We do the turkey wobble
We do the gobble gobble
We do the turkey wobble
We gob-gob-gobble
Wob-wob-wobble

We do the gobble gobble
We do the turkey wobble
We do the gobble gobble
We do the turkey wobble
We do the gobble gobble
We do the turkey wobble
We gob-gob-gobble
Wob-wob-wobble

Lets hear a whoo whoo
You gotta whoo whoo
I like that whoo whoo
Give me a whoo whoo
And thats nice, Oh so nice

Lets hear a whoo whoo
You gotta whoo whoo
I like that whoo whoo
Give me a whoo whoo
And thats nice, Oh so nice

You put your foot out
and you flap those wings
bring your foot back
and you shake that thing

You put your foot out
and you flap those wings
bring your foot back
and you shake that thing

put your arms out to the side right side
put your arms out to the side left side
put your arms out to the side right side
hey flap it out, flap it out, flap it out

We do the gobble gobble
We do the turkey wobble
We do the gobble gobble
We do the turkey wobble
We do the gobble gobble
We do the turkey wobble
We gob-gob-gobble
Wob-wob-wobble

We do the gobble gobble
We do the turkey wobble
We do the gobble gobble
We do the turkey wobble
We do the gobble gobble
We do the turkey wobble
We gob-gob-gobble
Wob-wob-wobble

Lets hear a whoo whoo
You gotta whoo whoo
I like that whoo whoo
Give me a whoo whoo
And thats nice, Oh so nice
Lets hear a whoo whoo
You gotta whoo whoo
I like that whoo whoo
Give me a whoo whoo
And thats nice, Oh so nice

credits

from Celebrate This!, released October 6, 2017

Online source: https://kookookangaroo.bandcamp.com/track/gobble-gobble-turkey-wobble-2

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1950s Bunny Hop Dance & 2000s Hip-Hop/Club Music Bunny Hop Line Dances

Edited by Azizi Powell

Latest Update: March 28, 2024

This pancocojams post presents information about & videos of the 1950s American novelty dance called "the Bunny Hop". This post also presents information about and videos of the Hip-Hop "Bunny Hop" line dances that are performed to the 2002 Da Entourage record as well as information about and videos of dances that are performed to DJ Lilman's 2012 club music "Bunny Hop" record.

The content of this post is presented for cultural, entertainment, and aesthetic purposes.

All content remain with their owners.

Thanks to all those who are featured in these videos, and thanks to the publishers of those videos on YouTube. Thanks also to all those who are quoted in this post.

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INFORMATION ABOUT THE 1950s BUNNY HOP
From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bunny_hop_(dance)
"The bunny hop is a novelty dance that was created at Balboa High School in San Francisco in 1952.[1] It is a social mixer dance, sometimes also referred to as a "party" or "dance party" dance.

The dance has been generally done to Ray Anthony's big band recording of the song.[1] It was a vocal hit in 1952, and instrumentally re-recorded c. 1958...

Ray Anthony's single release of the "Bunny Hop" featured another novelty dance classic, the "Hokey Pokey" on the B side...

The dance is a variation on a conga line. Participants dance in a line, holding on to the hips of the person in front of them. They tap the floor two times with their right foot, then with their left foot, then they hop forwards, backwards, and finally three hops forward to finish the sequence, which continues throughout the tune. The first person in the line leads the group around the floor.

The Finnish dance style called jenkka has essentially the same steps. Originating from the 19th century, jenkka is actually the same dance style as the German slow tempo polka called schottische or rheinländer. It is characterised by three quick steps and a hop and is danced to music in 2/4 time. Finnjenkka, also known as letkajennkka and letkis, is one of the many variations of jenkka. Typical to it is that all the people dancing form a line and hold on to the one in front by the waist."

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VIDEOS OF 1950s BUNNY HOP
Example #1: The Bunny Hop from The Ray Anthony Show (1953)



Ray Anthony, Published on Feb 3, 2014

Ray Anthony & his orchestra perform the 1950s dance sensation known as "The Bunny Hop" on this 1953 episode of The Ray Anthony Show

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Example #2: Alice Lon, The Lennon Sisters and The Bunny Hop

Music Maker 1979, July 28, 2019
From the Lawrence Welk Show -snip-
Here's a comment from this video's discussion thread:

B&O5300, 2019
"From a 1957 broadcast originally conducted by Ray Anthony & Orchestra."
-snip-
This is another example of this film clip that was embedded in this post when it was first published.  


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Example #3: Bunny Hop



redmoose3d, Uploaded on May 1, 2008

My little sister had a "Bunny Party" for her 3rd birthday, and we all danced the Bunny Hop.

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INFORMATION ABOUT DA ENTOURAGE'S "BUNNY HOP" RECORD
From http://www.reesefuller.com/articles/still-doing-the-bunny-hop/
"It’s been a year and a half since Da Entourage hit it big with Bunny Hop. Its latest CD, Entourage 2, was re-released on Universal Records as part of a reported $5 million deal, and it’s kept the Lafayette rap group hopping...

On the heels of the regional success of its first compact disc, Entourage 1, (Inside Acadiana: Hopping to the Top, Jan. 30, 2002), the group recently signed with Universal Records, home to the Cash Money and No Limit Record labels and acts like Master P, Juvenile, 504 Boyz and Nelly. Universal recently re-released Entourage 2, which also contains “Bunny Hop,” the successful single from the group’s first CD. The disc comes in two flavors – a clean version and one with explicit lyrics...

A lot has changed for Da Entourage since their “Bunny Hop” debuted at No. 3 on Billboard’s Hot Rap Singles Chart in January 2002, including signing a deal with Universal on Mardi Gras day in New Orleans....

Da Entourage knew it had a catchy song on its hands with “Bunny Hop,” but they realized that they needed a hook to get the song to the broadest audience possible. It’s one thing to get a radio station to play a song, but it’s another to have people crowd the dance floor when they hear the first few notes of the song.

Da Entourage devised a simple dance, appropriately called the Bunny Hop, to go along with their number. They taught it to whoever would give them the time of day. When they went to locally owned record stores to stock copies of their CD, they taught the steps to managers and customers in the stores
[Music store owner Todd] Ortego is also a disc jockey on the weekends, catering to social functions like weddings, family reunions and company parties. He says he still gets requests for “Bunny Hop,” nearly two years after its initial release. Ortego readily admits that “I’m in this small – apparently exclusive – club of people who have never done a line dance,” but he says the dance must be what keeps the requests for the song coming."

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VIDEOS OF "BUNNY HOP" LINE DANCES

Editor: There are a number of ways to do "Bunny Hop" line dances to the 2002 record by Da Entourage. This post showcases a few of those ways.

Example #1: Tuskegee University bunny hop line dance



New Viral Vids, Nov 21, 2010

Tuskegee University line dancing to bunny hop 2010-2011 Caf Party -snip- Here's the only comment that is written in this video's discussion thread (given with amended spelling)

Cool Dude, 2017
"I remember doing this dance in a raggedy club called the rose down in Montgomery Alabama. The floor was packed and I remember thinking to myself this bi&&h is bout to cave in!  Had so much fun!!!"

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This panocojams post originally included a 2006 video of  Tuskegee [University] Students Line Dancing on the Patio the Bunny Hop (published by Ian Evans on Oct 27, 2006). That video is no longer available.

A number of commenters wrote in that video's discussion there that this was the "old school" ["old skool"] way of doing the "Bunny Hop". It didn't seem as though those commenters knew about the "Bunny Hop" that was done as a conga-line dance. 

It also appeared that commenters who added comments after 2012 were referring to Dj Lilman's record [found below in this post] as the "new school" way of dancing the "Bunny Hop".

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Example #2: Bunny Hop Line Dance

howtolinedance, Uploaded on Jul 7, 2011

...This is a very simple warm up line dance workout called The Bunny Hop Line Dance. Have fun doing it. When it speeds up, you can get a serious workout on.

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Example #3: The Bunny Hop Line Dance - INSTRUCTIONS



Steph's Line Dancing, Published on May 1, 2012

....There are quite a few versions out there but This is the EASIEST version i know

Song: Bunny Hop - Da Entourage
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In response to a comment that that's not how to do this dance, the video uploader wrote:
"there are at LEAST 7-8 different versions of this dance.... this is just one of them..."
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Here are two other comments from the video's discussion thread:
Kiki Williams, 2012
..."This song is by Da Enrouage... I've never seen anyone Bunny Hop like this before.. it seems too easy. I learned how to Bunny Hop in New Orleans and we always danced to this version of the song...."

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Mark Hebert, 2013
"this song play at almost all the clubs and receptions down here in the New Orleans area and i see many versions of the dance...."

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INFORMATION ABOUT DJ LILMAN'S "BUNNY HOP" RECORD
DJ Lilman's "Bunny Hop" Brick City club music record was recorded in 2012. Here's information about this type of club music
From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brick_City_club
"Brick City Club Music (or Jersey club[1]) is a version of Baltimore club music from Newark, New Jersey popularized by DJ Tameil (Formerly Anthrax), DJ Tim Dolla, Mike V, DJ Black Mic (Brick Bandits Crew) ; in the early/mid 1990s to the 2000s.[2] It was then abandoned by DJ Tameil after many new producers began making music "without his permission," as Tameil has said numerous times, thus "ruining the genre."... DJ Lilman now is the most known DJ making Brick City Club hits. His music videos on Youtube has received more than 100,000 views...

Though presently it is not as popular as Baltimore club, Brick City club is still popular amongst the Essex, Hudson, Somerset, Middlesex, and Union county areas of New Jersey."...
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Here's information about "Baltimore Club music"
From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baltimore_club
"Baltimore club, also called "Bmore Club", "Bmore House" or simply "Bmore" is a breakbeat genre. A blend of hip hop and chopped, staccato house music, it was created in Baltimore, Maryland, United States in the late 1980s by 2 Live Crew's Luther Campbell, Frank Ski, Big Tony (or Miss Tony), Scottie B. and DJ Spen.[1]

Baltimore club is based on an 8/4 beat structure, and includes tempos around 130 beats per minute.[2][3] It combines repetitive, looped vocal snippets similar to trap, ghetto house and ghettotech. These samples are often culled from television shows such as Sanford and Son and SpongeBob SquarePants,[3] though can also be simple repeated calls and chants. The instrumental tracks include heavy breakbeats and call and response stanzas similar to those found in the go-go music of Washington, D.C"....

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VIDEOS OF DJ LILMAN'S "BUNNY HOP"
These videos are presented in chronological order with the oldest dated videos given first.

Example #1: DJ LILMAN FT KSHIZ - BUNNY HOP (MUSIC VIDEO)

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wiztvpartyvideos . Published on Jun 16, 2012

BRAND NEW DANCE NEW JERSEY CLUB MUSIC DJ LILMAN FT KSHIZ - BUNNY HOP FILMED AT EDITED BY WIZTV
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The "I Love Jersey City" t-shirt wore by one of the dancers refers to a city in Northern New Jersey. Some of these dancers are "sportin a sag" [wearing sagging pants that show their boxer shorts.] That's a style from the 1980s that is still worn by some young males today although it seems to me that it's less prevalent than it was back then.

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Example #2: Bunny Hop ( Dj Lilman Feat K-Shiz ) [ Terrence ]

TerryTEEVEE, Published on Jun 24, 2012

Might Be Alil late on This Video But I Do Whatever I Want ^__^

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Nine Soul Line Dances (African American Line Dance Videos)

Edited by Azizi Powell

This pancocojams post showcases nine videos of Soul line dances from different parts of the United States.

The content of this post is presented for historical, entertainment, and aesthetic purposes.

All copyrights remain with their owners.

FEATURED VIDEOS
(These videos are presented in chronological order with the videos with the oldest posted date given first.)

Example #1 Step / Line Dance - "Cupid Shuffle"



StepInTheNameOfLife, Uploaded on Aug 31, 2007

Watch the latest Step/Line Dance, the "Cupid Shuffle"

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Example #2: Detroit Hustle 2 Line Dance - 6-20-08



Uploaded on Jun 20, 2008

J&J Soul Line Dancers dancing the Detroit Hustle

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Example #3: The Texas Zydeco Slide



Cheryl Williams, Uploaded on Oct 21, 2008

Join The Line Dance Queen of Houston, Texas every Tues. and Thurs. night at 7pm for line dancing class. See details on our website at www.linedancequeen.com. We celebrate the exciting dance style of Zydeco in this uplifting, fun line dance created by Cheryl TLDQ herself. Line Dancing at the Fonde community Center has never been so fun! Song by Brian Jack and the Zydeco Gamblers called Shake Your Tail Feather…

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Example #4: Soul Food Line Dance



1wah1wah, Uploaded on Mar 18, 2011

Soul Line Dance by Lorenzo "GoLo" Evans. Music by Fantasia "Collard Greens and Corn Bread"

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Example #5: Wop Line Dance



QueenSGRHO, Uploaded on Jul 19, 2011

Mind,Body & Soul Dancers perform Wop. Choreographed by Benita Stewart-Rucker of Chicago, IL.

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Example #6: BOOTY WORK Line Dance



tiptip26, Uploaded on Aug 8, 2011

Booty Work Line Dance @Leigh William's Line Dance Party!!! We had so much fun!

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Example #7: Texas Twist clip



BK Hart Uploaded on Nov 24, 2006

This dance is actually known by this name.
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This video was added on February 29, 2016 because the previous featured video is no longer available.

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Example #8: Cleveland Shuffle Line Dance - Instructions



StephsLineDancing, Published on May 2, 2012

Not even sure where this version cam from but this is the version we do here in San Antonio. [Texas]

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Example #9: THE BIKERS SHUFFLE (MILWAUKEE VERSION)



OBPTV, Uploaded on Dec 15, 2011

BIG MUCCI COMES TO MILWAUKEE TO PERFORM HIS SMASH HIT AND DANCE THE BIKER SHUFFLE MADE ESPECIALLY FOR MILWAUKEE.
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This video was added on February 29, 2016 because the previous featured video is no longer available.
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The History Of The Electric Slide (information & video)

Mickey Mouse, Oct 4, 2012

I am so glad that this Promo came out so that I can share it with my fans -snip-
This video replaces the same video that was used in this pancocojams post but is no longer available.

Total # of views for this video published by "Mickey Mouse" (as of April 10, 2022 at 8:32 AM EDT) -  5,760,963 

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Edited by Azizi Powell

Latest Update- August 30, 2025

This pancocojams post provides information about the history of the "Electric Slide" dance.

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Thanks to Bunny Wailer for composing the song "Electric Boogie". Thanks to Marcia Griffiths for her hit song "Electric Boogie". Thanks to all those who are quoted in this post. Thanks also to the publisher of this video on YouTube.
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Click http://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2012/02/selected-videos-of-electric-slide.html for Part II of this pancocojam seies entitled "Selected Videos Of The Electric Slide".

Click this link for my Zumalayah blog for videos of The Electric Slide In The USA, The Caribbean, And In Africa http://zumalayah.blogspot.com/2013/04/the-electric-slide-in-usa-caribbean-and.html.

Also, click https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2025/08/comments-that-ric-silvers-who-is.html for the August 30, 2025 pancocojams post "Comments That Ric Silvers (Who Is Credited As Being The First Choreographer Of The Electric Slide Line Dance) Shared in A 2012 Pancocojams Post On The Electric Slide".

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HISTORY OF "THE ELECTRIC SLIDE" DANCE
Excerpt #1
From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcia_Griffiths
"Marcia' Griffiths started her career in 1964. From 1970 to 1974 she worked together with Bob Andy in the group Bob and Marcia, on the Harry J label. Between 1974 and 1981 she was a member of the I-Threes, a background group, which supported Bob Marley & the Wailers.

Her song "Electric Boogie" released in 1976 and re-released in 1989, made the Electric Slide, a line dance, an international dance craze. It reached number 51 on the Billboard Hot 100 making it her most successful single. It remains the highest-selling single by a female Reggae singer of all time".

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Excerpt #2
http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20090809/ent/ent1.html
'Electric Boogie' strikes after 10 years
Published: Sunday | August 9, 2009
[Excerpt of an interview with Bunny Wailer, composer of "The Electric Boogie"]
"There was this track at the time being played called Electric Avenue (by Eddy Grant). That was the most popular song then. So me sey if me ago think pop, me haffi start smell roun' dem kitchen deh. So you going down Electric Avenue to do what? Because him don't stipulate. So me sey him mus ago do the Electric Boogie. So me jus' start formulate the song," Wailer said.

"The song was recorded properly, for we did it good"...

Griffiths and Wailer did the harmony vocals.

"That song went number one in Jamaica, as a R&B. You know when you attempt something that is not really your territory? But we did it so convincing that it became number one in Jamaica and I think it was number one in Trinidad," he said...

That was in 1979, going into 1980...

Wailer kept working on his Electric Boogie, while the one done by Marcia Griffiths "jus a sell more and more and more and more and more until I mean, it just buss!". And he says Electric Boogie was recorded yet again with Marcia Griffiths.

He finished his album, including Electric Boogie, but says he held back from putting it out so as to not cause interference.

Wailer says it looked like the song was about to "become a craze or something", although it had not yet been promoted properly...

His Electric Boogie was eventually released, along with a video involving "nuff stuff. I was trying to display how shocking the video should be".

"That's the true story behind Electric Boogie. Unpolluted, undefiled, true story of Electric Boogie which has brought about this great dance called the Electric Slide," Bunny Wailer said.

Electric Slide put to rhymes
Electric Boogie became more than the song itself. The Electric Slide dance is a key motion to the music, but when Wailer wrote about it, the forward and backward step, turn and slick movement to the side wasn't invented.

In fact, it would be a decade before someone came up with the moves...

Ten years after it was recorded, when Electric Boogie started creating a stir in the US, someone put movement to the music...

It really started getting serious now because everybody was just learning this dance, doing this dance. It was unique because it was everybody moving in a unified manner,"

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SELECTED COMMENTS ABOUT THE POPULARITY OF "THE ELECTRIC SLIDE" AMONG AFRICAN AMERICANS 

Friday, February 13, 2009
Black Things I Love #7: The Electric Slide
Posted by Conseula
http://afrogeekmom.blogspot.com/2009/02/black-things-i-love-6-electric-slide.html"
"Every wedding reception, graduation party, Saturday BBQ in the park, etc. will, at some point, see a large group of people doing the electric slide. I even remember doing the electric slide on the sidewalk during Mardi Gras as a marching band marched past playing Cameo's "Word Up." It's a fun dance, easy to do, and incredibly egalitarian--young and old, men and women, tragically hip and profoundly uncool, everybody can do it.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1KlzNv7ZfYo&feature=related
Nigeria/Jamaica Wedding/ Electric Slide Dance! USA 
"Nice, no matter what kind of gathering we as black people have it's one song gauranteed to play and mostly everyone join. Yesss! The Electric Slide,lol. Sometimes, you got to get gizzy with it and take it to the floor,lol, if your bones and joints will let you. LOL
darknhansum4lyfe. 2010"

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ADDENDUM -August 30, 2025

From August 20, 2025 through August 30, 2025 I published a number of pancocojams posts on African American (soul; urban, and zydeco) line dances. Click the African American line dances tag below for the links to those posts.

As part of this energy, I was led to revisit this post on the Electric Slide line dance. 

Based on the comments that Ric Silver shared in the discussion thread for this 2012 pancocojams post on the Electric Slide, it appears that at one point I had added and then eventually removed information in that post about Ric Silver being the first person to choreograph the line dance that is widely known as "The Electric Slide".

Here's an excerpt of the Wikipedia page on the Electric Slide dance that I retrieved on August 30, 2025:  

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_Slide

"The Electric (better known as The Electric Slide) is a four wall line dance. Choreographer and dancer Richard L. "Ric" Silver claims to have created the dance in 1976.[1]

Dance popularity is sometimes attributed to its setting to Marcia Griffiths and Bunny Wailer's song "Electric Boogie", which was written and recorded for the first time in December 1982.[2][3][4]

There are several variations of the dance. The original choreography has 22 steps,[5] but variants include the Freeze (16-step), Cowboy Motion (24-step), Cowboy Boogie (24-step), and the Electric Slide 2 (18-step). The 18-step variation became popular in 1989 and for ten years was listed by Linedancer Magazine as the number-one dance in the world

The original dance was choreographed to be danced in two lines facing each other and in the course the opposite dancers circle each other.[1]

Controversy

In 2007, Silver filed DMCA-based take-down notices to YouTube users who posted videos of people performing the 18-step dance variation. The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) filed suit on behalf of videographer Kyle Machulis against Silver, asking the court to protect Machulis's free speech rights in recording a few steps of the dance in a documentary video posted to the Internet.[6] On May 22, 2007, the EFF came to an agreement to settle the lawsuit: the settlement states that Silver will license the Electric Slide under a Creative Commons noncommercial license[7] and will also post the new license on any of his current or future websites that mention the Electric Slide.

The NPR reporter Patricia Meschino wrote: "Broadway Choreographer Ric Silver created the popular line dance the Electric Slide for the song-a routine Wailer nimbly demonstrates in a 1989 video".[8]

In recent decades, there has been some controversy regarding the creation year of the Electric Slide line dance. Silver claimed that he received a demo of the song 'Electric Boogie' in 1976, which he used to create his dance steps.[9] Yet according to Marcia Griffiths, the song 'Electric Boogie' was written for her by Bunny Wailer in early 1980s.[10]"...

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