This is Part V of a five part pancocojams series about the Percolator dance.
This pancocojams post showcases a YouTube video of a White man* who is allegedly performing the Percolator dance that was first created in 1992. That White man is joined in that dance by a Black man (YouTube video personality/publisher SkinBone.)
The discussion thread for this video presents selected comments about whether the White man (or any non-Black person) should be invited to the bbq?. (In the context of this video/discussion thread, "bbq" means "The Cookout"
*The White man showcases in this video is Sam Sanchez. Sanchez has been featured in several YouTube shorts allegedly dancing the Percolator. In 2025 he launched a YouTube channel instructing people how to do the Percolator and other dances.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSbwzFs1uWw
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Click https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2026/10/why-are-some-african-american-social.html for Part I of this pancocojams series. That post presents opinions about why African Americans (within the same period of time and/or during later periods of time) have the same name for social dances that are performed differently depending on what city, or part of the same city, or state/region in the United States that the dancers live/d in.
The links to the other posts in this series are given in the post for Part #I.
Part # III and IV are particularly relevant to the subject of who should or shouldn't be invited to the Cookout.
**** The content of this post is presented for socio-cultural and linguistic purposes.
All copyrights remain with their owners.
Thanks to Sam Sanchez and SkinBone who are featured in this video. Thanks to all of those who are quoted in this post. Thanks also to SkinBone for publishing this video on YouTube. -snip- Click https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2020/07/the-real-meaning-of-african-american.html "The REAL Meaning Of "Invited To The Cookout" In African American Culture" for a 2020 pancocojams post on this subject.
**** PANCOCOJAMS EDITOR'S EXPLANATION OF "THE COOKOUT" /"THE BBQ" AS USED IN AFRICAN AMERICAN CULTURE [written in 2020] "The Cookout (or "the BBQ") in the context of African American cultureis a reference for actual informal social events as well as the concept of informal spaces where Black people can relax, let down our guard, and “be [for] real” because the only people who are in those spaces are other Black people who have our well-being at heart and possibly some non-Black people who have proven that they are our allies (i.e. They also have our well-being at heart.)
African Americans may disagree which non-Black people have earned invitations to the Cookout (for that year).and which African Americans and/or other Black people have been dis-invited to the Cookout (for that year) and/or which African Americans and other Black people have been permanently banned from the Cookout.
**** SELECTED COMMENTS FROM THE DISCUSSION THREAD FOR THE VIDEO THAT IS EMBEDDED IN THIS PANCOCOJAMS POST
(Numbers are given for referencing purposes only.)
** Reply 6. @EarthScholar "Why? Because he can do some simple dance
moves? That's the standard?""
** Reply 8. @shalawndudley2094 "
@EarthScholar Re read the comment
** 9. @Wow-j3z "He still invited ❤ he done that"
** 10. @davonjones8438 "Juke it... Juke it... aye Aye aye🎉❤🎉❤🎉❤🎉❤🎉❤🎉❤🎉❤🎉❤but
that last move from Dude was off💯"
** 11. @PurpleFlower00 "That’s that Tina twerk from Bobs
Burgers!!!🤣🤣💀"
** Reply 12.@Itzplutobaby "My boy pulled that TINA from bobs burgers and got uninvited 😭😭"
** Reply 13. @JujuRome09, 2026 "If yal don’t kno bout bobs burger don’t worry bout it yall too young lol"
** 14. @tiffanyhoyle904 "I was waiting and not 1 percolator got
percolated 😂😂
** 15. @DamitaJemison "AYE He definitely invited 😊😊😊❤"
** 16. @NikoTheDunn "#MostDefinitely 🤞🏽"
** 17. @virtuoussoulhealer3644 "Neither of them are invited"
** 18. @thisloverofgod658 "We are not accepting any applications for a black card until the year 3055 when racism stops"
** 19. @akeemMagic01 "No. No more invites to outsiders."
** 20. @NerdZaNTheHood-Macon "No more invites 😂"
** 21. @JessicaTheBlackOne "He had us in the first half ngl 😂"
** Reply 22. @317cmrogers, 2026 "Bro was almost in😅😂" -snip- Notice the change in meaning for the word "bro". This word used to only refer to Black males. Now that word refers to males of any race/ethnicity and also can be used as a referent for people of any gender.
** 23. @katinahenderson7081 "Why did he break his back?Nooo stay yo butt at home😂😂😂efinitely invited ❤❤❤
** 24. @jeremydover8694 "Ok dude took it to far but honestly they were both moving
zesty 😂"
** 25. @angelvenus-africa4161 "No agents . Just cause theresadance dorsnt mean everyone can come.
We nerd to guard ourselves" -snip- "Nerd" is probably a typo for the word "need".
** 26. @Bossdup258 "Still ain’t learned from the Olympic
breakdancing huh. They gon steal this too smh"
** 27. @THEChillOne1 "Hell nah"
** 28. @nicolecuthrell9001 "Neither one of them actually did the
percolator"
** 29. @1zzagarland103 "Yawl aint do the perkulator once🤣"
** 30. @kishat9200 "Hell yea he invited he going to turn up
😂😂"
** 31. @jjdotj5028 "His Black Card is pending approval
based on his behavior at the next BBQ!😂😂😂😂😂"
** 32. @AfiOye "White boy ATE UP 🔥" -snip- "ATE UP" = "did something very well"
** 33. @777MAG "Yes😂save him some potato
salad and collards…he’s one of us …hold on the curry chicken and jollof rice ,
let’s see what else he can do 😂😂😂"
** 34. @sashavatelli "He was almost invited dang he busted that last move got him
denied 😢"
** 35. @entrophicorsey2357 "That twerk at the end canceled the
invite😂😂😂😂"
** Reply 36. @robinnewmanburton "Shoulda never had one!"
** 37. @thund3rcloud3 "He can help set up and clean up but dont know if he
participate 😂😂"
** 38. @TJswan007 "HE'S INVITED 🏌️"
**** 2025
39. @GalenHarris-w3s "Yes, he’s invited to the bbq but he have to leave that last move where he found it at lol 🔥"
** 40. @LadyGabi88 "He did awesome until the end 😂😂😂"
** Reply 41. @kinetiqqq7598 "He did the "Tina" from bobs burgers"
** Reply 42. @brooklynstacker "Bone was like naw😂"
** 43. @joyce4815 "No-stop inviting folks to our cookout
just because they can do a dance or sing our songs. Just accept them as they
are and we can all get along."
**** 2026
44. @Ldotti43 "I hate to be a Debbie Downer but we
have to raise the qualifications on invites to the cookout.... They never
talked about inviting us to their picnics with their cheese sandwiches"
** 45. @bossmanreese9745 "Nope leave him right there"
** 46. @goodfeels8204 "He's good,but no more cookout invites at this time"
** 47. @AboriginalWoman_ "No no no we gatekeeping get on board"
** 48. @cryp4life509 "Naa he aint comin to no FBA cookout. A
tether cookout? Yeah prolly." -snip- "FBA" - a new referent for a Black person who can trace at least one of his ancestors to an enslaved person or freeborn Black person in the United States prior to the end of the Civil War.
"tether" - a new referent that is put down referent for a Black person who emigrated or his ancestors (post 1865) emigrated to the United States from the Caribbean, Africa, or elsewhere
** 49. @egoGREATER "Bbqs are canceled until further notice, we’re delineating" -snip- "delineating"-a new FBA use of an older English word that means "tracing and declaring one's lineage" (to differentiate and uplift "FBAs" from "tethers"
** 50. @prettypinkice43 "Nope still not invited he can get a
plate though from outside the gate."
** 51. @KpuSh2start "Nall. He can do that dance but stop
trusting everybody 😂"
** 52. @Travis-c5b "Invitation granted to the cookout but
then got kicked outta the cookout for that last move 😂😂"
** 53. @jameelahmarie8234 "That is not how that dance goes at all.
Omg the new generation is messing up everything. No he is not invited he can
sit in the car and watch."
** 54. @manifresh9047 "Naw he not. We good. Skinbone not even
invited💯💪🏿💥💥💥💥"
** 55. @STOPTHECAP-q9i "just stop sh-t* not funny, this our
dance and culture stop sharing our sh-t* goofy" -snip- * This word is fully spelled out in that discussion thread.
** 56. @hyashitruthful6751 "Yea cuz can get a plate💪🏿" -snip- "cuz" =African American Vernacular English abbreviation for "cousin"
** 57. @shayblessed "Aye yo white boy is highly invested in
the black culture lol😅 I extremely dig this 100% get it boo's lol ❤❤❤"
** 58. @DivinelyBlessed2222 "No! All " BBQ" invites have
been CANCELLED! TF 😂" Stop playin."
** 59. @eskimoblack "No, I'm not impressed with dance moves or rap versus. Do you speak up for blk Americans in racist group chats and family gatherings. Do you post online when injustices toward the black community occur. Are you an advocate for reparations? But even after all.. Black Americans need to heal rn , all invites are haulted until further notice" -snip- rn= "right now"
My guess is that these comments about Cookouts being cancelled or "invites to cookouts/bbq being cancelled are one consequence of the results of what happened in the 2024 United States Presidential election.
** 60. @JavarisPegues-c6p "LoL hell yeah he in 💯💯😎😎💙💙👌🏾👌🏾"
** 61. @Tru2S3lf "Not invited … moves are nice but enjoy
at your own cookout respectfully"
** 62. @catonyapittman9786 "no he not mf do one dance nd yall wanna
trust them"
** 63. @tugunzdebeau8827 "The Guest List has been closed for
quite some time.....So Nope"
** 64. @tyb4839 "Nope, and you better quit asking before
the venue get changed without your knowledge."
** 65. @yallgonlearntoday "Are you invited to his Great
Grandfathers picnic?"
** 66. @thefunnyjawn8812 "We not giving out invites no more."
** 67. @ricoluv9153 "Hell naw no passes"
** 68. @neat_mille "nah neither one of yall cant
come...yall doing too much lol"
** 69. @itsmeezcornflakes5960 "Nope,those doors are super closed."
** 70. @Brownsuga210 "No I gate keep😂"
** 71. @melissahoneybee6395 "He can definitely come to the BBQ for
sure, but probably not ready for the cookout with that last move 😅"
** 72. @KEESHWASH "Nope! He not invited to the bbq. Cause
when we used to hit the percolator. The last move is breaking it down to the
ground and busting into the split. 😂😂😂😂😂😂
if you gon hit it, you gotta hit it right! 😂😂😂😂😂
Me and my dance crew used to tear the floor up."
** 73. @von9978 "All Cookouts and BBQs are canceled
until further notice!"
** 74. @tyroman100 "Nah he too focused he had to stop and
get on beat 😭 nahh stay over there"
** 75. @WolfMannKB "Not with them back to the future ahh
shoes"
** 76. @GoatReactz "Hell nah it takes m8re than a dance. We
need commitment and intel."
** 77. @DiamondWater_11 "Well shoot he almost got the pass to
bring the potato salad until he switched up 🤣 🤣 🤣 Just
bring him a plate, he earned it!! ❤"
** 78. @chriscummings9178 "lol nah bruh cancelled that invite with
that popping he did at the end. He was good until that part but instantly
revoked afterwards"
** 79. @ilovejoharai "He can come...long as he leave the back twerk at home😂"
** 80. @southside713 "Yeah homie can come get a plate…. and tell him to bring some
Hennessy. 😂"
** 81. @shirlgurl8487 "Hell yeah 😂😂😂
they hit dat 🔥"
** 82. @BlaccTj "That last move cost him😂he will
never get invited"
**** This concludes the last post in this pancocojams series.
This is Part IV of a five part pancocojams series about the Percolator dance.
This post showcases a 2024 YouTube video of a White man (Sam Sanchez) dancing what is allegedly the Percolator with a Black man (YouTube video personality/publisher SkinBone). Selected comments from the discussion thread of that video are included in that post.
Click https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2026/10/why-are-some-african-american-social.html for Part I of this pancocojams series. That post presents opinions about why African Americans (within the same period of time and/or during later periods of time) have the same name for social dances that are performed differently depending on what city, or part of the same city, or state/region in the United States that the dancers live/d in.
The links to the other parts of this series are given in Part I's post.
**** The content of this post is presented for socio-cultural and linguistic purposes.
**** PANCOCOJAMS EDITOR'S EXPLANATION OF "THE COOKOUT" /"THE BBQ" AS USED IN AFRICAN AMERICAN CULTURE [written in 2020] "The Cookout (or "the BBQ") in the context of African American cultureis a reference for actual informal social events as well as the concept of informal spaces where Black people can relax, let down our guard, and “be [for] real” because the only people who are in those spaces are other Black people who have our well-being at heart and possibly some non-Black people who have proven that they are our allies (i.e. They also have our well-being at heart.)
African Americans may disagree which non-Black people have earned invitations to the Cookout (for that year).and which African Americans and/or other Black people have been dis-invited to the Cookout (for that year) and/or which African Americans and other Black people have been permanently banned from the Cookout.
**** AI OVERVIEW ABOUT THE TERM "BEING INVITED TO THE COOKOUT" This write-up is the result of my October 17, 2026 Google Search query "What does non-Black people being invited to the cookout mean?" [quoted without citations]
"AI Overview
Being "invited to the cookout" is a cultural expression used when a non-Black person shows genuine appreciation, understanding, or solidarity with Black culture.
What the Phrase Means
Cultural Acceptance: It functions as a playful badge of
honor or a metaphorical "seal of approval" from the Black community.
Demonstrated Allyship: It is typically said when an outsider
does something that proves they respect or understand Black culture, rather
than just mocking or stereotyping it.
Community and Belonging: A real Black cookout represents a
safe space of joy, family, and comfort. Extending an "invite" means
someone outside the culture is viewed as safe, cool, or aligned with the
community.
How the Joke Works
No Official Committee: Internet jokes often reference a
fictional "Cookout Committee" that supposedly votes on these honorary
invitations.
Revoking the Invite: People frequently debate what actions
can get someone instantly "uninvited" (such as making offensive
remarks, acting entitled, or bringing poorly prepared food to a real
gathering)." -snip- This write-up doesn't mention that part of the "invited
to the cookout" concept is that Black individuals can be temporarily or permanently disinvited to "the cookout" in its conceptual form because their words or actions have been considered to be detrimental to and/or disrespectful towards other Black people.
In REAL LIFE, cookouts are social gatherings that we (Black
people)* hold to get together. Someone could host a cookout to celebrate a
birthday, a graduation, or simply because the weather’s nice…
To most of us, their purpose is to bring together a
community, and for no other reason than to enjoy one another.
On the internet though, “The Cookout” has become short-hand
for Black acceptance or approval.
[…]
While it is largely intended to be a joke, initially being
used in response to white people who dance well or season their food properly,
the bit has become touchy when used in reaction to activism on social media. A
non-Black person on the internet could get “invited” for CLAIMING they’re not
racist, CLAIMING they find Black people attractive, or for demonstrating any
degree of association with ANYTHING aligned with Blackness.
People have begun to complain about invites being “given out
to anybody,” spurring a more important conversation about Black celebration of
“bare minimum” activism. Does that girl who “doesn’t say the n-word” deserve
applause? Should we give an award to the guy who buys from Black-owned
businesses in February? Am I gonna introduce you to my grandmother because you
know what Kanekalon is?
In general, giving an online invite to “the cookout” is the
equivalent of giving a Grammy to a SoundCloud rapper. You’re not there yet, no
one knows who you are, and a lot of people are gonna get pissed off if you show
up.
*I KNOW Black people aren’t the only people that have
cookouts. But this cookout, THE Cookout, refers solely to the Black kind."
All of these comments are from 2025. Numbers are added for referencing purposes only.
**** r/BlackPeopleTwitter
1. detox02 "This is why I cringe when a “oh they know how to ( insert a
popular Black line dance) ? They invited to the cookout” tweet comes across my
timeline. Our standards can be low sometimes"
** 2. but-whyy-tho "Gatekeeping is okay! Let's go back to doing that"
** 3. pm_me_tits_and_tats ..."There will unfortunately always be people seeking white
approval and giving out secrets 😔"
** 4. loved_and_held " “ giving out secrets”
The secrets are gonna work their way through the culture
through the normal cultural exchange routs in general society."
** 5. Lion_Spencer "I’ve never understood how people can be genuinely upset
about white folks they don’t know being invited to a fictional cookout. It’s
really not that deep, just a playful figure of speech. Why is this worth a
post?"
** 6. Aggravating_Usual973 "The “cookout” bit allows my lazy white cousins to treat Bp
as a game to be won rather than as a marginalized collective of neighbors and
loved ones whose plight demands more allegiance than that.
The bit is a laurel for wp to rest on so that he can feel
offended when truly challenged."
** 7. champ999 "Some people don't understand the difference between being
amicable and making yourself easy to take advantage of. And to be fair, some
people do their best to make it impossible to tell their intentions towards
you.
Being a grumpy cynic is bad for your happiness, but you also
have to have the courage to say "I don't know about you for sure, so
forgive me for keeping some distance between us".
** 8. StarboundandDown "This really needs more upvotes. You have to guard your
culture and your humanity at the same time, which is tough in a society that is
built and run largely for people who never have to do that and find your
culture "fascinating"."
** 9. AntonChigurh8933 "I feel you man but it sucks when you're "own' people
gatekeep you from it. This is a problem us mixed people have to deal with. We
will forever be outsiders."
** 10. BennyTooFresh47 "I find anti Cookout post annoying because when in your last
30 interactions you've had with another person whether in real life or online
has someone who is black naturally brought it up in conversation This trends
been dead for like 2 years. Its super online sh-t* that doesn't occur
naturally in the wild." -snip- *This word is fully spelled out in this discussion thread.
** 11. mr_evilweed "In defense of black folks who gets excited when a white
person enjoys some aspect of black culture: black culture is so often
overlooked or ignored in America that seeing someone non-black engage with it
in a positive or appreciative way kind of feels good.
Granted that can often cross into exploitation or
appropriation... but yeah sometimes it's just fun to see a white person who can
swag surf."
** 12. vanadous "I don't get this - (appropriated) black culture seems
incredibly dominant in language and music."
** 13. Scene-Tricky "You shouldn't be putting people on a pedestal for doing the
bare minimum. Especially since it's never reciprocated. Black people have to
work twice as hard to get half as much.
You will then turn around and wonder why they are referring
to AAVE as "gen z slang" and how non black people are out here
getting rich and famous off of black culture but a black person will be called
'ghetto' if they do it." -snip- "AAVE"- "African American Vernacular English"
** 14. MarifeelsLost "Whenever I see it I feel like it's performative ( not all
but A LOT ) You can tell when someone is itching for black validation and not
just appreciate of the culture."
** 15. TheDuke_Of_Orleans "When YT boys on TikTok get a buzzcut or know a rap song. “He
seasoned” “Easy white chocolate”
Like it’s so easy for them and our own people allow it to
be. 😭"
** 16. funhawg "Hell, plenty of black folk I wouldn't invite. The bar ain't
gotta be so low"
** 17. DrowMonksAreFun "Are we to inclined to invite people to the “cookout” yes
probably. But I’d still rather be us than them. I’d rather we always rock with
those who are rocking with us even if that means we take in a “post Malone”
sometimes....but I’d always rather
approach with arms open and willing to accept when they approach that way. I
just believe overall we are better for it"
** 18. MarifeelsLost "I understand this but I think we gotta discern and know the
people that like to feed off the community purely to improve and raise their
own self-esteem, ego, confidence, but do nothing for the people.
In my experience I hear a lot people always talk about how
black people make them feel and how they hype them up and a lot people love
that, however a lot of those are silent when it comes to black issue or are
quick to invalidate experiences.
Though it's not everybody it's a lot. (In my experience
though, lol)"
** 19. One_Analysis_9276 "The cookout thing always annoyed me because it's usually
some yt person doing the bare minimum. And also, even if they support the black
community....why should I be rewarding them for treating me with respect?"
** 20. Nexus03 "There's literally nothing left to gatekeep IMO. We've been
typing, photographing and filming all the intricate details of our culture for
the past few decades. From OKP to Twitter, all social media, etc. A random
bloke in say, Scotland probably knows a LA gang member's whole hood history
better than them. All of our culinary delicacies are on sale in the most
gentrified food halls around the world. Don't get me started on music.
They could honestly host their own cookout with all of our
recipes and not invite us. Crazy times we're in."
** 21. jackheavy "Our standards remain the same, and I would argue that they
should always remain. We are a culture of community and love. Has that gotten
us hurt and abused? Absolutely! It has also seen us through chattel slavery. It
has also allowed us to find purchase in a land surrounded by enemies. Are we as
a people where we would like to be? No of course not. But we are a people
because we’ve kept our standards of community and love throughout."
** 22. yesimreallylikethat "just be handing out invites, smh"
** 23. Nick_Bruiser " "The cookout" is not a real thing! Stop getting
mad over this nonsense!"
** 23. Iskippedkinder "I always write the same thing: stop inviting folks to the
cookout knowing damn well u aren't welcome to the hoedown or whatever tf they
have over there. Full stop. And if I see one of mine inviting folks, they
uninvited too. Enough if enough."
All of these comments are from 2026. Numbers are added for referencing purposes only.
r/askblackpeople 1. EarlyRooster966 "What does 'inviting to the cookout' mean? and what is its
origin?
Hey yall I'm a 19F from Egypt and lately on TikTok I've been
seeing videos of black people saying about certain white people (especially
someone like Hayley Williams from Paramore) that they're 'invited to the
cookout', I kind of got that it means this white person is good / not racist
(kinda rare esp in this political climate unfortunately) but is that correct?
and what is its origin? like why a cookout especially? I'm so interested to
know!!"
** Reply 2. LoveytheLovelyy "A cookout is a prime gathering in black culture where
we comfortably just enjoy each other with our music, lots of food, friends and
family, laughter, games, etc. we can just be Black as we wanna be and it can go
on for hours and hours. We don’t just invite anybody.
So “invited to the cookout” is a colloquialisms/
metaphorical hypothetical type of thing that basically means who would be able
to come in and convene with us without a problem. It goes beyond just not being
racist. It’s a highly acceptable or regarded person by a large amount of black
folks."
** Reply 3. Infamous_Ebb_5561 "Why yall explaining stuff to ppl? Gatekeep" -snip- The American slang meaning of "gatekeep" ("gatekeeping") is withholding information from outsiders and/or withholding outsiders' access to certain events/areas
** Reply 4. Apprehensive-Bar-760. Infamous_Ebb_5561 "I agree with you. We need to start gatekeeping everything
lol. The correct response is just the staring eyes emoji from everyone
lollllllll
** Reply 5. LoveytheLovelyy "Not every little thing is gatekeep worthy. The saying of NOT
being invited to the cookout is already a form of that. It’s okay to tell
others a joyous thing about our culture. It’s also not a secret. They clearly
already had an understanding of what it is and I just added to the part they’re
confused on"
** Reply 7. LoveytheLovelyy "Then what’s the purpose of this subreddit if we’re gonna
gatekeep everything? Also, this is like there’s no satisfying black ppl. We say
someone is NOT invited to the cookout and that’s still not enough. Then we cry
out when ppl don’t understand or misunderstand us and our culture … but you
wanna gatekeep every single thing. Pick your battles. This isn’t that deep to
gatekeep"
** Reply 8. Infamous_Ebb_5561 "I am not seeking understanding… our culture is ours we have
shared it and we continue to be erased and pushed out. They make millions off
us while we make pennies. It is that deep"
** Reply 9. LoveytheLovelyy "Capitalism off of the backs of black folks has nothing to do
with me explaining what not being invited to the cookout means. They remain
uninvited. It’s fine. lol don’t start crying please"
This is Part IV of a five part pancocojams series about the Percolator dance.
This post showcases a YouTube video that went viral of Sam Sanchez, a White man from Chicago, Illinois performing the Percolator dance during a cruise in 2024. That video may have been taped without Sam Sanchez's foreknowledge.
This pancocojams post also includes a YouTube video of a 2025 television news interview with Sam Sanchez about that viral dance video.
Selected comments from the discussion threads of those two YouTube videos are included in this post. Most of those selected comments focus on the following two issues:
1. how Sanchez did/does the Percolator dance and whether those moves are authentically the way that some "old school" Chicago dancers performed the Percolator
2. the influence-if any- of race/ethnicity in discussions about why the video clip of Sam Sanchez's Percolator dance went viral in the United States.
Click https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2026/10/why-are-some-african-american-social.html for Part I of this pancocojams series. That post presents opinions about why African Americans (within the same period of time and/or during later periods of time)* have the same name for social dances that are performed differently depending on what city, or part of the same city, or state/region in the United States that the dancers live/d in.
The links to the other parts of this series are given in Part I's post.
**** The content of this post is presented for historical, socio-cultural, entertainment, and aesthetic purposes.
All copyrights remain with their owners.
Thanks to Sam Sanchez and thanks to all those who are quoted in this post and thanks to all those who are featured in these videos. Thanks also to the publishers of these videos on YouTube. -snip- On Dec. 11, 2025 Sam Sanchez published a YouTube instruction video entitled "How to hit the Percolator | @itssamsanchez". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSbwzFs1uWw . Here's the summary of that video: "Ready to finally learn how to Hit the Percolator the RIGHT
way? In this tutorial, I break down the steps so you can hit it clean every
time. Whether you’re learning it for a party, TikTok, or just for fun, this
video will have you dancing in minutes." -snip- I believe that there has always been more than one "right way" to do the Percolator. And even if there were only one right way to do this dance, I think that Sam Sanchez thinks much too highly of himself that he could instruct people how to do the right moves for this dance.
**** PANCOCOJAMS EDITOR'S NOTES Part II, III, and IV of this pancocojams series showcases some examples of what the video publishers and some of the commenters in those videos' discussion thread allege is the Percolator dance.
Some YouTube videos of African American social dances and some commenters in discussion threads of those videos use the terms "old school" or "new school" to refer to how those dances were performed and/or are performed at the time those videos were published.
It's difficult to showcase YouTube examples of "old school" and "new school" versions of the Percolator dance. Two reasons for this difficulty is that there were/are so many ways of performing that dance and there has never been any agreement about which old style/s of dancing actually represent that dance.
With regard to the Percolator dance, "old school" means the way that dance was performed when it first was created in 1992, or the way that dance was performed in the 1990s to around 2000.
The meaning of "new school" with regard to the Percolator dance is more difficult to define since the dance styles that were "new" when that video what was filmed or taped were "old" when those videos were published on YouTube.
What those videos document is that there were (and there continues to be) multiple ways that the percolator was/is danced. Also, there was and still is a lot of disagreement about what dance moves are actually the Percolator dance.
** The lack of consensus about what constitutes the percolator's dance is reflected in most YouTube video discussion threads for videos of that dance. In almost all videos-including the two YouTube videos in this pancocojams post, some commenters praise the dancing and indicate that they are examples of the percolator while at least one commenter and usually many more commenters denounce the same dancing. Also, in most YouTube video discussion threads of the percolator some commenters write that those examples aren't the "real" percolator and/or "the right way" and or the "old school" way or ways of doing the percolator.
**** SHOWCASE VIDEOS Pancocojams Editor's Note: I'm showcasing the video that was published in 2025 first because that is the video that began the public's interest in Sam Sanchez dancing what is alleged to be the Percolator.
SHOWCASE VIDEO #1- Guy is dancing the percolator on a yacht!
@BVIRAL, March18, 2025 -snip- Here's some selected comments from the discussion thread for this YouTube video short (numbers are added for referencing purposes only).
Notice that some commenters disagree whether this dance is actually the Percolator. Also, notice that some commenters facetiously used "White male" names to refer to this dancer whose actual name is Sam Sanchez. Also, notice that some commenters used the African American saying "being invited to the cookout". Various commenters disagreed about whether Sam Sanchez should be "invited to the cookout" because he did the Percolator dance (or some other dance) on that cruise. https://youtube.com/shorts/ImNbdGo3x9w?si=UB_-ei-bSCmKQfQA
2025
1. @EryckDavis170 "Well I know who's the show stopper. The
rest of them should have stayed in their seats."
** 4. @NicoleMorgan "Is it me, or is he the only guy in the
place? 😂"
** Reply 5. @elitetrainerjay2737 "Looks like a singles night , usually always more women than
men"
** Reply 6. @SpartanWarrior4545, 2026 "why is it all women? We need more context for this video. I
wonder if he is one of the ship staff, like a booze cruise maybe."
** Reply 7. @MaryHastings-g4m, 2026 "no he's not the only man they show
some men throughout but he probably the only one that's bold enough to
get up and dance"
** 8. @antoinettelabaeka4353 " still have no clue how this Chicago sh-t* made it all the way to Fort Lauderdale FL and my sis was the best at perculating lol." -snip- *This word is fully spelled out in this discussion thread comment.
**** 2026
9. @BrianJohnson-du6pj "Bruh is killing it!!!"
** 10.@Harleyquinn9191 "Josh gone do it everytime"
** 11. @darnellusmc3362 "Must be from the mid-west with that
foot work, not to mention the song period lol. He was getting it"
** Reply 12. @loriann4365 "That's a BopMore club mix"
** 13. @weewee1948 "Shimmied his way to the cool kids side
of the room 🕺🏼"
** 14. @peteantonio1601 "he been dancing for a while, he too
good,"
** 15. @SandyCandy-vu7wh "Josh left them in a room filled with
smoke baby!❤️🔥👏👏👏☺️😜"
** 16. @RootinTootinShootinGeechie "LMAO!!! This is Bob from HR (video that
went viral) grandson.😂"
** 17. @catchthisbuck "Yeah he's definitely invited to the
cookout!"
** 18. @joemoe05 "In this world of chaos right now this
made me smile so hard🎉❤"
** 19. @LakeshaLuckey-b3e "This Chicago for you!!"
** 20. @AldermanFredCDavis "This is like the Leo DiCaprio wedding
reception dance scene in, "Wolf of Wall Street". I could watch this on a loop.....ALL. DAY.
LONG!"
** 21. @jencoffee4013 "Next stop? Hollywood!🎉😂"
** 22. @BeachBall102 "Great moves! You know he was popular
during this cruise. Looks like a fun time!"
** 23. @danab333 "Bro broke all prejudices, stereotypes,
and proved we're one race The Human Race with in minutes. My guy!!"
** 24. @christophergee109 "Let me guess you want to invite esau to
the cookout now.smh"
** 25. @Cythefireguy "He's invited lmao"
** 26. @jaywholoveseveryone1721 "This ain't the Detroit percolator."
** 27. @BettyOoop "Helllll YEAH BRAD… dewww yo shi 💃🏾💃🏾💃🏾"
** 28. @timeisnow777 "Won home boy of the night award. 😂"
** 33. @figi9 "That boy from Chicago!!! Percolator!!
Foot Work!! Invite this man to the cookout! #welcome"
** 34. @allbeit "he got swag"
** 35. @loriann4365 "Dont know how many times I watched
this and shared! Invite this man to a BopMore event and let him dance for the
City!!!
** 36. @AntonioJoseAngarita "🔥🏆❤️🥰#Preach!!!🥰❤🏆🔥
🔥🏆❤️🥰#Respect🥰❤🏆🔥
🔥🏆❤️🥰#Family🥰❤🏆🔥
🔥🏆❤️🥰#MuchLove🥰❤🏆🔥
🔥🏆❤️🥰#Legendary🥰❤🏆🔥"
** 37. @Amariiiiie "All those TikTok videos came in handy."
** 38. @JoeC287 "This has to be The Odyssey (boat) in
Chicago"
** 39. @tye-dronetyepo35 "He Family now 😁🤣😁🙏🏾"
** 40. @Dollbaby4849 "We as Super Melanin people always go
out of our way to make other people feel appreciated and when the tables are
turned they find ac way to call the police and say we interrupted their event
or either didn’t have permission to be there"
** 41. @QueenMaryMinistries "When Brad can actually dance🎉"
** 42. @eleasesanchious1034 "Connor is going all the way off!!!! 😂😂😂
y’all wasn’t ready!!"
** 43. @AbstractDreamz "White chocolate for sure"
** 44. @alexbroking9252 "I don’t remember this.
We danced this differently in Jersey"
** 45. @Happygirlsmatter "I smiled so hard watching this"
** 46. @BeautifulMorning-dl6nl "I love this❤"
** 47. @ggoddess112 "Gotta b from bmore 😂"
** 48. @theflyent7106 "His girlfriend like can't take him
anywhere he always extra as hell"
** 49. @DiabolikalFollikles "You know he practiced in the mirror for
a zillion years to get it right. That’s dedication. Git it boy."
** 50. @LovelyQ86 "The thing about our peeps is we don't
care about the color of the skin all about positive respect peace and happiness
when we come together in every color to enjoy ourselves..
** 51. @BaileyHale-x2r "He dance better than everybody up in
there now what yall gotta say about that😮😂😂😂😂😂"
** 52. @MaverickMediaYT "I need y'all to act like you seen yt
people dance before. I love it every time the same way, it's just not new and
I'm tired of y'all inviting people to a fake cookout over this 😑"
** 53. @40boyzdream "My
boy got this one move"
** 54. @Butterfly5335-s5d "Lord Have Mercy, This Child Sure Enough Can Dance! .. WOW! .
Love Watching Him Move! 💕💕💕💕👌👌👌"
** 55. @Tina-qp7py "They love him. He’s a very good dancer."
** 56. @gemArsen "1 & 2 & 1 & 2 & 1 &
2. Now git it, git it, git it. Dude's making all the aunties lose their minds.
He's got moves though. I ain't gone lie."
** 57. @tressafuhs3997 "Thought he was going to rip those
shorts! 😂"
** 58. @rakeyamcclain7565 "LIL BUDDY AIN'T COME TO PLAY AROUND 🕺"
** 59. @danniellejohnson448 "Is this the same guy that crashed
another 80th birthday party too?"
** Reply 60. @BooRadleyIII "I swear it’s the same dude 😭" -snip- Click https://youtube.com/shorts/RpfO70Y06R0?si=r6bJ-tBNBAmnXPYLfor an example of that YouTube video short entitled "BROS ENERGY IS INFECTIOUS!! CRASHED AN 80 YEAR OLD BIRTHDAY
PARTY AND THEY LOVED HIM FOR IT! published by @Jeff Thrasher Speed Bag on April 20, 2026. Everyone who is shown in that party appears to be Black and that man does indeed look like Sam Sanchez although he isn't named in the few comments that are found at this time in that video's discussion thread.
** 61. @JoseVazquez-ut5gy "We need more of this! This is great!"
** 62. @MrVLC1972 "Look there’s nothing like a white dude
who can move to the beat and look like he’s been at the cookout before. 😂😂😂"
** 63. @joemoe05 "In this world of chaos right now this
made me smile so hard🎉❤"
** 64. @BooRadleyIII "If there's one thing Frat Boi Steve knows how to do it’s Percolate 😂"
** 65. @teejr73 "I'm glad people know it’s time for
the percolator!"
** 66. @emeraldc.8796 "He is beyond impressive, love him.
✝️🙏🏽🙏🏼🌟🎶🌟🎵🌟🫶🕊
~60+ yr old lady"
** 67. @JerseySoCal82 "Went from Brad to B-rad in 20 sec 😂."
** Reply 68. @joemoe05 "My boy was Bradicalized.... Now dip
baby dip....🎉"
** 69. @hipsterdoggo7604 "All the aunties liking him 😅😂"
** 70. @lancecolbear1281 "Josh from accounting showed out!!"
** Reply 71. @wellfedosfed "yall cant percolate with josh he gon
smoke you everytime 😭💀"
** Reply 72. @gp8203 "Bro cuttin UP!😂😂"
** Reply 73. @TeeCee-h1s "😆🤣😂
With the only moves
he learned from
YouTube
And he is so sure of
himself"
** Reply 74. @triciatrammell713 "@TeeCee-h1sThat’s what I wanted to say
but I couldn’t get my words together 🤣🤣🤣Then when he
tried to change his moves it wasn’t workin😂"
** Reply 75. @jaysdsworldd "you know everyone gave him crazy
nicknames after that"
** 86. @marcusfields8443 "Stop cheering him on please you guys
are making it worse. Because he going to try to battle a real one and get his
feelings hurt"
** 87. @Hookemtocookthem "Great to see everyone getting along and
enjoying life !"
** 88. @lvasquez44 "I believe this is one of the City
Cruises Chicago - Signature Brunches at Navy Pier. He looks like Sam Sanchez
and is well know for doing a good percolator! You go boy!!! ⛴️🕺"
** 89. @allenjohnson5159 "Chicago perc and bmoe id different
orebperc is faster"
** 90. @FrecklyBangers "House Music! ❤️❤️❤️"
**** SHOWCASE VIDEO #2 - We found the percolator guy from the viral video!
WGN News, Jul 3, 2024
Sam Sanchez recently went viral with his Chicago dance
moves.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eupCob7JpnM -snip- Here are selected comments from the discussion thread for this YouTube video, with numbers added for referencing purposes only.
Notice how some commenters wrote that Sam Sanchez did a Chicago version of the Percolator and other commenters wrote that the dance that he did wasn't the Percolator at all.
2024
1.@claudiasmith039 "Congrats to him but what kills me is we as black people being doing this since its being created from us. But when they take our style its acknowledge as great, unbelievable 👏"
** Reply 2. @actionanimations4879 "The news is highlighting him because he's a unicorn doing it lol"
** 3. @jamecia90s "Wow, when they do it it's a big thing but we been doing this for decades"
** 4. @kennyo673 "doing what? dancing!! if it happens frequently that when he dances he pulls crowd then whys there on one video? they only recorded it once? do you know how many drunk guys at parties do this? this isn't making sense."
** Reply 5. @actionanimations4879 "@kennyo673 Look at him. Look at the crowd. If there was a pack of lions and there was a zebra hunting within that pack of lions. You would be like that's crazy. It's not that he could dance. It's that you would never expect someone like him to be able to do any of that. It's no different than if you saw some kid in a gym built pretty thin and looked a bit geeky in a gym full of people that look incredibly muscular. Then he benches 300 pounds. That's the shock factor people have. Its just like how everyone focused on The Weatherman from American Ninja Warrior or the viral Dad that knows how to break dance in his 70's or the other News Anchor who is popular on Tik Tok for dancing. It's all about seeing someone you did not be able to expect to do something actually doing it. If he looked like a typical dancer no one would have cared. Yet he looked like he would be better at golf than actually dancing and that's why he went viral."
** Reply 6. @gemstar3824 "I think it's because black folks are expected to be naturally gifted dancers and it's highly uncommon to see a white fella that's not terrible at it."
** 7. @AnAdorableWombat1 "Y’all need to grow up! Take it as a compliment."
** Reply 8. @beardedbeast9606 "Exactly!!! I’ve been saying this for the longest. It’s highly praised and rewarded when others do it."
** Reply 9. @Mythicalniceguy "Maybe you should stop trying to segregate people. Sounds racist"
** 10. @amirahel8199 "What brings me joy is when I see these Gen Z’s and Millennials loving the music and dances from the older generations. 🥰"
** 11. @Marqgtfoh "Ima say it .. he went to a black church"
** Reply 12. @briana14333 "Right! He describes it as “active.” I know what that’s code for🤭" -snip- This comment refers to Sam Sanches's comment in that television interview that when he was growing up he attended a church that was "active."
** Reply 13. @TizzTv, 2026 "@briana14333 lmfao when he said that i was like ok i feel you bro, because he paused a lil bit"
** Reply 14. @satwilliams "It shows 😅🕺"
** Reply 15. @YourFriendlyLocalArsonist "He's doing the Percolator, that's a dance move from warehouse raves, not Black church."
** Reply 14. @Marqgtfoh "@SupportYourLocalArsonist Its a cookout dance in my generation 😂"
** Reply 15. @YourFriendlyLocalArsonist "@Marqgtfoh I'm glad you guys are keeping it alive. Back in the day this was something you did at illegal parties in abandoned buildings lol I'm happy to hear people have kept it relevant."
** 16. @lmars "We were doing this at school dances in Milwaukee 92/93 and on. I even seen this at a day party in Chicago last year. S/O to him though this made me smile. 😁"
** Reply 17. @RicochetMuse "Right, we been doing this for decades. Both versions of it" -snip- The words "both versions" in this comment probably refers to the two versions of the Percolator in Chicago: the Westside version and the Southside version. There are a number of purported versions on YouTube of the way people in the Westside [of Chicago] did the Percolator. I haven't come across any versions to date of how people in the Southside [of Chicago] did that dance. Please share any links to online videos of the "old school" Southside Chicago way of doing the Percolator if you are aware of any videos. Thanks!
** Reply 18. @skyofthelivingdead "Ok, want a cookie? This song hasn’t been relevant in decade, the guy is helping bring it back."
** 19. @Tha1NonlySan "Oh he definitely absolutely 100 percent always raise around black people in the Midwest, I’m from Milwaukee, we are neighbors to Chicago, and I grew up doing all these dances. He is doing the Chicago percolating & footwork FOR SURE!!" -snip- "He" in this comment refers to Sam Sanchez.
** Reply 20. @TowDow3, 2026 "so there's different versions?"
** Reply 21. @Tha1NonlySan, 2026 "@TowDow3 Yes. The Midwest does it the original way, similar to this. The east coast has a totally different version, like, a bucking hop."
** Reply 22. @TJ-0826, 2026 "@Tha1NonlySan I'm just now seeing this in my feed. I love this guy's energy and foot work. Wow. Do they do it different on West coast? Seattle Tacoma here" -snip- That comment was written in September 2026 and is the last comment in that sub-thread as of October 15, 2026.
** 23. @Jawwaad1111 "Yeah. This was Baltimore club music in the early 90s"
** Reply 24. @YourFriendlyLocalArsonist, 2025 "@Jawwaad1111 This comes from house music in Chicago a whole decade before it was in Baltimore."
** 25. @MusicloverX88 "Wasn’t phased at all by his dancing. I’m like I’ve been seeing this since the 90s?"
** 26. @rawsportstv23 "Black kids been doing this forever no news interview nothing smh"
** Reply 27. @phatplates "It's a normal every day thing for us, when they do it it's historic you have to understand"
** 28. @1Skorpia "Its the footwork for me - i was waiting for it🤣😁"
** 29. @JusSaiyan-o6n ""We been doing this for decades" so has he, guys. So has he lol. It's not about who started it, nowhere in this interview did he say he invented that dance. So stop crying. It ain't that deep. He's not "taking it away" from black people. Enough already."
** 30. @WDW100Yrs "Sweet kid, not his fault since he wasn't alive in the early 90s when this hit the club scene, but he's definitely not doing the percolator lol 😂😂 we've literally been doing this for thirty years lol
But he has a great personality, obviously a love for dance, and I bet if he knew the real moves to the percolator he'd probably be good at it!! 😊"
** Reply 31. @deekid311, 2025 "He actually IS doing the percolator, the RIGHT way. Mainly the arm movements. He's doing it exactly how the originator of the song/dance did it."
** 32. @GodzillaKingOfDaMonsters "Hes doing it wrong anyway smh"
** 33. @djbhe "Just because he's non black it's a big deal. Stop it!👋"
** 34. @1Skorpia "Mexicans in the hood were jacking it up and rolling our ankles with the footwork😂"
** 35. @michellehernandez2840 "I'm from Chicago, the home of house music. I was doing the percolator as a toddler in the early 90s."
** Reply 36. @BeautifulSpirit777, 2025 "@michellehernandez2840 I’m rom Newark and we have been doing it since the 90’s as well. However this is not the actual dance🤷🏾♀️"
** 37. @MrBaskins2010 "It’s time for the percolator! Gotta see that video of shawty falling thru a glass table circa 2008. Sam Sanchez invited to the cookout"
** 38. @TheFreshPrinceOfSaiyans "Why does everyone in this comment section live in misery? Just enjoy positive sh-t* and keep your negativity outta here. 😤" -snip- *This word is fully spelled out in that discussion thread.
** Reply 39. @deekid311, 2026 "TONS of haters in the comments and it's ridiculous. From the comments about him appropriating black dances to "he's not even doing it right", I'm TIRED. Just shut up already, like- 😮💨"
* 40.@bodaciousandunapologetic6209 "I saw his video on TikTok too, he's invited to the cookout 😊."
** Reply 41. @queencupcake09 "You are the only one to invite him because all the others of your kind are jealous and triggered in the comments."
** 42. @carolinablue5150 "Did everything but the percolator."
** 43. @theboogieman76-g1t "Man please I was doing these dances back in the 90s. when white ppl show a little rhythm on camera it goes viral😂"
** 44. @plopez8688 "Ain't nothing new here. Can't have nothin'. There's nothing to see here, folks. 🤦🏽♀️😂"
** Reply 45. @queencupcake09 "Explain yourself? What was there to have?"
** Reply 46. @GuitarHalo2, 2026 "Must be a slow news day..."
**** 2025
47. @BruceGuidotti "I knew this cat was from Hammond or the south suburbs. 😆" -snip- from AI Overview “Hammond, Indiana is officially part of the Chicago metropolitan area, though its status as a direct "suburb" is often debated because it sits across state lines in Indiana.
“Hammond directly borders the southeast side of Chicago and is roughly 20 to 25 miles from downtown Chicago (the Loop), making it closer to the city center than many Illinois suburbs like Arlington Heights."... -end of quote-
** 48. @YourFriendlyLocalArsonist "This dance move originated in warehouse raves in Chicago in the mid 80's. You were late to the party."
** 49. @babybop6048 "why is he on the news for a dance blk ppl have been doing for years like it's new or something?"
** 50. @BeautifulSpirit777 "But he didn’t actually do the dance"
** 51. @brandonholloman6835 "He got skills !!!"
**** 2026
52. @PerfectlyCromulentHandle "This song takes me straight back to the roller rink in the 90s"
** 53. @bluetrailerproductions7488 "People complaining about how he'a white
doing a dance and he gets attention and yadda yadda yadda. Why does everything
always have to involve race and skin color and who got the spotlight. Let the
man live. He's spreading the joy of the lord and living his best life and happy
as possible."
** 54. @Rosie-rx1 "This is cute 🕺🏾 & I loved
it, but …. When white (or white passing) people take something from African
American culture , other white people LOVEEEE IT… & so do black people. We
don’t hate, we’re the most inviting people ever.. even after all we’ve been
through.. & still go through from racist white people. BUT then, we get
zero recognition 🤔 & somehow STILL we
be the most hated group of people. Very mind boggling. It’s so clear that
they’re just intimidated by us, that’s all it’s ever been. So they do what they
can to try to put us down & keep us down. Also, this is nothing towards the
guy dancing… it’s towards all the hype & reactions from people"
**** This concludes Part IV of this pancocojamsseries.
This is Part III of a four part pancocojams series about the Percolator dance that was first created in Chicago, Illinois in 1992.
This post showcases two YouTube videos of African Americans performing two social dances that allegedly are versions of the Percolator. The 2010 showcase videos was published by Cajmere (aka Green Velvet) who composed and recorded "Percolator" in 1992
Selected comments from Showcase video #2 are included in this post. Click https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2026/10/why-are-some-african-american-social.html for Part I of this pancocojams series. That post presents opinions about why African Americans (within the same period of time and/or during later periods of time) have the same name for social dances that are performed differently depending on what city, or part of the same city, or state/region in the United States that the dancers live/d in.
The links to the other posts in this series are given in the post for Part #I.
**** The content of this post is presented for historical, socio-cultural, entertainment, and aesthetic purposes.
All copyrights remain with their owners.
Thanks to all those who are quoted in this post and thanks to all those who are featured in these videos. Thanks also to the publishers of these videos on YouTube. **** PANCOCOJAMS EDITOR'S NOTES Part II, III, and IV of this pancocojams series showcases some examples of what the video publishers and some of the commenters in those videos' discussion thread allege are the Percolator dance.
Some YouTube videos of African American social dances and some commenters in discussion threads of those videos use the term "old school" or "new school" to refer to how those dances were performed and/or are performed at the time those videos were published.
With regard to the Percolator dance, "old school" means the way that dance was performed when it first was created in 1992, or the way that dance was performed in the 1990s to around 2000.
The meaning of "new school" with regard to the Percolator dance is more difficult to define since the dance styles that were "new" when that video what was filmed or taped were "old" when those videos were published on YouTube.
What those videos document is that there were (and there continues to be) multiple ways that the percolator was/is danced. Also, there was and still is a lot of disagreement about what dance moves are actually the Percolator dance.
** It's difficult to showcase YouTube examples of "old school" and "new school" versions of the Percolator dance because there were/are so many ways of performing that dance and there has never been any agreement about which old style/s of dancing actually represent that dance.
This lack of consensus about what constitutes the percolator's dance s reflected in most YouTube video discussion threads for videos of that dance. In almost all videos-including the two YouTube videos in this pancocojams post, some commenters praise the dancing and indicate that they are examples of the percolator while at least one commenter and usually many more commenters denounce the same dancing. Also, in most YouTube video discussion threads of the percolator some commenters write that those examples aren't the "real" percolator and/or "the right way" and or the "old school" way or ways of doing the percolator. These showcase videos are presented in chronological order with the oldest published video given first.
**** SHOWCASE VIDEO #1 - CAJMERE - PERCOLATOR (REWORKED '10) from the "IT'S
TIME" album out now!
Green Velvet, Aug 12, 2010
The composer of this song Green Velvet (whose previous screen name was Cajmere) begins dancing at about 1:06 in this video. Other dancers are shown shortly thereafter. -snip- Here are some comments from this video's discussion thread. Numbers are added for referencing purposes only.
1. @nicolekane897 "Awww get it girl that's what I'm
talking about"
** 2. @AntHardaway4 "u killed that lmao" **** 2018
3. @campbellcampbell8268 "Chicago got the real move it's time to
settle this Thanksgiving Chicago gone post Michigan post see who's the best"
** Reply 4. @BPD1586, 2022 "Neither got anything on Baltimore..."
** Reply 5. @kc-jv1rn, 2023 "@BPD1586 ummm. The originators are always better than the duplicates"
**** 2019
6. @OGKennyLee "That's Katrina! Stephanies daughter!" -snip- This is what a woman in this video keeps on shouting.
**** 2020
**** 2021
**** 2022
7. @WR-qf6co "This is not the perculator"
**** 2023
8. @RoLee705 "What song is in the background?"
** Reply 9. @mauriciotamez1699, 2025 "green velvetpercolator" -snip- Cajmere, the composer/recording artist for this song changed his screen name to "Green Velvet".
** 10. @BenjaminCruz-s9j "Heyyyy it’s time for the perculator
whhattttt CHICAGO in da house !!!!!"
** 11. @marksampson-130 "Aaaayyyyyy"
** 12. @tangicoleman3306 "What peculator is that"
** 13. @tangicoleman3306 "Naw I’m sorry that’s not the percolator and I’m from Chicago
…we got 2 percolators the west side and the south side and that ain’t neither 😆😂🤣" ** Reply 14. @40EntrepreneurDrive "I'm glad someone hollered out Michigan because we definitely
do our dances with a little bit different flavor. Looking up the song and
thinking about my childhood in Pontiac 😊"
** 15. @torreyjones6791 "Okay everybody I am from Chicago, and back in the day from
1990 to 1996 I was with a group call House of mattax & another group called
U5U juke dance group we was Chicago Street dancers. And I'm telling you right
now ladies and gentlemen what she's doing is not the PERKULATOR!!!!"
** Reply 16. @cyberlycans4191, 2025 "But the beginning is definitely. I'm from Chicago through
and through 79th and Cottage 120th and Halsted and the way she starts the
percolator is absolutely one of the ways many people used to do it back in West
Pullman"
** 17. @torreyjones6791 "Sorry that's not the percolator"
** Reply 18. @tangicoleman3306 "@torreyjones6791 I
just said the same thing we don’t percolate like that 🤣🤣😂"
** Reply 19. @Dre0924, 2024 "@torreyjones6791 : Watched several "percolator"
videos in the row now, and read quite a few comments. You the very first person
to say what I was thinking all along. That ain't the percolator I remember. And
we (Chicago) had two of 'em."
** Reply 20. @katrinabrown6811, 2024 "I think she just dancing. Cause I am from Chicago danced in
Parade's when I was coming up and this not the "Perculator dance" and
I am 46yrs old and still Know all my home town dances of the (Chi) and this
aint itttt. But thumbs up to whatever she is doing which look like a mixture of
the "slide' 🤷🏾"
** Reply 21. @cyberlycans4191, 2025 "I'm from Chicago Born and Raised on 77th and Essex and 120th
and Halsted and the way she starts the percolator was very common there, really
weird to me that so many people are saying that's not the percolator I remember"
** Reply 22. @NKAB4, 2025 "@torreyjones6791 so
am I &nd that’s not at all…I don’t know what she was doing 🤦🏾♀️🤦🏾♀️🤦🏾♀️…"
**** 2024
23. @djtommyboy100 "That is DEFINITELY not the PERCOLATOR, not CHICAGO style….. But girl you have some
damn good moves, work it ❤"
** 24. @5822huron "Definitely ain't from chicago"
** 25. @Mr.Burton37 "Stop it jersey been doing this for god know how long"
** Reply 26. @ktj1220, 2025 "The percolator originated in Chicago from a Chicago DJ back
in '92"
** Reply 27. @NKAB4, 2025 " @Mr.Burton37 I’m sure
they have however it originated from Chicago…"
** 28. @lawrencelawrence8553 "She said it like she realized that was Stephanie's daughter
off the moves. I guess Stephanie used to cut a rug or two back in the day 😂😂" -snip- "Cut a rug" is an old African American phrase that means "do social dances, especially do those dances very well"
** 29. @ef-12restrt38 "I remember going to school and near the entrance there were
a group of girls listening to the song and percolating.
Now my mom was dropping me off and she saw these girls
because she was listening to percolator on the radio driving up. So she looks
out the window and she sees these Middle School age girls percolating and she
just rolls down the window and says "hey what the hell do you think you
girls are doing, sitting out here trying to percolate you're not even old
enough to drink coffee, let alone percolate it. Cut that out before I tell
y'all moms" so they just run away and my mom kicks me out of the car and
she says I better not see you out here doing the percolator. Of course I'm like
I'm not I'm a good girl I won't do that.😂." -snip- This comment reflects the history of the Percolator being considered a "nasty" dance or at least a dance that could be done in nasty ways. As such, it wasn't considered a dance that "good girls" did.
** 30. @leroystover1062 "Time for the perkalater classic house, NEWARK, PATERSON, NJ 😅😊" -snip- "Percolator" is part of the House genre of music.
**** 2025
31. @moongoddess238 "That’s the percolator idk what they
doing now even though I like the new moves but the original was eaten"
** 32. @user-qt314pyt "This song is Chicago House Cajmere aka Green Velvet. We had
dances to it as well and I promise you heard it at parties before anyone
anywhere. Then it spread to other parts of the country and world. This is one
of the dances but not one of the Chicago dances. The song is Chicago House
though. Chicago made and cultivated the song."
** 33. @daoneforutonv7445 "So coming from the South I’ve seen
different versions of this dance.. never knew which one was correct tho"
** 34. @schmidtmatthias7146 "Magic Feeds 😍💥
I love your Oldscool “ Moves 🔥🔥🥷🏾❤️🔥🔥🔫"
** 35. @jojol7769 "But that ain’t it! I’m from the west side unless that’s the
south side percolator but get it Gurl"
** 36. @forever39 "That's not how you do it...I guess us chicagoians is
different"
** 37. @GeorgiaRice-v2m "😂😂😂😂😂
laughing out loud that is not how you do the percolator stop it".
**** This concludes Part III of this pancocojamsseries.
