This post presents links to all of the pancocojams posts that have been published about African American trail ride dances.*
Additional links will be added to the top of this list when they are published on this blog.
The content of this post is presented for historical, socio-cultural, entertainment and aesthetic purposes.
Thanks to all those who are featured in this post. -snip- *This list doesn't include pancocojams posts on African American line dancing. Some of those posts include comments that may mention trail ride dancing.
Click the African American line dances tag below to find pancocojams posts on that subject,
**** LISTS OF PANCOCOJAMS POSTS ON THIS SUBJECT
Examples Of African American Single File Line Dances (also known as "Circle Line Dances" & "Trail Ride Versions")
"The K-Wang" ("K-Wang Wit It") Dance: Is It An African American Line Dance, A (Follow The Leader) Trail Ride Dance, A Stand Alone "Move Your Shoulder" Dance, Or All Of These?
This is Part II in a two part pancocojams series about Khia's 2022 official YouTube video of her 2002 hit Hip Hop track and dance "The K-Wang" (also known as "Kwang Wit It".)
This post showcases that video and also presents some comments from that video's discussion thread.
This post also includes information about Khia and information about this song.
The content of this post is presented for historical, socio-cultural, entertainment, and aesthetic purposes.
All copyrights remain with their owners.
Thanks to Khia for composing and recording the Hip Hop track "K-Wang". Thanks to Khia for publishing this YouTube video twenty years after she recorded that hit song. Thanks to all those who are quoted in this pancocojams post. Thanks also to the publisher of this showcased video on YouTube. -snip- Click https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2026/08/the-k-wang-k-wang-wit-it-dance-is-it.html for Part I of a three part pancocojams series about Knia's record "K-Wang" (also known as "K-Wang Wit it". That series explores how particular African American dances are performed differently during the same period of time depending on the city, state, or region of this country, and how those dances may have the same name but are performed differently in later years.
The links to the other two posts in that series are given Part I and in each of the other posts.
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SELECTED COMMENTS FROM THIS VIDEO'S DISCUSSION THREAD
1.@missgood5355 "The queen looks spectacular! 20 years and K wang still
sounds incredible!"
** 2. @BigSwoll3000 "It's amazing how rappers get alot of their ideas for there
songs from the hood they grew up in & from the people that grew up in the
Hood. I love the fact that Khia shot a video to this song 20 years later &
put The Real Kwang in the video to let people know where the Kwang came from..
That's what I called showing love & I got nothing but respect for Khia 💯..
I love it when people give credit or show homage to the creators & O.G's"
** 3.@JzonAzari "A song that was a hit from Day 1. I hope TikTok makes this a
#1 because it’s still hits 20 years later."
** 4.@angieolivia1291 "Her music is off the chain"
** 5. @kenthabarbiekilla1726 "Yes!!! Khia bringing the Hoods of Tampa to Shine in her
Music Video keeping it Hood 💯 percent.
** 6. @cindyndlangamandla "Let’s TikTok the hell out of this HIT y’all 🔥🔥🔥"
** 7. @dsww7485 "That ending 😂😂🤣🤣
“… all the wangahhhs… 😂😂🤣"
** 8. @juliandstewart5660 "No big label behind her and you can’t deny she got hits. She
doing her thang on her accord. Now that’s a Queen"
** 9. @MissCharlotteBurley "Yassss give our street legends their flowers!! Khia is the
realest with it! 🥰"
** 10. @boogienightztv "This is so 🔥! I love the
documentary style footage and story telling! Congratulations, Khia!!!"
** 11. @jhordanjones "This was iconic!!!!! The queen of hits,
that stick like grits 20 years later!"
** 12. @j.scottofficial "THE HIT THAT WILL ALWAYS STICK LIKE
GRITS 👏🏽"
** 13. @truckinwithereakaofficial "Yesssssss! Tampa fl!!! It was pass time
for a video ..k-wang🔥🔥🔥classic! Lived in Tampa for 28
yrs . Khia definitely has hits!!!! Back then, my clubbing years, All the Tampa
clubs , in Ybor city, downtown, east Tampa, west Tampa jammed this consistently."
** 14. @keshaharrington5847 "This was me and my uncle club jam… we
had everybody jigging.. Rest Up Unk🙏🏿🖤💃🏽"
** 15. @mkinn1 "I see I've been doing it wrong all these
years but now I'm too old for all that jumping.
Btw, Khia looks fabulous!"
** 16. @AfrodityJones "I’ve been waiting for this! Yass, Queen!
They sleeping on you!"
** 17. @reneajohnson5829 "Yes Queen Khia looks Stunning in
that Yellow Dress 👗"
** 18. @skylar-jones "Classic 🔥🔥"
** 19. @TheGiftofKnowledge "Love this and you… just so you know,
East Texas been Kwanging for 20 yrs too now! All throughout the country bars,
the cowboys show you love by fu__king* it up doing the 2 step to the
Kwang.. peace and APTTMH🥰" -snip- *This word is fully spelled out in this comment.
** 20. @tiamarie6997 "Yesssssssss 🔥 THUG MISSES THE
DOPEST RAP ALBUM EVER‼️‼️😮💨"
** 21. @nellywilliams2776 "I remember dancing to this in Club XS,
The Apollo, Studio 7, the Full Moon Saloon in Ybor City 💃🏿💃🏿💃🏿💃🏿
I miss the early 2000s 😩😩😩❤️❤️❤️"
** 22. @Larryfaust23 "Genius move!! You can’t be mad at this
lady 🙌🏾"
** 23. @EloyQuezada "Love it Khia !!!! Greeting from Ireland"
** 24. @billybob1525 "THE REAL KWANG Y'ALL SEE HIM 💯💯💯"
** 25. @sunniski6270 "My stomping ground the 813/727. LOVE it with likes a 1000 times for true
representation"
** 26. @meagatronn23 "Loved hearing this song at trail rides,
growing up."
** 27. @DalyceKelley "KWanger for lifer right here! We just
did the line dance at the family bbq yesterday. Me and my nieces love it! When
it comes on I run across the club to get on the dance floor YOU HEAR ME!"
** 28. @annette2058 "This song will Never get old because of
the music track! Bill Summers" You can call it what you want". If
you're old enough to remember the song, it brought Everyone to the dance floor.
Khia put her spin on it. Just Fabulous 🤩. Still Dancing!"
** 29. @VA-54321 "This is my song at every Cook out... And Family Reunion!🙌🏿
To the QUEEN!!!🔥🔥🔥🥂❤ Thank you Queen for bringing this video back
to the South Florida Tampa."
** 30.@meekajones808 "We our the world our the 🌎 we our the kwanger all the kwanger
yesssssss queen"
** 31. @mustangbrown3399 "Love it! Plus she included the real
kwang! Wow!!! Extra points."
** 32. @rpeezus4788 "The influence this has on the culture,
we were bumping this in Los Angeles back in 07 and still do till this day. Hits
that stick like gritsssss. Period."
** 33. @truedadof2 "2006 in Southeast Georgia! 👊🏾👏🏾👏🏾"
** 34. @alealejandro69 "This is a hit! Khia always kills it! I
wish people gave her, her flowers more often"
** 35. @mistybarillas3599 "This beat will get u up &
dancing! 💃 ❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥"
** 36. @shantitakemoto1058 "She was always a vibe..unapologetic"
** 37. @tavariswalters9376 "Yess yess Florida stand up 🔥!!
863"
** 39. @t.d.8765 "A music video to a 20+ year old song???
Well, she might have started a new trend. making music video to old music that
should've had music videos for it"
** Reply 40. @Aqudance, 2024 "Yes! She was the very 1st to do it!
Which proves how iconic she truly is!! ❤"
** 41. @TruthBTold-op9kv "Props from Cali Khia💯✌🏿"
** 42. @victory4real611 "Honey we be Killin that k wang line dance"
** 43. @NuJacq "This was my SONG in high school!!"
** 44. @infamouskimtv "This our skate song.....we wear this sing out.....hellyea"
** 45. @ashleypoznoski9657 "This that old Skool sh_t* this brings back so many memories I was raised in green wood back in the day and I use to booty dance to this ish 😭" -snip *This word is fully spelled out in this comment.
** 46. @carolynlevy8237 "I’m not gone lie it’s something about that beat that make you wanna line dance 💃"
** 47. @laylasweeklyfinds4851 "this song never gets old. Queen Khia did her thang on this video"
** 48. @crpwifey2562 "Clapping my hands to the beat AYEEEEE👏🏾 👏🏾 👏🏾 👏🏾"
** 49. @caseypaige5529 "My family still do this dance! Khia
forever"
** 50. @Michelle-uv4rh "Can't wing it was the top song and dance
back n the day at the clubs and we jammed off of this song a many friday and
Saturday nights thank you khia for this song and dance !!"
** 51. @time2expandenterprises712 "Khia we k wang Wu Tang wit it New York
Love You..."
** 52. @tmarr1111 "LOVE me some Khia… this sista is always making them club bangers! ❤🔥"
** 53. @girlythug7223 "Khia music can't be touch!!! Ion care what nobody says!!! All her music be hits. It's just the haterz!!! U Dig. Khia please do moreee videos!!!!!"
** 54. @charlesdavison6352 "And still getting played at the cookouts and all holidays , baby what hit like this y’all know gettin played on Christmas!?💀 I liveeee yes Khia"
** 55. @plbutler4u "Khia you did that!!!!! LOVED IT!!!!!"
** 56. @fashionistabeasta "Love her and this song. Wish she put the dance we all do in it 😢"
** 57. @shundasmith6929 "I Remember coming in club xs and club
Kathleen dancing to this. Whole damn club was loving it!"
** 58. @Noelle.Tyy0890 "I’m from Maryland. I probably would’ve
never heard this song years ago if it wasn’t for the internet. So many southern
songs will never even make its way up here sometimes, and I’ll be just hearing
it 15-20 years later like why is that my first time? I swear back in the day
the radio stations and dj’s used to do a better job at circulating southern and
west coast music up here, and now they don’t. I’ll never understand this. Thank
God for the internet because half the older southern songs I’ve found over the
years would’ve be nonexistent to me! Smh"
** 59. @SYoung-ek1ip "Say what ya want bout her. She ain't
lost not one ounce of that FIRE!"
** 60. @Kikib-523 "Flawda what up!!!!! Duvallllll checking
in."
** 61. @Jujubean78 "I appreciate this. I remember turning up
to this song."
** 62. @SallyReloading "This was a good video throwback still
have us stepping weddings, parties, and all 💃🏾 🕺🏽
🎶"
** 63. @scarfaceshawty4574 "FLORIDA CLASSIC"
** 64. @mochalatay0826 "Still got khia album still be bumpin in
my ride🔥🔥"
** 65. @meonly6454 "AYEEE 🎶 🎶 WENT HARD IN THEM CLUBS A FEW YEARS
AGO DANCE FLOOR PACKED WITH THAT DANCE WE DO STEP STEP SIDE SIDE AYYYEEE GO
KHIA"
** 66. @archangelq721 "Bruuuuuh this had middle school lit.
Bringing back memories of Tampa Tony & tom g wit this one
I'm from Georgia but living in Tampa, FL
for a lil bit was legit one of my favorite moves"
** 67. @kfamadventuresfl "This was my jaaaaammmm!!! I still k Wang
wit it. My kids don't know nothing about this!!! Ayyyyy"
** 68. @dameechie4659 "Love u khia since 2002!!!"
** 69. @marthashepherd935 "Thanks for repping Tampa FL we still
love you the most here especially that last concert you had here you lit Tampa
up my daughter went said you was simply on 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥"
** 70. @genifee "It was a line dance to this. That was my
favorite dance of all and we had a lot of them"
** 71. @sylviaistheone1 "You got me dancing at work get it sis"
** 72. @NDea69 "August 13 2017 my sister got married.
She ABSOLUTELY KILLED the K Wang. I love my city 😍🥰🔥"
** 72. @kepop98 "Was just stepping to this at my cousin's
party!!!"
** 73. @ST-pe1ox "Everyone say this songs 20 years old.
I've never heard it until 2022."
** Reply 74. @Lovelesson86 "❤❤❤ it’s still lit 🔥🔥🔥"
** 75. @kableboi "This is one of my favorite songs by her.
When I saw the video I ran to it. I only wish they had an actual dance sequence
to this. Like a real K-Wang line dance. Oh well. It’s still a bop!"
** Reply 76. @jeauxroyal9291 "Kwang wasn’t ever a line dance"
** 77. @thumperhopper3400 "Dope you put the original kwang paid
homage"
** 79. @Adrian-fv5vk "Ol Dude at the end of the video looking
like he waited all his life just for this moment we see ya do you"
** 80. @carme83 "Come thruuuuuuu qweeennnn"
** 81. @ChristinaGraham-xg3xw "And the original dance snaps better then
the line dance"
** 82. @samuelsavage6553 "This was MY SHEIIIIT back in '04!!!"
** 83. @twannimmons139 "the real Kwang real flawda"
** 84. @Only1Jen "I remember my freshman year of highschool We had to dance to this every Friday in gym class i became in love with this song 😭😭😂😂 I like the video ❤️"
** 86. @seizethejay7769 "Say what you want about her but this song is 21 years old and it still is catchy AF...and you can still kill the dance and not look lame while doing so... Give a girl her flowers so what if the mainstream industry didn't we will.❤️a'
** 87.@teathepot525 "This song is A BBQ Banger, Club Banger, and Iconic Step song where I am from. I don’t care how long it took for her to make a video. It’s her Masterpiece and it will live on 🗣FOREVEA‼️"
** 88. @susanfey4727 "I'm kwangin Khia💥✌️"
** 89. @muymami25ify "In texas we gotta line dance to this song"
** 90. @yeashechocolate3941 "Idgaf what khia does imma support it
like I always have from the age of 11 years old ain’t have no business singing
her music lol. Until the age of 31 where I don’t have to be scared of being
popped in the mouth for reciting her lyrics. Giving you your flowers Queen cuz
you deserve them 🌸"
** 91. @muvaaof335 "Still rocking ❤❤❤"
** 92. @kimberlyingram3131 "Khia have hits she had a lot of club
bangers she’s definitely certified ion know why people be sleeping on her but
we can’t expect most of the younger generation to know but I guarantee it’s in
the group of Electric Slide and Cupid Shuffle line dances"
** 93. @walenawellness6449 "WOW 😊🔥🔥🔥💃🏾💃🏾💃🏾this
was BEAUTIFUL!!!!! It's crazy because I play can't kwang while I'm at the gym
three times a week on the stepping machine....THANK YOU ALSO FOR SHOWING US THE
REAL CAN'T KWANG!!!! YESSSSSSSSS INDEED WE KWANGING FOREVER 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
CONGRATULATIONS 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾❤️❤️❤️
ON THE 20 YEARS!!!!!! YOU LOOK LIKE YOU'RE STILL 20 YEARS OLD KHIA!!!! KEEP
DOING YO THANG QUEEN 👸🏾"
** 94. @beverlicollins2871 "I heard this on the radio and I fell in
luv with it but I didn't know it was Khia! This ish slams hard!!!💯🔥🎵💞"
** Reply 95. @anastasiafoster6338 "20 years laters and it’s still being
played at parties bbq’s weddings now that’s a bop. 🎉🎉🎉🎉"
** 96. @BAYLOR8590 "Imma happy to see the real Kwang done
and be educated on the history of the cultural dance Khia took us back to the
streets where it came from!!! I still
love the line dance we do at our family reunions but now that I’ve seen the
original dance imma add It to my freestyle repertoire so they know when I’m
going in Thanks Queen ❤"
** 97. @IMBIGLEWIS "yay can't deny this Video was a whole
VIBE 🔥🔥🔥🔥"
** 98. @QUEENAMETHYST81 "We needed a group of dancers doing the
dance. I love this song. When it first came on in the club and I saw how they
did the dance to the song. I was like I need to learn that ish!!!!"
** 99. @pernellthethird "Who remembers the line dance?"
** 100. @Droptopporshe "This my sis fave song by you Khia. We
would be in the teen clubs stepping!! Damn I miss my sissy RIP♥️♥️🖤"
** 101. @bess_conversations_podcast "I remember when this song came on in the
teen clubs in 2003 it was so lit"
** 102. @devinshrubs9899 "I don’t know a party where everyone
don’t rush to the floor to jam this Bop!! Love it 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥"
** 103. @chynapinkklee6662 "Love it khia so classy with it..step so
clean KWANG wit it!!"
** 104. @Themaddprof "Nice to see the real K Wang."
** 105. @tanyab2828 "I’m from Florida and I remember wen this song came out. I
knew it was about a dude from Tampa that used to do this dance. Lawd and there
he is after all these years,, Mr Kwang and he still killing this dance. Thanks
Khia💯👏🏽👏🏽"
** Reply 106. @cedricwilson5740 "The Florida kids we didnt know he exists we just knew this
was a grown folks bop."
** 107. @elijahbee34 "The internet talked so much s*** when you were
making the video for it to come out fire 🔥🔥🔥💯💯🦂🦂 I love the documentary feel to it!" -snip- This is the way this comment is written
in this discussion thread.
** 108. @jblack8867 "She really showed the industry that a black female can live
out her dreams (independently) without degrading herself, y’all should at least
Respect her for that. I need me an ol’ skool for the summer. The is video 🔥"
** 109. @garyburch1346 "The way khia wangin is the right away. All that extra
dancing sh_t* we don’t do in Clearwater" -snip- *This word is fully spelled out in this comment.
** 110. @Jmurphfla "Wait I grew up in Fla and coulda SWORN it was saying “Can’t
Wang wit it” lol"
** 111. @ADbb2024 "Khia!!!!!!!!🔥🔥🔥 this
will forever be a hit..especially in the 813!!!!!!Tampa Babyyyyyyy💜💜💜💜🔥🔥🔥🔥"
** 112. @britneyq5932 "Definitely “Grown Folk Music” 😍👑😘"
** 113. @playboiinuke "20 years later and still a bop🔥🔥🔥🔥"
** 114. @kaystar3434 "Hahahaha, Khia is a mess! I was
mesmerized at how confident and at peace she is with herself, no matter what
others say about her. Loved her in that blue and white-so fresh! Kwang wit' it!"
** Reply 115. @tashawasha9472 "That’s what makes their reads fall flat.
She don’t gaf!!!🤣🤣🤣"
** 116. @TaRonThomasTv "This was my joint back in the day. Can’t
even front. Ah ah ah 💪🏾😝 🔥 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
we love u Khia"
** 118. @jameebee5711 "I wished she would had a group of people
doing the dance, getting crunk and hitting the dance. But I love you Khia."
** 119. @makluvin75 "In not even gonna try and read comments
but I'm sure its people here and around the world that don't understand what
independent artists can do and there are down sides. But in the end they keep
it real for the streets. KHIA is one of the best to ever do it without backing
from any major label. FLAWDA STAND UP IN
DIS BIHHHH N KWANG"
** 120. @Chefjtwoods "20 years later I see I’ve been doing the
dance wrong for 20 years wtf!! Lol"
** 121. @Sun_MoonAries "They tearing it up uh GET IT TAMPA we
see y’all"
** 122. @arij.9975 "She shoulda had some ol skoolz in the
parking lot at least doing the line dance... Like that's what this song is
known for where I'm from"
** 123. @nyeibrown2876 "The young ones you knew nothing about
this til today!!! OW OW OW!!!! Come on Khia revive us!!!!"
** 124. @drivenchats " “I make hits that stick like
Gritssss” - Khia 💃"
** 125. @nick-cake1422 "Mannnn khia I suppose to be in this
video lol I can kill this dance I love the song n u too💙"
** 124. @jreneedyson "I love you had k wang in it. ❤ Everybody
had their dance with this song too. 😊"
****
2024
125. @TheLifeofJenelle "I loved line dancing off this song. It
was simple but fly."
** 126. @tymberlandtv "I was at Georgia Southern during this time period. Khia “neck back”, kwang””don’t trust no” had club up"
** 127. @The_mrs86 "I woke up this 2024 morning on my way to
work and this song randomly popped in my head!!! Got me pumped up and ready for
the day🏆💯"
** 128. @actionjackson4769 "I wonder if she knows how we’d line
dance to this in Alabama. It was like the cha cha slide but not that"
** 129. @malikahgray7254 "Step so clean I like this it’s putting
me in a good mood"
** 130. @suepremeworld "Idk if we was supposed to but it’s a
line dance to this lmao 🤣"
** 131. @Womackavellie "Wait one minute… I DID NOT know this was
Khia track… The industry needs to be ashamed of themselves… She been dropping
bangers for DECADES!!!"
** Reply 132. @torturingsouls9635, 2025 "I like how she didn’t use that dance
they made for it so she don’t owe no one sh_t* or don’t have to hear
their mouth 😂😂😂 good" -snip- *This word is fully spelled out in this comment.
** Reply 133. @lottiespence2614 "The hip-hop industry HATE Khia cause she keeps it REAL! Love this song! ❤"
** 134. @lovelyloner "20 some years later I remember all the lyrics. Imagine how happy I was for this song to have a video! K-wang went diamond in my dorm. I love Khia. A fellow high vibe Scorpio with that sauce."
** 135. @foyoGames "If this video was dropped & pushed
hard 20 years ago, she'd be on another level or 3 or 4.
& so glad u actually explained who
KWang is in the video!"
** Reply 136. @annetriaseward2372 "I feel honored just being able to see
the real K-Wang!! I love you The Mrs. Khia!! ❤🥰❤"
** 137. @shakitashontajones "I'll never understand why she didn't blow up, her whole C.D was on point."
**** 2025
138. @michellethedaughterofzion6469 "I LOVE THE LINE DANCE TO THIS...ITS SO
JAZZY AND YOU CAN PUT SOME SAUCE ON IT TOO!"
** 139. @IamForan "The original kwang actin up at the end was gold❤❤❤❤🔥"
** 140. @IamVictoryyofthepeople "🎉🎉🎉misses this
song!!!!! and miss the orginal dance to this thank you girl for rereleasing"
**
141. @HorrorFanatic666 "I was 13 I believe when this came out
and I am now 36 with a 12 year old who is all into this song. The meaning of
good music still exists. Khia will forever be my favorite."
** 142. @whistleblower89 " "can't wang wit it" been in my head all day i was
like is that a dam song!? Googled "can't wang wit it" tapped play and
nostalgia came flooding back 😂😂man im telling
yall humanity peaked in the 90s early 2000s"
** 143. @cccsss9010 "This viral hit"
** 144. @velboone6041 "Its a line dance they be killing off
this sh_t*...." -snip- *This word is fully spelled out in this comment.
** 145. KristinaKlaser904St.Augustine "I love this whole CD I used to bump it
so loud I know every word of her original thug misses CD ❤ LOVE HER"
** 146. @chuck9380 "Song just popped in my head and I be damn it now has a video I can enjoy too"
** 147. @T4KE_A_BREATH "This still hits 'til this day!"
** 148. @Far7rom "She was smart to re release this. Just
saw it on the line dance video.. i was confused how they even knew this
song haha"
** 150. @sonique365 "ill be 88 still stepping to it❤"
** 151.@jusgg8194 "Ahhh ahh step so clean"
** 152. @RiceCake-g2s "What i love about this video is that
Florida is the sunshine state and her beautiful sweat shows it. Im from
Tampa,west Tampa wear Khia grew up at. Shes always been a star 'Hood star' hood rich. She had a car wash called hoe
shine,hoe stood for the water hoez. She drove a drp top black Jeep. She wascand
still iz that girl❤❤❤"
** 153.@raisinteeth9488 "Jessica and line dancing brought me
here."
** 154. @OhRomeo31 "I’m sorry I’m gone always love Khia no matter how much mess
she cause lol"
**** 2026
155. @simoneabundance11 "THANKS KHAI for giving us a some good music we can jam to
from a bbq at a family reunion to roller skates, This brings back GREAT MEMORIES 🔥✨️"
** 156. @Da_GrandiMan "love this song,
it was used @ the Ciaa's ( in Clt) as a line dance song. I
had two left feet. But, could handle the "Wobble, Cupid / Charlie Brown
shuffle" & others. 😅😂"
** 157. @natashaburley9455 "If she ain’t Florida than I don’t know what is this makes me
want to go to Duvall to one of them good old cookouts or block party ❤❤❤❤"
** 158. @BrandonStewart-f7u "She a true stepper . Rep. that"
** 159. @Jerzyboy899 "This had the skating rink in Tampa going crazy in 01’
** 160. @tonylewis5473 "Having the actual kwang in this video dancing, made it epic"
** 161. @lottiespence2614 "This Portland Or here. Love this!🎉🎉🎉❤❤❤"
** 162. @nclectavideos "I'm so mad I missed her in DC last year - I really hope she comes back soon!!!! She has so many hits - I hope she reissues Thug Misses on vinyl too"
** This concludes Part II of this two part pancocojams series about Khia's 2022 official video of "K-Wang" (Kwang Wit It".
This is Part I in a two part pancocojams series about Khia's 2022 official YouTube video of her 2002 hit Hip Hop track and dance "The K-Wang" (also known as "Kwang Wit It".)
This post showcases Khia's 2022 YouTube video of her 2002 hit song "K-Wang" (also known as "K-Wang Wit It." This video shows how the stand alone Hip Hop dance called the "K-Wang" is done.
This post also includes information about Khia and information about this song.
The content of this post is presented for historical, socio-cultural, entertainment, and aesthetic purposes.
All copyrights remain with their owners.
Thanks to Khia for composing and recording the Hip Hop track "K-Wang". Thanks to Khia for publishing this YouTube video twenty years after she recorded that hit song. Thanks to all those who are quoted in this pancocojams post. Thanks also to the publisher of this showcased video on YouTube. -snip- Click https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2026/08/the-k-wang-k-wang-wit-it-dance-is-it.html for Part I of a three part pancocojams series about Knia's record "K-Wang" (also known as "K-Wang Wit it". That series explores how particular African American dances are performed differently during the same period of time depending on the city, state, or region of this country, and how those dances may have the same name but are performed differently in later years.
The links to the other two posts in that series are given Part I and in each of the other posts.
**** INFORMATION ABOUT "THE K-WANG" Fromhttps://genius.com/Khia-the-k-wang-lyrics " “The K-Wang” is a song by American rapper Khia, released in August 2002 as the second single from her debut studio album, ‘“Thug Misses”. The song was a moderate radio hit on urban stations and the accompanying dance was popular in Tampa-area clubs in the fall of 2002. In the years since its release, the song has also become associated with a line dance.
Both the title of the song and associated dance originated from a local Tampa clubgoer, Twan, who frequented the bars where Khia worked in her early days as a rapper. In March 2022, Khia told Billboard, “I was managing a bar in Tampa. It was Studio 7 and Club XS. When we had acts that would come through, I would open up.” The song’s lyrics encourage listeners to do the K-Wang dance and reference the aforementioned bars as well as Tampa neighborhood Robles Park.
Initially released as a b-side to “My Neck, My Back (Lick It)”, “The K-Wang” was serviced to urban radio in August 2002. In addition to the original version of the song, a So So Def Remix by Jermaine Dupri and Bryan Michael Cox was promoted to radio as well." -snip- Click https://genius.com/Khia-the-k-wang-lyricsfor the complete lyrics for that song. WARNING: Those lyrics include one "f word".
Notice that those lyrics describe how to do that dance.
This pancocojams post showcases seven* YouTube video examples of African American single file line dances (also known as "circle line dances" and "Trail ride versions")
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 that are featured in these videos and thanks to the publishers of these videos on YouTube. -snip- I just came across a seventh video that I will present here as Showcase video #7, although it's from 2011. This single file line dance is done to the same Mary J Blige record as Showcase video #1.
**** ESTABLISHING EARLY DATES FOR "SINGLE FILE" AFRICAN AMERICAN LINE DANCING As of this publishing date (August 7, 2026), the earliest date that I have found for the style of African American line dancing that I refer to as "single file line dancing" is June 19, 2021.(El Paso, Texas).
Please share any early dates that you know for this type of African American line dancing along with demographic information and/or online links.
I'll amend this post with earlier dates. Thanks!
**** GENERAL REFERENTS FOR THIS TYPE OF LINE DANCING "Single file line dances" is my general referent for a small subset of (African American) line dances. The referent refers to the formation of those line dances in what I believe is a clearer, less confusing way than the term "circle (line) dances that is currently being used.
The term "trail ride version" is also used in a number of titles of YouTube videos as a referent for these types of African American line dances. However, I believe that term is also confusing because line dances at African American trail ride gatherings have in the past and are still performed in the traditional (horizontal line) formation as well as in the much newer single line formation. Besides, both of these types of African American line dances have been and still are performed apart from trail ride gatherings/events .
The way that these referents are given on YouTube is either 1. [the title of the song] followed by the words "circle (line dance)"
or
2. [the title of the song] followed by the words in parenthesis (trail ride versions).
I'm using the term "single file line dances" because I believe that both of the referents given above are problematic. I discuss the problems that I have with those referents in another pancocojams post.*
The "single file line dance" style of African American line dancing appears to be very new. 2024 is the earliest year that I have found for this type of African American line dancing.
The line dances that I refer to as "single file line dances" is this pancocojams post have a vertical line formation instead of the horizontal line formation that is traditionally used for most African American (and non-African American) line dances.
Also, these single file line dances have the same winding, circular movement patterns as the Cuba originating Conga lines and as the historically Black Greek letter fraternity and sorority strolls. However, the dance routines that are performed for Conga lines and historically Black Greek letter fraternities and sororities aren't the same as the dance routines that are performed for trail ride versions of line dances. -snip- *Click __ for my pancocojams post about the problems with the current terms used as general referents for single file line dances.
**** INFORMATION ABOUT THESE SHOWCASES VIDEOS As of August 7, 2026 I have only come across six different song titles on YouTube** for African American single file lines dances. (The titles of African American line dances are almost always the same as the titles for the record that is played for that particular line dance.)
Here's some information bout these records and their line dances (as I've found them on YouTube), given in chronological order based on the publishing date for the video that I'm showcasing in this pancocojams post:
1.This is the earliest example of single file ("circle") African American line dance that I've found as of this August 2026 publishing date.
"El Paso Soul" Just Fine line dance is performed to that song which was recorded by Mary J. Blige. Here's an excerpt from Ai Overview: "Mary J. Blige released the official remix to "Just Fine" (featuring Lil Wayne and incorporating Chubb Rock's "Treat 'Em Right"), which is widely used for the popular El Paso line dance, on February 18, 2009. The original solo track debuted earlier on October 16, 2007." -snip- According to AI Overview, this song by Mary J Blige is categorized as part of the R&B/dance pop genre.
Here's a comment from a Houston Soul Line Dance Facebook post asking about that line dance: ImStephanie Brown, 2025
"I learned this dance from the creator of the the dance
"the General" Leigh Williams and it was to Mary J's Just Fine.
-end of quote- I have found some traditional African American examples (i.e. horizontal line formations) and some single file examples in the 2020s on YouTube with the title "El Paso" or with the title "Just Fine" by Mary J. Blige..
** 2. "Kang Wit It" (also known as "The K-Wang" is a Hip Hop song (track) by Khia that was first released in 2002. That track was performed by African Americans in Tampa and in other cities in Florida as a stand alone dance. (How that dance is performed is described in the record's lyrics.)
However, "The K-Wang" / "Kang Wit It" is best known among African Americans in certain cities throughout the United States, but especially in the South, as a traditional African American line dance that is performed different ways depending on one's city.
** 3. "Follow Me" is a House music genre record by Aly-US that was first released in 1992.This song was originally performed as a stand alone partner dance. I've come across a lot of single file videos of this line dance on YouTube. However, I haven't come across any traditional (horizontal lines) African American line dance videos for "Follow Me".
** 4. "Just Let Me Ride" by Ms.
**7. Jody was first released on January 8, 2013 and Ms. Jody released a popular remix version in 2014. "Let Me Ride" is categorized as a Southern Soul/Blues record.
Quoting AI Overview: ["Let Me Ride"] "is a staple in the Southern Soul and line-dancing community, often accompanied by specific dance slides"...
I've only come across one example of traditional (horizontal formation) line dance video and one other single file line dance video of this song. However, given that AI Overview, there may be other line dance examples of this song on YouTube.
** 5. The song "Trailride Sailing" is a R&B /Soul' Southern Soul/Line Dance song that was first released in 2023 by Meechie. A number of traditional (horizontal line) African American line dance videos of "Trailride Sailing" were published before videos of the single file line dance versions of that dance.
Some line dance videos of "Trailride Sailing" are also given with the title "Sailing".
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6.The YouTube video of "Soul Train Line" was just published in July 2026 and may be a newly created line dance. "Soul Train Line" was recorded by Tee Doe Brown in 2024. According to AI Overview, that song is categorized as Southern Soul and Blues with strong elements of R&B and line dancing.
I haven't come across any other videos of that line dance, but that may be because the song is new.
** 7. This video is titled "El Paso"/ Mary J Blidge Soul Line Dance. The music is given as "So Fine/Treat 'Em Right Remix / Artist: Mary J. Blige/Chubb Rock/Feat. Lil Wayne / Album: Single - Mary J. Blige".
This is the same record that is used for Showcase #1 in this pancocojams post.
The line dance class that is shown In Showcase #7 is from Hempstead, NY.
This 2011 YouTube video is the earliest date that I've found on YouTube for these single file line dances. Notice that the location is in New York state.
That location outside of the Southern states that are the usual sites for Black American trail rides (as well as the formation/circular movement similarities to the Conga line and to historically Black fraternity/sorority strolls) suggests that the single file line dance didn't originate in African American Southern trail ride gatherings. Instead those Southern trail ride gatherings adopted this dance formation from other sources and added their movment routines, hand held fans, and whistles to that dance style. .
