Mo Spears Music, Oct 23, 2021
Produced by Maurice Spears/IG maurice_spears
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The word "remix" in this video's title means that this is just one of the dissing (insult) animated videos that Maurice Spears produced of someone singing "Buck dancing". Maurice Spears customized those videos with the same person singing "buck dancing, buck, buck dancing" and with the same cartoon characters, but with the face of different people on the cartoon character's bodies.
Here's his Maurice Spears' pinned 2021 comment from that video's discussion thread:
"If you want your voice remixed into a song like this, message
me on Instagram IG maurice_spears for details. I’ll make you your own personal
song for a ringtone, podcast, youtube channel etc. All you need to do is record
your voice on your phone and email me the file. I’ll even clean up any
background noise on the recording."
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Edited by Azizi Powell
Latest revision -April 29, 2024
This is the second post in a three part pancocojams series about the African American disparaging definitions of "buck dancing" and "tap dancing".
This post showcases a 2021 animated dissin' (insult) YouTube video about that features images of African American ESPN sports commentator Stephen A Smith. This post includes a small sample of comments from that video's discussion thread. Some of these selected comments document the commenter's opinion of this video and its background 'buck dancing song". Other comments include the term "buck dancing" or related terms and/or include some of the lyrics for that "buck dancing" song. One comment in this compilation refers to Stephen A Smith being "clowned" (made fun of ) by this dissin' (insult) animated video.
As background, this post presents an excerpt of a 2023 online article about the controversy between sports commentator Stephen A. Smith and basketball player Kwame Brown.
Click https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2024/04/why-african-americans-equate-tap.html for the first post in this pancocojams series.The title of that post is "Why African Americans Equate Tap Dancing With Shuckin' And Jivin' & "Uncle Tomming ".
Click https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2024/04/stephen-smith-called-buck-dancer.html for the third post in this pancocojams series. The title of that post is "Stephen A. Smith Called A "Buck Dancer": Comments From Various YouTube Podcasts About Stephen A. Smith's Appearance On The Sean Hannity Show & His Subsequent Apologies".
The content of this post is presented for historical, cultural, and entertainment purposes.
Thanks to the Mo Spears for producing this video and sharing it on YouTube and thanks to all those who are quoted in this post.
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PANCOCOJAMS EDITOR'S NOTE
This pancocojams post and Part III of this pancocojam series document a small sample of the numerous online negative comments from African Americans about African American sports commenter Stephen A Smith. My focus in these post is to document a small sample of comments that use the disparaging meanings of buck dancing or tap dancing which allude to or directly use those dance terms as metaphors for acting like a clown, acting like a fool, and/or shuckin and jivin, and/or "tomming".
Except for parts of these selected comments, neither of these two pancocojams posts present the reasons why commenters pictured or referred to Stephen A. Smith negatively as a "buck dancer" or as a "tap dancer". People who are interested in learning more about some of the reasons why so many African Americans commenters have such negative opinions about Steven A Smith are encouraged to view these showcased videos and read their discussion threads.
That said, for the record, among other things, I strongly agree with the many commenters in 2024 who lambasted Stephen A Smith for his comments comparing Trump problems with the United States criminal justice system and African Americans' treatment by the United States criminal justice system.
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ARTICLE EXCERPT ABOUT STEPHEN A SMITH AND KWAME BROWN
From https://www.si.com/extra-mustard/2023/08/15/stephen-a-smith-viral-kwame-brown-rant-regret-paul-george "Stephen A. Smith Says He Regrets Viral Kwame Brown Rant" written by Madison Williams, August 15, 2023
"ESPN personality Stephen A. Smith is known for his often
controversial takes on sports news. But, does he regret any of the takes he’s
given over the years?
Clippers star Paul George asked this very question when Smith joined his Podcast P show this week, and Smith quickly knew the answer. One of the videos that continues to come up is his infamous rant about the Lakers trading Kwame Brown for Pau Gasol.
“Kwame Brown, I wish I could do that over, I wouldn’t do
it,” Smith said. “I know what I said. I did mean it. I ain’t going to sit here
and tell you I ain’t mean the s--- I said, but I didn’t know it was gonna be
like this. Remember, I said it before Twitter, Facebook. I didn’t know, 15
years later, they gonna have memes, videos. When I see what he says, I realize
how hurt he is.”
[…]
In Smith’s rant about Brown, the ESPN star explained all the reasons he thinks
the former NBA player is a “scrub”* and how the city of Los Angeles should be
celebrating him leaving in the trade for Gasol.
[…].
Even 15 years later, this rant still gets traction on social
media, but it sounds like Smith would rather have that not be the case.”…
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* Here's an African American slang definition for the word "shrub" from https://www.dictionary.com/browse/scrub
"scrub=[noun] “Sports. a player not belonging to the varsity or regular team; a
player who is not first-string”
[…]
Scrub is slang for someone who is just plain bad at
something—a no-talent hack. This could be in sports, video games, or thanks to
TLC's hit song, relationships."
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Click https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_A._Smith for information about Stephen A Smith. That page doesn't include any mention of Stephen A Smith's controversy with Kwame Brown nor does that page mention the huge backlash among African Americans that is still ongoing (as of April 29, 2024) that resulted from Stephen A. Smith appearing on Fox News' Sean Hannity's television program on April 18, 2024 and making comments about why he thought African Americans could relate to Donald Trump being mistreated by the United States criminal justice system.
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Click https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kwame_Brown for information about former professional basketball player Kwame Brown.
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WHAT "BUCK DANCING" MEANS IN THE CONTEXT OF THIS VIDEO
by Azizi Powell, 2024
The term "buck dancing" has a number of different meanings. A relatively new (late 20th/early 21st century?) African American vernacular meaning of "buck dancing" is [verb] "African Americans actually tap dancing and/or African Americans behaving in ways that can be construed as "shuckin and jivin" and/or being an Uncle Tom".
"Buck dancing" is the precursor of "tap dancing". Since at least the beginning of the 21st century, because of black faced minstrelsy, a lot of African Americans have had/still have negative opinions about buck dancing and tap dancing. These negative opinions have resulted in those dance forms being a metaphor among African Americans for a Black person who is "tomming" (acting like an Uncle Tom around and for White people, and particularly rich White people and White people in authority.
As a result, among many contemporary African Americans, saying that a Black person is "buck dancing" is a short hand way of saying that a Black person is "acting foolishly around White people; and/or "shuckin and jivin" and/or "tomming". When African Americans use the term "buck dancing", it doesn't have to mean that the person is actually dancing. Instead, this term has the same or a very similar meaning as the contemporary African American meaning of "shuckin' and jivin'.
"Shuckin and jivin" means "to act foolishly [act like a clown] around White people, particularly White people (or other people in authority)"
Read https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shuckin%27_and_jivin%27 for more information about "shuckin and jivin".
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SELECTED COMMENTS THAT MENTION "BUCK DANCING" AND/OR INCLUDE SOME OF THE LYRICS
Numbers are added for referencing purposes only.
2021
1. @SELFTALK
"Buck dancing buck buck dancing"
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This is part of the lyrics for this animated video's song.
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2. @tauriansims7642
"Get back to work get back to work" ️
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This is part of the lyrics for this animated video's song.
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3. @onlyone23km
"This is a MAJOR club banger! Circa the style of 2005 to 11!"
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I believe this commenter meant that this song sounds like a major club (nightclub) hit record, and not that it actually was a major hit record..
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4. @darrelljernigan3241
"Mo is a master of the video.
Salute my brotha."
5.
"Ooooooo myyyyy lawd, the diiissreeeespect ! Eeeeeeewwwwwwww,
ah ee, ewwwwww, ah ,ee,
Eeeewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww,
Ah uh ha
Is dis awwww, ooo my goodness, lmfao "
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6. @AlDoubleU
"The 1 dislike was Stephen A Smith himself. Lmfaoo"
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7. @vernamalone958
"BUCK DANCING I like it."
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8. @houseofkungfu2543
"This 2min must of taken hours. Theres so much imagery and
catchy sound bites "buck dancin buck dancin" "
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9. @DueceCigarillo
"I can’t wait for the tour!!!! Kwame Brown you a RockStar
now!!!!!! #1 Hit Single “Buck Dancin” from the platinum bound album “Momma’s
Cookin!” "
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This comments are facetious. Notice that the commenter wrote "platinum bound" album. Also, notice how the fictitious album title "Momma's Cookin" links the term "buck dancing" to "down home" African American culture. Read comment #11 for another example of what I believe is an implied connection between the word "cookin" (spelled that way) and "downhome" (Southern] African American food and other cultural indices.
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10. @spelllegacylikedeath9957
"Prancin’ and buck dancin’"
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11. @persistall
"buck dancin buck dancin. This is the theme from here on out for all them biskut eatin buck dancers!"
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12. @CHERYLRGAY
"HELLO MR. SPEARS.. YOU ARE THE MAN!!!! MR. KWAME
BROWN, TELL US HOW YOU REALLY
FEEL.. GOT TO WATCH IT AGAIN.. ON SUNDAY..
I HAVE A REMIX PARTY OF ALL THE MR. MAURICE SPEARS AND MR. KWAME BROWN
VIDEOS!!!!"
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13, @oliviarodrigues2323
"Ain't nothin like seeing this fool get clowned like he
deserves. Comic RELIEF like WHOA Happy Diwali everyone 🇮🇳"
14.
"FIRE!!!"
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15. @rasun9169
"Yo this live KWAME need to play this on
his live have you sent it to him are self talk"
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16. @brandonroyal1255
"Breh it’s the Daffy Duck that did me in
lol"
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17. @TheBrucelee1973
"Not gonna lie but this is actually good
lol funny as hell to"
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18. @rodneyhowell7869
"Yo Maurice. This spear is str88 to the
heart of buck dancer's fe real king .
Stephen ass wipe Smith. As we say in the UK 🇬🇧🇬🇧
you are doneeeeee out hereeeeee.str8
BIGGGGGGG tuneee .Str88 outta London UK 🇬🇧5ive-0
Junglist 🇬🇧🇻🇨🇯🇲🇬🇧"
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19. @Deuntae704
"Dope and funny fam"
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20. @bgood2lifealways36
"Kwame, you have really done your
homework and research on Stephen A "Snitch" Smith. Just keeping it
real, and if you don't believe me, ask Max Kellerman."
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Mo Spears produced this video, not Kwame Brown. Click https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Kellerman for information about Max Kellerman.
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21. @AlmightyJio
"I’m the one who asked for this"
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22. @trutherman7848
"hey bro can you make the stephan A
dancing in the soultrain line a twitter gif"
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23. @fashawnmathews3299
"Mo spears you have done it again I love it dope beat hilarious you made my day with the laughter"
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2022
""Put dem negrow in dey place....you tell em its dey
fault!"
Best part... lol"
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The first line in this comment is part of the lyrics to the song that is sung in that animated video.
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25. @lafayettebaker9860
"If I dance to this will it be considered
Buck Dancing ?"
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2023
26. @lovelygivan1442
"He's buck dancing all the way to the
bank. While Kwame buck dancing in these youtube streets, looking like 7ft
farmer that he tries to be but his farming career went the same way as his
bsktbl career! DOWN THE DRAIN!"
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This comment was written in support of Stephen A. Smith. The first word "he" in this comment refers to that television celebrity.
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27. @terrellewilliams2188
"Good enough to play over 10 years"
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2024
28. @SelahKngdm, March 2024
"Always gotta revisit this classic."
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