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Music: "Just Let Me Ride" by Ms. Jody
**** Edited by Azizi Powell
This is Part II of a two part pancocojams series on Southern Soul singer Ms. Jody, with a focus on her 2012 song "Just Let Me Ride".
This post showcases five YouTube videos of African American young adults line dancing to Ms. Jody's "Let Me Ride" record. Four of these videos feature the follow the leader, single file formation. The remaining video features people dancing in the standard soul line dancing formation that consists of horizontal lines.
Click https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2026/08/information-about-queen-of-southern.html for Part I of this pancocojams series. That post showcases a YouTube video of Ms. Jody singing "Let Me Ride" and presents two excerpts of essays about Ms. Jody that I found in Southern Soul R&B.com but which that editor indicated were originally published in Daddy B. Nice's Album Reviews.
The content of this post is presented for historical, socio-cultural, entertainment, and aesthetic purposes.
All copyrights remain with their owners.
Thanks to Ms. Jody for her musical legacy. Thanks to all those who are featured in these videos. Thanks to all those who are quoted in this post and thanks to the the videographers and the publishers of these videos on YouTube.
**** ADDITIONAL SHOWCASE VIDEOS
The videos in this pancocojams post are presented in no particular order. Numbers are given for referencing purposes only.
This is Part I of a two part pancocojams series on Southern Soul singer Ms. Jody, with a focus on her 2012 song "Just Let Me Ride".
This post showcases a YouTube video of Ms. Jody singing "Let Me Ride" and presents two excerpts of essays about Ms. Jody that I found in Southern Soul R&B.com but which that editor indicated were originally published in Daddy
B. Nice's Album Reviews.
Click https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2026/08/five-african-american-soul-line-dances.html for Part II of this pancocojams series. Four of these videos feature the follow the leader, single file formation. The remaining showcase video features people dancing in the standard soul line dancing formation that consists of horizontal lines.
The content of this post is presented for historical, socio-cultural, entertainment, and aesthetic purposes.
All copyrights remain with their owners.
Thanks to Ms. Jody for her musical legacy. Thanks to Daddy B. Nice for his writing and thanks to https://www.southernsoulrnb.comwhere I found these essays.
**** TWO EXCERPTS OF ESSAYS ABOUT SOUTHERN SOUL SINGER MS. JODY From https://www.southernsoulrnb.com/artistguide.cfm?aid=699 "Just
Let Me Ride": Ms. Jody: The New Generation Southern Soul, March 23, 2025: Originally published in Daddy B.
Nice's Album Reviews
ESSAY #1
June 26, 2021: Daddy B. Nice's Profile [of Southern Soul
singer Ms Judy]
“In 2005 Dale Pickens, the brother of Vertie Joanne Delapaz (Ms. Jody), took
her to her first blues show--Denise LaSalle--and the experience inspired Vertie
to consider performing herself. "I can do that," she remembers
thinking. That fall in 2005, a still young O. B. Buchana and his band, Total
Control, were celebrating a CD Release Party in Meridian, Mississippi, just up
the road from Bay Springs. Pickens knew some of the band members, and he
introduced Ms. Jody to them and the band's manager, William Day.
Day was so enamored of Ms. Jody's talent that he asked her
if she'd like to travel to Memphis and meet John Ward and Morris J. Williams of
Ecko Records, who were also impressed, and Ecko released Ms. Jody's first
album, You're My Angel, in March of 2006.
The first single from the album was a Lillie Pickens-composed
song entitled, aptly enough. "Ms. Jody," and the upbeat number,
although diverting, wasn't strong enough to make an impression. Soon after,
however, deejays discovered a country-influenced song on the album called
"I Never Take A Day Off (From Loving My Baby)."
"I Never Take A Day Off," with Ms. Jody's
unaffected, Nashville-inflected vocal riffing over John Ward's solid
instrumental track, sounded almost revolutionary in a soul context, and the
record soon caught on across the South.
[...]
Ms. Jody hit the scene around the same time as Nellie
"Tiger" Travis, and your Daddy B. Nice remembers singling out the two
of them amongst all the divas from that period as the surest bets to survive
and flourish. Both had good songwriters behind them, Travis with Floyd
Hamberlin and Ms. Jody with John Cummings (composer of "I Never Take A Day
Off") and Ecko's extended stable of writers.
Ms. Jody and Nellie "Tiger" Travis have remained
linked together at the top of the female division of the chitlin' circuit for
almost two decades, like T.K. Soul and Sir Charles Jones at the top of the
males.
But of the two (Nellie and Vertie), Vertie---aided and
abetted by her Ecko cohorts---had her career concept down. Travis may have had
a more intense triumph or two, but for quality and volume no one compares to
Ms. Jody. As her first single proclaimed, she was the female version of Marvin
Sease's "Mr. Jody". She was Mizzus Jody. She could cheat, lie, party,
dance, cajole, prevaricate, pontificate, and oh---by the way---f-ck* like
an angel, and do any of it without a whiff of self-consciousness.
And Ms. Jody's still doing it after all these years. If she
hadn't filled the "Jody" vacuum and braved its minefields of cliches,
someone else would have had to. But who? Who could have done it with her
common-sensical demeanor and oft-times brilliance?
At her best, Ms. Jody shakes those old cliches like Raggedy
Ann dolls, transforming them into universal truths as she does in her
mid-career classic, "When Your Give A Damn Just Don't Give A Damn".
By the end of that anthem, Ms. Jody has morphed into Every Woman's Woman, a
dispenser of wisdom, equal parts confidante, psychiatrist, therapist and
spiritual advisor.
The dominant track of her later career has been the
indefatigable, rollicking and frollicking, Jody-perfect, double-entendre-ing
"Just Let Me Ride," in which she "saved the horse and rode the
cowboy"... And when that "(chestnut brown) cowboy left the stables,
he was wearing a smile."... -snip- *That word is fully spelled out in that sentence.
**** ESSAY #2 "About Ms. Jody: The New Generation Southern Soul
Vertie Joanne Delapaz (Ms. Jody) was born on November 10th
in Chicago, Illinois. Two years after she was born, her parents--contractors in
the Chicago area--returned to their former home in Bay Springs, Mississippi,
about 65 miles southeast of Jackson, where they continued to live (and listen
to a lot of Delta-flavored R&B around the house) through Ms. Jody's
childhood.
Ecko Records in Memphis released Ms. Jody's first album,
You're My Angel in March of 2006, and it immediately drew air play on legendary
WMPR, Jackson, Mississippi, and other southern soul stations of the deep
south.. Prominent singles from the debut included the country tune that would
become one of Ms. Jody's all-time classics, "I Never Take A Day Off".
[...]
Ms. Jody's In The Streets Again (Ecko, 2010) returned Ms.
Jody to the top of the Southern Soul singles charts with the
throwback-sounding, mid-tempo "The Bop," but there was little else of
enduring value on the set, and the follow-up, Ms. Jody's Keepin' It Real (Ecko
2011), failed to generate much enthusiasm, gaining a rare two-star rating from
Daddy B. Nice.
2011's Ms. Jody's In The House righted the ship in
resounding fashion, showcasing a revitalized Ms. Jody negotiating some of the
finest material since her early CD's. In actuality, the music was even better.
The centerpiece of Ms. Jody's In The House was a song that
both broadened and amplified the musical virtues of Ms. Jody's signature hit,
"I Never Take A Day Off." The song, recorded in both a radio version
and a long, voice-over (talking) version spanning over six minutes, was ”When
Your Give A Damn Just Don't Give A Damn Anymore”.
The album represented a career-defining pinnacle for Ms.
Jody, with almost every selection garnering airplay and acclaim. Memorable
singles included: "Southern Soul Dip," "I Did It," "I
Never Knew Good Love Could Hurt So Bad," "Something I Want" (a
duet with David Brinston), "Just A Little Bit Won't Get It," plus
excellent covers of her own hits ("Ms. Jody's Thang Zydeco Remix")
and others (Lorraine Turner's "You Lost A Fortune" and Brenda
Williams' "Let Me Be The Shoulder").
Still Strokin', Ms. Jody's eighth consecutive Ecko-published
CD, arrived in 2013. While not quite as strong a set as MS. JODY'S IN THE
HOUSE, Still Strokin' was nevertheless a disc of very high quality, notching
another series of popular radio singles, led by the propulsive "Just Let
Me Ride," closely followed by the title tune, "Still Strokin',"
"Another Get Drunk Party" (a remake of an early Ms. Jody tune),
"Where Can I Find A Good Man," "You Didn't Appreciate What You
Had When You Had It," "Good Love," and two more well-executed
cover songs, "Ms Jody Don't Mind Breaking Up Somebody's Home" (from
the Ann Peebles standard) and "Dance Party" (from the Quinn Golden
standard).
[...]
A greatest-hits compilation, The Best Of Ms. Jody (Ecko
2015) was followed by I Got The Feeling (Ecko 2016), a veritable triumph. Blues
Critic, in a blurb, gushed that, "At this point in time it's safe to say
Ms. Jody is the "Queen Of Southern Soul Blues," and Daddy B. Nice
awarded the album five stars ("southern soul heaven"), noting that:
Is there any sight in southern soul more rewarding and
reassuring than Ms. Jody slipping out of her shoes and singing and dancing
barefoot onstage? How lucky are we fans to have such a natural woman at the
helm of our musical ship? Earthy, sexy, unfailingly scandalous yet somehow not
obscene, Ms. Jody accommodates all the onstage, "grown-folks-only"
shtick that LaMorris Williams and other male artists indulge in to make the
audience howl--flirting, lap-dancing, grinding and rolling with a member of the
opposite sex beckoned onstage for the fans' vicarious delight--and yet she
endures as a country girl, humble and practical, an "every-woman"
whom all women and even the "mens" can identify with.
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- In the context of this pancocojams post, the type of "trail ride line dancing" that I'm referring to is African line dancing that is done in a follow the leader, single file (vertical line that moves in a cirular direction. , This list doesn't include pancocojams posts on African American line dancing that is sis done in horizontal lines which is either a trail ride version of an older or a current African American line dance or was specifically composed for African American trail ride line dancers*.
*Examples of songs that were specifically composed for African American trail ride line dancers are the Southern Soul hits 803Fresh's "Boots On The Ground" and Tonio Armani featuring Jeter Jones' "Country Girl"
Click the African American line dances tag below to find pancocojams posts on that subject.
**** A LIST 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 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- Click https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2026/08/a-trail-ride-version-of-k-wang-wit-it.html for a YouTube instructional video of a single file/circle line dance version of "K-Wang Wit It". That post includes most of the transcript for that video.
**** ESTABLISHING EARLY DATES FOR "SINGLE FILE" AFRICAN AMERICAN LINE DANCING (UPDATE) As of August 8, 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 Nov. 16, 2011 (video given as Showcase Video #7. [I just came across that video on that date after I had published the original edition of this post].
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 if credible citations are available. 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 rhis pancocojams post: "What Are "Trail Ride" Line Dances & How Are They Different From Some Other African American ("Soul") Line Dances?"
The "single file line dance" style of African American line dancing appears to be relatively new. The earliest year that I have found for this type of African American line dancing online rhys far is 2011 (given as Showcase Video #7 below)..
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.
**** INFORMATION ABOUT THESE SHOWCASES VIDEOS As of August 8, 2026 I have only come across seven 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".
**
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. .
This post showcases several YouTube trail ride dance versions of Khia's "The K-Wang" ("K-Wang Wit It").
This post also presents selected comments from the discussion threads of these showcased videos.
Video #3 in this post includes instructions about how to do that particular trail ride version of "K-Wang Wit It".
Click https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2026/08/the-k-wang-k-wang-wit-it-dance-is-it.html for Part I of this pancocojams series. That post showcases a 2011 YouTube video of a Charlotte, North Carolina line dance class performing a line dance version of "K-Wang". "K-Wang" (also known as "K-Wang Wit it") is the name of a 2002 Hip Hop track that was composed and recorded by (African American) Tampa, Florida female rapper who goes by her first name "Khia".
Selected comments from the discussion thread of that video explore 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.
Also, the selected comments in this pancocojams post documents how residents in the city that "birthed" a particular dance often feel ownership of that dance and can therefore be critical of any changes to changes to the way that dance is performed by people outside of their city.
Click https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2026/08/a-2008-youtube-video-of-three-young.html for Part II of this pancocojams series. Part II showcases a 2008 YouTube video of Khia's Hip Hop track "The K-Wang" ("K-Wang Wit It") being performed as a line dance. That post also includes selected comments from that video's discussion thread. These comments continue the exploration of issues that were presented in Part I of this pancocojams series.
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 the unknown choreographers of the multiple versions of K-Wang line dances and trail ride versions of that dance.
Thanks to all those who are featured in this showcased YouTube video and thanks to all those who are quoted in this pancocojams post. Thanks also to the publisher of this showcased video on YouTube. -snip- Here are links to additional pancocojams posts about this record and/or this line dance: Click
https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2026/08/khias-2022-youtube-video-of-her-2002.html for Part I of this pancocojams series. That 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,
**** INFORMATION ABOUT "THE K-WANG" (ALSO KNOWN AS "K-WANG WIT IT") 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 that link for the complete lyrics for that song. WARNING: Those lyrics include one f word. Also, click https://genius.com/Khia-k-wang-20-lyrics for different lyrics to K-Wang 2.0 that Khia released in 2012. -snip- The choreographers for the line dances and the trail ride versions of "K-Wang" (K-Wang Wit It" are always given online as "Unknown"
If you have any information about this, please share it in the comment section for this pancocojams post. Thanks in advance.
**** SELECTED COMMENTS FROM THE DISCUSSION THREAD FOR THIS SHOWCASE VIDEO
These comments are numbered for referencing purposes only.
1. @MyHoney2222 "Yaaaasss ... look at my people with ALL that Rhythm and Love.💕🎉"
** 2. @terrelllarkins1 "This is a totally different version than what I learned
growing up in North Louisiana in like 2006-2009"
** Reply 3. @amywilliams8514 "This is the LINE VERSION. The original ID better"
** Reply 4. @dominiquemccant7690, 2026 "Cause that’s not how its done. It’s a dance from my home
city in Tampa"
** Reply 5. @tiffanycrenshaw5421, 2026 "Yeah this not the version I know same year from TN"
** Reply 6. @raczgreen6053, 2026 "We actually were doing the k-Wang line dance before the song
came out in 1996. It's interesting how the original line dance eventually
became the K-Wang wit it line dance 🤔" -snip- This song actually wasn't recorded until 2002, but the stand alone dance was preformed before the record was released.
** 7. @Colee209-r1q "Yall done changed the dance?! You know how long it took me
to learn it?! 😂"
** Reply 8. @2ookie2ookie, 2026 "No. This is trail ride edition. The one you learned is
likely the line dance edition."
** 9. @Aleese_Luv4Animals "Ol cowboy bob in the building 😂"
** Reply 10. @grownAZwoman, 2026 "And he looking likewoody in them boots"
** 11. @ReneeChavers-l7e "Khia Love🧡💙🐊"
** 12. @leonidbier "I need to learn this!!"
** 13. @NieceyMcKnight "Oh yeah, I love this!!!!"
** Reply 14. @rachelle6058 "I like this version 👌"
** 15. @Positivityandhealing "Wait what is thisssss. Looks fun! I
wanna go!"
** 16. @MyHoney2222 "They are Cutting UPPPPP✅🥰"
** 17. @Sucre200 "Somebody always gotta be extra 😂"
** Reply 18. @irufus83, 2026 "@tbk@tbkennedy100he went viral on my TikTok over 7 million
views"
** 19. @KalyricClark-q8o "Dude in red pants was so smooth with it and girl in jeans
and brown shirt too"
** Reply 20. @doriscollins2961 "Big moma in the red was killing it too now yesssssss"
** 21. @sophiapaige9448 "Yes I'm loving it❤❤❤❤❤❤"
** 22. @catchthisbuck "Okay HOLD ON this is NOT the original
line dance to this.... let's give Khia her flowers she created a whole movement
in the community that didn't include "fans" y'all let that man have
his moment but please respect Khia who we're still grooving to 20+ years
later.......side note this line dance is clean AF😂😂😂😂"
** Reply 23. @amywilliams8514 "She approved this version with the
creator"
** 24. @LionelRobinson-k4k "Is this back in Texas y’all Louisianan
or were everyone has Boots on and grooving ✊🏿👍🏿💯💯💯💯💯💯😁😁👍🏿👍🏿👍🏿👍🏿👍🏿👍🏿👍🏿"
** Reply 25. @irufus83 "South Carolina"
** 26. @traypeachez6 "So glad I’m from the Crip Walk era 😂😂😂🤦🏾♀️🤦🏾♀️🤦🏾♀️
you cannot Cwalk in them heavy dog boots. 😂😂😂"
** Reply 27. @latrice3795, 2026 "😂😂 You must be from
California"
** 28. @blackly999 "Ayoooooo this is soooooo not getting its
due exposure. This is bigger than Casper slide"
** 29. @mrfavorovermylifewhite7194 "They getting it. I would call this “the
dusties doing the musty” cause that’s one funky groove"
** 30. @TheYakora "Do the fans go with everything"
** Reply 31. @BlackLightning20101 "No but they can go with everything if
you want to make it work"
** 32. @Sir_Kymoni "A disgrace to Tampa and the Kwang"
** 33. @moniquehampton4674 "Why no body look happy?"
**** 2026
34. @ellthomas7333 "lol not a soul in there from where it
started and that’s Tampa Fl. We know the real wang!"
** 35. @dominiquemccant7690 "That’s not how you do the k-wang but
okay"
** 36. @JamesDrake-x6r "Dis sh__t* pisses me off 🤣🤣" -snip- *This word is fully spelled out in this comment.
** 37. @latrice3795 "Homeboy in the dreads 😂😂😂😂😂"
** Reply 38. @DeniseWilson-xg2lb "@latrice3795 😂😂 he is doing too much. Lmao."
** 39. @mimipaternostro7029 "all I see is white pants having a good ol time"
** Reply 40. @irufus83 "A lot of fun"
** 41. @latrice3795 "Aint no party like black folks party,
cause black folks party's dont stop. ❤ Us!"
** Reply 42. @clydejones1934 "Gigantic facts"
** 43. @pamelaking6324 "Our culture 😂😂🫶🏽"
** 44. @RIDGEMATIC "🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥"
** 45. @Leandra-w1w "They getting down"
** Reply 46. @DeniseWilson-xg2lb "😂 right"
** 47. @shottabwoi3985 "DO THA K WANG DAMNIT! 🫳🏾🎤"
****
SHOWCASE VIDEO #2- K Wang Trail Ride & Performance
SAAR Productions Solid As A Rock LDF
,Tonya Starr, , Sep 15, 2025 WEBER POINT EVENTS CENTER
K Wang Trail Ride Lead by Tonya Starr
& Performance Choreographed by Tonya
Starr 🔥 @ Boots On The
Ground Concert on Saturday, 9.13. 2025 🔥
@ Weber Point Event Center snip- The clip that features this "K-Wang Wit It" dance is found in the beginning of this video to 4:08 of this video.
I'm not sure if the "choreographed by Tonya Starr" statement refers to all of the trail ride routines including "K-Wang Wit It" that was danced that way before the 2025 publishing date of this video.
Here's part of the summary of this video compilation: "K Wang Trail Ride & Performance 🔥
@ Boots On The Ground 🔥
Tonya Starr SAAR Productions
SAAR Productions Solid As A Rock LDF ,Tonya Starr
Sep 15, 2025 WEBER POINT EVENTS CENTER
K Wang Trail Ride Lead by Tonya Starr & Performance
Choreographed by Tonya Starr 🔥 @ Boots On The Ground Concert on Saturday, 9.13. 2025 🔥
@ Weber Point Event Center .
Tonya Starr aka SAAR Productions
Don’t Miss The Party Train At 6:30 pm 🚂
with Tonya Starr, ⭐️ License Instructor 🥰
Every Tuesday Evening, Beginners Line Dance Class & Every Wednesday
Beginners & Intermediate Line Dance Class🔥
Please bring your Fans (Fans also available for purchase)
and let’s get ready to set it off 🧨🧨
$10 per-class ATD
Tuesday 6:30pm - 8pm
Location: TAP THAT ASH
126 East Market St
Stockton CA 95202
Wednesday 6:30pm - 8pm
Location: LOVE NUTRITION
2706 Pavilion Parkway
Tracy CA
❤️ Must be 15 years old to attend
and participate in the class 🥰
Thank you again family for shaking a tail feather with me
and I will see you on the Wood. 💃🏽❤️🔥🕺🏽
Smooches 😘 Tonya Starr"…. -snip- statistics for this video as of August 6, 2026 at 4:22 PM EST: total # of views -7,299
**** SHOWCASE VIDEO #3-K-Wang Wit It- By Kia Line Dance (Trail Ride version)🔥💃🏽🕺🏽
Naomi The G, May 4, 2026
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJr9KmRGvIM&t=146s -snip- statistics for this video as of October 7, 2026 at 5:54 PM EST: total # of views -1,827 -snip- Here is a large portion of the transcript for this video (given without time stamps)
"All right. All right. So, in today's video, we will be doing the K K Wang with it trail ride. Okay. It's a trail ride line dance. So, it's a little bit updated version from the old version.
The steps are easy. How we did it in class the other day is slightly different cuz it's easier to do it this way than to do with all the leg work we did in the class. So, let's go ahead and start.
Now we're starting off on our right foot.
So I'm going to go with right, left.
Okay, from here we're going to go faster. Right, left.
Okay, so slow, slow, fast.
Perfect.
Now we're going to go from here added in the front steps leading withthe right foot. So right, left, and I'll turn to the side so you can see that little tap and tap and tap and tap with the knees.
Okay, so let's start it off from the top.
Perfect.
We're going to go right, left, right, left, right, left,
tap, tap, squat down.
All right,
So we're going to go ahead and do that all over again, but I'm going to turn to the side so you can see the front stuff, too.
And from here, because this is a trail ride, we're going to walk up four steps.
So, what that basically is, if I start from the back,
we'll start from the back and walk up.
This dance is usually done in a circle. So, we don't go from wall to wall.
We stay on one wall and we just keep on trucking forward cuz it's a trail ride dance. Okay.
Starting from the top. Right, left, right, left. Tap, tap, knee, knee.
Squat. Come up. Rock it up. Rock it back.
Swirl to the right. Swirl to the left, right, left, right, left.
One, and two. One, two, three, four. Tap. Tap. squat.
Come up. Rock it up. Rock it back.
And swirl to the right. Swirl to the left.
Right, left, right, left.
And we keep going forward every time we move on with the dance.
So, if you have it, I'mma turn on the music and we going to do it together.
All right.
[...]
Basically, yes, that is a dance.
We'll do it together in class with the music up a little louder.
What I will say with this dance is because we're not doing as much footwork,
it's a lot easier and it's just basically we're walking into a circle.
So, we keep going up.
All right, let's try it again. Also with the song, once she finish saying
"So fresh, so clean, so fresh, so clean" then she go right into the song.
That's when we all begin.
Okay. All right. So, I'm going go ahead and end here
and I shall see you beauties Wednesday. Bye now." -snip- This dance instructor is describing what I refer to as "single file"/circle" trail ride line dances. These are just one form of trail ride line dances. I haven't come across a YouTube video yet of "K-Wang Wit It" that is performed as a single file/circle" line dance. However, click https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2026/08/examples-of-african-american-single.htmlfor a pancocojams post that showcases some other videos of those types of trail ride line dances.
-snip- Here are two comments from that video's discussion thread:
1.@AKAWRITTEN, 2026 "Yessss this was a nice breakdown!!! Thank you"
** 2. @larosa26, 2026 "Thank you. Got it🔥🔥🔥"
**** This concludes Part III of this pancocojams series.
K-Wang DeePinky, Mar 3, 2008 [This video was taped in Dallas, Texas.]
Me Monica and Sheerkia
Music: The K-Wang
Khia- Thug Misses -snip- The publisher of this video (whose previous screen name was Princessmooka) had published this video with the title "Can't Wang". In 2017 she wrote that she read the comments for that video, realized her mistake, and corrected the title to "K Wang").
**** Edited by Azizi Powell
Latest update- August 7, 2026
This is Part II of a three part pancocojams series about the 2002 Hip Hop track "The K-Wang" by Tampa, Florida female raapper Khia. (The K-Wang" is also known as "K-Wang Wit It")
This post showcases a 2008 YouTube video of Khia's Hip Hop track "The K-Wang" being performed as a line dance. That post also includes selected comments from that video's discussion thread that continue the exploration of issues that were presented in Part I of this pancocojams series.
Click https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2026/08/the-k-wang-k-wang-wit-it-dance-is-it.html for Part I of this pancocojams series. That post showcases a 2011 YouTube video of a Charlotte, North Carolina line dance class performing a line dance version of "K-Wang". "K-Wang" (also known as "K-Wang Wit it") is the name of a 2001 Hip Hop track that was composed and recorded by (African American) Tampa, Florida female rapper who goes by her first name "Khia".
Selected comments from the discussion thread of that video explore 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.
Also, the selected comments in this pancocojams post documents how residents in the city that "birthed" a particular dance often feel ownership of that dance and can therefore be critical of any changes to changes to the way that dance is performed by people outside of their city.
Click https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2026/08/a-trail-ride-version-of-k-wang-wit-it.html for Part III of this pancocojams series. That post showcases a YouTube trail ride dance version of Khia's "The K-Wang" ("K-Wang Wit It"). That post also presents selected comments from that video's discussion thread. These comments that add to the exploration of issues that were discussed in Part I and Part II of this pancocojams series by presenting information about 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 Khia for composing and recording the Hip Hop track "K-Wang". Thanks to the unknown choreographers of the multiple versions of K-Wang line dances and trail ride versions of that dance.
Thanks to all those who are featured in this showcased YouTube video and thanks to all those who are quoted in this pancocojams post. Thanks also to the publisher of this showcased video on YouTube. -snip-
**** INFORMATION ABOUT "THE K-WANG" (ALSO KNOWN AS "K-WANG WIT IT") 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 that link for the complete lyrics for that song. WARNING: Those lyrics include one f word. Also, click https://genius.com/Khia-k-wang-20-lyrics for different lyrics to K-Wang 2.0 that Khia released in 2012. -snip- The choreographers for the line dances and the trail ride versions of "K-Wang" (K-Wang Wit It" are always given online as "Unknown"
If you have any information about this, please share it in the comment section for this pancocojams post. Thanks in advance.
**** SELECTED COMMENTS FROM THE DISCUSSION THREAD FOR THIS SHOWCASE VIDEO
These selected comments don't refer to individual dancers, although I believe that those types of comments are worthy of historical and cultural documentation.
These comments are numbered for referencing purposes only.
1.@qurta
“thats the "Cleveland Shuffle" but parts missin. but tight”
** Reply 2. @MarioJ914 "Thats not the cleveland shuffle."
**** 2009
3.@FAMUGrad2003 "I dont think the people on here are hating. Just pointing
out that dance is an entirely different one. Imagine seeing people do the
electric slide and calling it the cabbage patch. Thats about the equivalent to
how people from FL see it since thats where it's from. That dance youre doing is from South FL and
been around I know since the 90s cause we (FAMU students) do it every time the
band plays S.O.S; first time I saw it was 1997.
Not hating nor bashing ya vid.
Just a lil history lesson
** 4.@Mr-Dont-Play "Get it! Big ups to Florida for getting everybody in the South doing this
dance. Houston cats do this in the club, myself included:)”
** 5. @erb41478 "in florida we do this line dance to ste[p] in the name of love" -snip- The commenter wrote “steo” instead of the word “step”
** 6. @MarioJ914 "“from what I know this is the K-Wang. Every area does it different. Post the
K-Wang from Tampa so we can C wat it looks like.”
** 7. @MsReneeB83 "Thats not the original K Wang W/ It, thats what TX has made
it, but it was REAL good ladies!"
**** 2010
8. @JusTiki1 "TAMPA IN DA HOUSE!!!!!!! YESSIR!!!!!!! They just started
playin the song then I started doin this line dance and they had no idea what I
was doin and this was just in September 09.....Can you say S L O W!!!! OMG!"
** 9. @NeshaTokeyo,
2010 “Naw, Tampa FL all the way! Khia the girl who sing this song is from Tampa, so
u knw we on point with that Can't Wang Wit It~ if u listen to the whole song
she say she from tampa but ya shout out to Dallas too! im not hating yall be
doin yall thing!”
** 10. @Icyuj, 2010 "I know how to do it too..im from memphis lol"
** 11. @mzchrissy17 "so i'm definitly sure this is the "booty
bounce"line dance."
****
2011
**** 2012
12. @melodyeful "YEA YALL ROCKED THAT THE RITE WAY!!!!!"
**** 2013
13. @fitlipino "dang! they can really wang it.”
** Reply 14. @bubbajr19
“When I was in school we wasnt doin the K-wang like dat lol”
** 15. @Amaya907 "Finally !!! People who know how to do it right. ! About damn time.."
**** 2014
**** 2015
**** 2016
16. @Momof7kids "They killed it love it. True throwback”
**** 2017
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**** 2019
**** 2020
17.@GMnYR "I've been reading the comments and seen that these ladies are from Texas! I'm from Tampa Florida and that
shuffle that the do with they feet is called the skate. It's so beautiful to see culture
spread. Y'all represented for us in Fla! Much love I love y'all version of
K-Wang!!!!! I ✌❤😘”
** Reply 18. @Ladybug9497, 2022 “Yes, this we do it in Texas.”
** Reply 19. @3rdbeatz863, 2022 "i Was bout to say I thought the dance was different, they killed it though”
** 20. @bigbadtaemusic, 2022 “That some old school chicago steppin thats all”
** Reply 21. @Heyu7her3, 2022 “Khia the rapper is from Florida”
**** 2021
**** 2022
22.@gomezcried "this video is legendary"
** 23. @brysonfrancis2707 "not me here bc of tik Tok"
**** 2023
24. @QueenNaestar "I love a good line dance with my people. I still prefer the
electric side over everything though. 😜 I'm an 80's baby."
**** 2024
25. @yvetteD “Still the best video and it's the end of 2024.❤❤❤”
** 26. @couleressentials "Ayeeee still a bop! 🤭🌹🙌🏾"
**** This concludes Part II of this pancocojams series.
