Le Tabarnak is Le Tabarwack

Terrible title, I know.

By John

I realize this has been buzzed about for a few days now, but I have to submit my opinion on Le Tabarnak, the latest dance craze to enter the increasingly ridiculous world of hip-hop.

Le Tabarnak is stupid. Incredibly stupid. “Doing” the dance (if it is a dance) makes you look like you’re caught in some mid hokey-pokey purgatory. It’s offensive to breakers. And let’s be truly honest with ourselves: if some blockhead white-boy crowned this “the new sh*t” he would get said sh*t knocked out of him before his foot started to hover.

This isn’t even a “cool because black people do it” situation – this is a “cool because hip-hop has adopted it” situation, which I understand is almost the same in theory. To me, it’s some weird reverse-reverse-backwards stereotype sh*t that people only like it because hip-hop, for some reason, gets a free pass to do whatever idiotic novelty, moreso than Macarena-loving moms that drink boxed wine and read romance novels. I’m reading into this much too far, but it really irks me!

I don’t believe anybody who thinks this is the new wave. It’s impossible to think this is cool or even ironic. It’s just plain retarded, and proof positive that hip-hop is in dire need of some creativity. Not a so-called “revolution” – why people confuse having political beliefs and a big mouth with creativity is far beyond me – but a real-deal sincerity check. Now there’s a word hip-hop should add to its lexicon.

Outside of the ostracized few – early Wu-Tang projects, Kool Keith and The Coup come to mind – it’s all egocentric posturing, whether fake or not. “Take the pillow from your head and put a book in it.” (Grammatically incorrect but very sincere quote courtesy of The T’Cha).

I love what hip-hop could be, but hate what it currently stands for!