So apparently, the rules of the 'Harlem Shake' are: one person starts dancing with a mask on and then once the beat drops, everyone joins into this random dancing and does whatever they want. At first, I found them funny because of how these people came out of nowhere but a week later, I started to realize that this is another example of why people do not have any originality in them. So... I did my research on who started this mess in the first place. According to a bunch of residents in Harlem, all of these Harlem Shakes you have been seeing on Youtube are just a joke to the REAL Harlem Shake.
According to wwno.org, Jay Smooth explains:
"It's been around for decades. Most people trace it back to a street dancer named Al B, who used to entertain the crowd at the Rucker tournament, which is a legendary basketball league in Harlem," says Jay Smooth, Harlemite and host of the hip-hop video blog Ill Doctrine. "It was brought into the mainstream by one of my Harlem neighbors, Sean 'P. Diddy' Combs, who brought the dance into a couple videos he made with one of his artists, G Dep."
Of course, that faded away years ago but the 'Harlem Shake' stayed true in Harlem. However, things changed in 2013 when a meme started on Youtube, naming it the 'Harlem Shake' and once it got viral, everyone wanted to make their own Harlem Shake. Basically, some random dude disrespected the original Harlem Shake, claimed the name to be his, and made everyone look like fools. Now, if people did the Harlem Shake that everyone thinks is correct in Harlem, there is a huge possibility that there will be a violent riot.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xt_4yv3_INw Check out this link for the REAL Harlem Shake and you can't tell the difference, then you are officially blind.
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