Maybe not the first time it came on, but I guarantee you that at some point in your life, you saw a music video come on and it inspired you.

Inspired you to do what?

Dance.

Just like how they do it in the video.

You would stare at the screen until you got it. And lawd, you’d have the VCR ready to record when your favorite video show – The Box, Video Music Box, Yo! MTV Raps, Rap City maybe even Hot Tracks (if you’re old enough to remember that). Then once you got it on tape, it was on.  (Listen if they have TiVo and DVR back then, I would have been nicer than nice with the dance moves..ya heard!)

I heard this song on the radio today and it instantly took me back. I distinctly remember trying to imitate everything. Every move. The song was just that fresh. You had no choice but to move.

But to complete the cipher, you didn’t just dance like that. You had to “be” like them. You had to dress like them because then when you did it around your friends at someone’s birthday house party, you would be compared to “them”. My mom wouldn’t let me rock the steel/silver/metal plate shoes (check the video to see what I’m talking about) but I somehow “acquired” the VW.

Ahhh the VW. Stands for Volkswagen. It’s the symbol and what cats would do is steal them joints from the cars and put them on either their belt buckles or as buckles on their shoes. Complete that with a crazy lookin’ jungle shirt or some polka dot shirt, some black pants and can’t forget my flat-top with a few parts in it fresh from the barber.

All so I could rock out to this……….