Hip Hop Dances That Originated in New York

The Dope Walk, Harlem Shake, the Shmoney Dance and more.

Lean Back - Bronx-bred rapper Fat Joe, Remy Ma and the Terror Squad started a movement with "Lean Back," the lead single from their album True Story. In the music video, which features a cameo from Kevin Hart, he's everywhere, the Squad does the "lean back," aka the "rockaway."(Photo: Universal Records)
The Tony Yayo Dance - When G-Unit member Tony Yayo dropped the video for "So Seductive," featuring 50 Cent, everyone was talking about the Queens rapper's signature move. Beyoncé does her own rendition of it during her performance of "***Flawless."(Photo: Interscope/G Unit Records)
The Kid 'n Play - Christopher Reid and Christopher Martin (of the Bronx and Queens, respectively) had everyone jumping around after they debuted their two-person dance in the 1990 blockbuster House Party.(Photo: New Line Cinema)
The Wop - This old-school dance emerged in the '80s with B-Fats, a Harlem transplant who moved to the historic neighborhood when he was 10 years old. His music career peaked with the 1986 hit "Woppit" produced by Teddy Riley. From the song emerged the dance.(Photo: Bad Boy Records)Break-dancing - B-boy pioneers such as Bronx native Richard "Crazy Legs" Colon and Ken Smith, former vice president of the Rock Steady Crew, helped to make break-dancing so popular it was incorporated as one of the five elements of hip hop. The movement inspired tracks like Kurtis Blow's "The Breaks," Herbie Hancock's "Rockit" and KRS-One's "Step Into a World (Rapture Delight)."(Photo: Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images)

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The Tony Yayo Dance - When G-Unit member Tony Yayo dropped the video for "So Seductive," featuring 50 Cent, everyone was talking about the Queens rapper's signature move. Beyoncé does her own rendition of it during her performance of "***Flawless."(Photo: Interscope/G Unit Records)

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