Krumping
I don't like when people use the word surreal. Tonight I came home starving after a long day of a root canal at 8 and then meetings in the munich office. I hadn't eaten all day, I am recovering from jetlag and have been working until 11 or 12 since I returned home. So, when I got home I whipped up some sloppy joes (from scratch, mang. There's no manwich in Germany). Meat and peppers piled on a slice of bread are heavy and within minutes after I finished I turned the TV on and fell to sleep on our sofa.
When I woke up, I saw this.
This exact scene of a guy alone, at the beach dancing at the edge of the water. Mannwich coma to solo dance.
MTV Germany is having Hip-Hop Day and they are playing something involving the most incredible waxy bodies and clown faces talking about life in the hood- in German. And then they had a giant dance-off. It was as if they were boxing, but dancing. Like you got served, but with clown costumes. I've seen You Got Served, twice. I also used to watch that dance contest show with the guy who waxed his chest and would say pop pop pop for every move he was teaching. My brother does the best impression of that guy. I think he did Britney too. Still, knowing all that- it took me watching the whole thing and then finally googling krumking (incorrectly) to realize this surr...strange thing is not a German mockumentary of life in the hood, but is, in fact, a documentary by David LaChappelle. How did I miss this?
Feline Nursery, could you dig us up some facts on how many people are actually being shot daily in the hood where this was filmed. The movie ended on the note that they are using this dancing and clowning to combat the pressures of living where they risk being shot just walking to the store.
posted by Katie @ 11:13 PM
4 Comments:
Dear Yes Kathleen,
I'm on it!
MTV says the krumping phenomenon began in South Central Los Angeles. According the LAPD, Here is the breakdown for homicide in Southeast, Southwest and Central LA:
SOUTHEAST
2/19/06-3/18/06: 5
2005: 12
SOUTHWEST
2/19/06-3/18/06: 2
2005: 16
CENTRAL
2/19/06-3/18/06: 0
2005: 4
According to the FBI, out of the 45 largest cities in the US in 2004, LA ranked number 16 in homicide rate. NYC was an arcadian #35, and Kansas City killed their way up to #8.
Dear Feline Nurse,
That is really great research!! You are a natural.
I am looking for the probability that one would actually be shot, say vs. hit by a bus. So 12 in 2005 out of how many people? I could understand the crying about getting shot walking to the store if Southeast LA population was 24. That's a 50% chance. Not so much if there are 240,000. That's less than a 1% chance. In which case they should really focus their worries and attention towards more pressing things like the 95% chance that if they drop out of highschool they will end up in jail. Or something like that.
So if the murder rate in Central LA is currently zero, let's say the population there is also zero. By my quick calulation, that's a 100% murder rate. That means that if you're one of the no people that live there (that is, one of the 6 billion that live elsewhere) you're definitely going to get murdered.
Can that be right?
So if the murder rate in Central LA is currently zero, let's say the population there is also zero. By my quick calulation, that's a 100% murder rate. That means that if you're one of the no people that live there (that is, one of the 6 billion that live elsewhere) you're definitely going to get murdered.
Can that be right?
Post a Comment
<< Home