3 Dance Moves We Learnt From The YBNL Nation Artists

A new club banger comes out; you’ve listened to it more than 10 times and now you know the words. You go to a party and the DJ is cranking up the volume, but are you ready to hit the dance floor?

The YBNL Nation artists including rappers Lil Kesh, Olamide and  DJ Enimoney have found a way to make this easy by creating dance moves to accompany their songs. Here are three dance moves we’ve learnt from the YBNL gang:

‘Shoki’

We were introduced to the

‘Shoki’ dance move in April 2014 by Lil Kesh who released a song with the same name. The dance swept the nation and soon people found they could adapt this move to other songs.

The dance involves lifting up an imaginary object and then  dropping it while slily dropping it while placing one hand over your eye.

To make sure the streets learnt this dance, the YBNL team ran a dance competition offering the best dancer or best dance group one million Naira. Last year the dance went international when American rapper Missy Elliot and her dancers incorporated the dance move in her ‘WTF’ music video.

‘Shakiti bobo’

Once again the YBNL dance bug hit us all when Olamide showcased a new dance in his ‘Bobo’’ video. The dance spread across all ages: young and old.

If by chance you were unable to master the ‘Shoki’ due to it’s complexity, the ‘Bobo’ dance move is much easier to do.

‘Dab’

Earlier this month, Olamide and DJ Enimoney released a new single titled ‘Oya dab’, which was accompanied by the latest hip-hop dance –dab.

The YBNL lads did not create dabbing, the new fad originated from the American hip-hop community in Atlanta. What they did do was create awareness of this move and incorporate it into Nigerian music.

Dabbing is when the dancer raises their hand into their face, then drops their face into the elbow of that arm while lifting up their other arm up in the air.