@rihanna @djkhaled thank u for doing my dance🙌🙌🇿🇦 pic.twitter.com/skIRFWieAx
— #SonOfGod 🙏🏿 (@Dj_Bongz) January 29, 2018
At Sunday night’s Grammys at Madison Square Garden, Rihanna, DJ Khaled and Bryson Tiller performed their 2017 summertime hit, “Wild Thoughts”. The theme on stage was much like the official music video for the song, ethnic and cultured. Khaled and Tiller held their own but the night belonged to the “Loyalty” singer. Rih-Rih let loose and absolutely stole the show with her dance moves. While many praised Rihanna’s moves online and even turned it into a meme, there was some debate over one dance in particular.
Vulture magazine tweeted “Do the Stanky Leg” using the gif of Rihanna breaking it down.
Do the stanky leg. pic.twitter.com/nDPJFmY1zb
— Vulture (@vulture) January 29, 2018
However, not all agreed. Soon after, a verified Twitter account called Love, Light & Music informed the world that Rihanna was, in fact, doing a South African dance called Gwara Gwara invented by DJ Bongz, also from South Africa.
@rihanna the dance move you did at the Grammys is called The GwaraGwara Dance invented by DJ Bongz from South African 🇿🇦 not skanky legs as you now call it cc @GRAMMYMuseum @GRAMMYAdvocacy @GRAMMYPro
— Zakes Bantwini (@ZakesBantwiniSA) January 29, 2018
https://twitter.com/PaolaAudrey/status/957800413188775936
I just got so hyped that Rihanna hit the Gwara Gwara South African dance! I literally jumped out my chair! #AfricaTakeOver #GRAMMYs
— Drea Knows Best (@Drea_KnowsBest) January 29, 2018
Here’s DJ Bongz, who posted a video of himself doing the Gwara Gwara dance after the Grammys.
— #SonOfGod 🙏🏿 (@Dj_Bongz) January 29, 2018
For those who may have forgotten, here’s the official video of the “Stanky Leg” by the GS Boyz, released in 2008. So which is it – Stanky Leg, Gwara Gwara or a mixture of the two?
