Crip Walk

The Crip Walk, or C-Walk, is a dance that originated in the early 1990s in Compton, a poor suburb of Los Angeles, California. What began as a symbolic dance between street gangs of the area, soon became a staple of hip-hop dance in the late 1990s. Originally, members of the Crips gang would use nimble movements of their feet to spell out their names or other pro-Crips words (sometimes spelling out Bloods, their rival gang, and then crossing it out). This dance is typically performed to West Coast Gangsta rap and G-funk. The C-Walk was popularized by the influential rap artist and pop-culture icon Snoop Dogg, who himself is a Crip.