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By Deyante Newson

An innovative genre of music has now become watered down pop music. Hip-hop has taken a turn for the worst.

Nowadays, instead of rappers putting meaning into their music, many songs deal with how much money you have or how “tight” you are.

Back in the day originality and a social message was what made a song good. We had groups like Wu-tang and Outkast. They put out music that teaches or that touches you. In the song “C.R.E.A.M”, In Spectah Deck raps “It’s been 22 long hard years and still struggling/survival got me bugging, but I’m alive on arrival”. This song makes me think of daily life. Deck is letting us know that we shouldn’t give into our circumstances.

Nowadays we have artists like the New Boyz. In their first single they just repeat the phrase “You’re a Jerk” over and over.

The type of music you listen to defines what type of person you are. I want to be the type of person who is defined by music containing morals, intelligence, and wisdom, but that’s just not as available from many artists today.

Do you jerk or do you do the reject? A lot of people think by doing the reject they're jerkin, but in fact, the reject is one of four steps that make up the famous jerkin dance. The reject is a dance that you do with your feet. The logistics of it basically consist of stepping forward and stepping back—but it looks more elegant than that. The New Boyz joined forces with Hot Topic to create Jerk 101, a video that teaches the four steps to jerkin.

If you're going to join the jerkin movement make sure you've got the following steps locked down. 

1) The Jerk

2) The Reject

3) The Dip

4) The Spin Drop

Once you've mastered these four steps you can successfully say you're jerkin

 Previously:

• Jerking: The L.A. Summer Dance Craze
• "Super Jerkin" [VIDEO]
• Audio Push "Teach Me How To Jerk" [VIDEO]

Some things that I like about Beyonce Single Ladies Video: they can dance in heels. For them to be dancing in heels is amazing because for me walking in heels is too much.  ln most music videos the singer don't really dance with the back up dancers but, Beyonce doesn't  make the back up dancers dance in the background she dances with them. Beyonce and her back up dancers move all together so it looks really neat.

Check out more videos after the break...

"You're A Jerk" , the smash hit by the New Boyz has everybody from West to East jerking to the song. Jerking is a new movement out of LA that includes dance, music, and its own style -- skinny, colorful jeans, fitted shirts, and colorful shoes. But what if you still don't know how to jerk? Don't trip, because now you can learn--unless you really have no rhythm.

There is a new song from Audio Push called "Teach Me How To Jerk". Even though it doesn't break down the steps to jerking, I have to admit that it sounds better than ,"Your'e A Jerk." The beat is better, the verses are better, and the video is better.

Check it out for yourself:

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It seems as though a lot of current artists have run out of new ideas. Nowadays, you hear silly songs that rhyme about the simplest things and somehow make it big in the charts. A few years back, Lil Mama created a hip hop sensation with her single "Lip Gloss," which goes into the psychological depths of how her lip cosmetic of choice is so cool and how it will make all the boys chase her after school. Soulja Boy had tweens across the country singing about a comic book hero-inspired sexual act with his hit single, “Crank that (Soulja Boy).” And most recently, the New Boyz have got youth all over my neighborhood calling each other jerks with a track that they first recorded in a closet. A lot of people argue that what these songs lack in lyrics, they make up for in the toe-tapping beats and and hip-shaking dance moves that they introduce into youth culture. This phenomenon makes me wonder about what creates musical success: the song or the dance?

It seems that dancing is key and that the internet has something to do with it. Soulja Boy’s instructional dance video for “Crank That” is the most watched viral entertainment online, but is now vying against Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” for that spot. I think that only in the age of the internet, when anyone can be a star on YouTube, could the “King of Pop” have to compete with the jesters of that genre.