Crip Walk

The Crip Walk, also known as the C-Walk, is a dance move that originated in the early 1970s by Crip gang members from the South Central Los Angeles area, and has since spread worldwide. The dance is primarily an act of performing quick and intricate footwork.

History

The rivalry between the Crips and the Bloods spilled over into the world of entertainment, with the adoption of the gang dance by various rappers on the West Coast of the United States, who gave it its name, the Crip Walk. This dance involves the movement of one's feet, classically to the spelling of C-R-I-P (refer C Walk). It was used by Crips at parties to display affiliation, particularly vis-a-vis rival gang the Bloods. It was also used after killing someone to give the kill a Crip signature. MTV declined to broadcast any music videos that contained the Crip Walk. The Crip Walk originated in the 1970s in Compton, a suburb of Los Angeles, California. The Crip walk is often referred to throughout many rap songs, including Xzibit tracks such as "Get Your Walk On" and J-kwon's "Hood Hop". The C-Walk was originally a symbolic dance strictly for Crip gang members in the early 1980s in South Central Los Angeles, however by the early 1990s the dance had evolved into a popular hip-hop dance. Today the dance is known to many as the "Clown Walk". The dance was originally used by Crip members to spell out their names and other Crip symbols. Gang members would often spell out the word "Bloods", the name of their rival gang, before crossing it out with a nimble movement of the feet. It is believed that the Crip Walk was used as a signal to initiate robberies – a lookout would scout out a location while other crip members watched and waited for the C-Walk to signal that the coast is clear. It is also believed that the Crip Walk was performed soon after the slaying of a rival gang member.

Walking

Walking (also known as ambulation) is one of the main gaits of locomotion among legged animals, and is typically slower than running and other gaits. Walking is defined by an 'inverted pendulum' gait in which the body vaults over the stiff limb or limbs with each step. This applies regardless of the number of limbs - even arthropods, with six, eight or more limbs, walk.

In the United Kingdom and Ireland, the term walking includes activities such as walking in a park and trekking in the Alps. However, in Canada and the United States the term for a long, vigorous walk is hiking, while the word walking covers shorter walks, especially in an urban setting.

Difference from running

Walk (album)

Walk is the first album by the American singer-songwriter Andrew Peterson, released in 1996.

Track listing

All songs by Andrew Peterson.

Walk (EP)

Texas heavy metal band Pantera released a number of EPs for the song "Walk" in 1993.

Walk (EP)

Walk (EP) is an EP by the Texas heavy metal band Pantera. It was released in Japan only, in 1993 by Atco Records. On May 16, 2012, the EP was made available to purchase digitally in the United States for the first time.

Album information

This EP contains 6 songs. The first 4 are remixes from the Vulgar Display of Power album, while the last 2 are live tracks from Cowboys from Hell.

Based purely on length, this recording is considered an EP. There are also the parallel releases Walk Biomechanical and Walk Cervical, which are singles, not EPs, owing to their total length.

While this was only a Japanese release, it was also released as Disc 3 in the Driven Downunder Tour '94 Souvenir Collection box set which was released in 1994.

Track listing

All songs written and composed by Pantera. 

Walk Biomechanical

Walk Biomechanical is an EP by the Texas heavy metal band Pantera. It was released in 1993 by Atco Records.