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"Chicken Noodle Soup"
Song

"Chicken Noodle Soup" is a song by DJ Webstar featuring Young B and The Voice of Harlem. It has an associated dance as well.

Chicken Noodle Soup song

The song is characterized by a low bass/pounding club beat accompanied by an air raid siren, and a young girl (Young B) delivering non-sequiturs like "I let it rain, I clear it out. I let it rain, I clear it out..." and "Chicken noodle soup, chicken noodle soup, chicken noodle soup with a soda on the side."

It is similar to many food-related hip-hop dance songs such as "Milkshake" by Kelis and "Peanut Butter Jelly Time" by the Buckwheat Boys, both with associated dances.

Chicken Noodle Soup dance

The Chicken Noodle Soup is a dance that inspired the hip-hop club hit "Chicken Noodle Soup" perfomed by DJ Webstar, Young B, and The Voice Of Harlem, currently the song has peaked at #45 on the Billboard Hot 100 trajectory and was released in Summer 2006. Originating in Harlem, the dance has been embraced as a new symbol of the local scene that distinguishes New York from other regions whose urban musical subgenres have captured national attention in recent years, such as Atlanta's Crunk, Walk It Out and Snap, New Orleans' Bounce music, Oakland's Hyphy, Media:Chicago's Footwork or California's Krumpin and C-Walk, Philadelphia's Wu-tang, New Jersey's Crazy Legs and its variations. Awareness of the dance spread like wildfire during the summer of 2006 thanks to websites such as YouTube, which hosted numerous videos of people dancing the Chicken Noodle Soup. Blogs that linked to these videos helped turn this dance into an internet phenomenon.

The basic dance features exaggerated shuffling, arm swinging, and a pantomime of the song's lyrics. Detractors have derided the whole Chicken Noodle Soup phenomenon as irritating and corny. Some have even claimed the dance is racist, as its motions bear some resemblace to those commonly performed in minstrel shows. The Chicken Noodle Soup is a development from other New York-based street dances like the popular Toe Wop and The Harlem shake. On December 16, 2006 episode of Saturday Night Live, Justin Timberlake performed the dance in drag, accompanied by Kenan Thompson (also in drag).

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See also

  • Another version
  • "Is Chicken Noodle Soup Really All that Bad?" Article at blackademics.org.[1]

Chicken Noodle Soup News, Videos & Information on Chicken Noodle Soup Blog

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