jerkin'

Jerkin' or Jerk is a street dance culture and hip hop subgenre originating in urban California in the late 2000s. It gained mainstream popularity outside of California by Inland Empire-based groups New Boyz and Audio Push, and has origins in the Los Angeles metropolitan area. Since breaking into the mainstream in 2009, jerkin' gained fans along the West Coast, East Coast, and in Europe, notably France and Germany, although it was heavily derided in the Southern United States. During the early 2020s, the original jerk rap scene inspired a microgenre simply known as "jerk", which was spearheaded by New York rapper Xaviersobased alongside his collective 1c34, and Californian producer kashpaint. They reimagined the sound of jerk rap with contemporaneous influences.¶

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jerkin' is type of dance emerged in the late 2000s, according to the structured record cited below. This entry was generated automatically from that record and has not yet been reviewed by a person familiar with the tradition.¹¶

The source record links this tradition to 1 external register, which can be verified through the citation.¹¶