Twerking has been cancelled, according to Meek Mill.
Some inspired individual decided to put together the words “twist” and “jerk” as “twerk” to describe the bouncing dance move that has its origins in Jamaica. Although the booty-hopping was popular in the islands and New Orleans decades ago, Miley Cyrus’s performance at the 2013 MTV Video Awards set the internet alight and since then twerking seems to make an appearance in almost every hip-hop music video.
But Meek Mill ain’t having any of it.
“Twerking is like a guy with big stacks of money hanging out his pocket so everybody can see lol I tired of seeing all that sh*t lol,” he wrote on Twitter Thursday. “Y’all burnt twerking out.”
You’d be forgiven for feeling that Meek spends a little too much time on Twitter. Just this week he declared another cancellation — that of wack music. “This year wack music will perish,” he wrote to his 9.3 million followers.
Should we hold a funeral for wack music? And will twerking be permitted at the ceremony?