"Ghost riding the whip" and "hyphy"

[William Salmon]

And a YouTube clip of "Ghost riding gone wrong":

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ag370nHDZis

Quoting Bapopik at AOL.COM:

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> A very dumb new word (consider for 2006 WOTY)....The Wikipedia was recently
> changed on this entry.
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> _http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-0612300060dec30,1,3498620.
> story?coll=chi-newsnationworld-hed_
> (http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-0612300060dec30,1,3498620.story?coll=chi-newsnationworld-hed)
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> Hip-hop's dangerous dance
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> By Garance  Burke
> Associated Press
> Published December 30, 2006
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> MODESTO, Calif. -- An increasingly popular car stunt has killed  at least two
> people, led to numerous injuries and alarmed police on the West  Coast and
> beyond.
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> "Ghost riding the whip" is a stunt in which the driver  gets out of his car
> and dances around and on top of the slowly moving vehicle to  a hip-hop beat.
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> A fad among devotees of a West Coast strain of hip-hop music called  "hyphy,"
> the stunt has been celebrated in song and performed in numerous  homemade
> videos posted on YouTube.
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> _http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghostriding_
> (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghostriding)
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> To ghost ride, frequently used in the context of "ghost riding  the whip" (a
> "whip" being a vehicle) or simply ghostin', is when the  driver and/or
> passengers of a vehicle exit while it is still rolling and dance
> beside it or _on
> the hood or roof_ (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Car_surfing) ._[1]_
> (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghostriding#_note-0)  Ghost  riding is
> one of the latest
> trends to be popularized by _Hyphy culture_
> (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyphy)
> , which originated in  the _Bay Area_
> (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco_Bay_Area)  of
> California. The act is one of the highest forms of "going
> dumb" and a  representation of the style of _Hyphy_
> (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyphy) . The term "ghost ride the
> whip" was given nationwide exposure in
> _E-40_ (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-40) 's _2006_
> (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006)  song _Tell Me When to  Go_
> (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tell_Me_When_to_Go) . However, E-40 was
> not the first to use this term, as it was coined
> much earlier by other Bay Area rappers such as _Mac Dre_
> (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac_Dre) .[_citation needed_
> (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citing_sources) ]
> Ghost riding as a term also has a history in motorcross and stunt cycling.
> The rider typically jumps off the back of the bike then runs after it
> and jumps
> back on.[
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~Will Salmon

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