You have to sway, forwards and backwards, with a controlled hip movement, while your shoulders stay level and your feet glide along the floor.
I suppose I always felt these motions are somehow obscene. "The hardest thing to learn is the pelvic motion. Here's a description written in 1939 by a middle-class white man who went into a Black neighborhood in Philadelphia to try to learn the jitterbug: And giving suburban kids a new form of rebellion. "Freaking"-a dance form which, it should clearly be acknowledged, is popular across races-has caused a lot of alarm for parental types in the 21st century.īut back in the inter-war era, it was the jitterbug, a dance that originated in Black parts of Philadelphia, that was giving parents alarm. No one ever knows for sure with the Abstract Poet-that's Q-Tip's nickname-but it sure is a cool line. It could also be a double entendre suggesting that A Tribe Called Quest are the new funk police, "the fuzz" of Afrocentric music. "Funk fuzz" probably refers to that form of distortion used in funk music that involves a "fuzzbox," an old-school instrument that creates a heavy, fuzzy sound, so distorted you almost can't hear the notes. "Wipe your feet on the rhythm rug" might be an innocent metaphor for dancing or just a fun figure of speech, but it also suggests that the people being addressed are trampling their musical predecessors, wiping their muddy feet on the rhythms of the past. Over the years, many Black artists have pointed out the origins of rock and roll in Black communities and bemoaned the fact that by the 1960s, all the most popular rockers were white, with Black artists re-segregated into the broad "R&B" category. In these lines, Q-Tip invokes rock and roll, the prodigal son of the blues that became a major site for white artists to imitate styles and beats that originated in Black communities. Head on down the highway and kick it into gear."Can I Kick It?" is shaped around a mixing of samples from funk, soul, and rock and roll records from the 1970s, beginning and ending with a recognizable sample from Lou Reed's "Walk on the Wild Side." A Tribe Called Quest uses samples and wordplay to poke fun at Reed's appropriation of African-American music and culture. I hear your motor runnin', it's about to explode Put the heavy to the metal and grab onto the road. It's the ride, ride, ride ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh well it ain't the destination Sometimes you just got to kick it into gear. That's the only way you're gonna get on out of here Get up on the highway and kick it into gear. The rest of your life is gonna find you here Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh well keep your asphalt under sunny side up Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh and you're tired spinning your wheels on When your grip keeps slippin' and your clutch is gone Sometimes you just got to kick it into gear
It is also available on The Country Bears Soundtrack and Radio Disney. " Kick It Into Gear" is a song performed by Jennifer Paige in Disney's 2002 movie, The Country Bears.
The Original "Kick It Into Gear" song by the Country Bears
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