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‘I’m swaggin’, I’m surfin’: the staying power of the sports anthem loved by Obama, Beyoncé and Taylor Swift
Fifteen years after the release of Swag Surfin’, Fast Life Yungstaz are embracing the moment: ‘It’s hard not to move when it comes on’
The rap song, a jock jam du jour that is likely to receive plenty of airplay on Super Bowl Sunday, starts off slow and brassy – but once the beat dropped, a rave kicked off that had the 71,492 in attendance swaying and lunging in unison. It is a success story of an earlier technological age, one that launched on the periphery of Atlanta’s hip-hop music scene in Stone Mountain, Georgia – the suburb best known for its Mount Rushmore-rivaling Confederate monument. Mook shouts out Kansas City’s linebacker Willie Gay for hounding the Chiefs events staff to play Swag Surfin’ in their regular-season finale to fuel their championship campaign.
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