There was some perfunctory chest-puffing, a couple of other songs to get out of the way, but he, his crew and the 15,000 or so in attendance all understood they were there for one thing. So it was not a surprise when, about midway through Powerhouse, the annual concert presented by the hip-hop station Power 105 at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn on Thursday night, Bobby Shmurda literally ran onstage, his crew trailing him, and took in the hugeness of the moment. The clip was captioned “#Shmoneydance.” It’s since been watched more than four million times. In it, Bobby Shmurda takes his baseball cap and tosses it in the air - it never lands - and segues into a hard sashay, a tough guy having a great time. In June, someone distilled the video down to its pure essence in the form of a six-second Vine video. It’s bare-bones hip-hop, full of charismatic menace, street anxiety and just the faintest dash of Caribbean flair. “Hot Boy” (that’s the clean version of the title, anyhow) - began life early this year as a little-watched video in which Bobby Shmurda and his friends - “grimy shooters dressed in G-Star” - ran rowdy on the streets of Brooklyn. ![]() Let’s stop for a moment and think about how remarkable that is. 8 song in the country, according to Billboard. ![]() “Hot Boy,” by Bobby Shmurda, is currently the No.
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