# @wmar2news on Instagram

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- **Posted:** 2023-02-25T12:23:04.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** WMAR-2 News (@WMAR2News) — https://gondola.cc/WMAR2News

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“It’s very important for people to see that it is some positivity that goes on in Baltimore.” ♥️🙌

It’s the strut that captured the world. The fancy footwork that got its first steps in Charm City. It’s most widely known as the “Park Heights Strut” but since the neighborhood two-step started more than two decades ago, it’s been called a few names.

Childhood friends and Baltimore dance group, the “Top Tier Shiners” are a big reason why the dance skyrocketed on social media along with Rodney “Bunkey” Snead Jr. and the “TSU Dance Crew.”

When Bunkey Jr. thinks about how far the dance has come from decades ago, he can’t help but feel a sense of pride for his hometown and specifically his neighborhood.

“Everybody always talks about the bad things [but] we got something good to talk about for life,” Bunkey said. “This is legendary. They’ll never forget.”

Domonic “Lor Donnie” Blue, Avery “Ave” Walker, Gerald “Geeski” Gardner III and Anthony “TTS Moe” Dias of the Top Tier Shiners remember the moments before the dance blew up.

“One day we’re coming out of a party and then something just said, ‘let’s do a TikTok,” Donnie said. “The first time we do a TikTok it goes viral.”

Before the TTS crew took it viral on TikTok, many around the city associated the dance with Bunkey Jr. who had become known as “The Strut King.” He added a few moves to put his own twist on it and then it became the “Bunkey Jr. Strut.”

Then TTS added some moves of their own, including the idea of tagging people in, so groups of people could do the dance together.

Since then, people all around the world have picked up on the dance.

Click the link in our bio to read the full story 🙌

SPECIAL THANKS TO:
@Bunkey_jr2_strutking
@tsu_flash
@tsu_terry
@tsu_dancecrew
@unrulyrecords410
@ayo_shaggs
 @toptiershiners_ 

MUSIC CREDITS:
@bossmanthegod
2 Step Strut
Bossman feat. Bunkey Jr. Strut King
Produced by Rod Lee
Unruly Records 2023
 
@djdizzy__ 
 Return of the Mack Baltimore Remix

#parkheightsstrut #baltimore #ROTMChallenge #letsgetbusy #bunkeyjrstrut
#tsudancecrew #baltimorestrut #baltimoredance #dance #viraldance #strut
#blackhistorymonth #positivity

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dance, blackhistorymonth, baltimore, rotmchallenge, parkheightsstrut, baltimoredance, positivity, tsudancecrew, baltimorestrut, viraldance, bunkeyjrstrut, strut, letsgetbusy

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