About
Ghost Riding is term used in “hyphy” culture that refers to the practice of dancing alongside, or on top of, a moving automobile. The car will usually be coasting in neutral gear while the participants are outside and loud music is playing from the moving vehicle.
Origin
Ghost Riding, or “Ghost-Riding The Whip” first became popular with E-40’s 2005 hit “Tell Me When To Go”(shown below, right) , and Mistah FAB’s “Ghost Ride It”, released in 2008 (shown below, left).
Ghost Riding may have first been inspired by the 1985 Michael J. Fox comedy Teen Wolf, in which a character does various tricks on top of a van with no driver.
Spread
There have been many ghost riding parodies on YouTube, generally used with the “Ghost Ride It” Mistah Fab audio track.A video of a group of people ghost riding a school bus titled “GHOSTRIDE IT” was uploaded to YouTube on December 18th, 2006. The video has since gained over 3 million views in under ten years.
On July 15th, 2007, a video of two elderly people Ghost Riding titled “Ghost Ridin’ Grandma” was uploaded to YouTube (shown below, left). In under 9 years the video has gained over 3 million views. The video was later posted to the Reddit subreddit /r/videos where it gained 1,339 points (80% upvoted) before being archived.[1]
Various Examples
Search Interest
External References
[1]Reddit – We could ghost ride it!