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Can’t let this one slide! ??♂️?. #JamesGang? #Toosieslide @champagnepapi
GQ explained:
Toosie is a 23-year-old from Atlanta whose real name is Daquan. If you listen to hip-hop, like to dance, or like to watch people dance to hip-hop, you’ve probably come across one of his videos. He got his start in high school, posting Nae Nae routines on Instagram that immediately blew up. Six years later, he’s linked with Future, Rae Sremmurd, 2 Chainz, Tory Lanez, Migos, Lil Wayne, Diddy, Playboy Carti, Usher, and yes, Drake. There’s more, too. Those are just the names he could remember off the top of his head.
The “Toosie Slide,” he says, was created in 45 minutes about a month ago. On that fateful day, Toosie was chilling at home with his friends/fellow dancers Hiii Key, Ayo, and Teo, when, naturally, Drake sent him a DM. “He had a record idea and needed me to come up with a dance to it,” Toosie says. The attached song wasn’t finished yet—only the hook, which conveniently includes a series of straightforward dance moves: “Right foot up, left foot, slide / Left foot up, right foot, slide.”Toosie and his crew got to work. “Everybody was contributing little moves, and slowly but surely, we started piecing it together,” he says. They recorded themselves performing what they came up with, a clip that went viral in late March when it was posted publicly—with Drake’s sign-off—on TikTok and Instagram. When Drake first saw the dance snippet roughly a month ago, “he fell in love with it,” Toosie says. “He was like, ‘Y’all are the greatest, man. This is it!”’ He too gives the “Toosie Slide” his best shot in the official music video for the track.
