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‘GHOST RIDE THE WHIP’ TURNS DEADLY: Bay Area hip hop pastime leads to two dead.
*It was only a matter of time before reports like these would surface in connection with “ghost riding the whip,” the current rage among devotees of the Bay Area’s “hyphy” hip hop movement and all of its wannabes across the nation.
At least two people have been killed while ghost riding, a fad that involves a driver exiting his car and dancing around and on top of the vehicle as it slowly moves down the street.
In early December, 18-year-old ghost-rider Davender Gulley died after his head slammed into a parked car while he was hanging out the window of an SUV in Stockton, police said. In October, a 36-year-old man dancing on top of a moving car fell off, hit his head and died in what authorities said was Canada's first ghost riding fatality.
"It did not take Einstein to look at this thing and say this was a recipe for disaster," said Pete Smith, a police spokesman in Stockton. "We could see the potential for great injury or death."
The stunt, which has also led to numerous minor injuries, includes the blasting of hyphy music through the car radio – such as E-40’s “Tell Me When to Go.” Another single, "Ghostride It," by Oakland rapper Mistah F.A.B., offers a step-by-step guide to the phenomenon: "Pull up. Hop out, all in one motion. Dancing on the hood, while the car still rollin'."
The practice has been popularized in dozens of homemade videos posted on YouTube.
Man Ghost Rides the Whip
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