"Just wave your hands in the aierah, and wave them like you just don't carerah" It seems like every rapper out there uses this when on stage, to get the crowd pumped up, but I am one to find it very annoying. Give us something new.

I thought they stopped doing that five years ago

I believe it was Lawrence Welk.

What singer first said "are you ready to rock?" or "sing with me.... i can't hear you!"

there are just some staples of live music that are eternal

who's the first fan to turn on a lighter during a ballad?

who was the first slut to throw a bra or panties onstage?

I think it was New Kids on the Block... Hanging tough?

I'm guessing it was you during Def Leppard's "Love Bites"

maybe it was someone at a Tom Jones concert.

Yes, every rapper since the Sugar Hill Gang has kept up this amazing 20+ year trend.

That was the sh-t back in the day

"Rock the party all night long,
until the break of dawn/early morn"

i'm pretty sure it was MC Baby Daddy

"wave your hands in the air
and wave them as if there are no repercussions" - Kenny Mayne

It was MC Scott LaRock in the song "the roof is on fire"

The first time I heard the "wave your hands..." pronounced in the "wave your hands in the ay-yer, and wave 'em like you just don't cay-yer" way was in Outkast's ATLiens. That was around 1996.

Hello Cleveland!!!

It goes back to at least 1992, when Snoop Dogg (known as Snoop Doggy Dogg then) said it in "What's My Name." That was the first time I heard it. He phrased it a little differently in the uncensored version though.

At that time the phrase was probably 8 years old... Trying to forget who exactly said it first, but I would bet on members of the Sugar Hill Gang.

"Now throw yo' hands in the ay-yer,
And wave 'em like you just don't cay-yer,
And if ya like fish & grits and all the pimp s***,
Everybody let me hear ya say o-yay-er"

The only time I've ever liked the line actually.

Great album.

reminds me of the episode of my wife and kids. damon wayans complaining about how rappers keep telling the audience to do stuff. "shoot i apid for my ticket you wave your hands and sing the song!"

Shouldn't this be..

Rockstar: "Hello <insert name of town concert is in.> Are you ready to rock? I can't hear you.. are you ready to rock? We just came to the <insert name of venue> by way of <insert name of local major freeway."

Some rapper circa 1998 tried

"Pull ya pants past ya rump"
"Now let me see ya take a dump"

But it didn't go over to well, so ever since then they've stuck with the hands one.

I wasn't a rapper, it was Jesus - the linquistics have just changed a little.