Throw your hands in the air and wave them like you just don't care

"Throw your hands in the air and wave them like you just don't care" is a phrase commonly used in hip-hop as an expression of finding release in music and the joviality that comes with it.
According to pop culture historian Vanessa Oswald,Oswald, Vanessa. Hip-Hop: A Cultural and Musical Revolution, page 18, Lucent Books, 2018 the phrase originated from the role an MC played during hip-hop gatherings in the 1970s. An MC (master of ceremonies) accompanied a DJ to support their live mixing and record playing by encouraging the crowd to engage in festivities with call-and-response phrases such as "Everybody say hey!"
Although the phrase went on to be used in the lyrics of many subsequent songs — among them, "Rapper's Delight" and "The Roof Is on Fire" by Rock Master Scott & the Dynamic Three — the phrase had been used in music as early as the 1971 Aretha Franklin song "Rock Steady" in which the chorus sings, "Put your hands up in the air / Got a feelin' you ain't got a care"; a different phrasing that uses the same sentiment.
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* The phrase is used in "Kermit and the Three Golden Nose Hairs" from Muppets Meet the Classics: Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm to describe Kermit the Frog's response to taking a letter to the Queen: "Kermit threw his arms in the air and waved them like he just didn't care." This is a reference to Kermit's penchant for wildly flailing his arms above his head, most often while shouting "Yaaay!" such as when he would introduce an act on The Muppet Show.
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