Walking means something. It is not just a step pattern. It is a declaration, a way of holding down Blackness, neighborhood, lineage and the people.
As Big Chief Shaka Zulu explained, when drum machine, lyric, rhythm, and movement lock in, dancers enter trance.
The brilliance of Ryan Coogler's Sinners Surreal Montage is it doesn't treat Black music as a straight line, but rather as a circle.
The Surreal Montage sequence in "Sinners" doesn’t move like a history lesson; it moves the way memory does, vivid, out of order, alive.