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  After Baauer's 'Harlem Shake' Goes Viral, Two Sampled Artists Go Unpaid

  March 12, 2013 – The rise of Baauer's "Harlem Shake" began innocently (albeit annoyingly) enough, but the consequences of a gazillion plebes going totally ham to that trap-rave track are becoming increasingly severe. A 17-year-old was arrested, Azealia Banks dropped the F-bomb again, and a group of Australian miners were fired after filming their own version of the dance craze underground. …
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  'Harlem Shake' Miners Fired After Underground Video Surfaces

  March 4, 2013 – All right, Baauer's "Harlem Shake" is getting out of hand now. …
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  'Harlem Shake' Like an Egyptian: Viral Craze Ruffles Authorities Worldwide

  March 1, 2013 – Freedom, it's easy to forget, includes being able to act really silly for no good reason. The Beatles, for instance, were still in their innocent, "Can't Buy Me Love" phase when the authorities in the Soviet Union started banning them. …
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  'Harlem Shake' High Schooler Arrested for Starting Flash Mob

  February 22, 2013 – The "Harlem Shake" viral video phenomenon almost had its first martyr in a 17-year-old high school senior from Queens. …
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  Baauer's 'Harlem Shake': Gentrification Goes Viral

  February 19, 2013 – Baauer's "Harlem Shake," that squeaky, wubby trap-dance instrumental that has, over the past few weeks, gone full-on viral thanks to endless videos of people dancing to the song, is a moderately interesting slab of post-drop dubstep or EDM. But the Harlem Shake is already a dance. A once-popular and very loaded dance, at that. A few decades old, it rose to the mainstream in 2001 thanks to Harlem rapper G. …
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