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Bill Gates does the dab, trends on Twitter

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World’s richest man, Bill Gates is not just about Microsoft, software or philanthropy. He can be a hit too with hip-hop culture, like he did last week when he visited Delaware State University and Johnson Smith University, colleges not in the Ivy League of Harvard, which Gates attended or Yale or Princeton.

But the world’s richest man had a takeaway from the students: a touch of dab, a dance style that dominated in 2015 in the United States. Dab dance is about touching your face or your body. Gates himself acknowledged he learnt something from the students outside academics.

Read Gates notes on the students: Gates Notes

And here is the dabb done by NBA star  Lebron James and others:

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