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Fans twerk to BM's #breakyourbackchallenge off his new track "OO YEAH aka YOURFAVORITETWERKSONG"

By Nefertiti Jenkins

The latest song to get you twerking, comes from Korean-American rapper BM (of KARD). Big Mattheww uploaded his self-produced track "OO YEAH aka YOURFAVORITETWERKSONG," to SoundCloud on January 30th.

On January 31st, after dancing to the song himself on V LIVE, BM issued the challenge saying in a tweet, that everyone on V LIVE told him to start it. Since then, he's gotten dozens of responses from fans on Twitter, including a video he posted to Instagram, of three young ladies twerking around an apartment/home, to his song. 

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