Many-but by no means all-contemporary [post-1960s to pick an arbitrary date]African American girls' rhymes, celebrate the twin virtues of toughness [meaning "in-your-face attitude"] and sexiness.

It's my view that this ghetto tough & sexy flava that permeates many Black American children's rhymes [including handclap rhymes] is greatly influencing rhymes that are recited and performed by children of other races and ethnicities and nationalities.

Here's an example of a tough & sexy attitude children's rhyme from African American girls {ages 5-12 years Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania area, mid 1980s*

HULA HULA
Group                Hula Hula, who think they bad.
Soloist #1        I do.
Group                 Hula Hula, who think they bad.
Soloist #1         I do.
Group                 Ool! You think you bad. {She thinks she bad.}
Soloist #1        Correction, Baby, I know I'm bad.
Group        Ool!         You think you smart.
Soloist #1        Smart enough to break your heart.
Group                Ool, you think you tuff?
Soloist#1        Tuff enough to strut my stuff.
                Cause when I twist
                like this.{Soloist does a hip shaking dance}
                the boys cannot resist.
                And when I turn
                I burn
                and break down like a worm.
{Soloist briefly performs a hip shaking movement or does some other "sexy" dance step}

{Repeat the entire chant with the next soloist until everyone has had one turn as soloist.}

Actually, this example is not a handclap rhyme-at least not the traditional form of handclap rhymes. "Hula Hulaas onc as hai, but a foot stomping cheer. Foot stomping cheers are synchronized, syncopated routines that [usually] girls perform while chanting in a modified response & call pattern while producing bass sounding foot stomps, hand claps [clapping [their own] hands, and, sometimes, slapping their bodies in pattin juba like ways.

*I have found this cheer in Texas, Georgia, and New York in the 1989s. This cheer does not appear to be known among that age group of African American girls in Pittsburgh area in the early 2000s.