Get Low (Lil Jon & the East Side Boyz song)

"Get Low" is a song by American rap group Lil Jon & the East Side Boyz, featuring American hip hop duo Ying Yang Twins, released as a single in 2003. It first appeared on the 2002 album Kings of Crunk. "Get Low" peaked at number two on the Billboard Hot 100 and number 20 on the Hot Digital Songs chart. It was number five on the top Hot R&B/Hip-Hop songs of 2003. Outside of the United States, "Get Low" peaked within the top ten of the charts in the United Kingdom, the top twenty of the charts in Germany and the top forty of the charts in Australia, Austria, and New Zealand. It is also known as a breakthrough song for the crunk genre, as the song's success helped it become mainstream. It is listed number 99 on VH1's 100 Greatest Songs of Hip-Hop.^[1]

"Get Low"
Single by Lil Jon & the East Side Boyz featuring Ying Yang Twins
from the album Kings of Crunk
B-side	"Lovers and Friends"
Released	February 18, 2003
Recorded	2002
Genre	Southern hip hop dirty rap crunk
Length	5:34 (album version) 4:31 (radio edit)
Label	TVT
Songwriter(s)	Deongelo Holmes Eric Jackson Jonathan Smith
Producer(s)	Lil Jon
Lil Jon & the East Side Boyz singles chronology
"Get Low" (2003) "Damn!" (2003)
Ying Yang Twins singles chronology
"Twurkulator Part II" (2003) "Get Low" (2003) "Naggin'" (2003)

History

Three different radio edits of "Get Low" have been released. One had amended lyrics (i.e. "take that thang to the floor, you skank, you skank"), while the other two bleeped out certain profanities. Of the two bleep censored versions, one version left the word "goddamn" intact while the other censored the word. Also, in the chorus (the clean version), the word "skeet" is said six times in the original place of "motherfucker" and the word "goddamn" is shortened to "got". The song vulgarly popularized the word "skeet" in African-American Vernacular English (to ejaculate).

The Ying Yang Twins used their lines from the song later in their song "Hanh!" from the album Me & My Brother, and in the remix of Pitbull's song "Bojangles". In addition, the line "bend over to the front and touch your toes" was reused in Usher's 2004 song "Yeah!", on which Lil Jon and Ludacris provided the rap vocals.

A version of the song, highly edited due to its subject matter and use of profanity, was featured on the Need for Speed: Underground soundtrack. A less-edited version was featured 9 years later on the Kinect game Dance Central 3. This song was also a playable track in the video game Def Jam Rapstar. The uncensored version appears in the Xbox 360 video game Def Jam: Icon. Lil Jon (without the East Side Boyz) appears in the video game as a playable character providing his own voice and likeness.

This song was also featured in the movies White Chicks, Coach Carter, Red, White & Royal Blue and The Proposal, where Sandra Bullock's character raps it. An abbreviated version of the song appeared in “The Mattress”, a season 3 episode of the scripted comedy series Brooklyn Nine-Nine. The song also makes an appearance in “Virtual In-Stanity”, a season 7 episode of the animated comedy series American Dad!, in which Stan Smith can be seen twerking to the song.

Remixes

Two official remixes were released in the EP Part II by Lil Jon & The East Side Boyz.

• Remix – featuring Elephant Man and Busta Rhymes (also released as a single)
• Merengue Remix – featuring vocals by Pitbull
• A mix of the song is featured as a blazing song in the video game Def Jam: Fight for NY
• Also in the video game Def Jam: Icon
• FreeStyleGames included a mix of the song with 50 Cent's In Da Club in the game DJ Hero 2.
• Became an unofficial main theme in the fan community Need for Speed: Underground.

Chart positions

Weekly charts Chart (2003–2005) Peak position Australia (ARIA)[2] 23 Australian Urban (ARIA)[3] 7 Austria (Ö3 Austria Top 40)[4] 21 Germany (Official German Charts)[5] 11 Ireland (IRMA)[6] with "Lovers and Friends" 22 New Zealand (Recorded Music NZ)[7] 28 Scotland (OCC)[8] with "Lovers and Friends" 21 Switzerland (Schweizer Hitparade)[9] 44 UK Singles (OCC)[10] with "Lovers and Friends" 10 UK Hip Hop/R&B (OCC)[11] with "Lovers and Friends" 4 UK Indie (OCC)[12] with "Lovers and Friends" 2 US Billboard Hot 100[13] 2 US Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs (Billboard)[14] 2 US Hot Rap Songs (Billboard)[15] 1 US Pop Airplay (Billboard)[16] 10 US Rhythmic (Billboard)[17] 2

Year-end charts Chart (2003) Position US Billboard Hot 100[18] 11 US Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs (Billboard)[19] 5 Chart (2004) Position Germany (Official German Charts)[20] 50 US Billboard Hot 100[21] 70 US Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs (Billboard)[22] 67 Chart (2005) Position UK Singles (Official Charts Company)[23] 189 Decade-end charts Chart (2000–2009) Position US Billboard Hot 100[24] 70

Certifications

Region	Certification	Certified units/sales
United Kingdom (BPI)[25]	Gold	400,000‡
‡ Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone.

References

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