Schnipper’s Slept On
- story THE FADER
Each Tuesday, FADER editor Matthew Schnipper highlights an underappreciated recent release he thinks we need to know about. This week it’s Gangsta Boo’s Can I Get Paid (Get Your Broke Ass Out)—Strippers’ Anthem. Listen to the song below and read about it after the jump.
Here are the lyrics to this song’s first verse:
Why you up in the club wit no money, trying to see a little ass
Motherfucker give me somethin’ to see me twerk
Make my butt cheeks clap to the beat
Give ya girl a nice fee I take ya to the VIP
We can shake, smoke, and roll, out of control
Oops I feel ya hard, licking in ya ear
Ya hear me moaning for it, taking charge
If ya be the broke ones, you can leave the fucking club
If ya be the baller spending money show a lady love
See you at the bar looking at another n- dance (ooh-wee!)
Hell naw boy! Get ya own dance
DJ play my song, Where dem dollars at by Gangsta Boo
Plus another southern diva, Mia X, is coming too
We don’t like them boys who be all up in our face, brah
We don’t like them boys who ain’t spending no money, brah
We ain’t got no time for y’all muthafucking broke ass n—-s in the club
If ya ain’t tipping get the fuck out, bitch
I’m also going to tell you these things:
-I was one credit away from a women’s studies minor and it killed me
-I like rap
-This song is titled like an academic paper
-These things are pink on the cover: Gangsta Boo’s stretch pants, Gangsta Boo’s bejeweled bandana, Gangsta Boo’s shadow, the background
-DJ Paul and Juicy J produced the beat
What would Gangsta Boo say to Gayatri Spivak
What would Gayatri Spivak say to Gangsta Boo
Have they heard of each other
This is the space Gangsta Boo lives in, that I do, the immutable and movable text. I saw this movie Starting Out in the Evening this weekend (by myself, by far the youngest person in the theater. By far the youngest person to have seen this movie, unless Frank Langella has any grandchildren he brought to the premiere.) Halfway through, and not entirely necessary to the story but not entirely unnecessary, a magazine editor says about a made up school of New York intellectuals that she never got interested in them because she thought they were “a bunch of white guys in suits going to bed early.” I don’t even own a suit and I’m Jewish (I know, not a race) but I do sleep a lot. Can a dude listen to this song without thinking of it as a post-feminist expression? And if not, can it still be good? Either way, she is talking about Mia X coming to the strip club and who doesn’t love Three-6 throwaway beats? I still have a Lil Wyte record and that’s definitely not going up here. Someone’s ineffable and it’s not me!
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- posted on Dec 11, 2007 in SLEPT ON
- tags Gangsta Boo, hip hop
