And forget about game, I'ma spit the truth (What)
I won't stop 'til I get 'em in they birthday suit (Yeah)
So gimme the rhythm and it'll be off with they clothes
Then bend over to the front and touch your toes USHER (Ft. Lil Jon & Ludacris) – Yeah!
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Oh snap! If you go back and read the lyrics, if you replace “girl” with “rap” and “she” and “her” with “it” and “its”, everything falls into place. A real Keyser Soze moment!
Common speaks about when his roommate heard the track:
My roommate Rassan was in the studio while I was recording the song. I can see him from the booth, he’s sitting there shaking his head, sipping, and frowning as I’m doing it. He thought I was talking to a woman. I got to the last line, ‘Who I’m talking ’bout, y’all? It’s hip-hop,’ and soon as I said it, he threw his hands up and was grabbing his head like, ‘Oh, shit! I can’t believe this!’
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Some sexy wordplay right here. Luda’s friend will “hold the head steady”, (get some head), while Luda does whatever with the woman’s version of utters. While Luda wants her naked in her birthday suit, he wants the body like it’s his birthday.
Even when you think Luda stops with a quick dance instruction, it conveniently shifts girls to the “doggystyle” sex position.
Fun Fact: Like Usher, Luda also mentions “Get Low” by Lil John & The Eastside Boyz, borrowing a bar from the track. So it’s no surprise, that we can hear Lil Jon rapping this line with him.
Ludacris is suggesting that he wants the woman to hold her head still while he has a sexual release on her face
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“And forget about game, I’ma spit the truth (what?)”
Game
“It’s CONFIDENTLY using your attributes, characteristics, and overall personality to win the
affection of the woman you want.”
Instead of using Game to his advantage he just speaks the truth because he doesn’t even have to use Game(also often referred to as “men’s equivalent to makeup.”)
And the adlibs “What?” Fit perfectly because it’s the equivalent to women trying to get men without makeup
Women use make up to get men and men use Game to get women but he doesn’t have to. Perhaps his sexual market value is so high.
I think he is actually saying if the woman holds the head (of his penis) steady (in her mouth) he will “milk the cow” (masturbate into her mouth).
If you hold the head steady, I’m gonna milk the cow, refers to a woman giving a man head and holding her head still while the man moves his member in and out until he climaxes, and “milks the cow”