Take It Down Low
by Akon

Album: Stadium (2011)
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Songfacts®:

  • This bass-heavy dance number is a single by Hip Hop/R&B singer and rapper Akon, from his fourth studio album Stadium. Polow Da Don produced the song, which features a verse from Chris Brown.
  • The song finds Akon inviting a pole dancer who's caught his eye to "take it down low, before Breezy comes in with a rhyme. "Up and down just like her go/Give her a moment and then she'll go/On the floor, on the floor, Take it down, take it down, down," he spits.

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