Twerk
by City Girls (featuring Cardi B)

Album: Girl Code (2018)
Charted: 29
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Songfacts®:

  • City Girls is a Miami, Florida hip-hop duo comprising Yung Miami (born Caresha Brownlee), and JT (born Jatavia Shakara Johnson). The pair first came to prominence when they contributed guest vocals to Drake's chart-topping single "In My Feelings." This ode to booty-shaking and female empowerment was their first Hot 100 hit as the principal artist.
  • Yung Miami told Genius that she and JT came up with track when they decided they needed a twerk song with a New Orleans bounce. "Something that's gone make you wanna dance when you hear it so we went with that song."
  • The lyric "I want a slim, fine woman with some twerk with her" is a heavy interpolation of a Choppa line from his 2002 single, "Choppa Style."
  • Directed by Daps and Sara Lacombe, the song's music clip was filmed in Miami, Florida and naturally features a lot of twerking. Lacombe told Billboard it's not unusual to see "a bunch of ass shaking in a video." In this instance, though, it was different as the song was made by females, so they felt that the message of empowering women "would be stronger if there were absolutely no males" in the visual.

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