Peaches & Eggplants
by Young Nudy (featuring 21 Savage)

Album: Gumbo (2023)
Charted: 33
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Songfacts®:

  • "Peaches & Eggplants" is the lead single to Young Nudy's food-themed Gumbo album. Nudy and his cousin, Atlanta rapper 21 Savage, spit about their desires for sex and drugs, no holds barred. The title nods to how basic fruit and veg emojis have been repurposed as sexual innuendo in social media.
  • This joint blew up on TikTok, riding high on a dance trend synced to 21 Savage's last three lines of his verse and Young Nudy's "boaw" chorus. Creators worked those "boaw" ad-libs, mimicking the sex positions the lyrics describe.
  • The cheeky sex-rap marked Nudy's debut as the lead artist on the Billboard Hot 100. "I ain't even gonna play like I was on some intentional s--t - it was just me playing around in the studio and being goofy," Young Nudy told Billboard. "I was just being silly with my buddies."
  • "Peaches & Eggplants" continued the trend of tongue-in-cheek sexually themed rap hits started by Nicki Minaj's "Super Freaky Girl" in 2022 and continued by NLE Choppa's "Slut Me Out" and Sexyy Red's "Pound Town 2."

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