Low

Album

Brook Benton Today

Label

Poe Boy Entertainment

Genre

Stage & Screen

Composer(s)

Tramar Dillard;Faheem Najm

Entered Chart

Nov 10, 2007

Peak Date

Jan 5, 2008

Released

Unknown

Recorded

Unknown

Catalog #

Poe Boy 346620

In this song Flo Rida (pronounced "Flow Rida") is fantasizing over a woman in a strip club. The reference to the girl "getting low" is from the 2002 hit "Get Low." The lyric in the chorus "Apple Bottom jeans" refers to a clothing line for women designed by the rapper Nelly. There is a great deal of product placement in this song. Additional brand mentions: Reeboks, the Cadillac Maybach, Patron tequila, Hennessy cognac. T-Pain is featured on this track. He appeared on many rap hits around this time, including "Bartender" with Akon and "Kiss Kiss" with Chris Brown. This features on the soundtrack of the 2008 movie Step Up 2 The Streets. HHNlive.com asked Flo Rida about the concept behind the title of his album. The Miami rapper replied: "It's a spin-off of the first single I put out called 'Birthday.' It's talking about getting your cake everyday. Mail On Sunday is just talking about having it your way everyday, instead of the average postal day." When this reached the top of the American Hot 100 this equaled the record for the shortest song title to top the chart. The other five three-letter titled songs to reach the summit prior to "Low" were: "Why" by Frankie Avalon (1959), "ABC" by The Jackson 5 (1970), "War" by Edwin Starr (1970), "Ben" by Michael Jackson (1972) and "Bad" also by Michael Jackson (1987). In the Billboard Hot 100 chart for the week-ending January 12, 2008, this song's 470,000 digital sales set a single-week record, easily beating the previous record-holder, Fergie's "Fergalicious" at 294,000. 13 months later Flo Rida shattered his own record when "Right Round" was downloaded 636,000 times in its debut week. Travis Barker of the group Plus-44 and formerly blink-182, put together a Rock remix of this song. He did something similar with Soulja Boy's "Crank That (Soulja Boy)." >> In addition to the US, this also topped the singles charts in a number of other countries including Canada, France, Brazil, Australia and New Zealand. This topped the Billboard Hot Digital Tracks chart for 13 weeks, the most weeks ever at #1 on that chart. The record had previously been held jointly by Gwen Stefani's "Hollaback Girl" and Kanye West's "Gold Digger," who both had nine weeks run at the summit. Additionally it was declared the biggest selling digital single of all time, with US digital sales of over 3,300,000. On the UK chart announced April 6th 2008, both the #1 and #2 singles were issued with near sequential Atlantic Records catalogue numbers, the chart-topping "American Boy" by Estelle was listed as AT0304CD and this song as AT0302CD. This sold 4.4 million digital downloads in 2008 making it the top seller in that format. This was the second most listened song on American radio in 2008 with an estimated 3.02 billion listeners. No One by Alicia Keys was ranked just ahead with 3.08 billion listeners. This was the top-selling digital song in the US during the 2000s with over 5.2 million downloads. Runner-up was Lady Gaga's "Just Dance" (close to 4.7 million downloads) followed by Jason Mraz's "I'm Yours" (4.6 million). Flo Rida laid down his rhymes for "Low" really quickly. He told Billboard: "I recorded this record so fast, it was almost like a freestyle. I think it probably took me less than an hour to do all the verses. That record reminds me so much of the Miami bass, so I was able to put my thing on it." Asked why he believes the song was so successful, Flo Rida replied: "T-Pain having such a good melody on the hook, and me having some great melodies on the verses - the record just has so much ear candy [and] the lyricism was just amazing. When I heard [it], I just knew it was gonna be big, [especially] 'cause T-Pain was doing a lot of huge records at the time."

(Uh-huh) (turn it up)
Mmm
Let me talk to 'em
Let me talk to 'em
(This is a Travis Barker production)
Let it rain
Mmm
Let me talk to 'em
Come on

Shawty had them Apple Bottom jeans (jeans)
Boots with the fur (with the fur)
The whole club was lookin' at her
She hit the floor (she hit the floor)
Next thing you know
Shawty got low, low, low, low, low, low, low, low
Them baggy sweatpants
And the Reeboks with the straps (with the straps)
She turned around and gave that big booty a slap (ayy)
She hit the floor (she hit the floor)
Next thing you know
Shawty got low, low, low, low, low, low, low, low

Hey, I ain't never seen nothin' that'll make me go
This crazy, all night spendin' my dough
Had a million dollar vibe and a bottle to go
Them birthday cakes, they stole the show
So sexual, she was flexible
Professional, drinkin' X and O
Hold up, wait a minute, do I see what I think I, whoa
Did I think I seen shawty get low
Ain't the same when it's up that close
Make it rain, I'm makin' it snow
Work the pole, I got the bank roll
I'ma say that I prefer them no clothes
I'm into that, I love women exposed
She threw it back at me, I gave her more
Cash ain't a problem, I know where it goes

She had them Apple Bottom jeans (jeans)
Boots with the fur (with the fur)
The whole club was lookin' at her
She hit the floor (she hit the floor)
Next thing you know
Shawty got low, low, low, low, low, low, low, low
Them baggy sweatpants
And the Reeboks with the straps (with the straps)
She turned around and gave that big booty a slap (ayy)
She hit the floor (she hit the floor)
Next thing you know
Shawty got low, low, low, low, low, low, low, low

Hey, shawty what I gotta do to get you home?
My jeans full of guap and they ready for shones
Cadillacs, Maybachs for the sexy groan
Patron on the rocks that'll make you moan
One stack, come on, two stacks, come on
Three stacks, come on, now that's three grand
What you think I'm playin' baby girl?
I'm the man, I invented rubber bands
That's what I told her, her legs on my shoulder
I knew it was over, that Henny and cola got me like a soldier
She ready for Rover, I couldn't control her
So lucky oh me, I was just like a clover
Shawty was hot like a toaster
Sorry but I had to fold her
Like a pornography poster
She showed her

Apple Bottom jeans (jeans)
Boots with the fur (with the fur)
The whole club was lookin' at her
She hit the floor (she hit the floor)
Next thing you know
Shawty got low, low, low, low, low, low, low, low
Them baggy sweatpants
And the Reeboks with the straps (with the straps)
She turned around and gave that big booty a slap (ayy)
She hit the floor (she hit the floor)
Next thing you know
Shawty got low, low, low, low, low, low, low, low

Whoa shawty, yeah, she was worth the money
Lil' mama took my cash, and I ain't want it back
The way she bent that back, got her them paper stacks
Tattoo above her crack, I had to handle that
I was on it, sexy woman, let me shownin'
Make me want it, two in the mornin'
I'm zonin' and them rose bottles foamin'
She wouldn't stop, made it drop
Shawty did that pop and lock
Had to break her off that gwap
Gal was fly just like my Glock

Apple Bottom jeans (jeans)
Boots with the fur (with the fur)
The whole club was lookin' at her
She hit the floor (she hit the floor)
Next thing you know
Shawty got low, low, low, low, low, low, low, low
Them baggy sweatpants
And the Reeboks with the straps (with the straps)
She turned around and gave that big booty a slap (ayy)
She hit the floor (she hit the floor)
Next thing you know
Shawty got low, low, low, low, low, low, low, low
Come on