The Booty Genre: A Look Back
The booty genre is practically its own super-species of songwriting by now—one in which the callipygian has proven a fertile, enduring muse to many a rocker, popper, rapper, disco practitioner, R&B crooner, even country singer. The latest composition to join these esteemed ranks? The new R&B groove "Let Me See the Booty," which comes from The-Dream (the man behind Rihanna's "Umbrella" as well as his own his hit last year, "Shawty Is a 10") and features guest rhymes from the always-subtle Lil Jon. Regrettably, the track is a weaker entry into said canon, so allow us to take a look back at a handful of the genre's more memorable moments.
Fat Bottomed Girls (Queen)
Sample Lyric: "Ain't no beauty queens in this locality (I tell you)/Oh, but I still get my pleasure/Still get my greatest treasure/Heap big woman you gonna make a big man out of me."
Big Bottom (Spinal Tap)
Sample lyric: "Big bottom/Big bottom/Talk about mudflaps/My gal's got 'em/Big bottom, drive me out of my mind/How can I leave this behind?"
And with David Gilmour on guitar…!
My Humps (Black Eyed Peas)
Sample Lyric: "What you gon' do with all that junk?/All that junk inside your trunk?/I'ma get, get, get, get, you drunk/Get you love drunk off my hump."
Baby Got Back (Sir Mix-A-Lot)
Sample Lyric: "You can have them bimbos/I'll keep my women like Flo Jo/A word to the thick soul sisters, I wanna get with ya/I won't cuss or hit ya"
Oh, you know you wanna watch the video.
Bootylicious (Destiny's Child)
Sample Lyric: "I shake my jelly at every chance/When I'm whip to my hip you just slip into a trance/I'm hoping you can handle all the jelly that I have"
Honky Tonk Badonkadonk (Trace Adkins)
Sample Lyric: "Got it goin' on/Like Donkey Kong/And whoo-wee
Shut my mouth, slap your grandma/There outta be a law
Get the Sheriff on the phone/Lord have mercy, how's she even get them britches on/With that honky tonk badonkadonk"
Shake Your Booty (KC and the Sunshine Band)
Sample Lyric: "You can, you can do it very well/You're the best in the world, I can tell/Shake shake shake, shake shake shake/Shake your booty! Shake your booty!"
Feelin' on Yo Booty (R. Kelly)
Sample Lyric: "Now you're body's got me feelin' like spending/With a backroom I could come to live in/And your hair weave looking kind of pretty/The way you back it up on me baby/God have mercy"
Now gawk at Kelly's 'do.
Big Ole Butt (LL Cool J)
Sample Lyric: "She had a big ole booty, I was doin' my duty/I mean, yo, I admit that my girl's a cutie/But Tina was erotic, Earl's my witness/With the kind of legs that put stockings out of business"
Popozão (Kevin Federline)
Sample Lyric: "Girl, don't you worry about all the dough/Because a cat is coming straight out of the "NO"/Ready to rock those shows all the way to Rio/Bring that Brazil booty on the floor."
Anything we left out? Let us know!
