Songfacts®:

• Before "Do Me!" even the most sexually charged R&B hit songs made at least glancing attempts at innuendo, for both artistic and practical reasons (getting past censors). When Marvin Gaye sang "Let's Get It On," we knew what he meant, but in a pinch (like if your kids asked you about the song), you could make the case that he was asking the lady out for a date.
  
  "Do Me!" did away with this convention, getting right to the point without any ambiguity. It was pretty shocking to hear the song on the radio, but we quickly got used to it. Once this barrier was broken, more very blatant hits followed, notably "Freak Me" by Silk.
• This was the second single from Bell Biv DeVoe, the group formed by three erstwhile members of New Edition: Ricky Bell, Michael Bivins, and Ronnie DeVoe. They made a big impact with their first single, "Poison," showing full command of the burgeoning new jack swing genre. They had their own tagline for their music: "mentally hip-hop, smoothed-out on the R&B tip, with a pop appeal to it."
  
  "Poison" was a #1 R&B hit and went to #3 on the Hot 100, popularizing the phrase "never trust a big butt and a smile." "Do Me!" also went to #3 and introduced a new catch phrase: "Smack it up, flip it, rub it down."
• BBD did the responsible thing in this song by reminding us to use a condom:
  
  Don't forget
  The J, the I, the M, the M, the Y, y'all
  I need a body bag
  
  A "jimmy hat" is slang for a condom.
  
  This part where they spell out J-I-M-M-Y comes from the 1988 track "Jimmy" by Boogie Down Productions, which is as close as you'll come to a safe-sex rap PSA.
• The truly shocking story here isn't that a song called "Do Me!" became a hit, but that it got away with these lyrics:
  
  Backstage, underage, adolescent
  "How ya doin'"
  "Fine," she replied
  I sighed, "I like to do the wild thing"
  Action took place
  
  It's pretty clear what's going on here, and it's not legal in most territories.
• Bell Biv DeVoe weren't the first to build a song around the phrase "do me baby." In 1986, Meli'sa Morgan put out a song called "Do Me Baby" that went to #46 in the US. You won't be surprised who wrote it: Prince.
• Bell Biv DeVoe wrote this song with the R&B songwriter-producer Carl Bourelly, who also produced the track. They used several different producers on the album; "Do Me!" is the only one Bourelly worked on.
• The music video was directed by Lionel C. Martin, who also did the "Poison" video and went on to direct many videos for Boyz II Men, a group managed by Michael Bivins and part of BBD's "East Coast Family."