Tear It Up

Album: Desperate Measures (2009)
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  • Artist Direct asked Keyboardist J-Dog about this track. He replied: "That song is just about being up in the club, fool [Laughs]! We actually wrote those lyrics a long time ago. We used to go to clubs a lot when we were back home, so we wanted a song that people could play in clubs and dance to—bitches be shakin' their titties to it and s--t [Laughs]. It's really about us partying at clubs. We used to do that a lot. It's making fun of all the songs that repeat themselves saying things like, 'Shake it like a salt shaker!' That kind of stuff was dominant at the time that we wrote those lyrics. All of those songs keep repeating the same things, so this is us making fun of that."

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