"Low"
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Single by Flo Rida featuring T-Pain
from the album Mail on Sunday and Step Up 2: The Streets
Released September 16, 2007
Format Digital download, CD single
Recorded 2007
Genre Southern hip hop, pop rap
Length 3:50
Label Atlantic
Writer(s) Tramar Dillard, Faheem Najm
Producer DJ Montay
Certification 6x Platinum (RIAA)
2x Platinum (RIANZ)
3x Platinum (CRIA)
3x Platinum (ARIA)
Flo Rida chronology
"Low"
(2007)
"Elevator"
(2007)
T-Pain chronology
"Church"
(2007)
"Low"
(2007)
"Who the Fuck Is That?"
(2007)

"Low" is the debut single by American rapper Flo Rida, featured on his debut album Mail On Sunday and also featured on the soundtrack to the 2008 film Step Up 2: The Streets. The song features T-Pain and was co-written with T-Pain. There is also a remix in which the hook is sung by Flo Rida rather than T-Pain. An official remix was made which features rapper Pitbull and T-Pain.

The now-iconic single was a hit worldwide and the longest running number-one single of 2008. With five million paid digital downloads, it was certified six-times platinum by the RIAA, and was the most downloaded single of 2000s decade, measured by paid digital downloads.[1] The song was named 3rd on the Billboard Hot 100 Songs of the Decade.[2] "Low" spent ten consecutive weeks atop the Billboard Hot 100, the longest-running number-one single of 2008.

It was also performed live with the band Simple Plan at the 2008 MuchMusic Video Awards.[3]

Contents

Chart performance [link]

The song debuted at number 91 on the U.S. "Billboard" Hot 100 on November 6, 2007, and reached number one for the week of December 30, 2007 - January 5, 2008.[4] The song generated the second greatest one-week digital sales in the history of Billboard Magazine's Digital Songs chart (behind Flo Rida's "Right Round"), with 467,000 digital copies in one week. "Low" was number one on the Billboard Hot 100 for ten weeks and remained in the top ten of the chart for 23 weeks,[5] making it both T-Pain and Flo Rida's most successful single to date.

The song was dethroned on the Hot 100 by Usher's "Love in This Club" featuring Young Jeezy. As the first number one on the Hot 100 of 2008, "Low" held the top position longer than any song did in 2008 (see List of Hot 100 number-one singles of 2008 (U.S.)), and is the longest running Hot 100 number one since Beyoncé's "Irreplaceable."[6] The song is also the longest-running number one in the history of the Billboard Hot Digital Songs chart, topping the chart for 13 weeks, and also on the now-defunct Pop 100 chart, where it ruled for 12 weeks.[6] "Low" was the best-selling digitally-downloaded song of all time, with U.S. digital sales of over 5,000,000.[7] (It has since been surpassed by The Black Eyed Peas' "I Gotta Feeling.")[8] The song stayed on the Hot 100 for 39 weeks, before dropping out in June 2008.[9] Digital sales, as of August 2011, now stand at over 6,000,000.[10]

The physical release of the single occurred in the UK week beginning 24 March 2008.[11] On July 20, 2008, the song moved up to No. 19 on the UK Singles Chart, several months after its official release. Although it failed to reach number one in the UK, it amassed 53 weeks inside the UK Top 75 (making it the joint 20th longest runner of all time), and 75 weeks inside the Top 100.[12] As of January 2012, the song had sold 613,434 copies in the UK.[13]

The song was ranked at #23 on Billboard's All Time Hot 100 for the 50th anniversary of the chart.[14] The song was also was ranked the number-one song for 2008 in Billboard's ranking of the Top Hot 100 Hits of 2008. On December 28, 2008, it was listed at No. 11 for the UK Singles Chart year-end countdown and was named highest-selling single in Australia in 2008.

Music and lyrics [link]

Several of T-Pain's motifs are present in this song, including autotune, call and answer during the chorus, and use of electronic drums. Flo Rida has sexually charged (but not explicit) lyrics, for example he refers to a girl's buttocks as "birthday cakes" which "stole the show". T-Pain also relies heavily on synthesizer. The music revolves around one chord, E♭ minor. A Harmonic minor melody is played over the E♭ minor, and at different times different instrumentation cycles, i.e. sometimes only the synthesizer plays, sometimes only the bass, sometimes only the vocals. Flo Rida uses a style that is common in 1990s hip-hop party music.

The song makes references to a "Shawty" in a club who is wearing Apple Bottom jeans and boots with fur. "Shawty" also wears baggy sweat pants and Reeboks with the straps. The lyrics repeatedly suggest that Shawty is extremely attractive and possesses great skill in dancing provocatively. In particular, the song describes one of her more memorable dance sequences as giving her buttocks (colloquially referred to as a booty) a smack prior to "getting low".

Music video [link]

The video of "Low" was directed by Bernard Gourley and contains certain clips from Step Up 2 The Streets. It also contains cameos from Rick Ross, DJ Khaled, Cool & Dre, Briana Evigan, & Torch & Gunplay of Triple C's. Also, T-Pain and Flo Rida are in a nightclub in a few scenes. The music video reached the #1 spot on 106 & Park for 5 days and 22 days on TRL. The music video was also nominated at the 2008 MTV Video Music Awards for Best Male Video and Best Hip-Hop Video, but lost to Chris Brown's "With You" (Best Male Video) and Lil Wayne's Lollipop (Best Hip-Hop Video) videos.

Cover versions [link]

Albuquerque, New Mexico based Crunkcore group Brokencyde released a cover of this song on "THA $C3N3 MiXTaPe" in 2008. Travis Barker, drummer from Blink 182 added a drum version cover of the song.

Remix [link]

There is a remix by Los Bk-Clan (Sto Domingo), Daryl & DJ Q-Bah (Netherlands). There is also a second remix featuring American singer Francisco.

Certification [link]

In the United States, "Low" has been certified 6x Platinum by the RIAA.[15] The song was certified 2x Platinum in New Zealand on September 28, 2008, selling over 30,000 copies.[16] In Canada, it was certified 3x Platinum in digital downloads and 4x Platinum in Ringtones[17][18]

Personnel [link]

Fabian Marasciullo, mix engineer[19]

Charts [link]

Chart (2007–08) Peak
position
Australia (ARIA)[20] 1
Austria (Ö3 Austria Top 75)[21] 9
Belgium (Ultratop 50 Flanders)[22] 7
Belgium (Ultratop 40 Wallonia)[23] 24
Canada (Canadian Hot 100)[24] 1
Czech Republic (IFPI)[25] 12
Denmark (Tracklisten)[26] 9
European Hot 100 Singles[27] 3
Finland (Suomen virallinen lista)[28] 9
France (SNEP)[29] 33
Germany (Media Control AG)[30] 13
Ireland (IRMA)[31] 1
Norway (VG-lista)[32] 12
New Zealand (RIANZ)[33] 1
Slovakia (IFPI)[34] 19
Switzerland (Schweizer Hitparade)[35] 13
Sweden (Sverigetopplistan)[36] 17
UK Singles (Official Charts Company)[37] 2
US Billboard Hot 100[38] 1
US Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs (Billboard)[39] 9
US Pop Songs (Billboard)[40] 1
US Rap Songs (Billboard)[41] 1

Year-end charts [link]

Chart (2008) Position
Canadian Hot 100[42] 3
German Singles Chart[43] 54
US Billboard Hot 100 1
Chart (2009) Position
Hungarian Singles Chart[44] 146
UK Singles Chart[45] 148

Decade-end charts [link]

Chart (2000–2009) Rank
US Billboard Hot 100[46] 3
UK Singles Chart 81

See also [link]

References [link]

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    by: Redrama

    Living a day at a time be the rhythm that fit
    That way I´m always quick to predict a glitch
    Building a house brick by brick and bit by bit
    Living a day at a time, a day at a time
    Living a day at a time be the rhythm that fit
    That way I´m always quick to predict a glitch
    Building a house brick by brick and bit by bit
    I light a thick spliff get my wit in pitch
    Time goes by so fast I lose hold of myself / Need
    something to cool me down,
    or my motor will melt / Totally set on not getting old
    yet / but time will
    catch up with you like an old debt / Still... hurry
    spells worry with a W,
    you heard me? It´s too early, my world be looking all
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    time for no lazy
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    day and shit /
    Professional time waster / sitting here wondering why
    the earth keep
    worshipping that almighty paper / Quick, fast, world on
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    / Being everywhere,
    doing everything, at the same time / Don´t waste time
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    or never so better
    just get it together / You ain´t gone be living forever
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    clock stay ticking and I can´t control this / Can´t be
    living at a low risk
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    some old shit / my
    flow is reaching your sofas / all of my mental
    soldiers.
    Living a day at a time be the rhythm that fit
    That way I´m always quick to predict a glitch
    Building a house brick by brick and bit by bit
    Living a day at a time, a day at a time
    Living a day at a time be the rhythm that fit
    That way I´m always quick to predict a glitch
    Building a house brick by brick and bit by bit
    I light a thick spliff get my wit in pitch
    I be telling you listen I don´t lie
    Time always be keeping a close eye
    You don´t believe me then you take a nosedive
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    Chasing euros or dollars or then you chase pounds
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    Slow down, don´t you know now
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    won´t rewind / But I´m
    a relax / ´cos if you thinking like that then your
    stress will multiply / I
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    That way I´m always quick to predict a glitch
    Building a house brick by brick and bit by bit
    Living a day at a time, a day at a time
    Living a day at a time be the rhythm that fit
    That way I´m always quick to predict a glitch
    Building a house brick by brick and bit by bit
    I light a thick spliff get my wit in pitch
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    Losing or winning




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