Talk:Back That Azz Up

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message: may we PLEASE add as genre 'hip hop' & 'dirty rap'? Monkeylady999 (talk) 21:42, 27 March 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  genre 

message: :The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.
The result of the move request was: moved. (non-admin closure) Safari ScribeEdits! Talk! 04:07, 20 May 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: Back That Thang Up →  – "Back That Azz Up" is in fact the common name of this song, despite claims to the contrary. Wikipedia is not censored, and the original rationale for moving this page to the clean version's title was inappropriate. As one of the greatest (both my opinion and fact) and most-well known songs in hip-hop, this article should bear its proper title. Here are some sources supporting that BTAU is the common name:
* Various rankings/lists, including Complex/Andrew Noz's The 50 Best New Orleans Rap Songs, Andrew Noz's Best Rap of 1999, Pitchfork's The Best Southern Rap Songs of the '90s, Audacy's Top 50 Hip-Hop Songs of All Time, Consequence's 50 Best Hip-Hop Songs of All Time, The Recording Academy's Guide To Southern Hip-Hop, NPR's "Celebration of Southern Rap", BET's hip-hop anthems
** I think its use in lists is significant because a publication or website would tend to use the most common or well-known name so that the reader immediately knows what song is being discussed or ranked.
* Brief mentions in reliable secondary sources: Washington Post article "50 hip-hop artists share 50 songs they love", Billboard Magazine article, Rolling Stone article about Cash Money, Vulture article about Cash Money, New Orleans Times-Picayune 1 New Orleans Times-Picayune article 2 New Orleans Times-Picayune article 3
* Others: The Making Of Juvenile's "Back That Azz Up" With Mannie Fresh (Genius Deconstructed) 
To show that I am not cherrypicking sources, here are a few that primarily or solely refer to the song as "Back That Thang Up":
* 2000 NYT Article "A Trendsetter On Rap's Fringe" - "known in its radio-friendly version as 'Back That Thang Up'"
* Tennessean article
* New Orleans Times-Picayune article 
* Fox News article about Tom Steyer dancing to the song - "...Juvenile performed a rendition of 'Back that Thang Up' -- the PG version of the 1999 classic 'Back that Azz Up.'"
* AL.com ranking of essential southern hip-hop albums
* Rolling Stone article about "Vax That Thang Up"
I think it's worth noting that some of these publications may not have wanted to print the word "ass" or "azz", and therefore the usage of "Back That Thang Up" might not be an indicator of that being the most popular name for the song. 
 Llacb47 (talk) 15:57, 14 May 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Requested move 14 May 2024