Twerk

## Single by City Girls featuring Cardi B

### Writer(s)

Rico Love • Belcalis Almánzar • Raymond Sneed • Darwin Turner • Caresha Brownlee • Jatavia Johnson

## Music Video

**"Twerk"** is a song by hip hop duo City Girls featuring Cardi B, from the duo's debut album *Girl Code* (2018). It was released to US rhythmic contemporary radio on January 8, 2019, as the album's lead single. Filmed in Miami, the song's music video was released the same month.

"Twerk" is a New Orleans bounce-inspired song, which heavily samples Choppa's "Choppa Style". It also samples the popular Triggerman beat, which is prominent among the New Orleans bounce scene. The song employs a xylophone-sounding melody, hand claps and "feverish" snares. In her verse, Cardi references Jermaine Dupri's "Money Ain't a Thang".

The song peaked at number 29 on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart, becoming City Girls' highest credited entry on the chart. It has been certified Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA).

## Music video

Directed by Daps and Sara Lacombe, the music video was filmed in Miami, Florida in December 2018 and released on January 16, 2019. The video shows Cardi and Yung Miami painted like a tiger and zebra, respectively, partying with a number of women on a yacht. In another location, at a construction site, they are joined by the top 20 finalists of the challenge sent by the City Girls, which consisted on finding "the world's greatest twerker." The clip closes with the winner of the challenge.

### Reception

Billboard opined, "the titillating video reaches its climax when the women hit the dirt and break into some next-level twerking. The mesermizing display will certainly drop some jaws, as both Cardi and Yung Miami redefine the meaning of twerk with their fun-filled visual." Complex stated "this isn't your typical bad b\*tches twerking to a banger music video." Meanwhile, Entertainment Weekly described the clip as "incredible and hypnotic and very, very cheeky, in all senses of the word."

Conservative columnist Stephanie Hamill from right-wing news website The Daily Caller criticized the video, tweeting, "in the era of #MeToo how exactly does this empower women?". Cardi responded, "it says to women that I can wear and not wear whatever I want, do [whatever] I want and that no still means no," and questioned Hamill for misleading the purpose of the movement.

## Lyrics

**[Intro: Yung Miami & Cardi B]**

(I want a slim, fine woman with some twerk with her)

Throw that, twerk that

(I want a slim, fine woman with some twerk with her)

Shake that, bounce that

(I want a slim, fine woman with some twerk with her)

Cardi

Ayy, ayy, ayy, ayy, ayy, ayy, ayy

(I want a slim, fine woman with some twerk with her)

(Action)

**[Verse 1: Yung Miami]**

Do it, baby, stick it, baby

Move it, baby, lick it, baby (Do it)

Suck up on that clit until that pussy got a hickey, baby (Bounce)

Watch big, coulda bought a Range Rover (Range Rover)

Chain little, but I spent some change on it (Change on it)

*[n-word]* mad, I'ma put the gang on him (Gang on it)

They'll die 'bout me, they'll bang on him (Facts)

And that ass poke out, lil frame on her (Ow)

Pussy so good he got my name on it (Miami)

Itty-bitty-pretty, I'm the realest in the city

Only fuckin' with the plug, got a *[n-word]* worth a billi'

Showin' love, only talk about bands when he hit me

Chose him, he ain't pick me, and we never doin' quickies

**[Chorus]**

(I want a slim, fine woman with some twerk with her)

Work that

(I want a slim, fine woman with some twerk with her)

Work that

(I want a slim, fine woman with some twerk with her)

Please

(I want a slim, fine woman with some twerk with her)

Make 'em dance, twerk

(Twerk-twerk-twerk-twerk-twerk-twerk with her)

Twerk, twerk

(Tw-twerk-twerk-twerk-twerk-twerk-twerk with her)

Twerk, twerk

(Tw-twerk-twerk-twerk-twerk-twerk-twerk with her)

Twerk, twerk

(Tw-twerk-twerk-twerk-twerk-twerk with her)

Twerk

(Turn the lights off!)

**[Verse 2: Cardi B]**

Look, this sound like Cardi took the stage (Cardi)

This sound like Cardi with the braids (With the braids)

Jermaine Dupri, baby, money ain't a thing (Ain't a thing)

This pussy wild, they should throw it in a cage (Grr)

See my lifestyle, precise gal (Gal)

I be dripped up and wiped down, uh

I see them hoes lookin' cold, lookin' stiff, uh

Thick bitch God's gift to a dick, woo (Woo)

Drop low, look back, shit fat, shit fat

I just drop-kicked your bag, six pack, six pack

I just jumps on hit charts, impact, impact

Stop that chit-chat, get smacked, bitch better relax

**[Chorus]**

(I want a slim, fine woman with some twerk with her)

Work that

(I want a slim, fine woman with some twerk with her)

Work that

(I want a slim, fine woman with some twerk with her)

Please

(I want a slim, fine woman with some twerk with her)

Make 'em dance, twerk

(Twerk-twerk-twerk-twerk-twerk-twerk with her)

Twerk, twerk

(Tw-twerk-twerk-twerk-twerk-twerk-twerk with her)

Twerk, twerk

(Tw-twerk-twerk-twerk-twerk-twerk-twerk with her)

Twerk, twerk

(Tw-twerk-twerk-twerk-twerk-twerk with her)

Twerk

(Turn the lights off!)

**[Verse 3: JT]**

Yeah, I see you show that, but is you gon' throw that?

If you don't let me hold that, you know where the door at (Bye)

Lil flexin' ass *[n-word]*, what is that shit? (What the fuck is that?)

Must have me confused for a rap bitch (Hol' up)

Too rude for a soft *[n-word]*, need a boss *[n-word]*

Floss *[n-word]* who don't give a fuck what it cost, *[n-word]* (Boss)

I could buy my own, but I'd rather spend y'all's, *[n-word]*s

Tell them pussy-ass hoes I don't want y'all *[n-word]*s

Got a penthouse up in the Mandarin (Ow)

So when you get this pussy, better handle it (Catch it)

I'm a top-notch bitch, need some top-notch dick

Smooth like a G5 when you landing it

**[Chorus]**

(I want a slim, fine woman with some twerk with her)

Work that

(I want a slim, fine woman with some twerk with her)

Work that

(I want a slim, fine woman with some twerk with her)

Please

(I want a slim, fine woman with some twerk with her)

Make 'em dance, twerk

(Twerk-twerk-twerk-twerk-twerk-twerk with her)

Twerk, twerk

(Tw-twerk-twerk-twerk-twerk-twerk-twerk with her)

Twerk, twerk

(Tw-twerk-twerk-twerk-twerk-twerk-twerk with her)

Twerk, twerk

(Tw-twerk-twerk-twerk-twerk-twerk with her)

Twerk

(Turn the lights off!)