Look, I have a very hard time listening to Chris Brown since his incident with RiRi.
I came around on this song - which was produced by Diplo and Afrojack - for two reasons.
The first were the guest stars on this track, who STOLE the track. STOLE. Busta Rhymes and his speedrap is the thing of legend. Lil Wayne proves to be his equal. And their participation made this song a huge hit - one of the biggest of 2011, on top of the fact that it was just a huge hit in its own right.
Busta Rhymes has performed the song with Chris Brown - live - and he's just as great with the speedrap live as he was in the studio.
To be fair, Justin Bieber doing the Busta Rhymes part is somehow just as impressive.
He also does the Chris Brown part, though.
But really, you came here for reason 2:
A couple of months after this single was released, a couple of Berkeley School of Music students named Amy and Nick - who happen to have been in a band called Karmin at the time - recorded a version of this song - with Amy singing ALL THREE PARTS.
It's epic. And they thought they had butchered it.
Fast forward fifteen years.
Karmin died. But Amy and Nick got married.... and are still together. So that's nice. And they're still making music as Qveen Herby.
But they did revive Karmin just once. And yes, they are wearing the same outfits.
That doesn't mean that Qveen Herby hasn't still been performing the song.
And not the sanitized version.
Oops, she said "on my dick".
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