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YING YANG TWINS

Wait (The Whisper Song)


This song is a travashamockery. Actually no, that makes this song sound preposterous in a funny way, when in fact it is preposterous in a disturbing, hide the women and children because Genghis Khan is pillaging the village kind of way. And yet, Wait (The Whisper Song) by the Ying Yang Twins is a hit. It’s #8 on the April 2nd listing of Billboard’s Top Singles.

The song is thoroughly immersed in the sex, sweat, scream, caffeine crunk, and testosterone of Lil' Jon’s Crunk Music. But while Lil' Jon yells about his skeet skeeting the Ying Yang Twins twist on the genre is to whisper sinisterly, like snakes, serpently, ssssssssssshhhhhhhhh.

Their song starts off simply enough with a propostion:

Hey how you doin lil mama? lemme whisper in your ear
Tell you sunthing that you might like to hear

Ok nothing Sodom and Gomorrah yet.

You got a sexy ass body and your ass look soft
Mind if i touch it? and see if its soft

Ok, now it's getting a little on the raunchy side. Nevermind that the Ying Yang Twins just rhymed soft with soft, a la Craig Mack's gem of a line: "I take my rap styles real serious... What you think this ain't that serious". But I digress.

From there The Ying Yang Twins start going really dirty dirty southwards.

So i dont mind asking for your head
You heard what i said, we need to make our way to the bed
And you can start usin' yo head
You like to f*^k, have yo legs open all in da butt.

Pretty nasty fare. Although the in da butt part calls to mind a classic line from Tim Meadows in The Lady's Man. Meadows is interviewing for a job and the man interviewing him looks at his application and asks, "What’s this listed under hobbies? Dabutt?". Meadows responds, "No that’s Da Butt and I also enjoy Tennis." Brilliant.

Finally, there is the chorus of Wait which, well I’m speechless and at a loss for descriptive adjectives.

Ay b**ch! wait til you see my d*ck
Wait you see my d*ck
Ay b*tch! wait til you see my d*ck
Imma beat dat p*ssy up

Like B-AM, B-AM, B-AM, B-AM, B-AM, B-AM, B-AM, B-AM, B-AM, B-AM, B-AM, B-AM, B-AM, B-AM, B-AM, B-AM

Beat da p*ssy up, Beat da p*ssy up, Beat da p*ssy up, Beat da p*ssy up, Beat da p*ssy up, Beat da p*ssy up, Beat da p*ssy
Up, Beat da p*ssy up


One of my favorite lines from Common goes:

"If revolution had a movie I'd be theme music."

Well if RAPE had a movie this song would be its theme music. Ladies, if there are any of you who read Billiken, I’d like to get some feedback on this. Let's say you are in Da Club. You are dancing having a good time with your girls. Maybe drinking a few Smirnoff Ices. All of a sudden one of the Ying Yang Twins comes up behind you starts dancing a little. Then he leans in and starts whispering, softly, Ay b*tch! wait til you see my d*ck Imma beat dat p*ssy up. I mean is that effective? Does that work?

This is not an anomaly or buried somewhere deep in an underground Atlanta crunk club. This song is in heavy rotation on Hot 97, Z100, probably on MTV as well. It’s #8 on the Billboard charts!!! Sure there is a radio edit of this, but how can you really edit this?

I think I may have to start agreeing with the FCC, the Moral Majority, the Christian Right, etc. America needs some family values. I wouldn't want my son or daughter listening to this. Maybe due to all the whispering, the censors simply can’t hear the not-so-sweet nothings coming out of the Ying Yang Twins. So in case they missed it here is a Public Service Announcement for the FCC. Stop worrying about Howard Stern’s mouth and Janet Jackson's nipple. Worry about this song.

The only thing that makes this song less offensive is when you look at these two goof balls. They look like straight up rodeo clowns.



I saw them on MTV cribs and apparently Ying and Yang still live together. Fraternal to the end. They have their dining room decorated with a nautical theme. Model ships, sails, and oars over the mantle. Nautical. Now that's gangsta.