T-pain Feat. B.o.b. - Up Down (dirty) -

The lyric "I didn't even know it until they called her to the stage" refers to a real incident where T-Pain was shocked to find a bartender he frequently visited was actually a dancer.

By 2013, T-Pain was battling a deep depression after years of industry backlash against Auto-Tune. Critics—and even peers like Usher and Jay-Z—had labeled him a "one-trick pony" whose time had passed. "Up Down" was originally intended as the lead single for his fifth album, Stoicville: The Phoenix , and its massive success (eventually going ) proved he could still command the charts. 2. Fact vs. Fiction in the Lyrics T-Pain feat. B.o.B. - Up Down (Dirty)

Fans long debated the line "booty bigger than a simoleon." While some thought it was a mispronunciation of "Samoan," it was actually a reference to the Seminole tribe (the "Seminole" or "Simoleon" nickname), nodding to his Florida roots and Florida State University’s mascot. The lyric "I didn't even know it until