The 25 Best Strip Club Anthems
In honor of the anniversary of Ice Cube's The Player's Club.
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The 25 Best Strip-Club Anthems - It's been 15 years to the day since The Player's Club, the best movie of all time about strip clubs, hit theaters. Plenty of things have changed since then. This truism remains: The right song will get even the sleepiest strip club jumping. Here, in honor of The Player's Club, BET.com presents the 25 best strip-club anthems of all time. —Alex Gale and BET staff (Photo: New Line Cinema)
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"P-Poppin'" - Dedicated to acrobatic, multi-tasking strippers — handstands are mentioned — this lecherous song, accompanied by a hazy video that ruled BET Uncut, captures the late-night ATL strip-club vibe perfectly. (Photo: Island Def Jam Recordings)
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Luke, "I Wanna Rock (Doo Doo Brown)" - Perhaps the most famous Miami bass song of all time, this uptempo call-and-response classic from the 2 Live Crew front man is ideal for rapid-fire twerking. (Photo: Luke Records)
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Ying Yang Twins feat. Lil Jon and the Eastside Boyz, "Salt Shaker" - This 2003 crunk classic, featuring hilarious ad libs and creepy plucked guitar and synths, still causes mayhem on the pole 10 years later. (Photo: TVT Records)
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Juvenile, "Back That Azz Up" - Juvenile’s monster 1998 blockbuster took New Orleans bounce to living rooms worldwide. At this point it's likely more grandmothers have backed it up to Mannie Fresh’s classical beat than strippers. (Photo: Cash Money Records)
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Ying Yang Twins, “Wait” - In the wrong hands this song is a creepy flasher’s anthem. In the strip club though, with its breathy come-ons and ass-shaking 808s, it’s a boom-boom room classic. (Photo: TVT Records)
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2 Chainz, “I Luv Dem Stripperz” feat. Nicki Minaj - 2 Chainz isn’t ashamed to say he’s a strip-ophile, and with this 2012 song’s hypnotizing synths and trap hi-hats, perfect for pole positioning, it’s fair to assume they love him right back. (Photo: Island Def Jam Recordings)
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Tyga, "Rack City" - Fueled by a sparse, bass-driven DJ Mustard-produced beat that recalls classic Too $hort, Tyga’s ratchet 2012 hit is like a stimulus bill for strip clubs. (Photo: Vallery Jean/WireImage)
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French Montana, "Pop That" feat. Lil Wayne and Rick Ross - French Montana went straight to the source for this one. If you want to get strip clubs motivated, you can’t do any better than sampling "I Wanna Rock (Doo Doo Brown)," which has inspired over two decades of rain-making. (Photo: Bad Boy Records)
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Juicy J, "Bandz a Make Her Dance" - The song that set off Juicy J’s unlikely solo revival, with a hypnotizing, repetitive hook and beat that are the ideal backdrop for Juicy’s blunt assessment of booty-club economics and his own ratchet addition. (Photo: Columbia Records)
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Snoop Dogg, "Drop It Like It's Hot" - Like all the best strip-club songs, Snoop's chart-topping 2004 classic has a simple call to action for a hook, with a sparse, woofer-busting beat, courtesy of the Neptunes, for extra motivation. (Photo: RCA Records)
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Rihanna, "Pour It Up" - The world’s favorite strip-club-patronizing pop princess linked up with Mike Will Made It to basically transform “Bandz a Make Her Dance” into an R&B song. (Photo: Def Jam Recordings)
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Lil Jon and the East Side Boyz, "Get Low" - This 2002 banger from Lil Jon still has strip spots getting crunk, from the windows to the walls and beyond, with his signature screamed ad libs and synthesizer beats. (Photo: Courtesy The Orchard)
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Mystikal, "Shake It Fast" - Ever wondered what it would sound like if James Brown went to a nudie bar? Just listen to this 2002 hit from Mystikal and the Neptunes. (Photo: Zomba Records)
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Loverance, "Up!" feat. 50 Cent - Neither strip clubs nor hip hop songs are places known for soft, tender love-making. This ode to "beating it up" helped Loverance graduate from the Bay Area to the majors (and a 50 Cent feature on the remix). (Photo: Interscope Records)
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Lil Wayne, "Lollipop" - This 2008 song may have set off Lil Wayne's overuse of Auto-tuned singing, but strip clubs still have a double-D-size soft spot for it. (Photo: Cash Money Records)
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T-Pain, "I'm N Luv (Wit a Stripper)" - With its syrupy melodies and slow tempo, this top-10 hit has been the soundtrack for googly-eyed, big-tipping johns sitting right next to the stage since 2005. (Photo: Konvict/Jive Records)
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Too $hort, "Blow the Whistle" - One of the few songs on this list that wasn't specifically made for the strip club, but the creepy bass line and too-easy double entendres made it a pole favorite regardless. (Photo: Zomba Records)
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R. Kelly, "Feelin' on Yo Booty" - R. Kelly's hilarious 2001 hit is arguably the best strip club slow jam of all time. (Photo: Zomba Recording)
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Khia, "My Neck, My Back (Lick It)" - There are plenty of songs about men telling women how to get them off; Khia made a strip club classic by finally doing the opposite. (Photo: Sony Music)
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