Beyonce has definitely gone off script with the shock value for her new song 'Bow Down / I Been On' song that she released on her website on Sunday that's making its rounds 'round the net today, collecting tweets and Facebook shares.
Give Beyonce's new 'I Been On / Bow Down' song a listen here, but be warned, with lyrics like "This my sh&t...H-town vicious" and "Smack that trick...smack that trick" interspersed with the continuous smack-talking refrain to "bow down bitches," this 'ain't no' song with heart-provoking images like "Resentment," that I loved watching Bey perform on her "Life is But a Dream" HBO special.
"I know when you were little girls you dreamt of being in my world. Don't think I'm just his little wife," Mrs. Carter reminds us, rhyming in lyrics that eventually "chop me up and slowed me down just like that Houston flow," as rapper Lecrae describes the style in I'm a Saint.
And Beyonce gives plenty of love to her childhood Houston days, plus folks like Willie D of the unforgettable Houston hip-hop act Geto Boys. (Who could forget those "dropping them 5th ward beams on him" lyrics?)
"I remember being in that Willie D video when I was about 14, looking crazy," Beyonce says, waxing nostalgic about her "baby hair with my dookey braids...frenchies..."
Is that Beyonce rapping in the lower part of "I Been On" as the voice grows deep and growly? Yes, apparently so, says MTV, who points to a version of the song without the vocal changes.
"I been on… I been on...Tell me who gon' take me off?" she raps in the lyrics, and this Cleveland Pop Culture Examiner thinks to herself, Oh boy, I understand smack talk, but pride goes before a fall...still, it's a catchy beat that I just found myself nodding my head to as I wrote.
"I heard your boo was talking lip. I told my crew to smack that trick," Beyonce says in the 'I Been On' part of the song, surprisingly stating, "Guess what they did? Smack that trick."
"Rolling high...gold everything..." she continues in the bravado-filled lyrics. "You can see me stunt when you turn on your screen. I'm your number one chick you don't need no hype. The capital B means I'm 'bout that life..."
Then Beyonce gives a shout out to Pimp C, UGK, riffing about her obvious love for rap before giggling low. It's interesting to hear the song without the pitch and more in her normal voice. But "bow down bitches?" Only to Jesus, thank you very much.
As my mom would say, "Cool it, kid."
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