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Wale

Clappers

Release date: 3rd September 2013

From The Gifted
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About This Track

A club track from Wale's third studio album 'The Gifted', 'Clappers' recruits Juicy J and Nicki Minaj for a straightforward strip-club anthem. Released as the album's fourth and final single in September 2013, it failed to crack the Billboard Hot 100 but reached number 37 on the US Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart. Wale's verses lean on fan participation and repetition, the hook a blunt call-and-response built around physical appreciation. Juicy J's contribution doubles down on the setting, detailing syrup consumption and cash-throwing with the kind of detail that suggests he has spent considerable time in VIP booths. The production keeps things minimal, prioritising bass and space for the titular activity. The track sits comfortably in the lineage of Southern hip-hop club records, functional rather than ambitious, designed to soundtrack a specific environment rather than transcend it.

"Clappers" is a track by Wale, from the album The Gifted, released 3rd September 2013. Full lyrics are available below.

About the Artist

Wale

Wale

Lyrics

Clappers

[Intro: Wale]

Don't mind me baby, heh

We takin' over summer

Young gettin it, haha

Let's take it home, champ

Shawty got a big ole butt, oh yeeeeeeah

Shawty got a big ole butt, oh yeeeeeeah

Wooooooo, uh

[Chorus: Wale]

Clappers to the front, front, front, front

Clappers to the front, front, front, front

Shawty got a big ol' butt

Oh, yeah

[Verse 1: Wale]

Ayy, Wale, whoo

Bounce, bounce, bounce, fool, I put the city on

Bounce, bounce, bounce, fool, then I put my niggas on

Bounce, bounce, bounce, fool, I ain't gotta say too much

It's fan participation keeping rainy in the stadium

Ooooh, rap fool, see that from a block away

I ain't pessimistic but I dropped a couple not today

Ooooh, bet she call you not today

I told 'em all my lot is out

I know the dame like Skylar team

Ooooh, I wonder if she shot up

I just know her favorite song is "Started from the Bottom"

And I ain't hating, mama, fact I wanna take your number

Said you save yo bread from Magic something happened then went voila

[Chorus: Wale]

Shawty got a big ole butt, oh yeeeeeeah

Shawty got a big ole butt, oh yeeeeeeah

Clappers to the front, front, front, front

Clappers to the front, front, front, front

Shawty got a big ol' butt

Oh Yeah!!!

[Verse 2: Juicy J]

Shawty, come shake that ass for me

Let a trippy nigga see what you working with

Can you clap that ass, do a handstand, girl

Make your booty wiggle, do a perfect split

She got the fattest ass, she got the perfect tits

I wanna get some head, come on work your lips

I'm high in the clouds, I'm not coming down

I'm so turned up, I can't find the ground (sippy)

Sippin' syrup by the gallon, smokin' kush by the pound

Make it flood with the ones, broke bitch might drown

Juicy got chips like Frito-Lay

And I'm fucking these chicks out of D.O.A

I'm so dopeboy fresh that you think that I'm selling blow

Take your chick to VIP and get her pregnant in her throat

Shawty bust it open for me, I might throw this cash

Shawty throw that ass like a Hail Mary pass

I'm fucking me a new chick every night

Make that ass clap, I don't care about that cellulite, uh

[Chorus: Wale]

Shawty got a big ole butt, oh yeeeeeeah

Shawty got a big ole butt, oh yeeeeeeah

Clappers to the front, front, front, front

Clappers to the front, front, front, front

Shawty got a big ol' butt

Oh yeah

[Verse 3: Wale]

Clappers to the front, got a backwood full of skunk

Got a white boy with the funnel gentrifying, that's whats up!

Look, clappers to the front, all you niggas got the skumps

Now she finna bust it loose, screaming rest in peace to Chuck

It's that DMV, we up at KOD

And I can CC you these CC's

But don't be OC

[Verse 4: Nicki Minaj]

Shout out to that cellulite

Got a real bad bitch that will sell you white

Got another bad bitch that will sex you right

Got a couple hoodrats on Section 8

Make a nigga cum, don’t procrastinate

Ass on 5-0, come crack the case

Got ass for days, come activate

This ass on fire, evacuate

Throw that ass in the air, evaporate

Where your money? Let a bitch evaluate

If you 'bout big money, elaborate

I'ma shake this ass ‘till I graduate, nigga

[Chorus: Wale]

Shawty got a big ole butt, oh yeeeeeeah

Shawty got a big ole butt, oh yeeeeeeah

Clappers to the front, front, front, front

Clappers to the front, front, front, front

Shawty got a big ol' butt

Oh yeah

[Outro: Wale]

Uh, bounce, bounce, bounce, bounce, bounce, bounce, bounce

Yeah, yeah, uh, bounce, bounce, look, look

Sayin' rest in peace to Chuck, uh, yeah

Sayin' rest in peace to Chuck, yeah uh-huh

Sayin' rest in peace to Chuck, yeah, yeah

And in that city I'm the one, let's go, Scotty

E. Sreet, D. Sreet, Rosedale, Sursum Corda, Paradise, Carver Terrace, 1-5, Parkland, Garfield, Palmer Park, 2-5, Kentland, Benning Park, Simple City

Simple City

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Track details

From The Gifted

2013
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Album
The Gifted
The Gifted
Wale
Release year
2013
  1. —Golden Salvation (Jesus Piece)
  2. —Gullible
  3. —Heaven’s Afternoon
  4. —LoveHate Thing
  5. —The Curse of the Gifted
  6. —Rotation
  7. —Clappers
  8. —Bricks
  9. —MFS
  10. —One Eye Kitten (Remix)
  11. —Black Heroes / Outro About Nothing
  12. —Sunshine
  13. —Simple Man
  14. —Hella
  15. —Vanity
  16. —Tired of Dreaming
  17. —88

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Credits

Production & Engineering

Writer
Juicy J, Kevin Spencer, Marcus Miller, Mark Stevens, Michael Henry, Nicki Minaj, Wale
Producer
Juicy J, Mark Henry, No Credit
Engineer
Ariel Chobaz
Additional Recording
Derek Pacuk
Assistant Engineer
Sam Bohl
Mastering Engineer
Chris Athens
Mixing Engineer
Fabian Marasciullo
Recording Engineer
Ariel Chobaz, No Credit
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