Defend the Indefensible: "Perfect Gentleman" by Wyclef Jean

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(This one's goin' out to the strip joints
Yo, meet me at Suzy's Rendez-vous
For every Go-Go Bar
I'ma send this one out to the gentlemen's clubs
Magic City, New York dogs, Rolex
I be seeing y'all up in there late at night
I understand when your girl is stressing you out
(Crazy girls) Know what I'm saying?
Don't let the ladies fool y'all now, fellas
They be doin' the same thing y'all be doin'
Turn up my symphony, man.
Turn up my symphony!
Drop a BEAT!)

[Chorus]
Just 'cuz she dances go-go
It don't make her a ho, no
Maxine, put your dance shoes on
We going to the disco
We gonna eeeelope to Meeeexico
Called up my mama, said I'm in love with a stripper, yo

[Verse 1]
Ten grand, let me see you shake it like you got no
bones in your body and you was made to be a celebrity
Twenty grand, know it's a sin, but before me you show
me a little more skin it would fulfill my fantasy
Thirty grand, to the highest bidder but Chris Rock
said, 'There's no sex in the champaigne room'
Forty grand, looked into her eyes, I saw tears falling
down, type of tears that money couldn't buy

[Chorus 2X]

[Verse 2]
[Wyclef]
Excuse me, what is your name?
[Hope]
Uh, my name is Hope, yo
I was blessed with the body of the Goddesses
Have you any idea how hard this is?
I could flex in 25 positions
But I only work here to pay my tuition
Yo, tantalizing teaser
Table-top pleaser
Give me what I need a
Mastercard a Visa
Lap dance fantasy
Picture us on and on white canopy
Wyclef extended his hand to me
Like Billy D. said he's feelin me
Take me away from here, so far
Where they ride horses, no cars
No more stripping in bars
Me and you 'Clef, against the odds

[Chorus 2X]

(Yo a lot of y'all sitting with y'all girls
fronting like the budweiser commercial
Talking bout, 'IIIIIII, I don't be going to the strip joints'
You lying man! You'd be surprised who you see up in there man.
I got one question for you liars, man)

Shot callers, Wasn't you a preacher?
You calling her a hooker? He without sin cast the first stone.
I met her on the subway, she gave me that VIP card
And told me if I ever have problems,
Don't hesitate to come by, yeah, yeah, yeah

[Chorus 2X]
Call up my mama said I'm in love with a stripper yo!

(Yo baby, can I get another lap dance? I tell you I
got nothing but funny money, man. New York Dogs.)

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 20 December 2005 12:48 (twenty years ago)

A lecturer in Scottish Literature at Edinburgh University described this as "the most romantic song ever written".

― Tom (Groke), Tuesday, 20 December 2005 12:53 (twenty years ago)

I love this track. C'mon, everybody wants to eeeeeelope to Mexico every now and then.

― The Wanderers' Wandering Daughter (noodle vague), Tuesday, 20 December 2005 12:57 (twenty years ago)

this song depresses me. i associate it with really fucking shitty music.

― Theorry Henry (Enrique), Tuesday, 20 December 2005 13:01 (twenty years ago)

But the chorus is so joyous! It's such a woozy half-way-to-pissed early-Friday-evening vibe. Come on, it's all about the repetitive "oh" sounds - the noise you make as you're swimming your way to the bar.

― The Wanderers' Wandering Daughter (noodle vague), Tuesday, 20 December 2005 13:13 (twenty years ago)

It's such a woozy half-way-to-pissed early-Friday-evening vibe.

that's true, yes. i still hate it. i hate the strings.

― Theorry Henry (Enrique), Tuesday, 20 December 2005 13:14 (twenty years ago)

The "Excuse me, what is your name?" bit is brilliant.

― James Ward (jamesmichaelward), Tuesday, 20 December 2005 13:16 (twenty years ago)

Miccio to thread.

― Ronan (Ronan), Tuesday, 20 December 2005 13:56 (twenty years ago)

All of Wyclef's singles ever are some extraordinary balance between heaven and hell.

― Sororah T Massacre (blueski), Tuesday, 20 December 2005 14:15 (twenty years ago)

Also, feel free to TS it with "What Would You Do?" by City High, which I think was written by the acoustic guitar toting twat as well.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 20 December 2005 14:20 (twenty years ago)

i really hate that one still.

Wyclef ft. The Rock 'It Doesn't Matter' though, flawless.

― Sororah T Massacre (blueski), Tuesday, 20 December 2005 14:24 (twenty years ago)

That is undeniable.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 20 December 2005 14:25 (twenty years ago)

i deny it

― Theorry Henry (Enrique), Tuesday, 20 December 2005 14:26 (twenty years ago)

Deny The Undeniable

― Sororah T Massacre (blueski), Tuesday, 20 December 2005 14:26 (twenty years ago)

wyclef is always shit. 'gone to november' was him, i think? and 'ghetto superstar'?

― Theorry Henry (Enrique), Tuesday, 20 December 2005 14:31 (twenty years ago)

But if you ain't caring, people ain't sharing, come up in the hood and they take everything you're wearing!

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 20 December 2005 14:36 (twenty years ago)

also there was that amazing video he did which was three songs in one - the terrible 'i cheated on you you cheated on me' thing but then the Knight Rider ragga thing in the middle was hot.

― Sororah T Massacre (blueski), Tuesday, 20 December 2005 14:41 (twenty years ago)

"Ghetto Supersar" was the other Fugee, the one who isn't Lauren Hill.

― David A. (Davant), Tuesday, 20 December 2005 22:33 (twenty years ago)

uhm.. "turn up my symphony, man/turn up my symphony!/drop a beat"

does anything get cooler than that?

― brontosaur, Wednesday, 21 December 2005 00:56 (twenty years ago)

I really really like this track. Utterly unapologetically. But then I like all kindsa dumb stuff.

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 21 December 2005 00:59 (twenty years ago)

three years pass...

I really really like this track. Utterly unapologetically. But then I like all kindsa dumb stuff.
― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Tuesday, December 20, 2005 7:59 PM (3 years ago) Bookmark

This.

― *:--☆--:*:--☆:*:--☆--:*:--☆--: (ENBB), Saturday, 26 September 2009 20:57 (sixteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXmLOdjMuTc&feature=related

― *:--☆--:*:--☆:*:--☆--:*:--☆--: (ENBB), Saturday, 26 September 2009 20:59 (sixteen years ago)

three years pass...

http://www.aei-ideas.org/2013/05/the-21-greatest-conservative-rap-songs-of-all-time-part-7/

― AMERICA IS ABOUT RESSLING (DJP), Thursday, 16 May 2013 15:04 (thirteen years ago)

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