Buy U A Drank (Shawty Snappin')

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Today is the 10-year anniversary of the release of T-Pain's seminal "Buy U A Drank."

Where were you on February 20, 2007? It was on this day that T-Pain released his seminal, self-produced single "Buy U A Drank (Shawty Snappin')" and officially became the voice of a generation.

T-Pain was only 21 years old at the time, but it was plain to see that he was nothing short of a young phoenix about to soar past his older peers, a songbird who could set the club on fire on a whim. Yung Joc's verse on "Buy U a Drank," albeit respectable, was not needed for the song's effortless and inevitable journey to #1 on the Billboard Hot #100.

Salute the GOAT.

Quotable Lyrics

I'ma buy you a drank
Then I'ma take you home with me
I got money in the bank, shawty, what you think bout that?
I'll be in the grey Cadillac
We in the bed like...


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