Throat Baby (Go Baby)

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"Throat Baby (Go Baby)"
Throat Baby.jpg
Single by BRS Kash
from the album Kash Only
ReleasedJuly 24, 2020 (2020-07-24)
Genre
Length3:38
Label
Songwriter(s) Kenneth Duncan
Producer(s)
BRS Kash singles chronology
"Throat Baby (Go Baby)"
(2020)		"30 Stacks"
(2021)
Music video
"Throat Baby (Go Baby)" on YouTube

"Throat Baby (Go Baby)" is the debut single by American rapper BRS Kash. It was released on July 24, 2020, originally through Team Litty and later with Love Renaissance and Interscope Records, as the lead single from BRS Kash's debut mixtape, Kash Only (2021). The dirty Southern hip hop and R&B song was written by Kash & Elliot Prince, who wrote it as an ode to fellatio inspired by two separate sexual encounters, with production by Adamslides and Chi Chi.

Contents

The track became popular on video-sharing social media platform TikTok in late 2020, and peaked at number 24 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. It was included on lists of the best songs of 2020 published by Vice and NPR. [1] [2] A remix of the song with American rapper DaBaby and American hip hop duo City Girls was released on January 21, 2021.

Background and composition

Kash first recorded "Throat Baby" while "joking around", and was at first apprehensive about releasing it, fearing that he would receive backlash for "just degrading women". [3] [4] The track gained traction on the video-sharing platform TikTok in October 2020, where a dance set to the song became popular. [5] [6]

"Throat Baby" is a dirty Southern hip hop [7] and R&B song. [6] The intro of the song contains a sample of Kash's best friend, who died after the song's release, laughing and talking with her friends after crashing Kash's studio session. [5] Its lyrics are written as an ode to fellatio [8] [9] and were inspired by "a crazy experience with one of [Kash's] homegirls" the night before Kash wrote the song, as well as a later sexual experience with her friend in the backseat of a Toyota Sprinter. [5]

Jewel Wicker of GQ described "Throat Baby" as "a melodic ode to sexual desire and the things it can drive someone to do", while Uproxx's Aaron Williams called it a "campy, anti-romance anthem". [10] Writing for Okayplayer, Robyn Mowatt referred to the track as a "stripper anthem" that "exists between R&B and trap music". [6]

Live performance

Kash gave a live performance of "Throat Baby" as part of the Uproxx Sessions series in October 2020. [10] He headlined a drive-in rally for then-US Senate candidates Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock in Lithonia, Georgia in December 2020 prior to the runoffs for the 2020–21 Senate election and special election, where he changed the lyrics of "Throat Baby" to "Vote Baby". Following his performance at the rally, various Republicans circulated tweets from Kash which referenced sexual assault. [11] [12]

Remix

Remix

  • BRS Kash  –vocals, songwriting
  • DaBaby  –vocals, songwriting
  • Yung Miami  –vocals, songwriting
  • JT  –vocals, songwriting
  • Adamslides –production, songwriting
  • Chi Chi –production, songwriting
  • Brittany "Chi" Coney –songwriting
  • Denisia "Blu June" Andrews –songwriting
  • Kinta "Ball Greezy" Cox –songwriting
  • Colin Leonard –mastering
  • D-Billy –mixing

Charts

Weekly charts

"Throat Baby (Go Baby) [Remix]"
Single by BRS Kash, DaBaby and City Girls
from the album Kash Only
ReleasedJanuary 21, 2021 (2021-01-21)
Length3:31
Label
  • Team Litty
  • LVRN
  • Interscope
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)
  • Adamslides
  • Chi Chi
BRS Kash singles chronology
"Throat Baby (Go Baby)"
(2020)		"Throat Baby (Go Baby) [Remix]"
(2021)		"Kash App"
(2021)
Chart performance for "Throat Baby (Go Baby)"
Chart (2021)Peak
position
Global 200 ( Billboard ) [18] 88
US Billboard Hot 100 [19] 24
US Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs ( Billboard ) [20] 10
US Rhythmic ( Billboard ) [21] 17
Chart performance for the remix version of "Throat Baby (Go Baby)"
Chart (2021)Peak
position
New Zealand Hot Singles (RMNZ) [22] 29
US Rolling Stone Top 100 [23] 63

Year-end charts

Year-end chart performance for "Throat Baby (Go Baby)"
Chart (2021)Position
US Billboard Hot 100 [24] 97
US Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs (Billboard) [25] 39

Certifications

Certifications for "Throat Baby (Go Baby)"
RegionCertification Certified units/sales
United States (RIAA) [26] 2× Platinum2,000,000‡

‡ Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone.

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