‘Shawty What Your Name Is?’ 10 of Beyonce’s Most Ghetto Lyrics

July 3rd, 2012 - By madamenoire

Source: missberniej.com

From HelloBeautiful.com

Beyonce has been doing a lot of writing these days. From letters to the First Lady to her mother, Tina Knowles and even to a blind kid. Yes, a blind kid. Beyonce’s all-of-a-sudden writing skills were the catalyst to my spinning wheel of a brain. I started thinking that maybe if Beyonce spent a little more time writing her own lyrics, she wouldn’t be caught out here making songs that have got her singing some of the most ghetto lyrics I’ve ever heard in a catchy tune.

I’m not sure how many of you pay attention to the lyrics the beautiful Bey sings, but they can get pretty ratchet.

Check out her top 10 ghetto lyrics below, including an honorary mention.

1. Get Me Bodied (Extended Remix)

Pat your weaves ladies pat pat pat your weaves ladies watch it while he check up on it

Does this need any explanation? I mean, when your weave itches, patting is very effective.

Check out the other 9 ghetto lines on HelloBeautiful.com.

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  • Sara

    What point does this “article” serve? Really, the author is taking the harmless/fun lyrics far too literal and is trying to justify her pointlessness by sprinkling her unsubstantial comments with sarcasm and supposed wit.
    I don’t think it’s far fetched to say she has too much time on her hands and feels a little sour toward Beyonce.

  • shanna

    black folks and their obsession with beyonce

  • Msmykimoto2u

    What is she holding in her hand in that picture? A baby bottle?

    • kameria

      Looks like she is about to blow bubbles…..I had to look at it twice myself.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_JAI4SRENU2A5WKRTELXXYJPDSI Kayla

    im confused as to what qualifies as ghetto.

  • lucygoosey

    since when does having a southern accent equals being ghetto? its funny how her target audience seem to understand her. All Americans should speak and write proper English, there’s no valid reason not to, regardless of the excuses us black folks come up with. she’s making money on the community language bet none of that slang mess is on any of her checks.

    • kameria

      I agree, and if this (her southern accent) was the case, then what about people who have “Northern” accents….I’m pretty sure there are some people from New York, or New Jersey with “accents”, and who are plenty “ghetto/ratched” that would put Beyonce to shame….

  • Love_Your_Smile

    IDK… I’m getting way more “country” from the lyrics that you have posted than “ghetto”. Gosh, ghetto is so darn derogatory…

  • Ladybug94

    I hate to say it but Beyonce “is” ghetto. That’s why she talks so slow and monotone, to try to disguise her accent. It is what it is. She’s not the only one, so let’s carry on.

    • Lola

      But I thought she grew up in a middle/upper class Houston suburb? I have always been perplexed over the fact that she was raised in a middle-class, two-parent household and yet speaks as though she grew up in the “hood”.

      • Hawaiian Breeze

        Are you also perplexed if one speaks proper English but did not grow up in an environment surrounded by others who do?

        • Msmykimoto2u

          Just because a person grows up privelaged doesnt make them any less ghetto. its all in the way they act. Just like not everyone who lives in the “ghetto” doesn’t make them ghetto

          • Lola

            True! Which begs the question: Where did Beyonce learn her ghetto mannerisms and vocabulary from? I don’t see her mother behaving or speaking in that manner (at least not publicly).

        • Lola

          No, I find it exhilarating for they have not conformed to society’s preconceived notions of them.

    • BabaPuppe

      She’s not ghetto… Just “country”. I wish some people would learn the difference.

  • lalatarea

    ok that list was ridiculous and the way the author went after beyonce after every pierce is kinda suspicious. i mean we know what she saying is either country grammar or just her (well her writers) playing around with words.

  • Just_Me:)

    Most of these lyrics are country sayings. She is from Houston, Texas, right?

  • IllyPhilly

    That’s what happens when you’re a robot. Pat ya weave? What song was that from? Stopped being fan after first album.

  • bluekissess

    Shame on me for reading this. Half of people are using ghetto and ratchet out of context anyway. Just because someone can’t speak proper English doesn’t mean there ghetto. Ghetto–: 1. A part of a city, esp. a slum area, occupied by a minority group or groups. 2. The Jewish quarter in a city: “the Warsaw Ghetto”. It says nothing about language.

    It’s a song in which CEOs, teachers, nurses & judges probably sing on a daily bases.

    • IllyPhilly

      No it doesn’t mean there ghetto, it means they’re ghetto or hoodbillies as I calls ‘em.

      • bluekissess

        It doesn’t mean there ghetto it means they’re ghetto? Ghetto is still spelled the same way. What you said makes no sense

        • MLS2698

          IIIyPhilly typed the word ” they’re” as in , they are, and not, “there” as in, have a seat over there.

          • Hawaiian Breeze

            Your explanation just gave me a headache.

            • bluekissess

              Ikr? She’s talking about there their and they’re and my concern is about the word ghetto.

              • IllyPhilly

                Be concerned with making a statement and using spell check because I’m sure others noticed and said, “damn look @ her ghetto a$$ tryna make a point.” They just chose not to comment. Yes ghetto is overused just like the words, like, OMG, whatever, hoodrat, “ratchet”, slore, hoe b!tch, and most of all, n!gga.

          • bluekissess

            So glad you can distinguish between the there their and they’re but I’m talking about the word GHETTO. And the “taking several seats” phrase sounds so clichè don’t you think?

          • IllyPhilly

            Thank You for taking you English classes.

          • IllyPhilly

            Thank You for taking your English classes.

        • IllyPhilly

          Because you must have just past fifth grade.

    • Hawaiian Breeze

      The word ‘ratchet’ is not only used out of context, it is down right used incorrectly. The slang meaning of ‘ratchet’ has no relation to the actual meaning of the word. The word should actually be ‘wretched’.

  • http://twitter.com/VictoriaGrooves Victoria grooves

    Her writers are ghetto

    • MLS2698

      Good one!

  • gmarie

    Ghetto isn’t a crime

    • Jay

      It should be

      • gmarie

        I’m sorry people aren’t allowed to select the circumstances they’re born into the way you were.

        These songs are all in fun and sooo not that serious. Beyonce knows how to conduct herself when and where the time is fit..

        • Jay

          I sense that you have been upsetted by my statement? Portraying the steryotypicsl black woman is not in good fun and gives self-respecting black woman bad names.. I never said that disinfranchised people were bad. The hot pink weave wearing, syllable counting, loud talking, gold tooth wearing people are the bad ones.

          • bkabbagej

            Not “bad”, just uninformed and misguided, this is an issue that I truly have a problem with. Most of us from the ghetto that can speak and write “proper english”, know better and therefore do better. Some of us have been educated and enlighten in the aspects of continuously speaking clearly and pronouncing our words the way they’re suppose to be written,spoken and pronounced. We all use incorrect english when we’re around our family and friends and are quite comfortable using slang in our intimate conversations, in our music, in our entertainment (while watching ourselves in movies) and we have no problems enjoying and even laughing at ourselves. Those of us who live in these two worlds (proper english and slang speaking) know how to conduct ourselves in both worlds and should teach our children that there is a time and place for both types of conversation and not insult those that don’t know better.

            • bluekissess

              You shouldn’t take this post and other comments seriously. I do agree with you but it’s not worth it in this case. The story/article is silly anyways.

            • MLS2698

              When you make an entire album and market it, it’s not intimate anymore. You ain’t on grandma’s couch no mo’.

            • Hawaiian Breeze

              “We all use incorrect English when we’re around our family and friends
              and are quite comfortable using slang in our intimate conversations” – Speak for yourself. How I speak is the same no matter who I am in the company of. I also don’t use slang. There is never a time and place to speak using Ebonics (incorrect English). You just said yourself, “…know better and therefore do better.”

          • Numero Uno

            Ummm “upsetted” is not a word. Just saying…and neither is…you know what…never mind….

            • Jay

              I’m sorry, I didn’t know this was english class? Heres a nice warm glass of STFU. Drink up

              • Hawaiian Breeze

                Should we also add and subtract numbers incorrectly since we aren’t in Math class?

                • Jay

                  I See you would also like to enjoy a nice warm glass of STFU

                  • Hawaiian Breeze

                    Oh my goodness, you got me there. [Sarcasm]

                    • Jay

                      Seeing as I’m not about to bicker with a unknown He or she online, I will just say goodnight

                    • bluekissess

                      I can’t believe it was an online war about BEYONCE lyrics

            • MLS2698

              Lol! I likeded what you wrote. And Beyonce still lookeded good, though.

    • MLS2698

      Then you should say it like this: ghetto is ain’t be no crime, fo’ real, fo’ real.