"Go Girl"
Single by Pitbull featuring Trina and Young Bo$
from the album The Boatlift
Released2007
Genre
Length3:48
LabelTVT
Songwriter(s)
  • Armando C. Pérez
  • David Mauricio Bowen-Petterson
  • Katrina Laverne Taylor
  • Kenneth C. Coby
  • Valentino Khan
Producer(s)Soundz
Pitbull singles chronology
"Born-N-Raised"
(2006)
"Go Girl"
(2007)
"The Anthem"
(2007)
Trina singles chronology
"Here We Go"
(2005)
"Go Girl"
(2007)
"Single Again"
(2007)
Young Bo$ singles chronology
"Go Girl"
(2007)
"Shooting Star"
(2009)
Music video
"Go Girl" on YouTube

"Go Girl" is a song by Pitbull, released in 2007 as the first single from the album The Boatlift. It features Trina and David Rush, who was at the time known as Young Bo$$. The single peaked at number 83 on the US Billboard Hot 100. A music video was made, featuring Pitbull, Trina and Young Bo$$ dancing in a club.

Cultural references

Pitbull makes several pop culture references in the song. He makes reference to earlier 2007 songs, ones such as "Party Like a Rockstar" by the Shop Boyz and "Buy U a Drank (Shawty Snappin')" by T-Pain featuring Yung Joc. He also makes references to Myspace and the television network HBO.

The song also samples Trina's "Party Like a Rockstar (Remix)" on her 2007 mixtape Rockstarr, as well as lyrics from the Notorious B.I.G.'s 1994 single "Big Poppa".

A sample of the song was played during a dance break during shows of the K-pop SM Town Live '10 World Tour. Hyoyeon, Yoona, Yuri and Sooyoung of Girls' Generation and Luna of f(x) performed a choreographed dance to the song.

Charts

Chart (2007–2008) Peak
position
US Billboard Hot 100[1] 83
US Hot Rap Songs (Billboard)[2] 25
US Pop 100 (Billboard)[3] 64
US Rhythmic (Billboard)[4] 30

References

  1. "Pitbull Chart History (Hot 100)". Billboard. Retrieved October 3, 2016.
  2. "Pitbull Chart History (Hot Rap Songs)". Billboard. Retrieved October 3, 2016.
  3. "Pitbull – Awards". AllMusic. Archived from the original on March 30, 2016. Retrieved June 3, 2022.
  4. "Pitbull Chart History (Rhythmic)". Billboard. Retrieved October 3, 2016.


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