Get Low
Lil Jon & The East Side Boyz & Ying Yang Twins · Kings of Crunk
Explicit objectification with nothing beneath it
What do these signals mean?
- Edifying: Points the heart toward God, truth, hope, or love.
- Worth Weighing: Real good and real concern together. Test it before you take it in.
- Take Caution: Leans toward what could dull or mislead. Approach carefully.
- Consider Avoiding: Celebrates what Scripture warns against. Little here builds up.
Weighed against Scripture
“But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be once named among you, as becometh saints; Neither filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not convenient: but rather giving of thanks.”
Paul calls believers to let sexual immorality and obscenity be absent from their lives entirely, not as prudishness but as a reflection of who they belong to. This song plants those things at the center.
“What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own? For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God’s.”
The body matters to God and is meant to honor him. A song that treats other people's bodies purely as entertainment for one's own gratification cuts against that vision directly.
“Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.”
Paul's standard for what the mind should dwell on includes whatever is pure and honorable. Measured against that, this song offers nothing that fits the list.
Get Low is a crunk club track built entirely around explicit sexual commands and the reduction of women to bodies. There is no story being told, no tension being worked through, and no moment where the song reaches toward anything else. What you get is exactly what it advertises, and that is the concern.
Wall-to-wall sexual explicitness, heavy profanity, and slurs throughout. The language is not incidental; it is the entire substance of the song.
Women are treated as objects for male gratification. There is no reach toward anything beyond appetite. No lament, no beauty, no humanity extended to the people described.
The intent is straightforwardly to celebrate and encourage the sexual objectification of women. There is no narrative frame, no irony, and no counterweight.
If you sat with this song on repeat for an hour, what would it be shaping in the way you see the women around you?
