How Deep Is Your Love (feat. Redman) [Single Version]
Dru Hill · Hits
A smooth hook dressed around infidelity, boasting, and secrecy.
Where the words land
Signal: At Odds.
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.
- Strained: Strains against Scripture: leans toward what could dull or mislead.
- At Odds: At odds with Scripture: celebrates what it warns against. Little here builds up.
Weighed against Scripture
“You've been seeing another Chico”
“You shall not commit adultery.”
The song's premise is pursuing someone already involved with another man, directly at odds with the command against adultery.
“On the low low, so your friends won't know”
“Have no fellowship with the fruitless deeds of darkness, but rather expose them. For it is shameful even to mention what the disobedient do in secret.”
The deliberate secrecy the hook celebrates is the opposite of bringing things into the light; it's built to hide, not to honor.
“You know that he can't go down like me”
“Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no account of wrongs.”
Love as Scripture describes it is patient and doesn't boast; here 'love' is reduced to a bragging contest over sexual performance.
“It was the Hennessey that made us slug it out”
“Wine is a mocker, strong drink is a brawler, and whoever is led astray by them is not wise.”
The lyric casually credits alcohol for reckless behavior, the very folly Proverbs warns against.
In short
Beneath the smooth R&B delivery, this is a song about pursuing a woman already in another relationship, framed as a competition over who satisfies her better physically. 'Love' here means secrecy, conquest, and bragging rather than commitment or care. The added verses lean further into crude boasting, slurs, and glamorized reckless behavior.
- Lyrical content
Explicit sexual boasting, a crude slur, profanity, and an affair being pursued behind another man's back dominate the verses.
- Spiritual posture
The song centers entirely on self-glorifying sexual conquest and secrecy, with no reach toward anything beyond physical appetite and ego.
- Apparent intent
The intent is seduction and boasting framed as romance; the 'low low' secrecy and comparison to a rival partner normalize infidelity rather than genuine love.
What do these ratings mean?
- Lyrical content, what the words say on the surface. Clean: nothing coarse, sexual or violent. Mild: a trace of it, by allusion or a rare word. Strong: profanity, sex or violence in plain words. Explicit: graphic, or sin held up to admire.
- Spiritual posture, where the song's heart points. God-honoring: toward God, truth or hope. Searching: honestly reaching or wrestling toward truth, without arriving. Neutral: spiritually indifferent; neither reaches nor rejects. Dark: despairing, nihilistic, self-exalting or hostile to God.
- Apparent intent, what the song is for. Edifying: worship, encouragement, honest lament. Cathartic: letting grief, anger or longing out, told honestly. Ambiguous: hard to say what the song is for. Harmful: celebrates evil, mocks faith or draws toward sin.
Does this song's idea of 'love' look like anything Scripture would actually call love?
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