What's It Gonna Be (feat. Janet Jackson)
Busta Rhymes · The Best of Busta Rhymes
A club banger built entirely on explicit sexual appetite with no deeper aim.
Where the words land
Signal: At Odds, leaning strained.
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
“Gonna make your body wet”
“Flee from sexual immorality. Every other sin a man can commit is outside his body, but he who sins sexually sins against his own body.”
The song centers sexual gratification as the whole point of connection, while Paul urges fleeing sexual immorality rather than reveling in it.
“Gonna make you think of naughty things”
“Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable — if anything is excellent or praiseworthy — think on these things.”
Paul calls believers to dwell on what is pure and lovely; this song intentionally steers the mind toward lust as entertainment.
“There ain't no stopping it baby I know we driving you crazy”
“The acts of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity, and debauchery; idolatry and sorcery; hatred, discord, jealousy, and rage; rivalries, divisions, factions, and envy; drunkenness, orgies, and the like. I warn you, as I did before, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.”
The glorying in uncontrolled sexual appetite stands opposite Paul's warning list of works of the flesh that crowd out the Spirit's fruit.
The song as a whole
“You have captured my heart, my sister, my bride; you have stolen my heart with one glance of your eyes, with one jewel of your neck. How delightful is your love, my sister, my bride! Your love is much better than wine, and the fragrance of your perfume than all spices. Your lips, my bride, drip sweetness like the honeycomb; honey and milk are under your tongue, and the fragrance of your garments is like the aroma of Lebanon.”
Scripture does celebrate sexual desire, but within covenant intimacy and poetic tenderness, a sharp contrast to this song's impersonal, performative framing.
In short
This is a late-90s club anthem built entirely around sexual tension and physical release, with Busta Rhymes and Janet Jackson trading explicit innuendo over a dance beat. There's no narrative depth or emotional complexity here, just unfiltered appetite dressed up as a party. It isn't cruel or degrading in intent, but it also offers nothing beyond the moment of pleasure it's chasing.
- Lyrical content
Explicit, sustained sexual content and crude language throughout, with repeated graphic descriptions of physical arousal and innuendo.
- Spiritual posture
The song isn't hostile to God so much as entirely indifferent to anything beyond physical pleasure and party energy; there's no reaching, no reflection, just appetite.
- Apparent intent
Clearly made for the dance floor and sexual charge rather than malice, but its purpose is to arouse and entertain, not to build up or tell a meaningful story.
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 draw your mind toward something life-giving, or just toward the next sensation?
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