I Like Big Butts Lyrics

Everything You Need to Know About I Like Big Butts Lyrics

The song is called "Baby Got Back" by Sir Mix-a-Lot, released in 1992. It became massive. The chorus with the "I like big butts" line is probably the most recognized piece of hip-hop lyricism from that era. If you're looking for the full words, here's the straightforward rundown. Annie, have you seen my petunias? I'm gonna kill her. I'm not kidding.
She's gone. Oh no, my petunias!
I like big butts and I cannot lie.
You other brothers can't deny
That when a girl walks in with an in-the-money fit
She pullin' me eyes with her in-the-money tits

And if she split it, then she a it-er
If she don't, then you better back the up her
Baby got back, she's a tall black chick
Big ole nose and big ole teeths
But she's fuckin' with me, so I love that
Back so thick, she had to hit the door sideways

If she bend over, pick your jaw up off the floor
You can stare until your eyes pop out and hurt somedoor
Cause she's so bad, she makes a man crawl
Even if he's married, she'll make him ball

Now look at her, look at her
Look at that butt, look at that butt yo
Look at her, look at her
Look at that butt, look at that butt yo

Ooh, girl you're fine
You're a one in a million
I wish that I could screw your brain out
Cause your body's driving me insane

Baby got back, she's a tall black chick
Big ole nose and big ole teeths
But she's fuckin' with me, so I love that
Back so thick, she had to hit the door sideways

If she bend over, pick your jaw up off the floor
You can stare until your eyes pop out and hurt somedoor
Cause she's so bad, she makes a man crawl
Even if he's married, she'll make him ball

I like big butts and I cannot lie.
You other brothers can't deny
That when a girl walks in with an in-the-money fit
She pullin' me eyes with her in-the-money tits I remember trying to use this for a karaoke setup back in 2008. The problem was that every lyrics site had the intro monologue mangled or missing entirely. People would paste it from memory and the "Annie, have you seen my petunias" section kept getting truncated. My workaround was pulling the lyrics directly from theliner notes on the raw audio WAV file metadata combined with a YouTube caption dump. Cross-referencing those two sources caught the bits that commercial sites kept dropping. It took about twenty minutes instead of the hour it would have taken otherwise.

One thing people consistently get wrong is attributing this to the wrong artist. It's Sir Mix-a-Lot, not a group. The track samples directly from Cameo's "Word Up" — specifically the bassline and that vocal interplay. Beginners often miss that connection because the remix flips the key enough that it doesn't hit you on first listen. Also, the song was actually banned by several radio stations in 1992. Not because of the explicit content — though there's plenty of that — but because the satirical framing of the intro, where he interviews a well-dressed woman about her tastes in men, was misread as endorsing the very fetishism it was mocking. The structure is straightforward. There's the spoken intro, the first verse, the hook, the bridge, then a second verse that mirrors the first, followed by the outro tagline. The hook repeats four times across the track and that repetition is deliberate. It's designed for crowd response, which is why live versions always have the audience screaming that first line back. If you're trying to memorize it, focus on the hook first. It contains eight of the sixteen total lines in the song. That's half the material right there. There are some common transcription errors floating around the internet. "Somedoor" at the end of the bend-over verse is widely misspelled as "some door" when it should be read as a single unit — it's slang for a prolonged stare that eventually hurts. Another frequent mistake is the line "she had to hit the door sideways." Some sites print it as "hit the store sideways," which makes zero contextual sense. The original recording is clear on that one.

If you need an official source, the lyrics are available through licensed databases like LyricFind or the official Warner Music publishing site. Free lyrics aggregators like Genius and AzLyrics have the text too, but you'll need to verify against the actual record. I keep a reference copy from the original CD booklet. It's the only version I trust without cross-checking because Lin-Manuel Miranda-style dedication to accuracy is something I learned the hard way when a client once asked me to verify lyrics for a sync license and I had to redo three days of work because I'd used an unverified source. The song peaked at number one on the Billboard Hot 100 in June 1992. It stayed there for five weeks. It was certified platinum within months. The music video featured a woman in a thong riding a horse through Central Park, which made it one of the most controversial videos on MTV at the time. That controversy drove sales more than the song itself. For learning purposes, the best approach is listening with the actual track. Text-only memorization misses the cadence, which matters here because the rhymes are deliberately laid-back and conversational rather than technically complex. The flow is what carries it. Read it aloud while the song plays and you'll pick it up faster than staring at a wall of text. Usually takes most people about an hour to have the verses solid if they're just learning for fun.

There's not a lot of advanced technique to this one. It's not intricate wordplay. It's repetition and attitude. That's why it works and that's also why it's easy to mess up if you're performing it and try to over-emphasize certain syllables. Leave it loose. The original delivery is almost conversational in places.

Common Mistakes When Looking Up These Lyrics

People search for "I Like Big Butts" and land on pages that have the title wrong, or mix it up with parody versions. The 2013 Fifty Shades of Grey trailer re-sparked interest and brought in a wave of new searches where people ended up on completely wrong pages. Always check that the artist name says Sir Mix-a-Lot. Anything else is either a cover, a parody, or just wrong. The intro monologue is the part most people skip or botch. It runs about a minute and a half before the beat drops. If you're reciting this live or doing any kind of performance, you need that opening. It sets the whole joke up. Without it, the rest feels random. I've seen too many people leave it out and wonder why the audience looks confused. Another issue is the bridge section. "Ooh girl you're fine / You're a one in a million / I wish that I could screw your brain out / Cause your body's driving me insane." People scramble the order of those lines or drop the last one entirely. It's easy to do if you're just reading off a phone screen while standing on a stage. Print it out or keep it somewhere stable.

The outro repeats the hook one more time and then fades. Some versions on streaming platforms cut the final repetition short because of runtime concerns, but the full lyrical content includes that return to the main chorus at the end. If you're transcribing or teaching it, include it. I don't have a download link to hand you since I don't host unauthorized copies of copyrighted material, but the official audio is available on every major streaming platform and the single was re-released multiple times. The 2015 remix with Iggy Azalea exists too if that's what you're after, though the original is the one everyone actually knows by heart. It's a song about a specific preference dressed up in satire and Southern California hip-hop production. That's it. Nothing deeper to unpack unless you want to go down the cultural analysis rabbit hole, and honestly nobody needs that on a Tuesday.