"Laffy Taffy"
#1 weeks: 1
weeks: 2006-01-14
genre: southern hip hop, snap music
artist: D4L
album: Down for Life
writers: Lafabian Williams p/k/a Fabo, Adrian Parks p/k/a "Stuntman", Dennis Butler p/k/a "Mook-B", Cory Way p/k/a Born Immaculate, Broderick Thompson Smith, Michael Johnson
label:
formats: CD single
lengths: 3:44
"Laffy Taffy" is a song by Atlanta-based hip-hop group D4L
which reached number one on the Hot 100 in January 2006. The
song's success on the charts was largely due to its enormous
online sales. Produced by Cory Way p/k/a "Born Immaculate,
Broderick Thompson Smith and Richard Sims p/k/a "K-Rab". The
song samples and interpolates elements of "Candy Girl" by New
Edition.
There has been some debate regarding the meaning of the
phrase "Laffy Taffy." Many understand the term to mean a
woman's labia minora because of its resemblance to "stretched
out taffy." It is a phrase commonly used by men who attend
strip clubs. Women with larger labia minora lips are said to
have "laffy taffy". The song's music video is set in a strip
club.
During "The Champ" from 2006's
Fishscale, Ghostface Killah asks "Y'all stuck on Laffy
Taffy/Wonderin' how'd y'all niggas get past me?" Ghostface had
mocked the "snap dance" during his 2005 tour. There has also
been controversy on who wrote "Laffy Taffy". Rapper Liam "Smack
Eyes" Thomas claims that the group had stolen the lyrics from
his rhyme book.