"Got Some Teeth" is the first single from American rapper

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's 2003 debut solo studio album, ''

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''. The song was used as the theme song for the character " Compton-Ass Terry" in the TV show ''

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'' on

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. "Got Some Teeth" peaked at number 54 on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100. Outside of the United States, "Got Some Teeth" peaked within the top ten of the charts in Belgium (Flanders), Denmark, Ireland, New Zealand, and United Kingdom.

Background

The song details Obie's various encounters with women in a bar. In the first verse he meets "Veronica", and invites her to Cheers and then offers her sex and various acts outside of the bar. In the second verse, Trice is enticed to approach "Karen", but doesn't due to her having a

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and many children with various men. She still confronts him for a

one-night stand A one-night stand is a single sexual encounter in which there is no expectation that there shall be any further relations between the sexual participants. It draws its name from the common practice of a one-night stand, a single night performanc ...

because she doesn't want to go home to another night of

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, Trice agrees saying that he wouldn't want to head home with a woman who has implants. He leaves the bar to find a group of women making fun of him until he opens fire on them via a

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he had hidden in the trunk of his

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. In the last verse the bar is filled with

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women and Trice feels out of place because he has a "big-girl disorder". He leaves to find another bar with thinner women and exclaims "

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wouldn't hurt much". The chorus details Trice's hopes of waking up after a one-night stand to a woman without fake teeth, portrayed in the video as dentures.

Music video

The music video for the song features

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as a bartender, "disguised" with a moustache, and Kuniva of

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dressed as his alter ego, Rondell Beene, as another bartender, saving Obie and

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from a fat girl. The host of game show "Dream Date" in the video, which is intended to be a spoof on the television reality show "Blind Date", is played by actor Matt Sawyer, who uses his real name as the character.

Track listing

;CD single ;Notes * signifies an additional producer. * signifies a co-producer.

Chart performance

"Got Some Teeth" peaked at number 54 on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100. In the United Kingdom, the song entered and peaked at number eight on the UK Singles Chart on October 26, 2003.

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

Certifications

References

{{authority control 2003 singles Obie Trice songs Song recordings produced by Eminem Shady Records singles Songs written by Eminem Songs written by Anne Dudley Songs written by Trevor Horn 2003 songs Songs written by Luis Resto (musician)