{"id":23589,"date":"2021-05-19T16:52:42","date_gmt":"2021-05-19T16:52:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/?post_type=articles&#038;p=23589"},"modified":"2021-05-20T14:08:16","modified_gmt":"2021-05-20T14:08:16","slug":"city-girls-twerkulator","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/articles\/city-girls-twerkulator\/","title":{"rendered":"The City Girls&#8217; Unreleased TikTok Hit Is Finally Premiering This Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_23595\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-23595\" style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption alignfull -width\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignfull-width size-large wp-image-23595\" src=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2021\/05\/Untitled-design-43.png?w=1024\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-23595\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Prince Williams\/Wireimage<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">It\u2019s time for the Twerkulator.<\/span><\/em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0Miami-based rap duo, <a href=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/articles\/issa-rae-rap-sht-hbo-max\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The City Girls,<\/a> announced that our favorite unreleased song is hitting <a href=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/articles\/spotify-frequency-launch\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">streaming platforms<\/a> on Friday, May 21. Yung Miami and JT have officially announced the rollout for their new single after mounting anticipation for the track. &#8220;Twerkulator&#8221; first went viral a few weeks back after a snippet from the song ended up on <a href=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/articles\/plus-size-creators-tiktok\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">TikTok<\/a> with a dance to boot. JT was under fire on Twitter last week for a cryptic tweet she made saying \u201cgood news.\u201d Twitter users assumed this was a diss to <a href=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/articles\/nicki-minaj-pink-crocs-collab\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nicki Minaj<\/a> because the tweet came out around the time Nicki announced the <a href=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/articles\/nicki-minaj-beam-me-up-scotty-mixtape\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">re-release of <\/a><\/span><em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Beam Me Up Scotty<\/span><\/em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">. Fans now realize the\u00a0<\/span><em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">good news\u00a0<\/span><\/em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">was the approved release of \u201cTwerkulator.\u201d The song&#8217;s arrival comes after a battle of copyright. The rap duo samples <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=_rlUQsC8ECk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Planet Rock,&#8221;<\/a> the 80s rap classic from Afrika Bambaataa and the Soulsonic Force, so getting the rights to the song took longer than expected.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Bad bitches on the paper chaseeee!!!!! FRIDAY!!!! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/sGfg5N8ya0\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/sGfg5N8ya0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; JT\ud83d\udc69\ud83c\udffe\u200d\ud83d\ude80 (@ThegirlJT) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ThegirlJT\/status\/1394729821259943942?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\">May 18, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Fans joked in the comments, excited that they \u201cfinally got that sample cleared.\u201d After the announcement, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ThegirlJT\/status\/1394731008294068227\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">JT tweeted<\/a> \u201cThank you to our team for fighting hard, now we can shake a*s this summer!!!!!\u201d TikTok has become the home of many popular unreleased songs and there\u2019s no telling if its virality played a role in the final acceptance of the sample. With over 945,000 videos made to the snippet of the song, its popularity and notoriety spread further than the average City Girls listener.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"tiktok-embed\" cite=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@layzchipz\/video\/6941449138957520133\" data-video-id=\"6941449138957520133\" style=\"max-width: 605px;min-width: 325px;\" >\n<section> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@layzchipz\"target=\"_blank\" title=\"@layzchipz\"  target=\"_blank\">@layzchipz<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>YALL I MADE THIS CUTE LIL DANCE \ud83d\ude1b yall should do it and tag me lol let me know if you want a tutorial yea<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/music\/original-sound-6924544019926174470\"target=\"_blank\" title=\"\u266c original sound - CITYGURLS1\"  target=\"_blank\">\u266c original sound &#8211; CITYGURLS1<\/a> <\/section>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The Miami duo continues to make a name for themselves while staying true to their outspoken personalities. The City Girls released their second album\u00a0<\/span><em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">City On Lock<\/span><\/em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> this time last year, which contained another viral smash &#8220;P*ssy Talk,&#8221; featuring Doja Cat. Recently the pair teamed up with <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.iconswim.com\/\"class=\"editor-rtfLink\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Icon Swim<\/span><\/a><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> for a new collection, just in time for the hottest season. The summer-friendly set is dropped in late May and is filled with Miami-style swimsuits and coverups so \u201cTwerkulator\u201d is hitting streaming services right in time for a <\/span><em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">City Girl<\/span><\/em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0summer.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29095,"featured_media":23595,"template":"","format":"standard","categories":[38,16],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v18.5 (Yoast SEO v20.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The City Girls Unreleased TikTok Hit Is Finally Premiering This Week<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"It\u2019s time for the Twerkulator. 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