2001Released
4:10

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This song tells the story of a woman who gets back at her man by shopping with his credit cards, not paying his bills, and selling all his stuff. Cantrell said it isn't something she ever did, but a "fantasy that I wish I had acted out," adding that it only applies to guys who cheat on their girlfriends. While she never took this kind of revenge, she said one of her girlfriends did something similar.

Blu Cantrell (real name: Tiffany Cobb) is the daughter of a jazz singer named Susi Franco. Her father left when she was young, so Blu and her five siblings were raised by Franco. After being spotted in a hospital waiting room (she was there to see her sister), she auditioned to be a singer and ended up signing with Arista Records. She did work as a backup singer for artists like Puff Daddy and Faith Evans before issuing "Hit 'Em Up Style (Oops!)" as her debut single when she was 25 years old. It ended up being her only hit, although her collaboration with Sean Paul, "Breathe," made #70 in 2003. Her 2003 album Bittersweet had just modest sales, and she left the industry soon after. In 2012, she emerged with a single called "S.O.S."

Dallas Austin, an Atlanta-based hitmaker for artists like Madonna, TLC and Gwen Stefani, wrote and produced this song. The musical inspiration came from an unlikely source: a 1936 Merrie Melodies cartoon where a little owl named Owl Jolson sings a song called "I Love To Singa." Owl Jolson is play on Al Jolson, who sang the original version of the song in the movie The Singing Kid. Owl Jolson sings: I love to singa About the moon-a and the June-a and the spring-a I love to singa About a sky of blue-a or a tea for two-a Austin used the same melody: So I went To Neeman Marcus on a shopping spree-a And on the way I grabbed Sole and Mia

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Song Analysis

Key, BPM (tempo) and time signature of Hit 'Em Up Style (Oops!).
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MinorMode
4/4Time Signature
90BPM

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Arista
(P) 2001 Arista Records, Inc.

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