I do it for the people that come from where I come from. I love to do what I do, and that’s who I do it for. Yes, I have to say that, because it’s representing where I’m from. It was kind of crazy.ĭo you feel like it was the best chorus you’ve ever written? You’re gonna have to do something else.” I was like, no, I’m telling y’all, ‘cause I’m actually doing music for my people to be happy that someone made it out. They were like, “Petey, nobody knows where North Carolina is. At the time, I had no idea the record would be as big as it was, and I just really wanted the recognition because my label, at first, didn’t want me to do that. That I just really wanted my hometown and my states to be proud of me. You’re definitely repping your North Carolina roots, but what was going through your mind as you were creating this song? The way Tim used to do music is he’d give you a simple loop and be like, “All right, now rap on it.” Then you give it back to him, and he’d take it and do all this extra amazing stuff to it. When he gave it to me, it was just a simple loop. The UNC Tar Heels marching band also played on the hook as well. I was like, “Tim didn’t give me the normal Timbaland beat, so I guess he’s trying to see if I’m worthy of a Timbaland beat.” So it took me like a day or two to put the song together, but I did the hook in maybe a few hours, just riding down the highway. People that knew Timbaland knew him for his signature sound, and that was a sound I had never heard before from Tim. It didn’t sound like a Timbaland beat at the time. The whole song itself took me a minute, because at first, I was really uncomfortable with the song I had gotten from Timbaland. How long did it take you to write that part?
It started as a joke that turned to, “Wait a minute, that actually sounds good.” playing the instrumental over and over again. Then it seemed like a helicopter was following me all the way from Baltimore to Washington, D.C., and I just kept thinking, like, “North Carolina, come and raise up, take your shirt off, twist it ‘round your hand,” like this helicopter that kept flying over my head. I remember riding down the highway coming from New York to Washington, D.C. Sounds like fun, right? And though we love Petey Pablo, we’re thankful that for the video, he took a backseat to a bunch of Panthers highlights.How did the chorus of “Raise Up” come together? Now imagine doing that with a bunch of other Panthers fans nearby. It’s great to keep things like this general, because the chorus is all the Panthers will need to fire themselves up in the locker room: “We gon’ put that ba-da-boom on ’em/Carolina black and white and blue on ’em.” Shakespeare it ain’t, but try yelling along to the beat.
#PETEY PABLO SWING IT LIKE A HELICOPTER FULL#
Nope, instead this is just a hard-beating song full of Petey Pablo boasts - some good, some not so good. Happily, it doesn’t fall into the trap of all too many fight songs, which is the use of overly-specific team references at the expense of catchiness. How else do you explain a fan-made fight song that is actually, you know, really good?Īnd there’s more! A new fight song has emerged, this time not by some Joe Schmoe, but by Petey Pablo (of the still-fire North Carolina anthem “Raise Up”)! It’s a hip-hop track (of course), and it knocks. A big part of that is Cam Newton, who might just be the coolest player in the NFL, but whatever the cause, the fans are also responding with levels of cool heretofore unseen. A few old curmudgeons aside, the Carolina Panthers have never been cooler.
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