Re: "Go shawty. It's your birthday..."

I don't know if I agree with you on the "silly" bridge there. When you think about the song being fittingly called "In Da Club," that bridge is KEY. It breaks up the song, giving it that short downtime (but not really downtime) that is much needed in a club setting: that 10 seconds of switching up the the flow (but not the beat), breaking up the repetitive motion of the usual grind (some double meaning in there somewhere). Dropping a beat is important, so are the lyrics. But if you want a song that's here to STAY, one that outlives the usual few months of fame, and is played in clubs for years on end, just ask Fiddy and look at "In Da Club" (2003-) to see how important balance is.