Released: August 6, 2001

Featuring: Pusha T Kelis

Songwriter: Pharrell Williams Chad Hugo Pusha T

Producer: The Neptunes

[Verse 1: Pharrell Williams]
Yeah, yeah, yeah
I’m on the dance floor burnin’ up
Music turn it up
Baby I’m
Real hot so is it my turn to touch you
Look like you’re buzzin on X with 3D effects
Baby you
Look like you have no clue of what comes next

[Hook: Pharrell Williams]
Me and my dogs will be there
Tell your girls prepare to share
We’ll play the dancing truth or dare
If someone’s standing there, stare say
Hey baby what’s your name
Don’t stand looking insane
Do you want to ride the train
Welcome to the fast lane
If you’re in love beware
‘Cause these people they don’t care
All hands in the air
This is what we call truth or dare

[Verse 2: Kelis]
I am the one with the bright-ass hair
Leather I don’t care
Baby I
Don’t ever want to take the shirt off
That’s my dare
You got a girl but you touching me like you don’t care
Baby you
Do you
But just don’t get caught out there

[Hook: Kelis]
Me and my girls will be there
Tell your boys prepare to share
We’ll play the dancing truth or dare
If someone’s standing there, stare say
Hey baby what’s your name
Don’t stand looking insane
Do you want to ride the train
Welcome to the fast lane
If you’re in love beware
‘Cause these people they don’t care
All hands in the air
This is what we call truth or dare

[Break: Pharrell and Kelis]
Come on, come on
Baby shake it up
Come on, come on
Baby shake it up
Come on, come on
Baby shake it up
Come on, come on
Baby shake it up

[Verse 3: Pusha T]
Man, I got ten surrounding me
Hounding me
Center of attention
A riot it’s bound to be
Though I’m in the middle
My jewels you’re bound to see
In a pool of women
All of them drowning me
I’m ho poppin’, flip floppin’, ho hop in
Now her head in my lap boppin’
I ain’t one to care
I ain’t used to fair
Baby you can keep the truth, choose the dare

[Break]
Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah, Ooohhh
Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah, Ooohhh

[Hook: Pharrell and Kelis]
Yeah, yeah
Me and my dogs will be there
Tell your girls prepare to share
Me and my girls will be there
Tell your boys prepare to share
We’ll play the dancing truth or dare
If someone’s standing there, stare say
Hey baby what’s your name
Don’t stand looking insane
Do you want to ride the train
Welcome to the fast lane
If you’re in love beware
‘Cause these people they don’t care
All hands in the air
This is what we call truth or dare

[Outro: Pharrell and Kelis]
Come on, come on
Baby shake it up
Come on, come on
Baby shake it up
Come on, come on
Baby shake it up
Come on, come on
Baby shake it up
Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah, Ooohhh
Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah, Ooohhh
Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah, Ooohhh
Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah, Ooohhh

N.E.R.D

N.E.R.D. (officially stylized as NER*D, as seen on their covers) is a backronym that stands for No-One Ever Really Dies.

N.E.R.D. is a hip-hop and rock band whose members include Pharrell Williams and Chad Hugo, also known as The Neptunes, and Shae Haley. The band was formed as a side project by the Neptunes in 1999. Williams and Hugo had known each other since 1985 when they were 12, and they met Shae Haley a few years later in high school. Hugo and Williams signed a deal when they graduated high school in 1992 and eventually, Hailey joined them when N.E.R.D. was formed.

In September 2001 the band released their first album, In Search Of in Europe. They used digital production for the project but when they prepared for the worldwide release a year later they opted to re-record the album with a live funk rock band known as Spymob. Two years later in March of 2004, they released their second album, Fly or Die. Unfortunately, the two albums didn’t have nearly as much success as The Neptunes production work—collectively the two albums barely broke a million copies sold. In 2005 the group supposedly disbanded because of a dispute with Virgin Records, but Pharrell contradicted this claim in an April 2008