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Commercial performance

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Billboard.com, June 28, 2007. The song later peaked at number 7 on the chart. It peaked at number 3 on the New Zealand singles chart.

Music video

The video was shot and filmed in Cedar Grove, showing local landmarks and featuring a crowd of people singing along to the song. The music video peaked at number one on

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''. Closing out the year, the music video peaked at number 3 on BET's Top 100 Videos of 2007.

Remixes

The remix, titled "The Ratchet Remix", features

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. In 2007, a music video was released for "A Bay Bay (The Ratchet Remix)". The two versions for two music videos were for the remix only. The short version were featuring all of these artists (included their verses), except for E-40. However, E-40 did make the cameo appearance, alongside

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. The extended version features E-40's full appearance, along with his verse that he did on the remix.

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made his own remix to the song. Sincero,

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and Pitbull made their own remix version to the song, titled "'Aye Wey Wey".

Charts

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

In popular culture

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and Snoop listen to "A Bay Bay" while driving through Baltimore.

References

External links

Hurricane's Official MyspaceHurricane Chris' Official YouTube channel
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