"Like a G6" is a song by American music group

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featuring fellow American musicians Dev and

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, released as the lead single from Far East Movement's third studio album ''

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''. The track reached number one on the US ''Billboard'' Hot 100 for three non-consecutive weeks, becoming the first single by

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artists to do so and the first by any artists of East Asian origin since

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's 1963 single "

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". Outside of the United States, "Like a G6" topped the chart in New Zealand and peaked within the top 10 of the charts in Australia, Canada, Belgium, the Netherlands, Sweden, Switzerland, Slovakia, and the United Kingdom.

Background

Dev's vocals in "Like a G6" are sampled from her previous song " Booty Bounce", another song written and produced by the Cataracs. The "G6" in the song came about when the Cataracs were looking for a rhyme for the line "Sippin' sizzurp in my ride, like Three 6", a reference to the 2000 song "

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" by rap group

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. They settled on "G6", meant to be a reference to the private airplane model

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, referred to as a "G4". The G4 had been name-checked in songs such as

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". A G6, they decided, was "flyer than a G4", according to Far East Movement member Kev Nish."Far East Movement Explains Meaning Behind 'Like A G6'"
Yahoo, November 23, 2010. The song has been incorrectly speculated to be about other things, including the

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and the

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G6 watch. When the song came out, the

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model already existed, although the song's writers were not aware of this at the time. Since then, the

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has also been announced.

Reception

The song has sold 4 million paid downloads in the US, according to

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has stated that they were "thrilled" about the product reference.

Music video

The music video, which was directed by

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premiered on

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and

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on June 2, 2010. The line "sippin'

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" and the word "slizzered" are censored on some channels. It follows a woman in a red dress (Erica Ocampo) picking up a friend from a restaurant and going to a liquor store, presumably in preparation for a party. A later scene shows the woman and her friends at the party,

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also make a cameo, Dev, The Cataracs and the members of Far East Movement can also be seen in this party scene. The final scene shows the members of Far East Movement getting on a

the next morning. The music video was produced by Skee.TV (Producers: Satien Mehta, Mike Busalacchi)

Charts

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

Certifications

Release history

Covers and parodies

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covered "Like a G6" as part of their set for

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in the United Kingdom, alongside " Coming Home". The song then appeared on the sixth compilation of the Live Lounge. *

did a cover of the song, with new lyrics on her debut mixtape ''Sex Sells Stay Tooned'' along with Cherry Cherry Boom Boom. *

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covered "Like a G6" on his 2011 album ''A Lounge Supreme''. * Connor Anderson made a parody of the song called " Roll a D6". * "Like Jesus" was a parody produced by Totally Sketch. * American comedian, musician and Internet personality

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recorded a Harry Potter-themed parody of the song called "Like It's Quidditch". * British comedian Adam Buxton parodied the song in several different incarnations on the ''

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'' radio show on

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in the United Kingdom.

References

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