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We don’t have too many odes to butt shaking in the UK, do we? Well, thanks to Dizzee, now we do.

There’s certainly nothing refined about Mr. Rascal’s rhymes on Flex. An American hip-hop artist would tend toward smoother, grinding beats, but Flex is ridiculously up-tempo, so the video doesn’t lend itself to slow gyrations. Therefore the girls in the video are shaking their asses like their lives depended on it!

There’s a great comment about the song over on Drowned In Sound: “I think it will be ‘blowin up’ dance floors across the nation giving kids in their nike bubbles toting gun signs ample opportunity to shake their groins at bootylicious ladies doing similarly. It’s mating music for the bubblegum kids.” Although the reviewer didn’t like it much.

For my part, Flex isn’t trying to be anything more than a good ole sex song. Let’s judge it on its obvious merits, and not worry too much about it being crass, rude and whatever. It was never aimed at your mother anyway (although she dances to it at night when you go to bed!). Enjoy that mental picture, folks! Here’s the vid, complete with bizarre cameo from Reggie Yates…