13 Songs That HIT The Spot

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13 Songs That HIT The Spot features music courtesy of Blu Cantrell, Funkadelic, Pat Benatar, Ray Charles, and ur pretty.

Prepare to be HIT right in the chest! That’s right, we have a playlist that is filled with hits featuring the word H-I-T! That’s what you call a HEAVY-HITTER, BABY!!! 🎧 13 Songs That HIT The Spot is exactly what it says it is. This musical compendium features music courtesy of 🎙 Blu Cantrell, 🎙 Funkadelic, 🎙 Ray Charles, 🎙 Ray Charles, and 🎙 ur pretty among others. So, without further ado, get ready to be hit with those good-good tunes on 🎧 13 Songs That HIT The Spot!

1. ur pretty, “Hit My Spot”

🎵 “Hit My Spot” • 🏷 ur pretty • 🗓 2022

“Hey boy, can you come a little closer? / Love you even more when you’re bending me over?” Ah, who doesn’t love a good, gay song? Furthermore, what about a horny, gay sex song? Well, 🎙 ur pretty is epic at singing songs about filling the hole 🕳️ … sorry, couldn’t resist! On 🎵 “Hit My Spot”, released in 2022, ur pretty (Jake Hill) wants this man to fill him up 🍆 🍑 😈. Also, it’s worth noting, that ur pretty is definitely a bottom 🍑 (“I don’t really care, I just really want it in my ass right now”).

If you’re not gay, or not versed in gay sex, perhaps “Hit My Spot” is incredibly shocking. This song is NOT for virgin ears. Initially, ur pretty focuses more emotionally on this guy, something the first verse superbly drives home (“I think I’m losing my mind when you’re not around”). Of course, then, beginning with the chorus, he gets hella horny, referencing anal sex from the male perspective. In the post-chorus, he expands: “When you’re deep inside of me / Don’t stop, you just hit my spot now.” The spot being the male G-spot, which exists 😉. The second verse is the most titillating – truly the “slutty love story” Jake Hill passionately delivers. Basically, there’s a handy, anal, leaking, and focus on the phallus (“So give me what’s between your thighs”). And for good measure, the f-bomb makes its way at the end – you knew it was coming. 🎵 “Hit My Spot” is totally NSFW – don’t even try it! But it’s cool that Jake Hill is unafraid to write and record gay sex bops, both as ur pretty and 🎙 Dixon Dallas.

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ur pretty, Hit My Spot: Midnight Heat 🕛 🔥 No. 83 (2023)

2. Blu Cantrell, “Hit ‘Em Up Style (Oops!)”  

💿 So Blu • 🏷 Arista • 📅 2001 

“While he was schemin’ / I was beamin’ in the Beamer just steamin’ / Can’t believe that I caught my man cheatin’ / So, I found another way to make him pay for it all.” Oh, snap 🫰🏿, 🎙 Blu Cantrell! The R&B singer broke through big time with 🎵 “Hit ‘Em Up Style (Oops!)”.  The 2001 gem appears on her debut album, 💿 So Blu. Make no mistake about it, “Hit ‘Em Up Style (Oops!)” was a gargantuan hit, peaking at no. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100, and helping So Blue secure gold certification. The record samples Frank Sinatra (🎵 “The Boy’s Night Out”), giving it some jazziness for a contemporary R&B joint.  “Hit ‘Em Up Style” was produced by 🎛 Dallas Austin. So, what’s the premise? Basically, Blu’s no-good man is cheating on her and she makes him pay by spending his money! Essentially, she’s a woman scorned but she’s not leaving empty-handed (“(Oops!) For all the lies you told / This is what you’re owed”).  In the second verse, she sells his stuff, pays the bills late, and puts on a show to make him cease his cheating ways.  Of course, nothing is more effective than the chorus, which after more than two decades, remains potent:      

“Hey ladies, when ya man wanna get buck wild  

Just go back and hit ’em up style  

Get your hands on his cash and  

Spend it to the last dime for all the hard times  

Oh, when you go, then everything goes  

From the crib to the ride and the clothes  

So you better let ’em know that  

If he mess up, you gotta hit ’em up.” 

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3. Funkadelic, “Hit It and Quit It”   

💿 Maggot Brain • 🏷 Westbound • 🗓 1971 

“If you want to hit it, good God / Hit it and quit it / I want you to.” WOO, 🎙 Funkadelic! Funkadelic marked another brilliant band of the one and only, 🎙 George Clinton (1941 – ), bringing psychedelic rock elements into the mix.  The album that the funky, simplistic but potent 🎵 “Hit It And Quit It” hails from, 💿 Maggot Brain, is a masterpiece.  While “Hit It and Quit It” failed to achieve pop success, it is considered one of many gems from the Funkadelic catalog.  It should go without saying that it’s funky as hell 😈 – in the most heavenly way possible 😇.  “You can shake it to the east, shake it to the west / Hit it, good God / Hit it and quit it,” George Clinton sings with ample energy and personality. Besides the fun, memorable lyrics, and enormous amount of spirit on this 70s gem, “Hit It and Quit It” features incredibly dope music. That dopeness includes kick-ass guitar 🎸 (🎙 Eddie Hazel) and bass (🎙 Billy “Bass” Nelson) riffs and soloing, epic organ (🎙 Bernie Worrell), and of course, a totally lit 🔥 groove.  Honestly, 🎵 “Hit It And Quit It” is a funk record that you won’t be able to simply – wait for it – “hit it and quit it!” Deep analysis of this incredible record isn’t necessary – it speaks for itself, more than 50 years after being released! 

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4. Kim Petras, “Hit It From the Back”

💿 Feed The Beast • 🏷 Amigo / Republic • 📅 2023

“Hit it from the back / Hit it from the back / I’ll let you hit it from the back / Before you break my heart.” Woo, 🎙 Kim Petras – I have questions! 🎵 “Hit It from The Back” appears on the 🏆 Grammy-winning musician’s 20023 debut album, 💿 Feed The Beast. The modus operandi is S meets E and then they X. Petras makes it known she likes it rough: “Don’t be too easy when I want it hard.” The groove is king 👑 (🎛 Aaron Joseph, Dr. Luke, and Vaughn Oliver produce), as it is consistently on Feed The Beast.  The chorus, excerpted above, offers up nothing deep, but it is catchy. I mean, how much can you really get out of a song that reveals its cards in the title like “Hit It from The Back”?

5. SZA, “Hit Different” (Ft. The Neptunes, Pharrell Williams & Ty Dolla $ign) 

🎵 “Hit Different” • 🏷 RCA • 🗓 2020 

“Hit different, hit different / …Hit different when I’m sittin’ here / Alone all by myself / Hit different when I think you might be / With somebody else.” 🎙 SZA enlists 🎙 Ty Dolla $ign, 🎙 Pharrell Williams, and production standouts 🎛 The Neptunes on the excellent 🎵 “Hit Different”. The Neptunes give “Hit Different” a unique sound from the onset. Beyond that 🔥 backdrop, Ty sets the vibe with the chorus with his distinct tone being a selling point. SZA delivers fine vocals, sounding clear, singing agile, and sounding beautiful. She sings about being in love in what is clearly a non-monogamous relationship where neither her nor her boyfriend are exclusive. There’s something hypnotic about this R&B record – it HIT DIFFERENT! 

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6. Pat Benatar, “Hit Me With Your Best Shot”

💿 Crimes of Passion • 🏷 Capitol • 🗓 1980 

“Hit me with your best shot / Why don’t you hit me with your best shot,” 🏆 Grammy winning singer 🎙 Pat Benatar implores on 🎵 “Hit Me With Your Best Shot”. She adds, fitting, “Fire away.” Of course, even if he takes his best shot at her, he won’t win – she has more fortitude, power, resilience, and toughness than he does 💯! The fourth track is a highlight from the pop/rock singer’s 1980, multiplatinum album, 💿 Crimes of Passion. The top-10 hit (peaked at no. 9 on the Billboard Hot 100), was written by 🎼 ✍ Eddie Schwartz. 🎛 Keith Olsen and Neil Giraldo produced this gold certified 👂 🪱.

Early on, Pat Benatar is not going to let this man continue his “Long history / Of breaking little hearts like the one in me.” Woo! In the second verse, citing the fact that he “don’t fight fair,” she fires back, “Knock me down, it’s all in vain / I get right back on my feet again.” You go girl! In the third verse, she plays the stereotypical male role, stating, “Before I put another notch in my lipstick case / You better make sure you put me in my place.” Besides superb songwriting by Schwartz, and Benatar bringing those words alive powerfully with her voice, the sound of the record flat out rocks. The instrumental moments are as much of a blast as the vocals – you can’t beat a marvelous guitar 🎸 solo! Sigh, there’s nothing like an independent woman unafraid of a standing up to a man! 🎵 “Hit Me With Your Best Shot” will forever be a BOP!

Appears in 🔻:

Pat Benatar, Hit Me With Your Best Shot: Bangerz N Bopz 🔥 No. 3 (2023)

7. Trey Songz, “Hit Different” 

💿 Back Home • 🏷 Atlantic • 🗓 2020  

“A blunt to the face / Now I want a taste of you.” Well, it seems that 🎙 Trey Songz is getting a ‘two-for-one’ deal essentially.  On 🎵 “Hit Different” from his 2020 studio album, 💿 Back Home, Trey focuses on getting high and having sex.  Honestly, that’s about the size of it when it comes down to it. The weed only heightens the senses when it comes to ‘getting it in.’ Truthfully, Songz is true to self, especially on the naughty, risqué, but utterly infectious chorus. 

“That shit hit different when we both faded 

I put the tip in, watch you go crazy 

You know it ain’t a party ‘til we both naked 

And we ain’t finished ‘til your legs shakin’.” 

Sigh, it certainly does “hit different,” doesn’t it? 

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8. Megan Thee Stallion, “Hit My Phone” (Ft. Kehlani) 

💿 Suga • 🏷 300 Entertainment • 🗓 2020  

“Posted, toasted, hangin’ at the back / Made money all year, make a toast with the yak,” 🎙 Megan Thee Stallion raps in the first verse of 🎵 “Hit My Phone.” She continues on the fourth track from her 2020 EP 💿 Suga, “Window to the wall, throw it back, throw it back / And if I leave with him, he gon’ eat it for a fact.” Ooh-wee! Interestingly, the first half of Suga, the 🏆 Grammy winner goes hard AF with the likes of 🎵 “Captain Hook” (🍆) and her no. 1 hit, 🎵 “Savage”. “Hit My Phone,” featuring 🎙️ Kehlani, softens the tone … at least to some extent. Sure, Megan remains true to self, but post- “Captain Hook” – “Party like a vato, shots of the blanco / Guaranteed to knock a nigga up out his zapatos” – she’s not quite as raw 😉. As for Kehlani, she sounds marvelous in the second verse and most notably, the chorus.     

“So hit my phone, woah-oh 
Sippin’ ‘42 and you know I’m bent 
Too far gone, oh-oh 
Liquor got me sendin’ that risky text.”

Appears in 🔻:

Hit: 5ive Songs No. 46 (2020)

9. Omar Apollo, Dominic Fike & Kenny Beats, “Hit Me Up”  

🎵 “Hit Me Up” • 🏷 Omar Apollo / AWAL • 🗓 2019  

“Uh, said I’ve got some time I’m abusin’ / Change my mind if you ever switch it up / And I won’t waste my time if you pursue me / I’ll let you know if you ever hit me up.” 🎵 “Hit Me Up” incorporates the talents of 🎙 Omar Apollo, 🎙 Dominic Fike, and producer 🎛 Kenny Beats. Kenny Beats serves up awesome production, with Apollo co-producing.  It’s simple, characterized by a robust bass line and punchy drums.  Apollo sounds amazing, first blessing listeners with the chorus.  Beautiful backing vocals accentuate his lead vocals in the second half (excerpted above). Beyond the chorus, he drops the first verse which references issues regarding love. If blanks need to be further filled in, Dominic Fike does so on the second verse, in more explicit fashion: “Baby, let’s double down, I bet you would fuck with me now.” Prior to that, he states, “Waitin’ for you baby, but you stood me up / Reckon what you gave me wasn’t good enough…” 

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Hit: 5ive Songs No. 46 (2020)

10. Alt-J, “Hit Me Like That Snare”

💿 Relaxer • 🏷 Atlantic • 📅 2017

🎙 Alt-J – a Mac command for a triangle (∆) as well as a critically acclaimed, British indie-rock band.  In 2017, the band released its third studio album, 💿 Relaxer, an intriguing album, but not without flaws. The collective showcase their sexual side, on the kinky 🎵 “Hit Me Like That Snare”. “Hit Me Like That Snare” is risqué, but the give Alt-J credit for the concept. Chocked-full of energy and swagger, sex ‘dominates’ – no pun intended!  In the first verse, 🎙 Joe Newman sings, “I’m fucking loose, you’re gorgeous, I don’t care / Come closer, baby, slap me like that snare.” HOLY SH💩T! Ultimately, the record is over the top.  Even the suggestive moments are nasty to say the least.  At the end, Newman continues to flex unapologetic lustfulness, asserting, “We are dangerous teenagers / Fuck you, I’ll do what I want to do.” Yeah, that snare drum is, um, something else, and quite oversexed!  

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11. Logic, “Hit My Line” 

💿 No Pressure • 🏷 Def Jam • 🗓 2020

“I’m feelin’ normal, yeah, I’m feelin’ myself / Feelin’ good, yeah, I’m feelin’ my health / Got a couple plaques up on my shelf / Money in the safe at the crib just to feel my wealth / Think I’m gonna put it all on the line…” 💿 No Pressure, the final studio album by 🎙 Logic, is his best work in years – NO CAP.  Among the crème de la crème is the song, 🎵 “Hit My Line,” Produced by 🎛 6ix, there’s a fine balance of classic/old-school and contemporary/fresh. Three specific instruments that stand out are the heavily syncopated, dusty drums, the keyboard chords, and the low, bassy synth. While Logic serves up unpitched bullets most of the record, we do hear him singing the chorus (excerpted above), which happens to be among the catchiest, ‘poppy’ moments of No Pressure. A surefire lyrical gem commences his sole verse: “Now I ain’t sayin’ this my ‘Jesus Walks’ / I’m just sayin’, God, I need to talk.” 

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Hit: 5ive Songs No. 46 (2020)

 12. The Crystals, “He Hit Me (It Felt Like a Kiss)”   

💿 Da Doo Ron Ron: The Very Best of The Crystals • 🏷 Phil Spector • 🗓 2011 

🎵 “He Hit Me (It Felt Like a Kiss)” is a problematic song title – PERIOD!!! Perhaps had 🎙 The Crystals’ 1962 classic ended up being metaphorical lyrically (say, the kiss had gargantuan impact like a knockout punch 🥊), we’d let the song title slide.  The problem is, “He Hit Me (It Felt Like a Kiss)” is literal, hence, understandable why it raised eyebrows and caused an uproar upon release. Oh, the controversy when abuse conflated with love comes into play! Amazingly, this record came from two of music’s most elite songwriters, once husband/wife team 🎼✍ Carole King and Gerry Goffin 🤯. “He hit me, and it felt like a kiss / He hit me, but it didn’t hurt me.” Well, he should’ve never put his hands on you, 🎙 Barbara Alston! Sadly, Alston and The Crystals add, “He couldn’t stand to hear me say / That I’d been with someone new / And when I told him I had been untrue…” While the infidelity is a bad look, the hitting part remains #PROBLEMATIC.  Furthermore, the victims think it’s okay, blaming themselves for being hit – “He hit me, and I knew he loved me.” BULL💩! As troubling as “He Hit Me (It Felt Like a Kiss)” is to listen to, it’s based on a real-life experience.  As the story goes, King/Goffin’s babysitter, singer 🎙 Little Eva, was honest to them about being hit by her boyfriend and rationalizing it as his love for her.  Yikes!   

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13. Ray Charles, “Hit the Road Jack” 

💿 True Genius • 🏷 Tangerine • 🗓 2021

“What’d you say?” Ah, who doesn’t love a great, tongue in cheek classic! That is what the late, great 🎙 Ray Charles serves up on 🎵 “Hit The Road Jack”, which was penned by 🎼 ✍ Percy Mayfield. “Hit The Road Jack” is one of the 17-time 🏆 Grammy winner’s most beloved and most popular songs. Notably, it spent two weeks at no. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1961 – impressive. Furthermore, the record is credited to Charles, and his orchestra, with 🎙 The Raelettes, who provide superb background vocals. Yes, it is Ray’s lead vocals that take the cake, but The Raelettes play a sizable role in the success of this classic joint.

The incredibly catchy chorus of “Hit the Road Jack” is one of the most easily recognizable of all time: “Hit the road, Jack, and don’t ya come back / No more, no more, no more, no more.” Charles serves up gritty, soulful lead vocals. He sings with an incredible amount of personality which is always a win. There are no shortage of memorable lyrics aside from the chorus. Perhaps the best example is the first verse:

“Old woman, old woman, don’t treat me so mean

You’re the meanest old woman that I’ve ever seen

I guess if you say so

I’ll have to pack my things and go (That’s right).”

Beyond the epic vocals – lead and backgrounds – the instrumental arrangement and production (🎛 Sid Feller produces) are on-point too 💪. Idiomatic of the early 1960s, listening to 🎵 “Hit The Road Jack” north of 70 years later, it still sounds epic to the nth degree. This is a two-minute-long oldie that never, ever gets old.

Appears in 🔻:

Ray Charles, Hit The Road Jack: Throwback Vibez 🕶️🎶 No. 158 (2023)

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Published by the musical hype on October 27, 2023October 27, 2023