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The Offspring – Pretty Fly (For A White Guy) (3:08)

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“Pretty Fly (For a White Guy)” is a punk rock song by The Offspring. It is the fourth track from their fifth studio album Americana (1998) and was released as the first single from the album. It achieved significant pop and alternative radio play and popularity, peaking at number 53 on the US charts and at number 5 on the U.S. Billboard Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks. The song reached the charts in over 15 countries and peaked at #1 in nine of these, including Australia and the United Kingdom, making it one of the most commercially successful singles released by the band.

The song appears as the seventh track on their Greatest Hits (2005).

Beginning with a sample of the pseudo-German nonsense phrase “Gunter glieben glauchen globen” from Def Leppard’s song “Rock of Ages,” chanted as a replacement for the traditional “1, 2, 3, 4” to start the recording, the song ridicules a “wannabe gangsta” (or “wangster”) who is immersed in hip-hop culture not because he truly loves or understands it, but because it is trendy, makes him feel tough (“friends say he’s tryin’ too hard, and he’s not quite hip/but in his own mind, he’s the - he’s the dopest trip”) and makes it seem that he can get all the girls (“and all the girls say I’m pretty fly - for a white guy”). The song openly mocks the middle-class suburban youths who listen to rap music for this reason. The female vocals are performed by Nika Futterman.

In the video, directed by McG, the “white guy” drives through town in his lowrider and tries to act cool in front of people, playing with car’s hydraulic system and interrupting a break dance session to dance.
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  • my--angel

    OMG ! I love this song !! <3

    Monday morning

  • FuckerDance

    Fucking legendary BAND ................ DEXTER HOLLAND THE best voice in the word (2)

    19 days ago

  • vzakharov

    this was on the TV 24/7 back in the day... good old times... [2]

    23 days ago

  • Apehanger

    Last saw these at The Milton Keynes Bowl. Couldn't believe how such massive music could come from 4 short-arses ;-) Cracking day!

    24 days ago

  • Mihi-Ghost

    give it to me baby ... aha aha [10]

    25 days ago

  • TommyWommy97

    give it to me baby ... aha aha (9)

    25 days ago

  • katana0317

    Hmmm haven't heard from The Offspring for a while.

    last month

  • AnilexusRaiyne

    EEEEEEEKK!!! I DIDNT EXPECT THEM TO BE ON BILLY TALENT'S RADIO!!! EEEEEEEKK!!!

    last month

  • BluePrankster

    Fucking legendary BAND ................ DEXTER HOLLAND THE best voice in the word

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  • nemesist2000

    all the girls say, I'm pretty fly for a white guy.....

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  • esck21

    <3

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  • panda_pan_pan

    yeeeaaaaahhh

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  • enyalb24

    vanilla ice is my fav.

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  • theoffspring91

    temazo, clasica y legendaria cancion y banda

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  • MANICSUBCIDAL

    GIVE IT TO ME BABY!!!!! AHA aha!!!! And all the girls say, I'm pretty fly for a white guy!

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  • niceverdict

    GIVE IT TO ME BABY!!!!! AHA aha!!!! And all the girls say, I'm pretty fly for a white guy!

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  • niceverdict

    GRADE 4!!!!! :O :O TIME FLY BY SO FAST!!!

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  • Karolina137

    Fanów z Polski zapraszam na forum: http://offspring.boo.pl/forum/

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  • ozratygollum

    this was on the TV 24/7 back in the day... good ole times...

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  • delaell85

    makes me laugh every time

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