North Carolina Considers Designating Petey Pablo's "Raise Up" as Official State Hip-Hop Song

Petey Pablo's Timbaland-produced 2001 anthem "Raise Up" is almost certainly the greatest song ever written about taking your shirt off, twisting it around your hand, and spinning it like a helicopter. Over the past quarter century, Petey Pablo's career has been through peaks and valleys, including a two-year stay in federal prison for the time he tried to bring a stolen gun on board a commercial flight. But "Raise Up" has never gone away. Just this year, it's been heavily referenced on songs from A$AP Rocky and Pablo's fellow North Carolina rapper J. Cole . Now, "Raise Up" could become North Carolina's official state hip-hop song.

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