"Pretty Girl Bullshit" is a R&B and rap song written and performed by Mario Winans

Mario Winans

Mario Winans is an American R&B singer, songwriter, music producer, and multi-instrumentalist. Born Mario Brown, he is the son of gospel recording artist Vickie Winans and her first husband, Bishop Ronald Brown. He is also the stepson of his mother's second husband, gospel singer, Pastor Marvin...

 and Foxy Brown (in the writing credit Brown uses her real name, Inga Marchand). The song first appeared in 2003 on Bad Boys II

Bad Boys II (soundtrack)

Bad Boys II is the soundtrack to the 2003 action-comedy film Bad Boys II, released on July 15, 2003 through Bad Boy and Universal Records. The album peaked at number one on the Billboard 200, selling 324,000 units in the first week, becoming one of few soundtracks to reach the position...

, the soundtrack

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 to the film of the same name

Bad Boys II

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. In 2004 it appeared on Hurt No More

Hurt No More

Hurt No More is the second studio album by R&B singer and musician Mario Winans, released in 2004.-Production:Winans recorded his second album Hurt No More in 2001, 2002 and 2003 in between his busy schedule working with other artists, mostly on Diddy's Bad Boy label. The album is based on stories...

, Winans' second album.

The voice of Sean Combs

Sean Combs

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 (the executive producer of the Bad Boys II soundtrack) can be heard in the song interjecting short phrases such as "yeah, yeah! Let's go."

Content

The song is arranged as a sort of dialogue that indicates that Brown's character is the pretty girl whose "bullshit

Bullshit

Bullshit is a common English expletive which may be shortened to the euphemism bull or the initialism B.S. In British English, "bollocks" is a comparable expletive, although bullshit is commonly used in British English...

" troubles Winans. Unlike those delivered by Brown, the lyrics sung by Winans do not include profanity

Profanity

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; "Take your pretty girl bull" is his harshest phrase.

Brown's rap takes the narrative position of chiding Winans for infidelity

Infidelity

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 and, in particular, for his generosity to other women. She complains that he has "had a hoe

Promiscuity

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 rockin' my red gold

Red Gold

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 Cartier

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 on her wrist" and "y'all don't want a girl in Yves Saint Laurent

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, You'd rather fuck

Sexual intercourse

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 a hoe in a bullshit Gabann'

Dolce & Gabbana

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". Characteristically, Brown also makes various boasts which include namechecking

Name-dropping

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 Sean Combs, saying that "I'm in Caprice" (perhaps referring to Capri

Capri

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), and bragging "I'm a Bad girl, illest bitch grinding...Sean John

Sean John

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 Rolls

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 hold chocolate diamond

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s..."

Winans, in contrast, delivers far less aggressive lyrics in his characteristic R&B style. In the song's intro he sings "I can't live with you" several times. As the song progresses, he expresses doubts about their compatibility singing "What am I to do, when you act a fool" and "What you had in me, too fine to see." By the middle of the song, he is explicitly dismissive of his partner's "pretty girl bull" and sings "...if you wanna go, walk right out that door...If you wanna leave, it's okay with me...Matter of fact I'm begging please."

All three artists add various phrases ad libitum

Ad libitum

Ad libitum is Latin for "at one's pleasure"; it is often shortened to "ad lib" or "ad-lib"...

, particularly in the last two choruses

Refrain

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.

Reviews

In a generally good review of Hurt No More, a reviewer for Allmusic spoke negatively about this song saying:

Winans doesn't wear the few occurrences of harder-edged material so well -- "Pretty Girl Bullsh*t," featuring an ill-matched verse from Foxy Brown, is particularly out of character and disrupts the lush, sensual flow of the record. A couple minor blunders like that hardly prevent Hurt No More from being one of the finest R&B albums of the year.

Independent reviewers of the Bad Boys II soundtrack on Amazon.com

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 conveyed an equally negative reaction. One called it "another mistake". Another opined that the song "falls under skip material for me." A review for musicOMH.com criticizes the song saying it is...

..an awkward listen with clear West Coast

West Coast hip hop

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 allusion

Allusion

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s in the beat, which feels completely wrong in the context and delivery of the track.

Another review of Bad Boys II complains:

By the time we get to the rather worryingly title Pretty Girl Bullshit by Marion [sic

Sic

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] Winans and Foxy Brown things are getting rather tired. PGB seems to be about Winans going on about how much he dislikes people like Foxy Brown. That could be wishful thinking though - on my part.

On the other hand, in reviewing Hurt No More Rolling Stone

Rolling Stone

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 said "Winans nails all the emo

Emo

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 cues...[for example] resentment on "Pretty Girl Bullsh*t". The UK

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 website

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 CD Times only comment was that "Pretty Girl Bullshit and This Is The Thanks I Get give the record an edge."