Hips Don’t Lie Lyrics

[Intro: Wyclef Jean]
Ladies up in here tonight
No fightin' (We got the refugees up in here)
No fightin'
No fightin'
Shakira, Shakira

[Pre-Chorus: Wyclef Jean & Shakira]
I never really knew that she could dance like this (Hey)
She make a man wanna speak Spanish
¿Cómo se llama? (¡Sí!), ¿bonita? (¡Sí!)
Mi casa (Shakira, Shakira), su casa

Oh, baby, when you talk like that (Huh-uh; yeah)
You make a woman go mad (Oh)
So be wise (¡Sí!), and keep on (¡Sí!)
Reading the signs of my body (Uno, dos, tres, cuatro)
No fightin'

[Chorus: Shakira & Wyclef Jean]
I'm on tonight
You know my hips don't lie (No fighting)
And I'm starting to feel it's right
All the attraction, the tension
Don't you see, baby? This is perfection


[Verse 1: Wyclef Jean]
Hey, girl, I can see your body moving
And it's driving me crazy (Huh-uh)
And I didn't have the slightest idea
Until I saw you dancin' (Yeah)
And when you walk up on the dance floor, nobody cannot ignore
The way you move your body, girl (Just smooth)
And everything's so unexpected, the way you right and left it
So you can keep on shakin' it (Let's go)
[Pre-Chorus: Wyclef Jean & Shakira]
I never really knew that she could dance like this (Hey)
She make a man wanna speak Spanish
¿Cómo se llama? (¡Sí!), ¿bonita? (¡Sí!)
Mi casa (Shakira, Shakira), su casa

Oh, baby, when you talk like that (Huh-uh; oh)
You make a woman go mad (So bad; oh)
So be wise (¡Sí!), and keep on (¡Sí!)
Reading the signs of my body
No fightin'

[Chorus: Shakira & Wyclef Jean]
I'm on tonight
You know my hips don't lie (No fightin')
And I'm starting to feel you, boy (Yeah)
Come on, let's go, real slow
Don't you see, baby? Así es perfecto

They know I'm on tonight (Yeah)
My hips don't lie and I'm starting to feel it's right
All the attraction, the tension
Don't you see, baby? This is perfection (Shakira, Shakira)


[Verse 2: Shakira & Wyclef Jean]
Oh, boy, I can see your body movin', half-animal, half-man
I don't, don't really know what I'm doin'
But you seem to have a plan (Yeah)
My will and self-restraint have come to fail now, fail now
See, I'm doing what I can, but I can't, so, you know
That's a bit too hard to explain (Uno, dos, tres, cuatro)
[Bridge: Wyclef Jean with Shakira]
Baila en la calle de noche (Uh, yeah)
Baila en la calle de día (Let's go!)
Baila en la calle de noche (Uh, yeah)
Baila en la calle de día (Let's go!)


[Pre-Chorus: Wyclef Jean & Shakira]
I never really knew that she could dance like this (Hey)
She make a man wanna speak Spanish (Yeah)
¿Cómo se llama? (¡Sí!), ¿bonita? (¡Sí!)
Mi casa (Shakira, Shakira), su casa

Oh, baby, when you talk like that (Huh-uh) (Oh)
You know you got me hypnotized (Oh)
So be wise (¡Sí! Uh), and keep on (¡Sí! Uh)
Readin' the signs of my body (Yeah)

[Refrain: Wyclef Jean & Shakira]
Señorita, feel the conga
Let me see you move like you come from Colombia
Yeah, oh, yeah, ladies, ¡sí! (Yeah, yeah, hey, yeah)
Mira, en Barranquilla se baila así, say it! (Yeah)
En Barranquilla se baila así (Yeah)

Ayy (Prr), yeah

[Verse 3: Wyclef Jean with Shakira]
She's so sexy, every man's fantasy
A refugee like me back with the Fugees from a third world country (Huh-uh)

I go back like when 'Pac carried crates for Humpty Humpty
We leave the whole club jazzy

Why the CIA wanna watch us?
It's the Colombians and Haitians
I ain't guilty, it's a musical transaction

Bo-bop-so-bop, no more do we snatch ropes
Refugees run the seas, 'cause we own our own boats, boats (No fightin')

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Genius Annotation

“Hips Don’t Lie” is a hit song off of Shakira’s Oral Fixation Vol. 2.

This song is based on “Dance Like This” by Wyclef Jean/Claudette Ortiz, and it samples the trumpets from Jerry Rivera’s “Amores Como El Nuestro”.

It topped the charts in over 55 countries, including for two weeks in the US.

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Find answers to frequently asked questions about the song and explore its deeper meaning

What did Shakira say about "Hips Don't Lie"?
Genius Answer

This whole new world had opened up to me, and with it came so many great opportunities, but I continued to pursue impossible goals such as making a song like “Hips Don’t Lie” for example – that had a Colombian cumbia and a mention of Barranquilla in the middle of it – play on American radio. I remember people from my own record company telling me ‘this is never going to play on American radio,’ and I was so sure that it would. So I had to practically convince the executives in my record company to pick up all the albums I had released and reprint them with “Hips Don’t Lie on it. I remember I said to [then Sony Music Chairman] Donny Ienner, ‘You have to trust me on this one. This is going to happen, this song is going to blow up.’ I knew it and it happened, it was a great prophecy."

–Via Billboard (November, 2019)

What has the media said about the song?
Genius Answer

In 2018, NPR ranked this as the #65 greatest song by a female or nonbinary artist in the 21st century, saying:

Crossover artists often sacrifice something about their musical identities to appease a U.S. listenership. Shakira’s biggest single, ‘Hips Don’t Lie,’ did the opposite. Though never marketed as reggaeton, it’s the most popular song in the genre’s history: the dembow beat in the background, the trumpet sample of Jerry Rivera’s ‘Amores como el nuestro’ in the chorus, the obvious salsa influence. With Wyclef Jean on deck, Shakira proved that English-language audiences were ready for Caribbean sounds long before the days of ‘Despacito’ or Cardi B. ‘Hips Don’t Lie’ is not only one of the best Latin pop songs, it’s one of the best pop songs, period.

What does the song title "Hips Don't Lie" mean?
Genius Answer

Shakira told Women’s Health Magazine in 2006 that “The reason why I named that song [Hips Don’t Lie] is because, when I’m in the studio, I know when a song is ready and it can be taken out of the oven, and it’s exactly when my hips start moving,”

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Release Date
February 28, 2006
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