Yo, i was born in the 70's and I bought that OG shit in the 80's. Dangerous Dame, Whodini, UTFO, LL Cool J, Too Short, Boogie Boys, LA Dream team, Stacey Q were all gettin knocked in my ghetto blaster. The reason that song is getting noticed cuz the beat makes it stand out. Only two beats stand out on 40's album...White Gurls and Tell me when... As soon as the beat drops, non-heads feel it. I think true heads (who never heard the original) might think the beat is corny, but trust that's the cross over track right there. If that was the second single, 40 would be platinum now...if it could be made into a single.
Anyways, you all need to get off that "white girls think that song's about them" Let them have that. I knew a lot black women who thought "brown sugar" was about them when it first came out. Metaphor or not, 40 is still chanting "White girl" in the chorus and that gets white girls hyphy...and for a non discriminating brother, that's cool.