Composition
"Rock the Boat" features an atmospheric groove, hypnotic rhythms, and fluctuating instrumentation such as synthesizer effects. Lyrically, its female narrator instructs a lover on how to please her sexually and equates her erotic high to a drug high: "Work it in the middle / Change positions for me / Now stroke it, baby ... I feel like I'm on dope". The words "high" and "dope" were censored on MTV because of the drug connotation. In an issue of Vibe magazine, it was revealed the song was written at least two years before its actual release, but never recorded because her label didn't think she was ready for a song with sensual lyrics that "Rock the Boat" entailed.
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