The song is about LL searching for a girl who is streetwise. The single samples Mary Jane Girls' All Night Long , Keni Burke's Risin' To the Top , and Honeydrippers' Impeach the President , which is used as the main instrumental element of the song. It is also noted that this song is an early example of the high pitched sample rap. Around the Way Girl later appeared on LL Cool J's 1996 greatest hits album, All World: Greatest Hits.
Girls from around the way think they've seen it all and think they know it all. What they don't know will surprise them and change their lives forever. The women in Around The Way Girls 3 are street smart, sexy and ready for anything life may throw their way. What they all soon discover is that life isn't done teaching them lessons.
Around The Way Girls 3 can be compared to Urban Books highly successful Girls From Da Hood (32,000 in print) and its predecessor Around The Way Girls (40,000 in print). - Kashamba Williams is an Essence bestseller. - Around The Way Girls is presently in it's 6th printing and was a Black Expressions Bookclub alternate selection.
