For a small but increasing number of Americans, the song "Pull Your Pants Up!" by gospel rap artist Dooney "Da Priest" is not just a song.
"It's a movement," the rapper told the Jackson Clarion Ledger of Mississippi last week after the release of his new album "Pull Your Pants Up!".
And with new laws recently passed or being considered in a handful of US cities, it might be.
In the south Chicago suburb of Lynwood, village leaders have passed an ordinance that would levy $25 fines against anyone showing three inches or more of their underwear in public.
In Flint, Michigan, the city's police chief has directed his officers to arrest people wearing pants or shorts below their waists or buttocks, and issue misdemeanours, citing the city's disorderly conduct and indecent exposure laws.
And in Riviera Beach, Florida, local police are now able to act on the so-called "saggy pants (trousers)" law, that was put on the books in March, after a legal glitch was fixed last Wednesday night.
The southeast Florida city had adopted the controversial ordinance just months after nearby Opa-locka became one of the first US cities to ban saggy trousers in certain public facilities.
"It's going to be a new day, a great day," Riviera Beach Mayor Thomas Masters told WPTV-Ch 5. "We hope our young people have gotten the message loud and clear that it is against the law in this city to walk around indecently."
Some - such as the Rev Jerry Young of New Hope Baptist Church in Jackson, Mississippi, where an ordinance has been proposed to make it illegal to wear pants below the waistline "as to expose one's underwear" - say it's a matter of morality.
"It's indecent and improper and our wives, mothers, daughters and sisters in the community don't want to see it," he told the Clarion Ledger.
