Usher: Latin scholar

Ma Keeley has said it many times - you can't escape Latin. Here's yet another instance for ya. Consider these lyrics from Usher's recent popular song "Yeah":

Me and Ush once more and we leaves em dead/
we want a lady in the street but a freak in the bed

Now compare with the final verses from an epigram by Marcus Valerius Martialis (40-102 CE):

Si te delectat gravitas, Lucretia toto/
sis licet usque die: Laida nocte volo.

Understanding the cultural references (who Lucretia and Lais were, respectively) is essential to 'getting' Martial's point. By the way, if you are concerned about propriety, be grateful that Usher saw fit to limit his use of Martial to this (relatively innocuous) couplet - the rest of the poem is a bit less, shall we say, circumspect...