jay-z - it's hot (some like it hot)

this one is from jiggas fourth album "vol 3... life and times of s. carter" which was a quite uneven album. it had it's hits and it's joints and some of the best beats from people who was on form (premier, timbaland and clue but timbaland mostly). the beats on this comes courtesy of timbo and it's not the most prominent song on the album and it would forgotten like some of the filler (like 'nymp' and 'come and get me') if it didn't have one particular line.

go against jigga, your ass is dense / i'm all about a dollar, what the fuck is 50 cent

which back in '99-2000 i didn't have any clue who jigga was referencing until curtis jackson aka 50 cent blew up internationally with 'wanksta'. now the line was actually a comeback to 50's infamous trolling song 'how to rob'.

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where 50 decided to rag on everyone in order to get attention on him. and it worked, it was trolling at it's finest. a time-honoured tradition in hiphop that stems back to the roxanne wars where rappers figured out that the easiest way to get some quick fame was by calling someone else out rather than have genuine hit records.

'how to rob' is probably 50's best club banger, even better than 'in the club' and fact of the matter is, that song is better than jiggas track. noted is that 50 cent references another joint which is biggies 'dreams' where he instead of calling out all rappers who he wants to screw, he calls out r&b singers he wants to bang.

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but ye about 'it's hot', it has some really corny lines and i still don't get why he would even say

this give my ladies dick, my young hoes pee-pee /
hits in a row like MJ, "hee-hee!" /

i mean referencing michael jackson and 'pee-pee' in the same rhyme, that's almost criminal(ly bad).

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