Drop It Like It's Hot

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“Drop It Like It's Hot”
Single by Snoop Dogg featuring Pharrell from the album R&G (Rhythm & Gangsta): The Masterpiece
Released	October 26, 2004
Format	12" single, CD single
Genre	Pop Rap
Length	4:26
Label	Doggystyle/Star Trak/Geffen
Writer(s)	Chad Hugo Calvin Broadus Pharrell Williams
Producer	The Neptunes
Certification	2x Platinum
Snoop Dogg and Pharrell singles chronology
"Beautiful" (2003) "Drop It Like It's Hot" (2004) "Let's Get Blown" (2005)
Audio sample
Info "Drop It Like It's Hot" (help·info)

Drop It Like It's Hot is a 2004 hip-hop number-one hit single by Snoop Dogg featuring Pharrell Williams. Snoop performs the chorus and the second and third verses (of three). Pharrell performs the first verse. It was produced by The Neptunes and contains vocal samples from Laid Back's "White Horse".

It was a Billboard number one hit for three weeks from December 11, 2004, making it Snoop's first number one on the Hot 100. The song also gave him his first number one on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart. It has won at the MTV Australia Video Music Awards 2006 the award for the best hip hop video and a MOBO Award for Best Video in 2005. A remix for this song was also produced by The Neptunes, but only was noticed in the underground scene.

The song gained some critical attention for its very sparse production, which was essentially just tongue clicks, keyboards and a drum machine beat which, compared to much early 2000s rap, was very minimalist. It was nominated at the Grammy Awards of 2005 for Best Rap Song and Best Rap Performance by a Duo or Group, though it lost both awards to the songs "Jesus Walks" and "Let's Get It Started", respectively.

[edit] Music video

The music video of the single is shot in monochrome with every scene following and depicting the respective lyrics. It was directed by Paul Hunter.^[1]

[edit] History

The first known instance of the phrase "drop it like it's hot" on record is on Positive K's album The Skills Dat Pay Da Bills, in the song "Ain't No Crime." The existence of the expression "drop it like it's hot" in modern pop culture comes from its use by Lil' Wayne as a guest rapper on Juvenile's 1999 hit single "Back That Azz Up". Lil' Wayne also has a song called Drop It Like It's Hot, which was released in 1999. Jay-Z said "drop it like it's hot" in the song "Cashmere Thoughts" off his 1996 album, "Reasonable Doubt". Since 1999, and especially after the success of Snoop Dogg's single, the expression became a common phrase among adolescents and young adults. Outside of hip-hop, it was also the title of a song on indie rock band Minus the Bear's 2002 EP Bands Like It When You Yell "Yar!" at Them.

[edit] Remixes

• DJ and Drum and Bass producer Roni Size performed a remix with Dynamite MC on BBC Radio 1's Live Lounge on the 10th of January, 2005.
• Glitch-hop producer Edit also created an unofficial, unreleased remix, which can be found on various mixtapes. [1]
• MADtv did a parody music video of "Drop It Like It's Hot" called "Smokin' Too Much Pot." However, parts of the real song also contain references to cannabis (referred to as "weed").
• Saturday Night Live featuring Justin Timberlake did a short parody of it, singing "[i]f the soup's in the cup... sip it like it's hot."
• Jay-Z did a remix of the song dissing R. Kelly for suing him, which appeared on the Boss'n Up bonus CD MTV
• A remix of the song uses a new sample of the Gap Band song "Outstanding". The remix features E-40, Killer Mike, Warren G and Jadakiss.
• Australian artists Weapon X & Ken Hell performed a parody song and video clip, entitled "Drive It Like It's Hot".
• British comedian Lenny Henry performed an elaborate parody of the song — complete with a music video closely mimicking that of Snoop's — at the end of the second episode of his 2005 comedy series, The Lenny Henry Show.
• "Weird Al" Yankovic included a few lines from the song in "Polkarama!", a medley of popular songs set to polka music on his 2006 release Straight Outta Lynwood.
• A version of the song appeared on YTMND in Fall 2006 in which the Gourmet Race song from Kirby Super Star was overlayed.
• Carlos Mencia parodied rappers who went to jail in his new rap video on Mind of Mencia. He parodied Snoop's "Drop It Like It's Hot", DMX's "Ruff Ryders Anthem" and Mystikal's "Shake It Fast".
• Bastard pop artist Party Ben mashed "Drop It Like It's Hot" with the Led Zeppelin song "Whole Lotta Love".
• dj BC mashed up the song with Nu Shooz's I Can't Wait.
• Rob Vincent, a.k.a. DJ Luciernaga, mashed "Drop It Like It's Hot" with the driving test from Sony PlayStation game Parappa the Rapper.
• German Aggro Berlin rapper Harris released two remixes "Wo Ist Mein Gras" and "Wo Ist Mein Gras/Drop It Like It's Hot". Wo ist mein gras means "Where is my weed?"
• Lil Wayne released a remix of the song. He claimed that Snoop used "his" line but wasn't mad, saying in the song, "I made it a hot line, you made it a hot song. Peace."
• A remix of this song with different chorus and verse from Snoop, featured Jay-Z in a verse.
• a recent remix has been made using the theme from tetris

[edit] Charts

[edit] Audio sample

White Horse, by Laid Back

Released in 1984 originally in the Netherlands in 12"-vinyl, this effect-oriented synth song is the main sample of "Drop It Like It's Hot".

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[edit] See also

• Hot 100 No. 1 Hits of 2004 (USA)

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Music video for "Drop It Like It's Hot" at YouTube