2008 baby and grew up with dmx lil boosie lil snupe and mobb deep and all the og’s and goodie’s baby i get made fun of foe it but i step and step baby!!❤️‼️
@@URProductions Congratulations🎉🎈🎊🍾 I listen to music going all the way back to the 1930s. 😂 So what. Has nothing to do with the ops point, which is valid.
By far one of the most elevated works of the 21st century. The thesis of this piece is these two statements: 1) I am hot because I am fly 2) You ain't because you not* *notice how he doesn't specify if you ain't (fly) because you ain't (hot) or you ain't (hot) because you ain't (fly). I think he's implying that flyness implies hotness and vice-versa, therefore the statement (hot)' (fly)' is a tautology. This of course immediately raises several philosophical questions. -If someone is fly and no one is around to see it, are they still hot? -Is this why penguins cannot fly, because they are not hot enough? If we became hotter, could we naturally develop the power of flight? -How does one acquire flyness? Are they born with it? Is Mims saying that the categorization of people as "hot" or "not hot" is some form of new-age discrimination? I am a mere mortal and will of course never understand the complexities of Mims' mind because he is on a higher plane of enlightenment than I. I can only marvel at the ingenuity of the absolute masterpiece of the ages. Well done, sir. Shakespeare would have put his pen down and never wrote again.
East Coast Sample: Mobb Deep's "Shook Ones Part II" Midwest Sample: Kanye West's "Jesus Walks" West Coast: E-40's "Tell Me When to Go", Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg's "Nuthin' But a "G" Thang"
Don't underrate this hit. 17 years later, it remains a huge hit. When this hit was released back then, it should remind us that it came out in the era when crunk music was on the rise. It is still a classic 🔥🔥🔥
One of the best CONSTRUCTS of a beat. If you take this beat as a loop and cook some more snares, a fresh set of Hi hats and a pumping bass line, like DP's Hiphop then it's a phat one
this just popped into my head for no reason for the first time in probably 8 years. i had to look it up because it's been so long that i started doubting whether or not it was real lol
Most of them are dead or in jail doe right?? Just stating the facts hommay!! #statistics #thiswhyimhot #byrdboys #cwb #chamillionareridingdirryisfirefirefuegoaswellmyhommays!
Vintage example on how a producer can literally carry the whole song.I remember how hooked I was on this back in the day but never actually listened to the lyrics lol. decent hook though.
u serious bro? "This is why I'm hot...I don't gotta rap, I could sell a mill sayin' nothing on the track" mims GOES IN on this joint...don't get it twisted boi
We grew up with some of the best music to ever release! 2000s were a great time to grow up. School dances were popping, house parties were popping, and clubs were crazy!
CK TV lmfao, your ass probably don't even listen to the lyrics if you say Drake can't rap. Like Jay Z said, Yall niggas don't listen to the lyrics you just skim through it.
i'm just continually amazed with how this simply answers one of life's greatest questions. why am i hot? because i am fly. why are you not hot? because you are not fly.
" Niggas say that we lost it so imma bring it back " and shook ones starts in the background. " Compton to Hollywood as soon as i hit la, I'm in the low low i do it the cali way " and nothing but a g thang starts in the background. + the low ride sounds. " But in the mid West they love to take it slow " and the beat slows. I didn't notice these things as a kid but this guy is a genius.
***** YEAH EVEN THOUGH I HATE RADIO PLAY, THIS WAS A BIG HIT IN AUSTRALIA ON THE RADIO AT THE TIME IT CAME OUT, SoyGuapoYRico SO FUCK YOU, GO LISTEN TO YOU'RE BELOVED MACKLEMORE
Damn right.. There's an occasional decent song, I think 1 mainstream song was decent and it wasn't even that mainstream compared to these songs, That was Timber, I actually enjoy that song, rest is trash, I listen to more EDM, and EURO dance stuff, as it's actually got talent and it's not a brainwash portrait of "ass, money and tits"
I love this song! This played A LOT on the radio when I was in middle school but I completely forgot about this song until last night when I watched the movie “Due Date”.
This came out 16 years ago.... When we had the best music! lil Wayne was on his way to becoming the greatest of all time. Gah hip hop/ rap has really gone down hill since then.
Not once does he ever explain why he’s hot, but that’s the beauty of this song. He’s doesn’t need to explain why he’s hot. He’s hot because he’s fly and you ain’t… cause you’re not
The way the beat change 0:50, 0:55, 1:01, 1:08 representing each region of hip-hop music is crazy.
U forgot the ny one: shook ones 0:40
38 here, the good times from phx AZ
1:12 H town
That’s my favorite part
What beat was the Midwest one?
Things really were never the same after the 2000’s. What an era
Edit: 2025 who else going into the new year with this one?
2008 baby and grew up with dmx lil boosie lil snupe and mobb deep and all the og’s and goodie’s baby i get made fun of foe it but i step and step baby!!❤️‼️
I graduated high school in 2004 and listened to nothing but 70s and 80s music at the time.
@@URProductions
Congratulations🎉🎈🎊🍾
I listen to music going all the way back to the 1930s. 😂
So what.
Has nothing to do with the ops point, which is valid.
@@yopappy6599 I wasn't arguing with the OP, I was sharing my experience.
Also, I fuckin love 30s and 40s classic jazz.
@@URProductionsnow this is the same age as those songs you were listening to then.
15 years later, If you're still watching this you're a legend.
2023 🔥
Yes 🎉❤ in 2023
Yea
2023
Hot
By far one of the most elevated works of the 21st century. The thesis of this piece is these two statements:
1) I am hot because I am fly
2) You ain't because you not*
*notice how he doesn't specify if you ain't (fly) because you ain't (hot) or you ain't (hot) because you ain't (fly). I think he's implying that flyness implies hotness and vice-versa, therefore the statement (hot)' (fly)' is a tautology.
This of course immediately raises several philosophical questions.
-If someone is fly and no one is around to see it, are they still hot?
-Is this why penguins cannot fly, because they are not hot enough? If we became hotter, could we naturally develop the power of flight?
-How does one acquire flyness? Are they born with it? Is Mims saying that the categorization of people as "hot" or "not hot" is some form of new-age discrimination?
I am a mere mortal and will of course never understand the complexities of Mims' mind because he is on a higher plane of enlightenment than I. I can only marvel at the ingenuity of the absolute masterpiece of the ages. Well done, sir. Shakespeare would have put his pen down and never wrote again.
Hahahah thanks for the laugh
Alex E
Thumbs Up!
Alex E lmfaoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
troll on point hahahahaha
Why did I read that all
He's hot cause he's fly? I ain't cause I'm not?
correct
thats what they say
Yes.
Yup
yeah thats what he said
Thank you!!! This was my college song
Gggbbbbbggggggggg
Im 36 and I’m missing this kind of music that made me feel hot 🔥😆
UA-cam is the place where we can go back in time And enjoy the classics
We are on the same page. This song was ringing in my head while meditating, for some reason I don't know why. Missed those days'
I am 50 and I am with you🙌🙌🙌
Same i be 37 in 3 weeks and i will be hitting this track on my birthday
You and me both.
0:36 The producer changed the beat up a little bit to match the style of every region he mentioned. That is incredible!
I didn't notice this til I became an adult. I like that
East Coast Sample: Mobb Deep's "Shook Ones Part II"
Midwest Sample: Kanye West's "Jesus Walks"
West Coast: E-40's "Tell Me When to Go", Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg's "Nuthin' But a "G" Thang"
@@treasuredlove75 thanks
Thats 🔥
My favorite part actually
This production was insane, it was cold how they blended each regions sound🔥
that was the best part!
And that shit cost him MILLIONS!!
muita ousadia dela
tbh it was kinda gimmicky lol nigga cant rap
@@sirepledge6808 I believe it lmfaooo cause them samples were crazy hard
As a 28 year-old this was very nostalgic for me
Same
Same
I just remembered that I will turn 28 this year and now I am the nostalgic one... *emotional damage*
I'm 37 and this brings back memories
Same
This song gave everyone confidence back then 😂😂
Still do
This is why I'm hot or not nice playlist thanks listening in chilling out first time I heard it from a red blooded brunette
Still does😂
Still does
Back when homeboy? Mid 2000s. 2004 & 2008
Don't underrate this hit. 17 years later, it remains a huge hit. When this hit was released back then, it should remind us that it came out in the era when crunk music was on the rise. It is still a classic 🔥🔥🔥
you be spitting str8 facts slimebean
16 years
@@TharsanJeyachandran This song came out in 2006
Flye is mem
Flye is mem
The way the beat switches up for the locations he is naming always gets me hyped af 🔥🔥
Bhhggbggbbvvvb
One of the best beats hands down
To me it's timeless......
Fax
@@andydagreat8539 54 eww
Cap🎓
One of the best CONSTRUCTS of a beat. If you take this beat as a loop and cook some more snares, a fresh set of Hi hats and a pumping bass line, like DP's Hiphop then it's a phat one
2024 anyone?
Yes sir dis is why I'm hot 💯 Good to go
Yes sir this is why I’m hot
Literally just crossed my mind out of nowhere 😂
Here❤
Am here November 13 2024 still vibing this song
Song still slaps 17 years later🔥
Ggvggvgfdfggdffffddfffcdfcdfdc 3:41
who’s here because they actually listened to this as a kid?
This song is on my phone's playlist
Me lol I'd be bumping this with my mom all the time
It was on MTV all the time when it came out.
Bruh that's literally meh
I got meet him at the Florida State Fair in like 5th grade and saw him live
this just popped into my head for no reason for the first time in probably 8 years. i had to look it up because it's been so long that i started doubting whether or not it was real lol
hahaha
Me at this exact moment 😂
😂😂😂
I'm not the only one then 😂
@@BRITdave-so1sl this like class reunion brother! This where the greatest generation come to regroup! 🙏🏼
My fireplace loves this song.
Lol😄😂😭
Lol because it's hot ):D pun intended
cus you chucked the record on it?? haha
Carson Clark omg i love you XD XD
Funny as shit mayyyn!!!
"You ain't cuz you not". These are peak lyrics.
Remember when everybody had this on their MySpace profile?
ejjigga : facts
I ain’t even old enough to remember MySpace.
ejjigga I did Myspace is old asf lol but I remember
Lol fr
@@milanoxiv Thats Tuff
A one hit wonder, but damn, what a hit
1 hit wonder? He had more than 2 top songs
Was pretty badazz.
He doesn't look very hot, he's wearing a jacket in some, maybe that's why he's hot.
he had 3 hits
I remember bumpin this with 2 jbl 12s in my girls cavalier. Wasnt the only thing bumpin in that cavalier if ya know what im sayin lol.
“To be continued”
Bro we still waiting 😂
Lol decade's later.
We too
Been years😂😂😁😂
Ayooooo
ua-cam.com/video/Ju7OECKzS2I/v-deo.html
I used to listen to this when I was 63, and now I'm 17. This will forever be a classic.
2022 let’s keep this alive still a hit 🔥
Yessirrrrrr
Yes forever
No doubt! And let's not leave out Twista's "This Is Why I'm Cold"
Let it die with the rest of the shit pop from the 2000s.
This is why China will continue to overcome the West in virtually every way imaginable.
Had to come back to this in 2024 because the producer is actually a genius
Bhghggggggggfgggg
I remember this from when I was 15. I can't believe this is now a throwback.
Right! It's so weird lol
I was 4 😭
Leur carrière c'est un son, comme MIMS
One hit wonder . But that beat was crazy...
Especially when they changed the beat for different parts of the U.S.
he got heaps of top 40 hits.
Kid Cudi - Day n Nite
@@DK-bm5rg he made very little money on this because of that
@@ynug Kid Cudi has many hits
"I'm hot 'cause I'm fly, you ain't 'cause you not. This is why, this is why, this is why I'm hot"
This guy would make an awesome internet troll
Ikr😅😅😅😅
Do ya thang g
lololol
Sounds like a ripoff of Chad Warden without BALLIN
you Not hot the Song is Hot so get out
Miss the good ol days, I was a 20 year old listening to this back 2006... I wish all my hip-hop hommies back then are doing good now in 2021.
Most of them are dead or in jail doe right?? Just stating the facts hommay!! #statistics #thiswhyimhot #byrdboys #cwb #chamillionareridingdirryisfirefirefuegoaswellmyhommays!
@@bleedgreen4221 most got caught up in the drug game but i hope some are going straight now.
2007 not 2006
Who's still listening 2024 ❤❤❤
i do
I just randomly remembered this song 😅
Was trying to remember the name for 3 days
I definitely am listening
🙋♂️
This is when people still had their own style and everything didn't sound the same!!!
Not really, He got major Flack in New York, for trying to sound like the South.
It sounds like all gangster rap.
@@manmaje3596That's just my opinion. When this song came out, I thought they had they're own style, and I didn't hear anything else like it.
@@kellymarie262 "their"
Vintage example on how a producer can literally carry the whole song.I remember how hooked I was on this back in the day but never actually listened to the lyrics lol. decent hook though.
+MattMzansi True indeed this is the true definition of over producing.
u serious bro?
"This is why I'm hot...I don't gotta rap, I could sell a mill sayin' nothing on the track" mims
GOES IN on this joint...don't get it twisted boi
MattMzansi EXACTLY!!
So crazy that you call this "vintage" lmao
‘this is why i’m hot’ is the most dominant catchy lyric wut u mean
Never forget when this dropped!!!! I was in 6th grade.... I'm 21 now.... smh time flies.... This was before shoulder lean or after it haha damn..
You obviously forgot.. I'm 21 too and this came out in 8th grade and it also came out after shoulder lean lol
xxernesto562xx who cares I grew up during the golden era of rap the 80s and 90s
Me too we aint know no better this shit was hot back den
True shit man. Having a ring tone of this song back then was hot. Lol the era of the Dirty South rappers.
birdman1265 hell yea all day niggas thought my mama named my after Oj Simpson but I was named after my pops
We grew up with some of the best music to ever release! 2000s were a great time to grow up. School dances were popping, house parties were popping, and clubs were crazy!
"I don't gotta rap, I can make a mill saying nothing on a track"
How most rappers, notably Drake, are successful.
Lmao dead ass
CK TV lol
CK TV lmfao, your ass probably don't even listen to the lyrics if you say Drake can't rap. Like Jay Z said, Yall niggas don't listen to the lyrics you just skim through it.
James B R U a Renegade?
HAHAHA
I loved this song from way back in 2007.
Anyone else listening to this song bc u goin thru music u used to listen to?
Yep
hell yeah
indeed
started with JKwon
shared it 5 yrs ago on fb lol
Nah, the production on this song is insane.🔥
Nhbhvgbgbgvgvgg
i'm just continually amazed with how this simply answers one of life's greatest questions.
why am i hot? because i am fly.
why are you not hot? because you are not fly.
Mims:" I don't gotta rap I can sell a mill saying nothing on the track"
Future Mumble rappers : 🤔🤔🤔 I think he's on to something!
The dope beat makes up for the lyrics
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
He could and he did.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
🤣🤣🤣
" Niggas say that we lost it so imma bring it back " and shook ones starts in the background.
" Compton to Hollywood as soon as i hit la, I'm in the low low i do it the cali way " and nothing but a g thang starts in the background. + the low ride sounds.
" But in the mid West they love to take it slow " and the beat slows.
I didn't notice these things as a kid but this guy is a genius.
we liked him, he waas too lazy to produce more, mims in legendary not many people will give him credit for this track
Vgggggvfvgggggc
this song was d best hit... on the radio... it as been 7 years i havent heard this song
Same here bro
Same
Only if you're black.
***** YEAH EVEN THOUGH I HATE RADIO PLAY, THIS WAS A BIG HIT IN AUSTRALIA ON THE RADIO AT THE TIME IT CAME OUT, SoyGuapoYRico SO FUCK YOU, GO LISTEN TO YOU'RE BELOVED MACKLEMORE
***** >Jew
>White
>pick one
He got so hot he evaporated and we never got to part two lmao
😂😂😂😂 comment a year old but this shit funny af........#underatedcomment
Nailed it
He released part two tho :/
Lol he did a remix tho.
Pretty sure he did two remixes lol
10 years later and this beat still hot! And the rapping! What a classic! 😍😘😗
Qqwqwwwwwqeqe de mim não tem nada de valores e não tem que pagar algo no cartão
the year was 2007, you hit the tv and this song pops on vh1. them days !
Fffgggggggfcffgfffgfff
Vggvhggvgggvggggggg
He sampled some of the greatest songs from every region. Years later ... It's still hot !!!
Told us why he was hot and never rapped again. But dam I miss these old days
this video is so original, not at all like other hip-hop videos.....word son
Daniel Blinder nigga wut??
On the brink of 2025,, needed a dose of nostalgia & thought of this song,, back when life was koo 👌🏽
When i was a kid, I thought this was the craziest beat i ever heard 😅 beatboxing and shit lmao
When you were a kid, I was already 25 when this song came out little kid
True
@@nickynick3527 wow!! What an absolute achievement to be born before someone else smh.
Right! Lol I was 11/12 back then.
So...What's the craziest beat u ever heard ?
2019 anyone?
He's hot cuz he fly, you ain't cuz you not. This is why, this is why, this is why he's hot.
Me
Yass
Yes shit good as hell
Oh yeaaah
i remember when this beat dropped
shit was epic
everyone had this shit rockin
the beat its self should go on hall of fame in hip hop
hahahahaha what a joke, this beat lame as fuck
Omero Idacrew facts
For real
Omero Idacrew this shit popped my ear at the club back in the day. Bass was bumpin
Jordan Reid are you kidding, this shit was dope af and still is
This period of time was the literally iconic
You're telling me that this shit was no.1 on Billboard.
que te paso en la cara?? what??? japish!!!
Sam S I'm not calling anybody a nigga boy. Stop being so menstrual.
***** Haruhi do you like rap?
and it sure deserved it... But I guess you can't like it if you don't feel like it...
slevin sleven it sure as hell is better than what some rappers can spit
Take away the words and listen to the production ! The beat changes are dope !
Samples a whole bunch of classic rap songs
Legend has it he’s still in the studio today recording part 2 😭😂
Gtfoh😂
What if I told you there already is one called "like me" 😮🤨. He released it pretty soon after
Lmao
😂😂😂😂🙂
Harsh 😅
This will remain the coldest first verse in hip hop history!
"I could sell a mil saying nothing on the track" every song nowadays
Damn true, or just babbling rubbish, no talent music! 2010+
Deffo! I refuse to listen to anything 2010+
Damn right.. There's an occasional decent song, I think 1 mainstream song was decent and it wasn't even that mainstream compared to these songs, That was Timber, I actually enjoy that song, rest is trash, I listen to more EDM, and EURO dance stuff, as it's actually got talent and it's not a brainwash portrait of "ass, money and tits"
+DarknessAwaits for me, anything from early 2012 up I don't listen to
Yeah true that man
I love this song! This played A LOT on the radio when I was in middle school but I completely forgot about this song until last night when I watched the movie “Due Date”.
I had forgotten this song, so glad i found ❤
*man can we bring thiskind of rap back it sounded good, motivational & it waz positive* 💯💯
I love how he shouts out other cities And styles , True artistry 💯
💀💀💀😂
Cfffffffffffffffggfgf
This song is legendary!❤
This aged well musically...still a banger in 2019!
This came out 16 years ago.... When we had the best music! lil Wayne was on his way to becoming the greatest of all time. Gah hip hop/ rap has really gone down hill since then.
Any one here in 2024 ?
This song just popped in my head 😂
Just met mims today in Florida at a dog show
Don't worry your not alone 😂
Yeah twin
🫡
one hit wonder. nowadays u blessed if u have a hit so salute to him for a classic song.
I'm hot cause I'm fly
You ain't cause you not
Simple logic, Can't argue
Man this takes me back to high school.
I represent New York 💯
Frgggfffffffgfggg
This is the music we need now!
This song is literally trash
The music of this generation is wack.
Cfvgvfvgfcvfffggg
MIMS came by, told us why he was hot, and left.......
he got over 200 milli.
"Ion gotta rap. I can make a mil sayin' nothin' on the track."
Lol
He is one of the best hands down he just doesnt giv a fak
😂😂😂
Just came across this jam and I am smiling all the way in the song. It's bringing back all them memories mahn
the beat is still electrifying. it reminds me of sneaking out as a kid
I’m hot cause I’m fly, you ain’t cause you not. Bro, LYRICISM!!!!
Lmaooo
Gggghvggggbhvgv
Thanks Todd in the shadow for reminding me this
0:44 that bass roll gives me goosebumps still
I love how he uses signature cuts from Mob Deep, Snoop, Kanye etc. Kinda fits with why people are revisiting this song.
Whats the song at 1:10
@@laterrancereaves5646 Jesus walks from Kanye West
@@ing4gi you have done a great thing thank you
those beat change ups were 🔥🔥
What was the sample during the Chicago part?
Dior Dyrek Kayne West - Jesus Walks
On Bible those change ups was legendary.
Noah Melendez i actually think it's a "name drop strategy"
Omg yes!!!
makes a song called this is why I'm hot
IS A ONE HIT WONDER
Nero X he ain't gotta rap.
catch him on the block....selling crack to pay rent
maybe he's just saying he's attractive
Nero X The Madman he's a music producer and drug hustler not no rapper or entertainer
@@jamesschaller753 Drug hustler where?
Not once does he ever explain why he’s hot, but that’s the beauty of this song. He’s doesn’t need to explain why he’s hot. He’s hot because he’s fly and you ain’t… cause you’re not
He literally says he's hot BECAUSE he's fly...
2022 & i still remember every word
i wish music was still like this 😭
my husband calls me lame for listening to music like this but it was the BEST
This was always playing in my mama car...and I thank her 🙏🏽
Yo this beat still Nasty!🔥🔥
Just popped on my head, thank you Mims
The fact that I'm here after listening to Joyful Noise after listening to Dark Horse to see if they sounded alike lmao smh
Nahi Corua same girl I’m really questioning if I have a life or nothing better to do
Nahi Corua same, should probably be sleeping tbh
Sameee
🤣
Nahi Corua same 😂
Man, that early to mid 2000s rap had such a feel to it, it was so good. This song brings back memories.
After 16 long years.. this song is still hot . ,❤❤
So true. I'm bouncing and bopping around my apt like a-ROCK-star. LOL.
❤️🔥 memories school time
"I'm hot cuz I'm fly, you ain't cuz you not"
I am not because I am not?
Lol
His logic is undeniable.
Gabriel Canto you're not hot, because you're not fly. try to keep up :)
Até que enfim achei essa música! 🙌🏼 Tava atrás dela há muito tempo!!!
Essa nos bailes Black era indispensável
"I'm hot cause Im fly, you ain't cause you not" Did Amanda Bynes write this song??
Hahahaha your comment just made my day! 😂😂😂
l resent that!
Amanda Bynes You should.
@Jason ok mims wrote it
isn't he sayin you hate?
I’m 31 and this is still nostalgic for me
I remember this was my JAM back in the day. Good Lord, I feel old.
Right! This was my song back in 6th/7th grade.
"This is why I'm 🔥". 2022 and this is still 🔥😁👌
Damn miss this era of music this was my high school days yooo what happened to dis dude lol he said fuxk the industry
The label did him dirty. This song generated $14 million, and of that, his record label only give him $30K
Oops!
still one of my favorites when i went for my job interview this song was playing in the building ✅💯