Hot like what?

[Scot LaFaive]

I always found the lyrics "I'm hot 'cause I'm fly/You ain't 'cause you not"
rather simplistic and boring, but after reading this analysis of it, I now
see the genius wrapped in simplicity.

Scot LaFaive


>From: Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at YALE.EDU>
>Reply-To: American Dialect Society <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
>To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
>Subject: Hot like what?
>Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2007 14:39:27 -0400
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>Poster:       Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at YALE.EDU>
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>A former student alerted me to this treatise on the semantics of what
>is apparently the #1 song in America, recorded by a denizen of my old
>'hood (Washington Heights):
>http://www.villagevoice.com/music/0711,harvilla,76021,22.html
>
>LH
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