This Is Why I’m Hot

Over at Village Voice, Rob Harvilla has taken the time to explain America’s number one song, “This Is Why I’m Hot” by Mims, a Washington Heights rapper.

“The other remarkable, oft-quoted line in “This Is Why I’m Hot” is “I could sell a mil’ sayin’ nothin’ on a track.” Critics gibe that “This Is Why I’m Hot” proves precisely that; others muse on what Mims would sell if he deigned to actually say something on a track. Would he sell less than a mil’? Exactly a mil’, as when he said nothing? Or a great deal more than a mil’? The song does not elaborate.”

Brilliant!