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Common

Heat

Release date: 28th March 2000

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"Heat" is a track by Common, from the album Like Water for Chocolate, released 28th March 2000. Full lyrics are available below.

About the Artist

Common

Common

Lyrics

Heat

[Intro: Common & J Dilla]

Yeah

One, two

Yeah

Where my nigga Jay Dee?

Where you at? (Yeah)

[Chorus: Common & J Dilla]

Say you got guns, then bring that shit (What?)

Say you got ones, then bring that shit

'Cause you gon' need a lot more ones and guns for this (What?)

Me and my mans is 'bout to spit some hot shit

Yeah, one, two

'Bout to spit that hot shit

Huh, woo, yeah, huh

Turn it down, nigga

Hot shit

Yeah

[Verse 1: Common]

Messenger in the metropolis, apocalypse here and now

Niggas know the ledge, so they don't come near the style

I appear in clouds on some heaven to earth shit

Fake niggas drown the deeper the verse gets

Deep as a skinny girl's cunt

I surface with the purpose to let y'all niggas know the demo

Voice is a instrument that's monumental

You couldn't fuck with the style if you was a nympho

Raised in the temple of Chi, taught to look into the eye

I identify with dobbs and weaves

And niggas makin' moves, the bob and weave

And niggas with jobs on the side sell weed

I feed off the hunger that a bum or abandoned child gets

Freaky like Marv Albert, in outfits by Chaka Givens

I lecture how I got God, but don't got religion

Got a clip for these niggas on the 'net sellin' my shit

Let's just say you Ramone and I'm Spit

In a habitat of Cadillacs and battle raps

And people that travel at the speed of need

Never agree with the ways of the world

Cats say anything like they say to they girl

How you bringin' it when you sit Indian-style?

Niggas know me as Com, it's time hear me go wild

With hot shit, yeah, huh

Hot shit, yeah, one, two

Came to bring it, boy

[Chorus: J Dilla & Common]

You say you got guns, then bring that shit (Uh)

You say you got ones, then bring that shit

'Cause you gon' need a lot more ones and guns for this (What?)

Me and my mans and we 'bout to spit some hot shit

What?

No doubt, nigga, some hot shit

[Verse 2: Common]

Old men see visions, young men dream dreams

I rock the planet, recognize, I'm the cream

Com rules everything and everything is

How your man pullin your weight, he ain't carryin' his?

Scary, the biz is like The Blair Witch Project

Experiment in rooms on some bad bitch project

State senators, life twirls, most sell out

Like a dread with a white girl

You want me to cypher with you and the gods?

I just did a show, I'm pursuin' these broads

Every one, I ain't tryin' to fuck

Wanna feel female presence and conversation a touch

You'll get split like a date that's dust, scuffed, and scraped up

Taped up for tryin' to say whatever you was about to say

You rap like a nigga that's about to spray

Get a mouth shot for openin' your mouth to say

Feel my heat in the night, it leaves you without the day

What I write is a passage for niggas to travel through

Before defeatin' me, joe, you better battle you

I tap into my own zone like it's my home phone

Turn the cell off and let my dome roam

Shame I gotta do white labels to keep my life stable

I write fatal bringin' niggas to life

A wise man came in the thick of the night

He said, "Bring that shit when you pick up the mic"

I said, "What shit?"

He said, "Hot shit, hot shit, hot shit"

[Chorus: Common & J Dilla]

You say you got guns, then bring that shit (Uh)

You say you got ones, then bring that shit

'Cause you gon' need a lot more ones and guns for this (Uh)

Me and my mans and we known to spit this hot shit (Hot shit, yeah, yeah, uh)

[Outro: Common & J Dilla]

What we spit, Jay? (Break it down, nigga)

Hot shit, uh, yeah, uh, come on, yeah, what? (Keep it goin')

Hot shit (Nonstop)

Hot shit

Hot shit, yeah, boy (Keep it goin')

Hot shit (Out)

Hot

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Track details

From Like Water for Chocolate

2000
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Album
Like Water for Chocolate
Like Water for Chocolate
Common
Release year
2000
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  2. —Dooinit
  3. —A Song for Assata
  4. —Geto Heaven Part Two
  5. —Pops Rap III...All My Children
  6. —Payback Is a Grandmother
  7. —Time Travelin' Reprise
  8. —The Light '08 (It's Love)
  9. —A Film Called (PIMP)
  10. —The Questions
  11. —Time Travelin' (A Tribute to Fela)
  12. —Nag Champa (Afrodisiac for the World)
  13. —Funky for You
  14. —Thelonius
  15. —Heat
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Credits

Production & Engineering

Writer
Allen Olapido, Common, J Dilla
Producer
J Dilla
Additional Vocals
J Dilla
Assistant Mixing Engineer
Steve Mandel
Assistant Recording Engineer
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Mastering Engineer
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Mixing Engineer
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