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my friend colin is probably the least “hip-hop” person that you could possibly find in the US under the age of 30 (not an exaggeration). he is a physics phd candidate at harvard and was pretty much the reason i passed college physics my sophomore year.

that being said, in college he used to listen intently to the lyrics spilling out of my stereo and examine them closely, much like you would a great literary work. this was oftentimes hilarious.

anyhow, he just sent me a hilarious examination of mims’s “this is why i’m hot”:

Mims is hot because he’s fly. But it raises the question: Does being hot guarantee one’s being fly? ‘”You ain’t ’cause you not’ would seem to clear that up… 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.

full article from the village voice