Drop It Like It's Hot

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"Drop It Like It's Hot"
Single by Snoop Dogg featuring Pharrell
from the album R&G (Rhythm & Gangsta): The Masterpiece
B-side"Get 2 Know U"
ReleasedSeptember 27, 2004 (2004-09-27)
Genre
Length4:30
Label
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)The Neptunes
Snoop Dogg singles chronology
"Beautiful"
(2003) 		"Drop It Like It's Hot"
(2004) 		"Let's Get Blown"
(2005)
Pharrell Williams singles chronology
"Show Me Your Soul"
(2003) 		"Drop It Like It's Hot"
(2004) 		"Let's Get Blown"
(2005)
Alternative cover
Music video
"Drop It Like It's Hot on
YouTube

"Drop It Like It's Hot" is a song by American rapper Snoop Dogg featuring fellow American musician Pharrell Williams. It was released on September 27, 2004, as the lead single from Snoop Dogg's seventh studio album, R&G (Rhythm & Gangsta): The Masterpiece (2005). The song was produced by the Neptunes. It is regarded as an iconic song,[1] with Snoop performing the chorus and the second and third verses while Pharrell performs the first verse.

The song topped the US

Best Rap Performance by a Duo or Group. Two songs "Jesus Walks" by Kanye West and "Let's Get It Started" by Black Eyed Peas respectively won the former and latter awards. The single was Pharrell's biggest hit worldwide, until 2013's "Get Lucky", "Blurred Lines", and "Happy
", the latter being his biggest single as a lead artist.

On December 10, 2009, "Drop It Like It's Hot" was named the most popular rap song of the decade by Billboard.[2]

Origin of song title

The phrase "drop it like it's hot" was already in common use before the song was released, and had been used in various songs since the 1990s. It is a metaphorical description of a dance move commonly performed by women, and is performed by various women throughout the music video. It was used in

Jay-Z's 1996 debut album, Reasonable Doubt. DJ Quik used the phrase in the song "Sexuality" from his album Balance & Options. Another song with the same name is "Drop It Like It's Hot", sung by the Big Tymers, and featuring Chilli, Juvenile, and Lac. This version of the song was featured in the Big Tymers' predecessor of their debut, How You Luv That Vol. 2
.

Outside of hip-hop, it was also the title of a song on indie rock band

Bands Like It When You Yell "Yar!" at Them
.

Critical reception

USA Today called the song "scorching".[3] Rolling Stone's Tom Moon said "The serpentine down-tempo single 'Drop It Like It's Hot', produced by the Neptunes, links Snoop's slyly exuberant delivery to a relentless dance-floor bounce".[4] Steve "Flash" Juon of Rap Reviews wrote: "the stripped down sound of the Neptunes produced 'Drop it Like It's Hot' has produced one of Snoop's biggest hits to date. Ironically it may be in some ways more gangsterish than his "Deep Cover" debut in some aspects, but he's so chill about his delivery it doesn't sound the least bit menacing: That's quintessential Snoop for you - hard when you're not looking, but still velvet enough to appeal to the ladies and drive off in a fly Mercedes".[5] Similarly, AllMusic's David Jeffries stated: "the ultrahot production team the Neptunes' contribution to the killer single 'Drop It Like It's Hot' had been duly noted, but lost in all the chatter was how inspired and on-fire Snoop sounds".[6]

Music video

The music video of the single was released in 2004. It was directed by Paul Hunter and shot in black-and-white.[7] It shows Snoop Dogg doing the dance step known as the Crip Walk in the very beginning and end. The video included both of Snoop Dogg's sons, Corde and Cordell. Other appearances in the video include Terry Kennedy, Lauren London, Pharrell Williams' fellow Neptunes member Chad Hugo, and Pusha T.

The video won the award for the best hip hop video at the 2006

MTV Australia Video Music Awards and a MOBO Award
for Best Video in 2005.

Radio edits

There are two radio edits for the song: one is a standard radio edit that removes profanities and drug references while the other is an "Extra Clean" edit that removes phrases with gun and gang references (and the word "roll" from the chorus) as well.

Commercial performance

North America

"Drop It Like It's Hot" was the highest-ranking debut for the

Hot 100 Airplay.[11]

Since its release the song has been certified

RIAA.[12]

Europe

The single reached number ten on the

UK Singles Chart, and reached the top ten in several countries.[13]

Oceania

The song topped the Recorded Music NZ for four weeks, making it Snoop Dogg's first number one on the chart.[14]

Track listing

  1. Drop It Like It's Hot (featuring Pharrell) — 4:32
  2. Get 2 Know U (featuring Jelly Roll) — 3:36

Remixes

  • The official remix features new verses from Snoop Dogg, Pharrell Williams, and a verse from Jay-Z dissing R. Kelly for suing him, which appeared on the bonus CD of the Boss'n Up DVD.MTV
  • English drum and bass producer Roni Size performed a remix with Dynamite MC on BBC Radio 1's Live Lounge on January 10, 2005.
  • Edit also created an unofficial, unreleased remix, which can be found on various mixtapes.[2]
  • Lil Wayne released a remix of the song, titled "Nah This Ain't the Remix", on his mixtape The Dedication. He takes shots at Snoop Dogg for using his line, with lines like "don't touch my shit nigga" and "I rock a red flag.." However, he claimed that he was not mad at Snoop, saying in the song, "When I first heard this I got a little upset but then I thought to myself, what haven't I done yet?" and later, "Nah, I ain't hatin', don't get me wrong, I made it a hot line, you made it a hot song. Peace." It can be taken as a reference to Jay-Z's song dissing Nas, "Takeover", in which Jay-Z says: "I sampled your voice, you was usin' it wrong, you made it a hot line, I made it a hot song."

Mashups

Samples

Parodies

Covers and other media

Soundtrack appearances

  • The song appears in the game Dance Central for Kinect on the Xbox 360, in a commercial for the soft drink Sun Drop, the 2013 animated film Turbo and its soundtrack (using the clean radio version) and the 2019 animated film The Addams Family (In which Snoop Dogg also starred in).
  • The song was featured on the NBA 2K15 soundtrack.
  • The song was featured in The Wire, Season 3, Episode 12, "Mission Accomplished".
  • A remixed version of the song is available as downloadable content for the music video game series Rock Band. The song features the original vocal track (censored to maintain an ESRB "Teen" rating) with an added electric guitar and bass line, as well as an expanded drum pattern.

Trivia

  • Snoop Dogg's cousin
    Sasha Banks took her stage name and persona The Boss from the lyrics "Da Big Bo$$ Dogg, yeah I had to do that" after the late Dusty Rhodes mentioned to her about Snoop being her cousin after struggling to create a persona for the WWE
    .
  • Coincidentally, at WrestleMania 32, Snoop escorted Sasha (and performed a freestyle rap) for her entrance and also changed the lyrics "I'm a gangsta, but y'all knew that/Da Big Bo$$ Dogg, yeah I had to do that" to "She's a legit boss, but y'all knew that/Da Big Bo$$ Dogg, yeah I had to do that" in her entrance music.
  • The song was performed at the 2011 Mnet Asian Music Awards alongside The Next Episode during the "Legendary Hip-hop stage" segment.
  • In 2018, Ski Mask the Slump God released the Stokeley album, which featured "Foot Fungus", an interpolation of "Drop It Like It's Hot".

Legacy

The hand motioned dance featured near the beginning of the music video became an internet meme and has been used in numerous internet videos from well-known online creators.

Charts

Certifications

Region Certification Certified units/sales
Australia (ARIA)[66] Gold 35,000^
Denmark (IFPI Danmark)[67] Gold 45,000‡
Germany (BVMI)[68] Gold 150,000‡
Italy (FIMI)[69] Gold 25,000‡
New Zealand (RMNZ)[70] Gold 5,000*
United Kingdom (BPI)[71] Platinum 600,000‡
United States (RIAA)[12] Gold 500,000^
United States (RIAA)[72]
Mastertone 		2× Platinum 2,000,000*

* Sales figures based on certification alone.
^ Shipments figures based on certification alone.
‡ Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone.

Release history

Region Date Format(s) Label(s) Ref.
United States September 27, 2004
  • urban radio
[73]
November 15, 2004 Contemporary hit radio [74]
Australia January 17, 2005 CD [75]

See also

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