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This song is somewhat of a strength chant for me. It's a song of perseverance, Black folk, faith, trust, and personal accountability for me...I absolutely love this song. One of my favorite songs of all time.


The Heat
By Angie Stone

Hope this is enough said
Ain't got time for you, I'm makin' up my own bed
Hope this don't offend you
Yes, I'm salty and I got an attitude
I've been saving up soul like a field rat
Keepin' up by stashing funk in my backpack
Watching other's slide back on politics
Guess to know the game is to know the tricks

If you can't stand the heat, get out the kitchen
If you can't stand, stand the heat get out the kitchen

Ooooooh....Oh no, listen
Went to church on Sunday mornin'
On my knees while I was prayin'
Askin' God for the strength to
To just keep on winning (He said)
Just keep your soul sacred and store your knowledge safely
Your heart is good as gold, I got you in my fold

And if you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen
If you can't stand the heat...

This song is on one of my favorite albums of all time...it touches on some great moments in my life that I had difficulty expressing. This particular song has played often in my place when I finally have to shut my doors, burn my incense, candles, and oil, turn off my phones and the television and clean house...literally and figuratively. I think of 20 dollars symbolically, I guess...20 dollars equates to my energy, my love, my time, my friendship, my thoughts, my support, my orange being that I give when it's requested and seemingly needed and sadly not usually reciprocated...I love this song...it speaks for me in that sense


20 dollars
By Angie Stone

Whatcha know about being po'
Whatcha know about borrowin'
From the neighbor next door
Whatcha know about bummin' rides
Whatcha know about havin', ta swallow yo' pride

What do you do when you're through
When you're always helping people and
Nobody's there for you, come on now
What can I do or say
When you constantly standing in my face
Talkin' about

(Chorus)
Can you loan me 20 dollars
'Till I get my check next week
Said I only got 20 dollars
And me and my baby got to eat

Can you loan me 20 dollars
'Till I get my check next week
Said I only got 20 dollars
And me and my baby got to eat

(Verse)
Now I'm suppose to take from the child, oh Lord
Make it harder on me just to make it worth your
while
Now honey, I don't think so
Cuz you ain't paid me back the ten-spot
From three weeks ago, uh ho ho, no

What do you do when you're through
When you're always helping people and
Nobody's there for you (Tell me)
What can I do or say
When you constantly staring in my face
Talkin' about

Chorus)
Can you loan me 20 dollars
'Till I get my check next week
Said I only got 20 dollars
And me and my baby got to eat

Can you loan me 20 dollars
'Till I get my check next week
Said I only got 20 dollars
And me and my baby got to eat


Tell me
What have you done for me
Besides bein' too busy, busy, busy
Stressin' me constantly
Oh Oh Whoa yeah, Now I, now I, now I
I can see where your head is at
Ahaa, See I only got 20 dollars
And you still want half of that
Whoa oh Whoa Woo hoo ooo Yeah!


Can you loan me 20 dollars
'Till I get my check next week
Said I only got 20 dollars
And me and my baby got to eat

Can you loan me 20 dollars
'Till I get my check next week
(WHAT check you gon' get next week?)
Said I only got 20 dollars
And me and my baby got to eat
(I don't remember you havin' a job lately)

Can you loan me 20 dollars
'Till I get my check next week
(Gerald told me the other day you see)
Said I only got 20 dollars
And me and my baby got to eat
(You borrowed 10 from him and 2 from Sue
and I said "I ain't GOT no money")
Can you loan me 20 dollars
(I work too hard for mines)
'Till I get my check next week
(Baby!...
Said I only got 20 dollars
I suggest you... get it together)
And me and my baby got to eat