“I never knew a love, love, a love, a love like this . . ”

In the year 2000, fellow Piscean Lonnie Rashid Lynn, Jr. aka Common aka The Artist Formerly Known As Sense released the album Like Water For Chocolate, which would go on to be considered by many fans as one of his best albums.

The album’s hit single, “The Light” (produced by the late, great Jay Dee aka Dilla), would go on to join the short list of definitive hip hop love songs, joining the immortal pantheon of LL Cool J’s “I Need Love”, The Roots’ “You Got Me”, and The Notorious B.I.G.’s “Me and My Bitch”.

And so, as hip hop does with anything deemed “definitive”, Common went on to redefine it, remixing the joint with 2008′s “The Light ’08 (It’s Love)”, produced by Just Blaze and featuring Marsha Ambrosius of Floetry.

And, as I do with anything deemed “anything”, I went on to remix the remix of the joint with this joint.

” . . but this hot summer this Scott Summers / Got a Jean Grey, looking even hotter through these shades / And even if your Phoenix came, you’d still be my Heatwave / Always and forever; let shorty from Floetry say . . ”

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