Hot Pants (James Brown song)

{{Infobox song

| name = Hot Pants

| cover = HotPants1People.jpg

| alt =

| type = single

| artist = James Brown

| album = Hot Pants

| A-side = Hot Pants Pt. 1 (She Got to Use What She Got to Get What She Wants)

| B-side = Hot Pants Pt. 2 & 3 (She Got to Use What She Got to Get What She Wants)

| released = {{Start date|1971|07}}

| recorded = May 13, 1971, Starday-King Studios, Nashville, TN

| studio =

| venue =

| genre = Funk

| length = {{plainlist}}

• {{Duration|m=3|s=08}} (Pt. 1)
• {{Duration|m=3|s=53}} (Pt. 2 & 3)
• {{Duration|m=8|s=42}} (album version)

{{endplainlist}}

| label = People
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| writer = {{plainlist}}

• James Brown
• Fred Wesley

{{endplainlist}}

| producer = James Brown

| chronology = James Brown charting

| prev_title = Escape-ism (Part 1)

| prev_year = 1971

| next_title = Make It Funky (Part 1)

| next_year = 1971

| misc = {{External music video|{{YouTube|paG_q01Vr8A|"Hot Pants (She Got To Use What She Got To Get What She Wants)"}}|header=Audio video}}

}}

"Hot Pants (She Got to Use What She Got to Get What She Wants)" is a 1971 song by American singer James Brown, released as a single on his People Records label (then distributed by King Records) in July of that year with "Pt. 1" on the A-side and "Pt. 2 and 3" on the B-side. It was a number-one hit on the Billboard R&B chart, and reached number fifteen on the Hot 100{{cite book|title=Joel Whitburn's Top Pop Singles|last=Whitburn|first=Joel|publisher=Record Research Inc|year=1997|isbn=0-89820-122-5|location=Menomonee Falls, WI|page=73}} and number ten on the Cashbox{{cite book|title=The Cash Box Singles Charts, 1950-1981|last=Hoffmann|first=Frank|publisher=The Scarecrow Press, Inc|year=1983|location=Metuchen, NJ & London|page=65}} magazine charts.White, Cliff (1991). "Discography". In Star Time (pp. 54–59) [CD booklet]. New York: PolyGram Records.{{cite book |title= Top R&B/Hip-Hop Singles: 1942-2004|last=Whitburn |first=Joel |author-link=Joel Whitburn |year=2004 |publisher=Record Research |page=54}} "Hot Pants" was Brown's final release under King's purview before he and the People label moved to Polydor Records.

The song is an ode to the captivating power of hotpants, which he and his band first saw on their 1970 European tour. Like much of Brown's funk repertoire, "Hot Pants" has been extensively sampled by various hip hop artists.[http://www.whosampled.com/James-Brown/Hot-Pants/ Hot Pants - James Brown] | WhoSampled