Songfacts®:

• "We Be Burnin'" is about smoking marijuana. High Times magazine named it Best Pot Song of 2005.
• "We Be Burnin'" is a party song, but there is a message embedded in the lyrics: marijuana should be legal. As Sean Paul sings:
  
  Legalize it, time to recognize it
  
  Sean Paul is Jamaican, and surprisingly, marijuana was still illegal there when the song was released in 2005. It wasn't decriminalized until 2015.
• Sean Paul's songs tend to be about girls, parties and pot. Often they deal with all three, which is the case here.
  
  Early on, his songs took on heavier themes like inequality and prejudice. "I'd be singing about that stuff, but later on producers would be like: 'Bro, this doesn't seem like you,'" he told The Guardian. "They wanted me to sing more about girls and partying, which I was into, too, but part of me got stifled by the party guy, who attracted the ladies and made more money. I was trying to establish myself, so pretty soon I thought: 'I like this party guy.'"
• This wasn't the first Sean Paul song that's focused on reefer: His 2002 hit "Gimme The Light" covers the same topic.
• The beat is based on an instrumental track (a "riddim") called "Stepz" that Sean Paul's producers for this track released under the name Renaissance Productions.
• This was the lead single from Sean Paul's 2005 album The Trinity. His dancehall sound was huge at the time; in 2003 he had US #1 hits with "Get Busy" and with a feature on Beyoncé's "Baby Boy." "We Be Burnin'" kept the fire going, and another single from that album, "Temperature," gave him another chart-topper.
• There are no bongs, blunts or funny cigarettes in the music video, which instead is filled with beautiful women and big trucks. It was shot in Southern California deserts and directed by Jessy Terrero, who also did Sean Paul's "Never Gonna Be the Same" video. By keeping marijuana imagery out of the visual, it gave it a better chance of earning airplay, especially on MTV, which was fine with girls and trucks but frowned on drugs.