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"Deep Kick" is the third track off of the Red Hot Chili Peppers' sixth studio album, One Hot Minute. This is one of the few songs in which Flea has a singing part, and remains one of the very few with a spoken portion. At an overall time of just over six-and-a-half minutes, it is still to this day the second-longest track to appear on any original studio album by the Chili Peppers, beaten only by "Sir Psycho Sexy" - an 8-minute-long song from Blood Sugar Sex Magik.
The track consists of three movements. It starts off with spacey, ambient sounds and singer Anthony Kiedis speaking a surreal poem about his childhood. The song picks up pace at almost two minutes in and becomes an aggressive almost punkish rant about the childhood friendship of singer Anthony Kiedis and bassist Flea and the trips they would go on together, hitchhiking, stealing (followed by evading the authorities) and talking their way round California and Europe. The tempo of the song slows down at the end and a more melodic texture is added to it whilst Flea sings on his own of past memories.
The track includes the guitar work of Dave Navarro, the band's guitarist at the time. He may be accountable for the uncharacteristic psychedelic style found in songs from One Hot Minute such as "Deep Kick".
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