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All songs about dope are rubbish. Except "Searchin For My Rizla" by Ratpack. -- Tom ([email protected]), August 30, 2001. i just bought "THC (The Hip Hop Collection) Vol. 1", which is a stack of tracks recorded exclusively for high times magazine... and so long as you don't listen to the words, it is a good album. i have extra time for the e-swift produced tracks, and my favourites mf doom, lootpack and rza are on it too

however - - - i can't help but feel a bit embarrassed about owning an album whose cover is literally 'dope on plastic'. i may as well have gone down to 'off ya tree' and bought some cheech and chong t-shirts and a skull shaped bong. i have lots of dumb records but there's something especially lame about a tribute album to marijuana.

― minna, Thursday, 27 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

(scuse my bad formatting)

has anyone else heard this? what's the verdict? on dope songs in general?

― minna, Thursday, 27 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Did you have to buy High Times to get the comp?

― Mark, Thursday, 27 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I've love to review records for High Times. They're all evaluated in terms of how they sound when you're stoned.

― Mark, Thursday, 27 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

(Not that I'm a weedhead or anything -- I just think it's a funny idea.)

― Mark, Thursday, 27 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Has there been a dope music S&D yet? Seek: Ween The Pod - pretty funny even if you're not stoned.

― o. nate, Thursday, 27 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

it's totally seperate from the magazine...
http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drf200/f238/f2388803au9.j pg
(click on the picture for the amg review)

― minna, Thursday, 27 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

by seperate i mean separate, and that you don't need to buy the mag to get the cd. it is most certainly affiliated with the magazine tho, steve bloom the editor wrote the liner notes and there are special "marijuana photographs" credited to one of high times' photographers (i assume :))

― minna, Thursday, 27 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

sublime has done some decent songs about the wacky-tobacky. but any album dedicated to weed is just embarrassing, my freinds probably own every single one of them too.

― dyson, Thursday, 27 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Marijuana is an important part of hip hop. It may not be part of your lifestyle, but it's certainly not "lame". I mean, really, no other form of music mentions it nearly as much as hip hop, so what do you expect? As long as the lyrics aren't flat out simple and stupid, hip hop tracks about weed are great. There just happen to be so damn many of them that it's hard to hold a general opinion.

Anwyay, if anyone wants to laugh they should seek out "Smoke Somethin'" by 404 Soldiers (It's not intentionally funny..). It's not going to change your opinion on herb-oriented hip hop tracks, though.

― Bobby D. Gray, Thursday, 27 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Marijuana culture is kind of "lame" though. At least the High Times sort, the sort for serious marijuana enthusiasts.

Listening to music stoned isn't spectacular, really. Listening to good music is always spectacular so, uh, not extra-spectacular, I guess. But you do feel better doing it. I'm not really sure.

― DylanK, Thursday, 27 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

All music sound better when you're stoned. That is both a gd and a bad thing, obv.

A couple of years ago the German label Trikont brought out a fantastic comp called 'High and Low: Drug Songs 1917-1944', a collection of old blues/gospel/jazz/novelty recs that pretty explicitly refer to drugs of one sort or another. Song titles include: 'Junker's Blues', 'Wacky Dust', 'That Cat is High', 'Fixin; to Die Blues', 'Who put the benzedrine in Mrs Murphy's Ovaltine', 'Kickin' the Gong Around' (by Louis Armstrong, a lifelong toker), 'Reefer Man' etc. etc.

― Andrew L, Thursday, 27 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Peter Tosh - "Legalize It"...The guitar work is entrancing.. and somehow perfect...

― Keiko, Thursday, 27 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Marijuana is an important part of hip hop. It may not be part of your lifestyle, but it's certainly not "lame". I mean, really, no other form of music mentions it nearly as much as hip hop, so what do you expect?

it's not the marijuana references that i object to. like dylan said it's the serious marijuana culture that's a little bit sad. i unashamedly love hip hop albums that contain many marijuana references... this one is different though, in that it has become not just the main focus but the only focus! it's all over the artwork, the song titles... even the samples in the tracks are drug- related.

― minna, Thursday, 27 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

one month passes...

SHUT THE FUK UP, STOP BITCHIN AND BUY THE FUKIN ALBUM IF YA LIKEZ IT. IF NOT THEN JUST SHUT THE FUK UP! MATE!

― jonny B, Saturday, 10 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I like that MF Doom is up in this bitch.

One classic song where marijuana is more than a reference: D'Angelo's "Brown Sugar" (though it's hard to tell if dope is a metaphor for sex or vice versa)...

― Pete Scholtes, Monday, 12 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

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