4/20
AUDIO By TSSCrew on April 20, 2008 at 10:19 amWords By Patrick M.
Me and Mary Jane have had a long up and down relationship over the years. We’ve fought and we’ve broke up, and so far, I’ve always come crawling back to her. If anything, AZ can sum up my (and many others’) relationship with the leafy green: Life is a bitch, you do die, and you never know when you’re going to go. So why not get lifted once a week/day/hour or so?
Many of Hip-Hop’s finest have their own relationships with Mary Jane, and you can be certain that Snoop, Redman, Method Man, and many others are celebrating today in their own special way. Those three artists in particular, have strong relationships with the plant, never failing to dedicate a song, or even an entire album with references to the quality of chronic they blaze, or the quantity they can blow through in a moment’s notice.
But their glorification of drugs is a double-edged sword. Sure they may have been able to make millions while blazing chronic all the time. But they are freaks of nature, that one percent whose body chemistry or sheer good luck keeps them from falling prey to MJ’s sedentary effects. Moreover, I look at Meth and Snoop as two MCs who, based on their performances on 36 Chambers and The Chronic, could have been the greatest of all time. Something held them back though, and kept them from putting together the catalog of focused albums and songs needed to be in that discussion. Did they lose that edge from too much Cali chronic, even as they became stars because of it? Who knows?
Pardon me for killing your buzz. Today is supposed to be a day of celebration so let me tell a story about why I love Mary Jane.
The year was 1998 and for some reason the local “urban” radio station in Boston kept playing a song called “Rosa Parks” by this group from Atlanta called Outkast. At the time, I was unaware that rap artists came from places other than New York or Los Angeles, and I could not for the life of me figure out the appeal of these country upstarts or their song.
One Friday night me and my boy decide that life is most certainly a bitch, and decide to drive around while taking AZ’s advice to heart. My mood is nicely altered and I’m chilling when what should come on the radio but “Rosa Parks.” My boy turns up the stereo.
And as it never has before the song clicks in my head.
“Uh-huh. Baby. Un-huh. Yea Yea.”
So whatever you’ve done to me Mary Jane, you gave me Outkast. And for that I thank you.
Happy 4/20.
Wit-E Beats Presents Street Bangers Vol. 30 (4/20 Edition) (Covers & Tracklisting included)
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Atmosphere’s new album (both Deluxe & standard versions) is on the New Release page in the Best Buy circular.
I don’t recall seeing Best Buy advertise good music…in a long time, at least.
yes 4/20
i remeber one year Easter fell on it, and man i felt gulty as shit blazen up..but hey to all my stoner freinds, happy 4:20.
Weed is nature’s way of giving back.
The more You smoke, the better You’ll feel….=)
Happy 4/20 TSS Crew
Super.High.Me.2007.DVDSRC.XViD-TRG
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1111833/
http://rapidshare.com/files/108883848/SuprHghM.part1.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/108883886/SuprHghM.part2.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/108883926/SuprHghM.part3.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/108883976/SuprHghM.part4.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/108883674/SuprHghM.part5.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/108883717/SuprHghM.part6.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/108883772/SuprHghM.part7.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/108883806/SuprHghM.part8.rar
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Does anyone have a link for Jim Crow – Right Quick, found a link on here to Crows Nest but no luck with the 2nd album!
cheeeeeeeeeeeeah.
Anyone have The Massacre (Special Edition)?
until you die?
happy 420 to all my TSS homies. roll up a grape dutch for me, cuz thats all I’ll be doin today :)
Dead Prez – Turn Off the Radio Vol.1.rar
http://www.mediafire.com/?fudx0dygkbu
Dead Prez – Turn Off the Radio Vol.2
http://www.sendspace.com/file/gia01x
Better link for that movie.
http://www.mininova.org/tor/1338393
oh – and y’all should peep the newness -
myspace.com/fridaynightmusic
Peace & Respect!
some nice beats, a lazy, rainy day… a dutch between my teeth… happy 4/20 ladies and gents.
Yeah, all smokers should throw up links to tracks & albums that you’ve got designated to blow to today.
FO’ TWEEZY!!! No reggie 2day…..maybe kushion or grimace.
UUUGGGH!!!
Happy 420 TSS family
WE ARE FAMILY
perfect day to make bubble hash!
“I do not sniff the coke, I only smoke the sensimillia”
-Pauls Botique
^^^ thats actually a Pato Banton song, its on last year’s tape
apparently artist / producer madlib is a huge eli porter fan.
recently at a redbull sponsored music function madlib couldnt stop referencing “eli vs. envy” and kept reffering to things as “some eli vs envy shit” him and his boy (another producer I cant remember) couldnt get enough. and laughed hysterically every time they name dropped eli and the people in attendance seemed to be lost.
I don’t think it’s fair to attribute Snoop & Mef’s shortcomings to chronic. Many rappers have failed to live up to their potential, and plenty who don’t talk about weed in every song.
And yo if ya’ll are looking for some music to blaze to today check out my blog, I made a mix dedicated to Mary. Click my name (sorry to be pluggin shit).
HAPPY 4/20!!!!
I can’t even smoke today =/.. Last years 4/20 was the first time I had smoked in a year and a half, probation ehhhh.. But this time, I just need to find a better job, so I’m not going near it. I might just watch Half Baked 500 times or something.
Happy 420 folkers!
About 2 endulge in some 420 rice krispy treats!
and 4 your listening pleasures!
Lee “Scratch” Perry: Super Ape
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=FM15FWJE
@ Dirk…
Shoulda put…Pato Banton, Sampled by the Beastie Boys on Pauls Botique…Fuck, i’m stoned. Give me a break…lol
Classic line anyway…
Perfect day to watch some Trailer Park Boys!
anyone out there hip to that show?
http://www.youtube.com/v/ZHdjqsSSa_A
^^Good Shit!
http://i28.tinypic.com/spu9o4.jpg
^^^
Hilarity just ensued!
@Sherm belated condolences man. Put a wish list up and I’ll up what I can.
That’s why I copped a 2nd drive when I saw a cheap one. Paranoid as a mofo when I only had one.
twenty-eigth!
I still don’t get the hype of 4/20…. I always thought the weed smoker type would be the last type to buy into anything let alone something like this. Boulder, CO is where it’s at though. I won’t be there but thousands will.
Since when is Atmosphere good music?
Fuck my job. Instead of watching Devin in Santa Cruz on 4/20 i’m gonna be working all night.
My favorite joint to blaze to from back in the day is Brotha Lynch Hung – Loaded…. “Smoke a fat, blunt on my, couch wit my feet up”
it wouldn’t be 4/20 w/o a lil sour diesel sorry its clean
http://www.zshare.net/audio/255296573fe39c/
sour diesel remix
http://www.zshare.net/audio/9870092e659333/
z-ro smokers anthem
http://www.zshare.net/audio/107858913de7de8a/
UGK-Swishas and Dosha
but only listen to it on 4:20 in the whip!!! While puffing!
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=OP56KAM9
Jus Family ft Kenny Mack and G-ism- Smoke Fills my Chest
(Highly recommended listen)
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=LSHJ7N1R
DJ Quik ft. Mausberg-Change The Game
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=QWPRO9W2
Mac Dre-Genie of the lamp (Bonus Track)
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=TOSWK28P
420 @ the fillmore w/ cypress hill in san frrancisco,califas……..
Sour D is the worst… Super Sativa any damn day.
That Stoner was robbed! “420 Bob!” She had a “Barker’s Beavers” shirt on too… what was that about?!
DJ Quik greatest hits live at HOB- Tha Bombudd
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=ZPJI66Q6
DJ Quik Bombudd II
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=9Q2M8CVV
X-Raided-Wanna get high?
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=FMFDI9PB
Styles P – Blow Your Mind
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=CJMQIHBJ
People Under The Stairs-Acid Raindrops
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=M9AZI3J5
People Under The Stairs-The Breakdown
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=WLCBTBNP
@ Smash Greumswell
Ya but does Super Sativa have its own smoke anthem though? didnt think so… :) sounds like some offbrand ass strain anyway