from the LP Here Come the Lords, Pendulum Records, 1993Man, this one takes me back…I can almost smell the sweet-soggy funk of schwag burning in a White Owl or Optimo cigar casing, emulating what we were all seeing in the rap videos around this time but, frankly, made perfect sense (practically speaking) to serious potheads who were looking to get as high as possible; admittedly, when they inquired “…could it be the skunk weed that makes us oh so funky…”, the answer for me & my friends at that time would have been mostly “no”---for us, these were the days of $80-a-zip commercial trees, only rarely scoring an eighth (or less) of what they called “Krypie” in Florida back then (essentially just kind bud). Even though many of us have plausibly become weed snobs in the decades since, no one can really knock smoking ‘mersh in a blunt, because it does get you mad high!! This track, by New Jersey-based crew the Lords of the Underground, wound up on a grip of mixtapes I made for friends back in the summer of ’93, and it still bangs hard as fuck today.
