I watched Method Man base his career on that.” Okay, so while other rappers were simply blunted, 50 Cent was being a good businessman.īack in the 1990s, with the new millennium steadily approaching, brothers became obsessed with a bugged book called Behold A Pale Horse by William Cooper. "That's me, knowing that there are 500,000 people out there who just want to play my records and get high. “Give me a Dutch and a lighter I'll spark shit.” Still, he claimed to a SPIN journalist that his rhymes were a mixture of fact and fiction: “When I rap lines like, 'I smoke the good shit," that's just me using my head," 50 said. “Give me some dro, purple haze, and some chocolate,” 50 rapped. While 50's official stance is that he doesn't smoke weed, that story crumbles like herb when you hear the Queens native dropping blunted ballistics on “High All the Time” from his now classic debut Get Rich or Die Tryin'. Everything is purple.”ĭid you ever YouTube-channel surf through various 50 Cent non-music videos-the rants against Rick Ross, the popping-up in some kid's messy bedroom to lip synch-and wonder "what he be smoking"? On the other hand, when 50 starts going hard at one of his imaginary enemies, the other thought that crosses your mind might be, "that brother needs to puff and chill." It was just like, dark room, purple lights. I was in a world where everything was purple. On some purple drink, purple weed, shouts to this weed. “We definitely recorded that shit in some small ass closet,” says Rocky. In a 2012 interview with Complex, A$AP Rocky described the making of the song. “Purple Swag” became more than a song about “purple drank” and “purple weed,” but a statement of purpose that real swag wasn’t beholden to any one region. The song is a chopped & screwed anthem, made by a New York collective, during a time when Tumblr was still relevant. In the summer of 2011, the world first saw a problematic white girl with gold grills mouthing the words “This is for my niggas getting high on the regular,” as a braided rapper brought Texas to Harlem streets. “Purple Swag” was iconic from the beginning. I didn’t know it was that rare for broccoli to be considered a term for weed.” Kodak Black was one of the first guys I heard refer to weed as broccoli and I just thought it was a thing. We used vegetables weed but broccoli went off for me. I didn’t know that this wasn’t a much-used term. I only smoke OG Kush, that’s all I smoke, but broccoli is just trees. details why he chose to use the vegetable as inspiration for his weed consumption, “ Broccoli is a general term. First, Lil Yachty delivers one of the best intros to any song in recent memory with the sweet, “Hey lil mama would you like to be my sunshine.” Second, D.R.A.M.’s hook, “In the middle of the party, bitch get off me (Get off of me)/In the cut I’m rollin’ up my broccoli (My weed, my weed) is insanely quotable. D.R.A.M.’s “Broccoli” went quintuple platinum, peaked at number five on the Billboard Hot 100, and put the Virginia rapper on the map. It isn’t often that a song about weed becomes a massive hit.
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