New Trends In Hip-Hop: Two Blunts At Once
Kids today. I remember when people thought it was crazy when Kriss Kross wore their jeans backwards. Currently there seems to be a new trend sweeping the hip-hop nation. As evidenced in a number of recent popular rap music videos, the new thing seems to be smoking two blunts at the same time. Or two joints. Two marijuana cigarettes. This would not be so remarkable [Ed.: it is actually not that remarkable], were it not for the fact that it flies in face of age-old conventional wisdom about pot smoking. I don’t even remember any of the guys from Cypress Hill ever smoking two blunts at once. The old rule, stated unambiguously at the end of Ghostface Killah’s classic “One,” when the question is posed, “How many Ls we smoke?” used to be, “One… at a time.”
But that was twelve years ago now, and technology changes things. Whether or not it has anything to do Creamcrop77’s amazing invention, it seems that today’s weed-enthusiast rappers have indeed decided to throw caution, and Ghostface’s advice, to the wind.
It’s not for everybody. While Detroit’s Danny Brown, who certainly seems to enjoy smoking as much as anybody, sticks to an orderly single-file procession of “Blunt After Blunt,” his friend and colleague Quelle Chris can be seen in the video for his “Another Blunt” greedily smoking two-at-a-time. At the one-minute mark, he even has both in his mouth at once.
That practice, which I hereby dub “walrus-tusking,” was hinted at by the trio Flatbush Zombies (who seem to be Brooklyn’s answer to Odd Future) in the lyrics to their charmingly-named, Lana-Del-Ray endorsed hit “Thug Waffle,” as they rap, “Blunts siamese/Two of these/You’ll be me, yo…” And then, depicted, once again, in the video for their latest, “S.C.O.S.A.”
The talented Queens up-n-comer Action Bronson, perhaps in effort to further distinguish himself from Ghostface, to whom him he is often compared, keeps two large tusks in his mouth as he takes an early-morning stroll around LA with the interesting “From Gs to Gents” survivor Riff Raff in the video for “Bird on a Wire.”
That song is good. Though it’s a little disappointing that it doesn’t sample Leonard Cohen.
I wonder if Leonard ever smoked two joints at a time? I kinda doubt it. Doesn’t seem like his style. But I bet he put his pants on backwards once. (Probably by mistake, though.)