I noticed my last couple posts have been kind of downers so figured I'd try my hand at something different today, honestly I don't think I've ever written a post like this before nor do I fully have it planned out yet but let's see where it takes us.
I've been quite into rap and hiphop lately, before that it was EDM/Dubstep, before that kind of Punk Rock, then some Heavy Metal and way way back it was whatever MTV used to play when they still played music but at that point I was just a kid so doubt many of you remember that as I'm probably getting older than the average hivers nowadays.
You know how regular people used to generate a playlist for songs they'd stumble on youtube they'd want to put in the right category to listen to again later? Yeah I didn't do that, instead I'd just like them and them try and remember each time not to like anything else except for music so that I wouldn't at random times start hearing something completely random start playing after a song while I was in game or doing something else at the time. Was not the best habit but laziness has done worse things for me in the past, since the word random seems so popular in this paragraph here's a screenshot of the end of that list, i.e. the beginning of the times I started liking things on youtube on this account:
So yeah, not sure about the date exactly but considering the first video is about a cheap item setup for a Diablo 3 class I'd say it's around the time D3 was released. Don't remember why I switched youtube accounts but you can see I had difficulty in the beginning remembering to only like songs, that sub focus one is still pretty dope, though, recommend giving it a listen if you into that kind of music; this particular remix has has a pretty unique drop where the bass plays well with the melody. Anyway, without getting too sidetracked, as you can notice the song at the top is this one which I to save my own life couldn't tell you how I found it or why I liked it cause it's not that great. I'm saying this because I heard the melody again in a newer song by an up and coming rapper and it drove me nuts to try and figure out where I had heard it before, like literally. Google wouldn't help me and only linked me to The Game - Holy Water but I knew that's not where I had heard it from. Give it a quick listen so you can hear the melody and know what I mean when I say it's pretty unique.
The reason I said it wasn't that great was cause after finally finding it randomly one day I was feeling nostalgic and checking through my youtube like list which consisted over over 200 different videos at the time (cause most of the time I just forget to like completely) and while bothering to open up non-songs to unlike so it would stay a music playlist and was getting surprised at how many of them had just been deleted without even a trace of letting you know the history of what existed there (can we get some blockchain up in here already) I finally scrolled down to this one and something in my head ticked and as I was opening it I knew it was the one.
So yes, great to finally find it, like an itch that's been scratching you forever but you haven't been able to do anything about it but the build up was in the end a let down. So now to get to the point of this post, what, did you think this was the main point of it? Nah man, we ain't done yet, I'm feeling pretty energetic today as if I've inhaled some THC (no, haven't, still in the hospital). The song that got me down this whole quest to figure out where I had heard the melody from originally is Lil Dicky - Too High:
before you start listening to it (if you're still reading at this point) you may know that feeling of listening to a song, especially rap/hiphop but not really listening as in giving more thought to each worse and what the writer/artist really meant with it, maybe cause of the melody in my case but today I was listening to it and at the same time being nostalgic of the time's I used to smoke quite actively and I gotta say he really tackles this rap with comedy pretty well. Which is something he mentions wanted to aim for ever since his first debut single with Snoop Dogg called Professional Rapper.
Anyway as a former smoker (maybe more about that in another post) I just wanted to post the lyrics here with some of my own comments and thoughts on some lines that stood out to me that I found pretty funny and relatable and maybe you might to if you've ever smoked.
Watching funny videos of Bill Nye
Yep, when me an my friends used to smoke the go to place was almost always youtube although no one ever knew or had anything particular in mind what to check out but as an active Redditor who used to browse r/videos I usually had something I had recently seen to recommend and then we'd take it from there.
Now I'm getting hungry than a muthafucka
This always happens so fast it's ridiculous, at some point we started planning ahead of time who the person was that brought snacks or "munchies" if the other(s) were providing the THC, but going to look for munchies at the time of being high and not having anything in the house was like one of the worst things that could go wrong, although I personally used to enjoy munching way later into the high stage as too early felt like I needed to focus too much on the munching than the entertainment
Guess I better ask Jeeves
What happened to Jeeves? Guess google/siri/alexa made it obsolete and forgotten.
Go get ma computer but I'm staring at the damn screen (wow)
Damn D, you forgetting what ya task be
This is like the most common shit that can happen when you're high, you have such short term memory it's ridiculous. I remember this one time I was lanpartying world of warcraft with a friend as a new expansion had come out and we would literally read a quest, start flying there and when we got there start doing some other shit in game and fly to another place only to remember that we completely forgotten the main thing we were supposed to be doing and had to go all the way back. Pretty common.
So here's part of the chorus that has some heavy hitters:
[Chorus]
And I was tryna get a little buzz, so I took a little puff
But I think I'm way too high
And I ain't wanna come off like a bitch, so I took another hit
But I think ma brains too fried
And yeah I'm fuckin faded but I hate it
I'm praying that I make it
Afraid I'm goin to dieeeee
I'm too blazed, it's too late
To save Dicky from this fuckin place, cause he too high
For those not aware when you smoke it from a joint the highness hits you a bit slower than from a hit, you can kinda compare it to drinking beer vs. taking shots. I can relate to that moment when you get way too high and you sort of start to not like it anymore and start getting paranoid, wondering if everything's okay with your heart and hoping it'll blow over as soon as possible so you'll be back to that comfortable high. In our circle of friends we never had that "didn't wanna come off like a bitch" though cause weed was scarce and expensive so people smoked as much as they could but of course when we got a new batch we usually always overdid it the first round and underestimated how long it has been since we last smoked and the tolerance break in between.
Dipping snacks, kicking back, staring at some Avatars
Then I flipped, took a decade and a half to make that shit
Yet they couldn't put a second and a half up in that script
How the fuck a human being wanna fuck a
Blueish green 7' 3'' tail having ass thing
Man I'm high as fuck
As much as I can relate to Avatar being a letdown for the time it took to create and the hype around it and it being one of the first 3D movies in cinemas it's pretty funny where your brain goes when you're high and you can start thinking about random stuff you would usually never have thought of sober. Not saying you're going to go ahead and invent the next big thing cause most of the stuff you think of only seems amazing or "how has no one else thought of this before" at the time and if you were to take notes and re-read them later most of the time it's just as big of a letdown as the movie was.
Damn, I ain't even got no candy
So now I'm at the fucking C store
Where ya man be torn than a mafucka
Peanut m&m's or a Twix
Can't commit, so I count the benefits on ma hands
Decisiveness is really not easy when you're high, often we'd spend way too long deciding on what to watch next that by the time we did we would've been able to watch both options. It's a struggle.
S-s-s-so damn tweaked I can't even cross the mothafuckin street
A lot of my friends used to have problems with walking when high, for some reason I was okay unless I was high way too early in the day and it was sunny out. It wasn't even because of it being hot or anything, I think it was more about everything being easier visible and me being wary that people might notice I'm doing something "different" which lead to you overthinking of how you're walking making it feel way harder to do normally.
Gotta shit, but the path to the bathroom is complex
Crafted a long text, took about an hour
Took a scary shower, now I'm sitting naked on the ground
Man I'm fucked up. I'm bout to call ma mom up and tell her what's up
This sucks I'm high as fuck
This part here is one of my favs and is pretty packed, think he could've done well adding some more fillers in this section but as the song is coming to an end soon I guess it's a nice way to go out with a bang.
Laziness combined with thinking things are harder than they really are often make you not wanna do shit when you're high than just laying in the couch watching stuff, although I'm personally a bit different when it comes to that I think most people are pretty familiar with that feeling. It's kind of between deciding if you want to actively be doing something on the PC or just lay down and take whatever info the TV is providing you in while you do as little as possible cause even the slightest thing may seem like it requires too much effort.
I can relate to sending someone a text and it taking way longer than usual to type and having way more info than need be.
Really laughed at the "scary shower" part cause I can totally relate to that, I mean it's not scary but the sensation of water along with maybe the part of you being naked in case something were to occur is kind of uncomfortable when being high. Unfortunately I haven't tested taking a bath when high yet, wonder if that is a lot more enjoyable.
That last part is kind of funny although it never really got that bad for me but I have sent friends text letting them know I'm super high right now and won't be able to drive for a while to pick them up and if my parents were to text me at the time of me being high it would take me a lot of re-reads to make sure I didn't type anything weirdly that would give it away. If it's your first time smoking and getting super high though it is pretty common to want to call someone and be re-assured that everything's gonna be fine, I've had a lot of friends call me up and have had to tell them not to worry cause the worst thing that can happen is they either throw up or fall asleep, just important there is someone else with them so to former doesn't happen after the latter (although I've never really heard of that situation occurring from weed).
Anyway, the outro is kinda funny as well but not as good as the verse above in my opinion. Who the fuck is Alejandro, though?
Any ex/smokers that read my content?
