A recent study of popular music has found the lyrics of about a third of contemporary songs make reference to substance abuse in one form or another, while the remaining two thirds of songs are apparently open to interpretation, or in other words, make no sense at all.
Researchers cited the lyrics to Stay Fly by rappers Three 6 Mafia: “Breakin down the good weed, rollin’ the blunt/Ghetto pimp tight girls say I’m the man.” The use of the word “weed” caused researchers to add this song to the drugs list. However, as the rest of the words make no sense whatsoever, researchers have acknowledged off the record that it’s just as likely to be about gardening, a popular pastime in the inner-city Los Angeles suburb of Compton
It’s “the good weed” line that suggests this is nothing to do with gardening though. The word “weed” in complete isolation would be a different story.
A song containing the lyrics “breakin down the weed, rollin’ the blunt” however, would truly be a song about gardening. A great song about gardening, in fact, assuming the blunt was a gardening tool of some sort…
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