This happened a few months ago but is still worth a look (via AllHipHop):

Rap duo Youngbloodz were arrested on Thursday (June 1) and charged with possession of marijuana with intent to distribute and possession of firearms, after police found a half pound of marijuana hidden throughout their tour bus, as well as two guns.

Group members J-Bo, born Jeffrey Grigsby and Sean Paul Joseph were arrested after police pulled their tour bus over on I-85 in Coweta County, GA as the group was en route to a performance at a club in Columbus.

Police pulled the tour bus over, after noticing the bus’ Florida license plates had expired. When the officer approached the bus, a strong marijuana odor was detected and back up units were called to the scene.

A search of the bus turned up 11 plastic baggies containing the drugs, while a Glock .40 and a Taurus .45 were found under two mattresses on the bus.

Both rappers were arrested along with 12 other people in their entourage.

“The guys have never had any trouble with the law,” Jive Records said in a statement. “They are completely innocent and they will be exonerated from these charges.”

This is really sloppy. Even with twelve weed holders they still got done! Considering that eleven bags of smoke were discovered, you’d have thought that the weed carriers could have copped a bag each, and I guess the last guy could have copped to the gun charges.

It’s this sort of poor weed carrying that gives the occupation a bad name.

It’s a well known fact that compilaton CD’s are generally trash. These two albums from two of the most well-known rap rags out do little to alter that trend, but I though a sure-fire way to compare the releases from these rivals is to look at the Weed Carrier content.

If you examine the tracklistings, you’ll notice that I’ve bolded the songs performed by certified weed carriers.

1. AZ: The Format
2. Sizzla, Mobb Deep & Big Noyd: System
3. Scarface & The Product: I’m A…
4. Xzibit feat: Jelly Roll: Rollin’
5. BG feat. Manny Fresh: Move Around
6. J.R. Writer: Grill ‘Em
7. Dead Prez: Early
8. M.O.P: All of the Above
9. Pastor Troy: Crossroads
10. Royce 5′9″: Ding!
11. Bone Thugs & Harmony: Thug Stories
12. Tha Dogg Pound: Crusin’ In My ‘64
13. Clipse & Vybz Kartel: Double Down
14. Alkaholiks: The Flute Song (La La La)
15. J-Hood: Never Be
16. KRS-One & Marley Marl: Rising
17. Capone & Mr. Vegas: Unda Mi Sensi
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Whoa! Keep on eye on that black dude Jason! He might “be packing”.

Eric from Modern Fix put me up on this little gem from the San Diego Reader:

Happy Leads to Gnarly Jason Mraz told a Canadian newspaper details behind his collaboration for the single “Geek in the Pink” with hip-hop honcho Scott Storch (”a guy on more rappers’ speed dials than a weed-selling jeweler operating out of an Escalade dealership”).

According to Mraz, “We were at his studio with, like, 30 MCs in the room and everyone just throwing down, smoking huge joints. When you hear stories like, ‘There’s one guy whose job it is just to roll joints,’ there was that guy…. I got to see some crazy shit you only hear about on Behind the Music. Plus, nobody shot me and I didn’t get arrested.”

Mraz says his experience was soured by all the MCs that insisted on a songwriting credit.

“What started as a happy weed-smoking session turned into a pretty gnarly thing, and I don’t doubt that half the guys in that studio carry weapons; you can tell because of the cars they drive and the amount of gold, diamonds, and marijuana they carry.”

This piece not only captures a quality weed carrier mention, but the final quote also demonstrates what happens when white guys watch too much BET Uncut.

The full final results can be found here.

Following a suprisingly strong voter turnout, the 2006 Weed Carrier Awards have been decided. Thanks to the WC Squad for sppreading the word, and all the blogs that linked to this shit. Last week, Harris Publications offered me a truckload of XXL Raps CD’s in exchange for the rights to release a spin-off magazine in the tradition of Rides, Eye Candy, King and Donk (?!) called Bags. I said I’d get back to them.
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******* VOTING IS NOW CLOSED*******
Thanks to everyone who took the time to vote.

Final Results

WC Winners Write-up

Why Are So Many Weed Carriers Being Shot?
Here’s Killer Mike, who once had a spark, on the Philant Johnson killing and violence in hip-hop:

I think the biggest insult since Philant has been killed is the [suggestion that] this is somehow rap-related because that doesn’t get to the real problem,” he says. “The real problem is that you have millions of young, angry, disenfranchised Latino, Black and poor white men who don’t have any real hope or outlet for hope.

My thing has always been this (nullus): If this isn’t a hip-hop thing, then why don’t you all of these killings occur in other genres of music? This year alone three major weed carriers have been shot and killed, not to mention a whole host of unimportant regional rappers (who or wtf is a Big Hawk?) and various assorted hangers on. (more…)

Another week, another dead weed carrier. This shit is hazardous (that’s word to Godfather Don). The unfortunate incident with this kid “maybe or maybe not” throwing money around reminds me of how a lot of today’s trends are just shittier versions of old ones. For example, the whole “Make it rain” deal with tossing wads of cash into the air is just a cornier version of the Houston tradition of “Big Bank Take Little Bank”, which involved local hustlers throwing down money clips in the bathroom in an attempt to outdo one another and take the lesser “banks” dough. At least they had the good sense to do that shit behind closed doors. (more…)

Here’s a classic weed carriers incident (I’m suprised Hashim didn’t beat me to this scoop), as reported in The Evening Standard:

A mini-riot erupted at Heathrow airport after rapper Snoop Dogg and a 30-strong entourage clashed with police in a departure lounge.

The men - mostly minders - apparently turned violent after being refused entry to a first-class lounge, smashing up a duty free shop, throwing bottles and attacking officers.

It took riot police over an hour to arrest the “20-stone men”, who were then led out in handcuffs, with one shouting: “This is how it goes down in LA.”

It seems that our British friends refer to weed carriers as weed “minders”, which works just as well I guess.

The whole incident seems to have started when the chronic carriers were denied entry to the flight lounge because they didn’t have first class tickets, which I guess is essential if you plan on mooching free booze. All I can say is that Snoop must figure that if he sperads his stash over 30 carreirs then maybe none of them will have enough ‘dro for the sniffer dogs to catch the scent.

Not content with being one of the greatest groups ever in the history of popular music and changing the sound of hip-hop forever - both in terms of the sound and the content - Public Enemy also trail-blazed in the area of Weed Owning. When they really started getting a bit of juice in the rap game, they actualy held a contest to put a number of “groups” together. What many of these aspiring hopefuls failed to realise, however, was that they were in fact auditioning for a career as a Weed Carrier! (more…)

You can fit a lot of herb under that jacket.

Biggie Smalls #1 Weed Carrier, the “wonderful” Cease-A-Leo, has still not found closure on his old bosses’ untimely death, despite the fact that he got ethered/bodied/lit-up/sonned over ten years ago. It seems that despite holding Lil’ Kim’s bags for a while, Cease is unable to come to terms with the fact that Big Poppa doesn’t need him to carry his “pot” (thanks MTV!). As a result, the Junior MAFIA frontman has spent the last few years driving around New York with large quantites of cheeba under the seat, in the vein hope that B.I.G. will return to this planet (not unlike the way that Scientologists have an office for L. Ron Hubbard at all of their “churches”). As if that situation wasn’t strange enough, it seems that fellow WC Larceny “allegedly had a loaded .22-caliber Beretta semi-automatic pistol”, which was also intended for the Black Frank White to use when if he happened to return from the dead, JC-style, over the Easter holidays. (more…)