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!
Some of these contest winners went on to become Leaders of the New School (Busta Rhymes first group), Kings of Pressure, Son of Bazerk and Young Black Teenagers. Fortunately, most of these guys had actual talent amd were able to continue to enjoy careers in the music industry long after their weed holding duties for PE and The Bomb Squad had wrapped-up. KOP’s DJ Johhny Juice and YBT’s Kamron actually performed many of the scratches on PE records when Terminator X couldn’t deliver.
As any Enemy fan would know, Chuck frowns upon drunken fools and weed heads, so he didn’t require anyone to hold anything for him, but his sidekick Flavor Flav is a different kettle of fish all together. As his various run-ins with the Beast, domestic disputes and generally bizarre behavior have demonstrated over the years, Flav is one fucked-up dude. While he initially started rocking oversized clocks around his neck to stash some buds, rocks and roofies, it wasn’t long before he had to organize a team of weed carriers just to help him get out bed in the morning.
Since Flav’s leadership skills needed some work, Professor Griff was hired as The Minster of Information (aka “Head Weed Carrier Co-Ordinator”). Remember those S1W guys who used to march around on stage? They were the SAS of PE’s weed holders, handling all the big assignements (such as getting Flav through customs) under the watchful eye of Griff. This all worked a charm until an incident in 1989 that almost destroyed the band. I can’t get into the details of exactly what happened right now – mainly because I have no idea whatsoever – but I can assure you that the whole “anti-Semitic” comments uproar that resulted in Griff moving to Miami (where ha was finally allowed to record solo albums for Uncle Luke) had nothing to do with any “Jew-elry” jokes. It all revolved around a huge fuck-up with a team of bag stashers under his watch, which almost saw Flavor getting shipped off for an “up north trip”.
Following Griff’s departure, Sister Souljah stepped-in to lead PE’s WC’s, recording a god-awful dolo LP and making headlines of her own when she got into a dust-up with Bill Clinton. As time went on, others stepped into the role of H.W.C.C., including one-time S1W James Bomb. Flav went on to become a reality-TV super star, and now has access to the ultimate accessory – white and Asian female weed stashers! No wonder he’s smiling.
These days, PE’s latest LP, Rebirth of A Nation, (which is actuallly a lot better than I expected) is billed as “featuring Paris” in addition to be released on the Bay Area’s rapper’s Guerilla Funk label, which poses the question – are PE carrying for Paris, or is he holding their weed?
C’mon Robbie, you know Paris is holding P.E.’s sack (nullus, of course)
That’s what I thought at first, but who ever heard of the weed owners being signed to their weed carriers’ record label?
“smoke screen”
PE carries for no man. Great post Robbie (really good site as well).
Boston has the most weed smokers
(Free Weed)
This is some funny ass shit! Except for the weed shit, it’s pretty accurate. L.O.N.S. were serious weed-heads too. Damn.
This shit is funny as hell.
Weird situation, Paris and PE. he owns the label they put this album out on, and he wrote a majority of the lyrics for this one (he said so on the allhiphop.com interview), but he tried to emulate their sound.
P.E. are the w.c’s for Paris, it’s his label, his rhymes
But who would trust Flav to carry weed for them, lil f*ckr would smoke it all