The topic of drugs in song lyrics has been around almost as long as music itself.
Over the years artists have gotten more creative about how they revel about illicit substances in their lines.
Using personification techniques, many artists have bypassed straightforward route (Bone Thugz N Harmony, “Buddah Lovers”) for a craftier angle (D’Angelo, “Brown Sugar”).
Here are 10 songs about mind-altering substances that were cleverly covered up as something else by the artists who performed them.
Mayer Hawthorne – “Green Eyed Love”
Drug: Absinthe
Cover: A green-eyed lover
Paraphernalia: “My green-eyed love, we’ll watch the clouds from above, come on, lift me up.”
Jay-Z – “I Know”
Drug: Heroin
Cover: Man fling
Paraphernalia: “Cold sweats occur, when I’m not with her, my presence is a must.”
Slim Thug – “Miss Mary”
Drug: Weed
Cover: A female named Mary
Paraphernalia: “I hold you close to me late at night, face to face we meet and greet and everything’s alright, you nothing less than a dime when you’re in my sight.”
USDA – “White Girl”
Drug: Cocaine
Cover: A Caucasian woman
Paraphernalia: “Half a brick on the seat, you can call that Sally.”
Do or Die featuring Kanye West – “Higher”
Drug: Weed
Cover: A female
Paraphernalia: “Let me kiss your lips Dronita.”
50 Cent – “A Baltimore Love Thing”
Drug: Heroin
Cover: Intrusive boyfriend
Paraphernalia: “Let’s make a date, promise me you’ll come and see me, even if it means you’ll have to sell your mamma’s TV.”
D’Angelo – “Brown Sugar”
Drug: Weed
Cover: A brown-skin female
Paraphernalia: “See we’ve been making love constantly, that’s why my eyes are the shade, blood burgundy.”
Clipse – “Gangster Lean”
Drug: Weed
Cover: A female
Paraphernalia: “Listen, at times you hinder my vision/blinded by your love and you got the room spinning.”
Cam’Ron – “D. Rugs”
Drug: Cocaine
Cover: Mother’s boyfriend
Paraphernalia: “When he comes around her brain sizzles like a Steak-Um/damn can’t jakes take him, she neglected me.”
Rick James – “Mary J@ne”
Drug: Weed
Cover: A promiscuous female named, Mary J@ne
Paraphernalia: “And when I’m feeling low, she comes as no surprise, turns me on with her love, takes me to paradise.”
