Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, John Lennon always claimed he named this tune for a drawing his son Julian did in nursery school. While The Beatles were experimenting with psychedelics around the time of Sgt. It doesn’t take a “Paul is dead” clue-spotting conspiracy theorist to notice the “LSD” embedded in this song’s title. “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds,” The Beatles.If he’s looking for something that won’t mess with his body and mind, love might not be the prescription he needs.Ĭhart Peak: No. “One that makes me feel like I’m with you,” he sings to the lady in his life. On this fluffy pop-rock tune, Huey goes looking for a new substance-one that won’t turn him into an anxious dry-mouthed zombie who can’t stop talking. One thing about drugs: They’re lousy with side effects. No drug song can be as addictive as the substance it’s about, but this one comes damn close.Ĭhark Peak: No. He got some help from Max Martin, the Swedish pop guru behind the infectious beat, and Micheal Jackson, whose inspiration is sprinkled all over this track. 5 on Hot Rap Songs, June 21, 2014Ĭanadian alt-R&B mystery man Abel Tesfaye, aka The Weeknd, went mainstream in a big way with this thinly veiled ode to cocaine. The message, such that there is one: smart hustlers move on from slinging product and devote themselves to next-level pursuits.Ĭhart Peak: No. Then comes Pharrell, a more family-friendly artist who wraps his verse with some socially conscious lines about opposing drone warfare.
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Over a menacing, mind-bending beat from producer Mike WiLL Made It, Future and Pusha T drop crazy verses about cooking crack and savoring the spoils of the drug game. “Move That Dope,” Future featuring Pharrell, Pusha T & Casino.1 (three weeks) on Hot Rap Songs, July 28, 2001 Props to Swifty McVay, aka Swift, for holding it together long enough to offer this gem: “Speed, ‘shrooms, down the valiums / even smoke weed out of vacuums.”Ĭhart Peak: No. Em and the gang rhyme about everything from common street drugs to pharmaceuticals-all over a wobbly, oozy backing track that suggests any one of the MCs could pass out at any second. Radically cleaned up and renamed “Purple Hills” for radio and MTV, this posse cut by Eminem and his hometown homeys D12 is one big chemical orgy.
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