Gin and Juice, by The Gourds.
This is, yes, a #cover-of-a-cover. Appreciation, not appropriation, I hope. And I do, indeed, appreciate Snoop. One of the first big music videos I ever worked on was a “featuring Snoop Dogg, Da Brat, and Missy Elliot” remix of a huge hit, and I was young and dumb enough to believe I could take pictures of my colleagues posing with Snoop, on a soundstage in New York, in the year of our lord 1999, with my 1950s Canon FT that looked like an accident, and so did its light meter, on the inside, anyway, and let’s just say my film did not come home with me that night, but I was well paid for my labor.
This song is a Napster classic, a mislabeled-as-Phish viral hit so aged, that I remember downloading it with what may have seriously been an IBM-compatible PC with 512kb of RAM? C’mon, is that true? I must’ve upgraded to like, a Pentium 133 before then, because this was the computer I “learned” Photoshop on, mostly to fix the pink stripe my cheap scanner put on everything.
Anyway.
Yes, it’s a bluegrass-adjacent cover of one of Snoop’s greatest.
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Some of these songs are long, y’all. I’m going to do something shorter tomorrow.
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