Reggie Just Can’t Win*, Even When He’s Weed
Thursday, June 3, 2010
Chris Weingarten, at the Voice, chatting with Brooklyn rap duo Super Chron Flight Brothers:
My editor is dying to know why you called this track “Reggie Miller.”
Well, it works on a surface level because when I think of Reggie Miller, the Indiana Pacers guard, I think of the early ’90s but really it’s a marijuana reference. Reggie Miller is slang for regular weed or schwag–low-grade brick marijuana with seeds. Back in the days, that was what you smoked if you wanted to get high unless you lived in Cali or Vermont or somewhere where people were up on high grade. Back in the day you could have a sack of Reggie Miller, be making cassette tapes, passing some E&J, that would be a fun day. But now, you couldn’t get a negro to smoke a Philly full of bush if you paid him, iPod playlists killed the mixtape, nobody sells nicks and, yeah, XO is just perks.
*Literally, too (so close) 