Erin sets up the salad bar nicely, beginning with the godfather of veggie-tunes before turning to the contemporary rap scene. "Eggplant" flips it up with a nice bounce before going into some modern funk that smoothes it all out.
For my list, I put my focus on my favorite green:
Kendrick Lamar and Phesto (Hieroglyphics) have both found the terrorism connection. Kendrick: "They'll probably think I'm a terrorist, eat my asparagus." Phesto: "Eat the asparagus with Bulgarian heiresses /
They miss the beat, I'm the rap Pistol Pete Maravich /
She's Taral Hicks, boiled down off asparagus /
On the terrace with a therapist next to the terrorist."
Opio (Souls of Mischief), who also appears on "Exciting" alongside Phesto, invokes asparagus on his own solo track, "Take My Chances:" "Sharin my gift, a paradigm shift /
Cause it's good for you baby like asparagus tips." (Not included here.)
Big Sean overdoes it a bit "I think I'm gon' O.D off this asparagus and bread and pasta / Need a doctor," and Little Brother offers us "asparagus rosemary chips" and if you don't know what that is, it doesn't mater, no one's listening anyway.
No asparagus connection, but I couldn't let this list go by without a little "Soul Food."
"Put On" becomes an epic list closer. "Blowin' on asparagus, the realest shit I ever smoked / Ridin' to that Trap or Die, the realest shit I ever wrote."
- Matt
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