I got 25 lighters for my 25 folks, bout to break the mic then break 25 mo, bout to rip the track wit bout 25 flows and I’m pimpin like a mac wit bout 25 hoes!
We’re going to start something new on Vault of 1520 and that is Throwback Thursdays to highlight our favorite old school (or not so old school) hip-hop songs.
Since summer is coming to a close I feel like it’s only right to kick this off with DJ DMD’s “25 Lighters”…because I really don’t want this summer thing to end and this song reminds me of ALL the summer cook outs and pool parties with everybody just enjoying themselves and having a chill time. If you’ve never heard this song before, it is an H-Town classic and has been sampled by plenty of your favorite rappers and ZZ Top even did their own rendition (must hear), of which I first heard while watching the 2012 blockbuster Battleship. If you’re wondering exactly what 25 lighters means, according to Urban Dictionary:
This is where drug dealers take the cheap, plastic Bic lighters and take them apart. Wash them out and rig them to put crack and coke in them. They would fill them up and sell them individually like you would do in baggies, only when you’re holding a lighter it looks less suspicious than holding a bag or vile. They would just pass them off, hand to handor someone would ask to borrow a lighter. Hence 25 lighters means someone’s got 25 viles to sell, hence the “Got’s to get paid” part.
“25 Lighters” is off of DJ DMD’s 1998 album, Twenty-Two: P.A. World Wide, and samples Al B. Sure’s “Night & Day” and features Houston legends Lil Keke and Fat Pat (R.I.P) and has undeniably been extremely influential in hip-hop music.
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