Catalog Catch Up: Master P’s “Pass Me Da Green”
by Karen
Believe it or not, there’s a generation of Hip-Hop fans who have no clue No Limit Records was, at one point, the most popular label in rap music. They see Lil Romeo as the 20-something-year-old former USC basketball player who happens to be in movies now. And they see Master P as the guy who just released a mixtape with the same name as the controversial (yet occasionally accurate news entity) TMZ. Let’s not get started on C-Murder, Fiend, Silk Da Shocker, Mystikal and the post-Death Row Snoop Dogg.
In 1997, P released the classic Ghetto D fueled by the hit single “Make ‘Em Say Uhh.” No, take that back. “Hit” is an understatement. That song all but defined my seventh grade school year. That said, one of the records which was never made a single for obvious reasons was the ode to Mary Jane, “Pass Me Da Green.” The crazy thing is, had this song been released nowadays, it would have a straight to YouTube video, Twitter hashtag and maybe could have found itself on MTV Jams in the wee hours of the morning. Not to mention a remix with the likes of Wiz Khalifa, Freddie Gibbs, Curren$y and any other rapper who’ve made marijuana their ride or die staple. “Pass Me…” remains a personal favorite as I’ve matriculated through high school, college, grad school and life after that for reasons I’ll let you form with your own imagination.