The Funk Doc and Johnny Blaze also come equipped with the super power of smoking mad, maaad tree.
The ability to blaze to their level is nice, but the more important aspect of this one lies more in the mentality behind the blunt than the actual iron lungs performing the french inhale.
Before anyone else in Hip Hop was doing it- publicly at least- Red and Meth, along with B.Real and Snoop Dogg, were the first ones to throw up the middle finger and do what they wanted to do when they wanted to do it.
Risking their careers, money, potential endorsements, and their overall public image to stand up for smoking weed, Red and Meth embraced marijuana and never allowed outside pressures to change their lifestyle. This shows that they keep it 100, all the time, and are never giving you a fake Red and Meth.. but you're getting real dudes, who just happen to smoke real amounts of bud.
Once more I would like to remind you that Mef and Red are not real-life, regular people. They are artists (and Super Heroes). An artist is someone who perceives the world in different, unorthodox ways and is able to translate and express them creatively to boring, average people like us. They see, breathe, walk, talk, think as artists. If smoking gas helps them identify and perceive and express stuff.. Everyone should just leave it at that and mind their own business. They are delivering artistic music and amazing performances to us, and if burning tree happens to be a part of their creative process, it is of their opinion (and mine) that they have the right to spark the blunt.. and inhale, deeply.
Better yet, the strongest "drugs" they talk about in their music is rolling up, lighting and smoking some backwoods. I have seen several interviews where they speak out against drug use. Red and Meth said that they do not do any other drugs, and only smoke weed. They also make it clear that they find weed as herbal medicine, not just a drug, and maintain that it's not for children. So they aren't just mindlessly thuggin' through life trying to get your kids to smoke weed and do all kinds of drugs and have them eating somebody's face off, okay Paranoid Pam?
Method Man said in an interview about weed one time, "I wish somebody would have put a book in my hand instead of a blunt."
Redman has also spoken into the camera, "Do not do drugs. Drugs are bad," that kids need to "leave it to adults and professionals only."
What you all should really be worried about are "rappers" big in the industry right now who are glorifying 'popping mollies' and drinking 'molly water'. Molly can seriously mess with your brain chemistry and neurotransmitters, and has way stronger and much riskier side-effects than marijuana.
Most of these clowns are also endorsing 'lean' like crazy. And almost ALL of those people have syrup for brain-matter now, could never rap to begin with, and are just moaning into an auto-tuner making terrible music.
If you ask me, thats the real danger: Your kids might grow up listening to awful music, and drinking so much codeine they lose any hopes of having a good fashion sense, clever lyrics, or fully-functional cognition of any type. And then they'll probs just have a seizure on the airplane or jet-ski (s/o Rick Ross, s/o Wayne, s/o Sean Kingston) and that'll be really special, I'm sure.
Red and Meth are ambassadors of marijuana and marijuana only. Since they have brought weed into the open in the hip hop culture, the marijuana game has been way turned up. By familiarizing the world with their green (sometimes chocolate) marijuana lifestyle, laws have been catching up and weed is now perfectly legal in several US states. I think we can attribute the path to legalization to people like Meth and Red for standing tall and smoking that loud.
The Super Heroes of the High Life even made an instant cult-classic movie based on smoking dank and getting great results from doing so. It is super funny, and proves they have the power to rule on-screen, as well as on the mic. It also further solidifies their role and value in society as artists. These some Multi-MF-faceted individuals, aiiight?? So quit sleeping on em!
In a different approach to their weed-enhanced lifestyles, there is a large part of me that is not entirely convinced that the weed that they smoke is not equivalent to what spinach is to Popeye. And that their kryptonite tree does the exact opposite of what the kryptonite ore from Krypton does to the Superman. Perhaps the origin of all the incomprehensible, incomparable aspects of Redman and Method Man resides within' the confines of a blunt wrap. Could the chronic be the mystery ingredient that, when mixed with their blood, gives their minds the super-power to formulate unprecedented freaky funk on the microphone? PERHAPS it is the harsh rips of the kryptonite smoke which gives Method Man that raspy, god-like, baritone element to his voice. PERHAPS the smoke is what gives Redman's vocal chords that dry warmth; that extra dimension to his voice that us mortal-minded inferiors have yet to be able to describe, or fully understand. Could it be that chiefin' the reefer is what gives Meth and Red that guttural, grimy sound which makes our world a better place? There is no way to know for sure, but if there's even a chance that their mystical powers are enhanced by the dank smoke upon which they blaze... I vote: smoke cheeba cheeba smoke cheeba cheeba And in the immortal, sage rhetoric of the Redman himself: