Nuclear Beef: Pato Banton, Willie Rosario And DJ Data Corruption Say : Don't Sniff Coke!

Just Say No To Coke Audio Beef Today. Willie Rosario and Pato Banton share the wisdom of the ages with the hipsters of the aughts.

'Shining Knight'
by Willie Rosario, from his 1968 album Two Too Much. Vocal by Willie Torres.

'Don't Sniff Coke' (DJ Data Corruption Remix)
by Pato Banton from his 1987 album Never Give In, remix by DJ Data Corruption.

Today's Audio Beef is a post I shouldn't have to make. Suffice it to say that I'm concerned with the degree to which my extended peer group of young hip folks is cavalierly playing around with cocaine. I mean, I know you guys think that you're so much smarter than that, but what do you think.. you're so much better than 80s stockbrokers?

This isn't a new story, as the smoking track from Latin music titan Willie Rosario attests. His track my be from 1968, but it's a clever Boogaloo story about the costs of messing with 'The Shining Knight and His Big White Horse.' A scorching vocal from Joe Cuba veteran Willie Torres makes it clear that people understood the risks in the late sixties. Two decades later, Pato Banton drops the science about the relative merits of sensimilla and the dread (no pun intended white powder. Two decades after that, this mp3 was corrupted while transferring and given a deluxe remix by DJ Data Corruption, my anthropomorphized DJ buddy. The extended DJ Data Corruption mix is eight minutes long and makes me laugh while also making it very very clear why you should not sniff coke, only burn the ganja.

Seriously, y'all. Check yourself before you wreck yourself. That's my word.

(Shouts out to the smokers crew. All tight.)