It was November 1997. Chuck Inglish of The Cool Kids was in eighth grade and had been invited to a friend’s 13th birthday party. Everybody from his middle school class was there—the cool kids, if you will.
As they listened to the No Limit Records’ latest Tru album Tru 2 Da Game, specifically the song “I Always Feel Like,” somebody passed him an empty can of Miller Lite that had been MacGyvered into a smoking device loaded with, what he calls, “some seedy-ass, sticky-ass 1997 ass weed.”
That was it.
“I went from giggling to snacking on some Werther’s, and I fucking hate Werther’s, so I knew I was high. Werther’s pissed me off. My homie just started launching Werther’s in my lap. I’m listening to this song and I’m watching the Werther’s fly in slow motion. I’m like, ‘Oh, this is what weed is.’”
From there, Chuck made a promise to “smoke this shit again tomorrow.” His cannabis journey had begun and, unbeknownst to him at the time, would evolve into an on-again, (briefly) off-again relationship that would last decades.
For Sir Michael Rocks, Chuck’s rhyming partner and BFF, his first experience with weed didn’t come until his sophomore year of high school. It involved a busted Oldsmobile, Buffalo Wild Wings, a Philly blunt, Burger King, and…his mother.
“My boy Shorty K had just got a little broke down ass Oldsmobile car,” he recalls. “He came over to my house with the car and everybody was hype, because nobody really had cars yet. He’s like, ‘Yo! Let’s ride around.’ Then he pulls out an old Philly blunt swisher or some shit.”
He hit the blunt. He remembers the weed was yellowish gold, perhaps an early strain of …
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Author: Kyle Eustice / High Times
