The following text is one of the fine rap songs delivered by well known artists. Please be advised that it contains what most people consider as foul language, but let that not deter you from enjoying this particular description of a peaceful ‘night before Christmas’.
If you have no understanding for such cultural differences to the way you perceive what is right or wrong, and if you have no understanding for cultural difference in language usage, you should consider to not continue reading. But there is a specific reason why I am posting this, and in order to find out, you may bear with me through this text.
If you have problems understanding some of the words, why not try urbandictionary.com.
The Night Before Christmas
Snoop Doggy Dogg & Nate Dogg
‘Twas the night before Christmas
And all through the hood
Ain’t shit that was stirrin’
Nope, it was all good
The stocking was hung
On my big fat dick
We hopin’ to get some of that good shit
From old jolly Saint Nick
The children were snuggled up
Sleepin’ in bed
My bitch on my jock
Givin’ holiday head
When outside my crib
There rolled such a clatter
I stuck my head out and yelled
What da fuck is da matter?
Then a fat red pimp
Got out of his ride
It was perfectly clear
He was from the North Side
Yo Santa what’s up?
Did you bring me some chronic
And Tanqueray gin
I can mix with my tonic?
He said ho, ho, ho
And opened his sack
It was stuffed full of indo
Had to take a step back
Is this for the dogg?
Did you bring this for me
To blaze with my hoes
And my closest homies?
He just nodded his head
His eyes about shut
It was then that I knew
That Saint Nick was fucked up
He ate all my motherfuckin’ cookies
I left on the plate
Then he went to the fridge
And he ate, and he ate,
and that fat motherfucka ate
And when he was done
When the cupboard was bare
He packed his shit up
And got outta there
Good night Doggy Dogg
He said from the sky
Merry Christmas to all you motherfuckers
And to all a good high
These are the lyrics of a very nice hip hop piece. If you like hip hop, this is for you. But to anticipate your worst fears: The morale of my post here is *not* to further the cause of foul language. The morale of this is *not* to support consumption of drugs of any kind. The morale of this is another one, and at this point, I insist you read on in order to try to understand why I post this here.
Friends don’t let friends drive home when they’re high or drunk or otherwise incapacitated!
It is very important to realise that there is only one question that should occupy your mind after you have read these song lyrics: Why did these people let Santa get on the sleigh and keep riding? That’s what should be on your mind after these song lyrics. That is what most certainly is on *my* mind after reading these song lyrics. This song is yet another example of a beautifully delivered text that reflects a often encountered reality that is harsh and not nurturing to the participants.
What would be nurturing and good, would be if friends would not let friends drive home when they are drugged up, tired, sick, high or drunk or otherwise unable to look after themselves – or drive safely! This is where I am getting at here. I also hope you are in a state of mind where you can understand that.
You may never ever have considered the very background and the very nature of the current time, but this is Christmas 2004. And you know what type of event Christmas is, right? Christmas, the Red and the White colors? Historically, it appears as if Christmas is at the same time when Amanita Muscaria (Fliegenpilz) (colors red and white) was part of a “Christmas culture” in the past; a mushroom that induces hallucinations of a kind which could explain why gnomes, or Santa Claus, have entered our cultural sagas. This post, however, is not to alert you to the fact that there are many people that spend Christmas living an unhealthy life. This post is not about advertising any type of consumption at all. This post has only one message, and it is: friends do not let friends drink, drug and drive. Friends look out for their friends and they do offer them a place to sleep, to become sober, to recover.
Only a long time after you considered my issues – my issues with drugged driving and that Christmas inherently seems to be celebrated as a gift party (gift, present, poison, whatever) despite the type of poison shifting over the times -, you may occupy yourself with these issues: Why do these two gentlemen Nate and Snoop sing about taking druqs on Christmas? Why aren’t they singing about another lifestyle? Why is there so much cursing throughout this text? Why were you born into a culture that is not so much different from other hunter-gatherer-cultures in that mind-bending substances are a story shaping and ritual shaping part? Why do some people think Christmas should be held the way *they* think it should be done, and why can they not accept other ideas about cultural rites? How can Christmas be survived without poison of any kind? Why are dark winters so depressing?
I hope you agree with me on this one here: Whatever the lifestyle, whatever the party, whatever the situation in your ongoing quest for happiness, there is one eternal truth on this world: Good friends do not let good friends drive when drugged, tired, sick or drunk. Or ride a sleigh. There is no culture, that should accept such song lyrics as the ones that I have put up here – and the reason for not accepting such lyrics *may* be because ample drug consumption is a problem – your freedom of interpretation, sure -, but it *most certainly* should not be accepted because Jolly St. Nick is not offered a place to sleep. Worse: these song lyrics suggest that, without apparent hesitation of Doggy Dog, Mista X-Mas man is allowed to ride on. That is the reason why I *thoroughly* oppose the attitude of the Nate Dogg and Snoop Doggy Dogses song lyrics text here.
Accept as a fact that some people do things that are neither to be imitated, nor healthy, nor legal, nor acceptable. The whole Christmas fiesta, the colors red and white, are reported to have a historical, hallucinogenic basis – and that may be unhealthy to begin with. While magic mushrooms and the like are maybe not as fashionable these days as alcohol and certain illicit drugs, Christmas is still a time when a lot of people are not sober. Accept as a fact that whether unhealthy or illegal, some people will still keep living their lifestyle.
And sure, people leading such lifestyle may be fun people to some, which is why maybe you are hanging out with them or why you’re even consuming things you shouldn’t consume. Everyone has to learn how to choose their own friends. That is part of growing up and part of living.
While it would be best to wean any of these substances off eventually and while you’d be so much better off without consuming drugs, mushrooms, or tablets – that still does not mean one has to endanger oneself or others by usage of any vehicle!
Here is your take home message pertaining to the song lyrics above: There is no reason for Doggy Dog to let St. Nick hit the road – get that? Nick needs that sleeping baggy bag badly, right here, and Nick’s in no position to figure it out himself. Shoot – Nick seems to be barely able to speak, and is even in dire need of carbohydrates which is why he eats up all the cookies. So in other word, Nick’s in desperate need of good friends who look out for him. Someone who cares, and who tells him: Stay, rest, sleep. That’s what is important to be said. Since I have not found another web page making this statement, I decided to do that myself.
And now for the ones who have not gotten it so far, for the people that have not realized that I do *not* endorse drug consumption, that I do *not* endorse foul language, that I do *not* find dark winters depressing personally, and that I do *not* endorse drugged or drunk driving: this post is in English, and if all of the English language that you understand are curse words ‘and curse words are bad you know’, you may not be able to ‘get’ what this is about. But then, you also would not be able to ‘get’ what other websites in English are about, and all explanations would be futile no matter what. If all your English knowledge delivers to you is “there is some foul language and drugs mentioned on this website”, I would like to ask you politely, why, on earth, are you here? If you made it so far and still can not understand this, please leave.
So in order to reiterate my view on this subject, I would like to make it persitently understandable to you that this post does *not* advise drug usage. This post alerts to the fact that Christmas historically and factually is practiced as a drug feast in our culture. This post expresses some type of concern that there is a bunch of people getting high or drunk on Christmas, and while this post can not do more about it than to “express” anything verbally, this post urges you *not* to operate any vehicle when drugged or otherwise incapacitated, and even more, it urges you to *look out for your friends*.
So please remember this, and a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to y’all and y’alls friends.
Friends don’t let friends drive home when they’re high or drunk or otherwise incapacitated. Don’t drink and drive, don’t drug and drive!
