311 – The quintessential “I’m only a stoner” Rap/Rock band band of the 90s and early 2000s has a ton of stoner songs. We’re going to go for one of the deeper tracks in the catalog.
Way back in 1994, 311 played Bumbershoot in Seattle. I went with a friend, and I picked up 311’s Grassroots on CD. To be frank, this is one of my favorites all time…. It’s pretty great from beginning to end if you can get into the rap/rock/reggae fusion from bands like 311 — such as Body Count, Sublime, Dirty Heads, Stick Figure, Slightly Stoopid, and No Doubt.
311 has never been shy about wearing their hearts on their shirt sleeves – the band has been notably pro-weed, anti-racist, and anti-unoriginal-shitty-music (google 311 and Creed fight later, trust me) since their inception around 1988 in Omaha, Nebraska. Grassroots was their second label release, and song #3, Nutsymptom is a full tilt rap/rock song, featuring some of those “hearts on our sleeves” type lyrical jams.
