Dope Peddler

About Dope Peddler

"The Old Dope Peddler" is a satirical song by Tom Lehrer. It was on Lehrer's first album Songs by Tom Lehrer from 1953, and a new live recording on Tom Lehrer Revisited in 1960. The song is a parody of a popular tune well known at the time titled "The Old Lamp-Lighter" by Charles Tobias and Nat Simon, a hit first for Kay Kyser in 1947, and continued to have popular new recordings to 1960. The verses of the original asserted that "He made the night a little brighter Wherever he would go The old lamplighter Of long, long ago"It goes on to say that if there were sweethearts in the dark, "he'd pass the light and leave it dark," and concludes by explaining that now, the old lamplighter turns the stars on at night and turns them off at dawn. Lehrer's parody switches the song's protagonist to "the Old Dope Peddler" selling "powdered happiness". It has lines like this: "He gives the kids free samples because he knows full well that today's young, innocent faces will be tomorrow's clientele"The song was banned from broadcast by the BBC. Lehrer's performance is sampled in the track "Dope Peddler" by U. S. rapper 2 Chainz on his 2012 album Based on a T. R. U. Story, and on UK electronica duo Akasha's track "Interzone (Tapping a Guitar with Beef on a Lonely Summer Day in Menlo Park)", remixed by Menlo Park on the 1999 album Cinematique - The Remixes. The song was covered by Meat Puppets. more »

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2012

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Every evening you will find him around our neighbourhood. 
It's the old dope peddler, that we know by doing good

Started off with a OZ
End up riding fo' deep
Pull up to that club like muthaufckin ho you don't know me
I said I pull up to that club like muthafuckin ho you don't know me
Started off with a OZ
End up riding fo' deep
Started off with a OZ
End up riding fo' deep
Pull up to that club like muthaufckin' ho you don't know me

I said I pull up to that club like muthafuckin' ho you don't know me
Most of my niggas got gold teeth
Most of my bitches got tattoos
Most of my niggas think cash rules
And I mess up hair dos like it's a pair of shoes
And I need a pair of shoes when I'm up there
I'm in the trap 'cause I work there

Started off with a OZ
End up riding fo' deep
Pull up to that club like muthaufckin ho you don't know me
I said I pull up to that club like muthafuckin ho you don't know me
Started off with a OZ
End up riding fo' deep
Started off with a OZ
End up riding fo' deep
Pull up to that club like muthaufckin' ho you don't know me

When the shades of night are falling,
Comes a fellow everyone knows. 
It's the old dope peddler, spreading joy wherever he goes

See what these bitches looking like
Stick in all crooked like
Louie V is my kyrptonite
Take ya bitch and I give her back
Give her this and I give her that
Fine wine and lobster tail
Candle light and Kristette Michelle
Look at the pussy and play kiss and tell
Fix her hair then fix her nails
Even pay a few bills
Way I'm running shit man I should have a shoe deal
And my whole crew ill
Pockets on fat burger
Going so hard you'd think I mixed the Viagra with the Soda
Staying focused, it's Yolla Hill
Black and white ice polar bear
You hold her hand and I hold her hair
I pull her close and put it there

Started off with a OZ
End up riding fo' deep
Pull up to that club like muthaufckin ho you don't know me
I said I pull up to that club like muthafuckin ho you don't know me
Started off with a OZ
End up riding fo' deep
Started off with a OZ
End up riding fo' deep
Pull up to that club like muthaufckin' ho you don't know me

When the shades of night are falling,
Comes a fellow everyone knows. 
It's the old dope peddler, spreading joy wherever he goes

End up riding fo' deep
Muthafuckin' ho you don't know me
Muthafuckin' ho you don't know me
End up riding fo' deep

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2 Chainz

Tauheed Epps (born September 12, 1976), better known by his stage name 2 Chainz (formerly Tity Boi), is an American rapper from College Park, Georgia. He was first known for being one-half of southern hip hop duo Playaz Circle, along with longtime friend Earl "Dolla Boy" Conyers. They were best known for being signed to Ludacris' Disturbing tha Peace label and their debut single "Duffle Bag Boy". He is currently signed to Def Jam Records, an imprint of Universal Music Group. more »

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