Piñata, the collaborative album by rapper Freddie Gibbs and music producer Madlib, was released in March last year. All you want from a hip hop album are clever, detailed and meaningful lyrics delivered via a charasmatic voice and beats, good sounds and clear production to give those lyrics a rhythm to flow with. Piñata did not fail in providing those. It was one of my favourite hip hop albums of 2014. Gibbs’ lyricism essentially about his and the gangsta life matched with Madlibs’ soulful samples make up an hour’s worth of captivating music. Very good, check it out.

“High” is the fifth track on there and, if you didn’t assume already, is about getting high off cannabis. Gibbs tells us that the activity is one of his favourites; while his brother and sister were finishing college, he would be smoking the stuff in his house and now that he’s famous everyone wants to smoke with him when they didn’t give a damn about him before. Sex with groupies at shows can’t even be done without a bit of it either. Whatever the occasion, Gibbs gets high. Gibbs had featured on Danny Brown’s album Old released a few months earlier and here Brown returns the favour, though you can tell that he was in a completely different studio while recording his verse.

The instrumental bangs too. Madlib did well.