About this song
- "Black Bush" was originally recorded for Mac's June, 2013 album "Watching Movies with the Sound Off", but was left off the album's final sequencing. The psychedelic-sounding track wouldn't match most rappers, but Mac shoots moody and monotone rhymes over trippy guitar licks and a groovy baseline. "When 'Pac rocked with SGE smoking blunts in Hollywood/ I was a youngin' who didn't know sh-- 'bout nothin'/ And now I'm 21 and I feel like I'm onto something," he raps before alluding to an emphysema diagnosis. It's difficult to tell how serious Mac is about his health concerns — it could be that he just couldn't find anything else to rhyme with "Ebenezer." Lung disease aside, "Black Bush" is an ambient ride through the free-wheeling mind of a still-developing lyricist; Mac credits the whiskey. "Everybody looks at alcohol all the time like it's this party thing. I haven't partied since I was 18 or 19, really. So the Black Bush was like this ticket to a different dimension," he said. While in his recording space (dubbed The Sanctuary), Mac got inspired by Bushmills whiskey with his recording engineer Josh and a few of his musician buddies. "Myself, Joshua, Thundercat, Taylor Graves, yeah they brought over Black Bush and we got f---ing wasted. Drunk as f---," Mac said. "We just made this f---ing record that's real Dark Side of the Moon, The Wall Pink Floyd-sounding, which I f---ing love. I'm so happy it gets to see the light and gets to be heard." . User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply. — lastfm
