{"id":137173,"date":"2019-04-29T15:03:43","date_gmt":"2019-04-29T13:03:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blackouthiphop.com\/?p=137173"},"modified":"2019-04-27T11:21:44","modified_gmt":"2019-04-27T09:21:44","slug":"album-review-salaam-remi-grass-is-greener-soundtrack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/album-review-salaam-remi-grass-is-greener-soundtrack\/","title":{"rendered":"Album Review: Salaam Remi \u2013 Grass Is Greener Soundtrack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"344\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/o9L2Qv51vH0\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/IET4K5npNOg\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Most of you are probably familiar with the new <strong>Netflix<\/strong>&#8216;s marijuana-based documentary <em>Grass Is Greener<\/em> that dropped on 4\/20.<br \/>\nThe documentary was produced by legendary <strong>Yo! Mtv Raps<\/strong> host <strong>Fab 5 Freddy<\/strong>. Gathering musicians, authors, writers, professors and scientists to talk about trials and tribulations of marijuana, from the jazz era, reggae and Rasta movement to the hip-hop movement of today. In a large sea of weed-themed documentaries, this one has to be one of the best ones so far.<\/p>\n<p>Producer <strong>Saalam Remi<\/strong> (responsible for the careers of <strong>The Fugees, Nas, Amy Winehouse<\/strong>&#8230;) has gathered different artists and recorded 12 songs to give the documentary a proper mood. The soundtrack maybe misses usual ganja suspects such as <strong>Method Man, Redman, B-Real<\/strong> or <strong>Snoop Dogg<\/strong>, but it is still a banger. <strong>Smif-N-Wessun, The LOX, Bun B, Black Thought<\/strong> from <strong>The Roots<\/strong> are representing for the Hip-Hop side but a soundtrack like this one simply cannot go without sounds of reggae so we got <strong>Bob<\/strong>&#8216;s son <strong>Stephen Marley<\/strong> and the dancehall legend <strong>Spragga Benz<\/strong>. The soundtrack also features the soul music legend Betty Wright and a marvellous instrumental jazz tune by <strong>The Flying Buddha Allstars<\/strong>.<br \/>\nThe music is diverse but the message is one, and every one of those artists are here to share a story about the plant they adore &#038; it sounds pretty damn good. Legalize it, don&#8217;t criticize it&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Another one from our new music editor <strong>Re:tro Flava<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"137174\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/album-review-salaam-remi-grass-is-greener-soundtrack\/descarga-2-2\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/descarga-2-1.jpeg?fit=225%2C225&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"225,225\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"descarga (2)\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/descarga-2-1.jpeg?fit=225%2C225&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/descarga-2-1.jpeg?fit=225%2C225&amp;ssl=1\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/descarga-2-1.jpeg?resize=225%2C225&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"225\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-137174\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/descarga-2-1.jpeg?w=225&amp;ssl=1 225w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/descarga-2-1.jpeg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most of you are probably familiar with the new Netflix&#8216;s marijuana-based documentary Grass Is Greener&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pG6fW-zGt","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137173\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}