Jane's Addiction vocalist Perry Farrell gives Adam Reader some heartfelt insight into Jane’s Addiction's hard rock manifesto "Mountain Song", which was the second single from their revolutionary album Nothing's Shocking. Mountain song was first recorded in 1986 and appeared on the soundtrack to the film Dudes starring Jon Cryer. The version on Nothing's Shocking was re-recorded in 1988.
"'Mountain Song' was actually about... I hate to say it but... drugs. Climbing this mountain and getting as high as you can, and then coming down that mountain," reveals Farrell. "What it feels to descend from the mountain top... not easy at all. The ascension is tough but exhilarating. Getting down is... it's a real bummer. Drugs is not for everybody obviously. For me, I wanted to experience the heights, and the lows come along with it."
"There's a part - 'Cash in now honey, cash in Miss Smith.' Miss Smith is my Mother; our last name was Smith. Cashing in when she cashed in her life. So... she decided that, to her... at that time, she was desperate. Life wasn't worth it for her, that was her opinion. Some people think, never take your life, and some people find that their life isn't worth living. She was in love with my Dad, and my Dad was not faithful to her, and it broke her heart. She was very desperate and she did something that I know she regrets."
Intro: Puff Daddy
I'ma make you dance
And we wont stop cause we cant stop
KRS-One Puff Daddy Bad Boy Remix
Hit me baby
Verse One: Puff, KRS
Hear the sound of my money machine
See the 600 benz see the chrome rims gleam
See the *distortion* KRS and the Puff Daddy
See the young black and famous rich like matty
With the power and knowledge at our fingertips
With the style make the ladies wanna lick they lips
Shake they hips shake they rumps faced up
Good livin they could fly by the way we jump
Player uh...
Hip-Hop mayor phat rhyme sayer
From the Boogie Down to the Himilayas I'm...
Comentated, illustrated,
Description given adjective expert
Network till yo neck hurt
Like bedwork I rocksteady
You aint really ready for the teacher
Just when you think you got me licked
I come with another hit oh...
Chorus:
Step into a world (and we wont stop)
Where there's no one there (cause we can't stop)
But the very best (and we wont stop)
No MC can test (cause we can't stop)
Verse Two: Puff Daddy
Politic with the teacher as the hits reach ya
Puff daddy and KRS-One double feature
Uptown diplomats watching chips get stack
So and so this and that
Just show me the money aint nuttin funny
Have you stuck on stupid broke feeling crumy
Ain't no time for Girl 6
Cause i got a ten holdin my stack and big benz
Correagrapher causing your funky dope maneuver
Bad Boy represent keep it to us
Killin you softly wit my song
Crawled from the ice
I know you betta think twice
Bout the
Still #1 South South Bronx
At the Latin Quarter dancin wit your daughther
You can't handle me
I keep it tight with the Bad Boy family that's right
Chorus:
Step into a world (And we wont stop)
Where there's no one there (Cause we can't stop)
But the very best (And we wont stop)
No MC can test (Cause we can't stop)
Verse Three: KRS-One
Uhh uhh South Bronx
You sitin and you wonderin
How we keep it comin in KRS and Puff again
To pushin to shoven and
The neigherborhood be buggin when we comin in rulin
(With more Wildcats than Rick Pitino i mean yo)
Jus coolin like Lavert i do work they love me
Big wet sheets c'mon Puffy
Young ,black and educated thats how we made it
Study and bring the money in
You cant fade it
The scholar gets the dollar
While the other scholarships holler
With no dinero your zero
You think i care what you whisper
You got the wrong picture
I'm chillin with chief Simone eatin dinner (ha ha)
The 1997 winner of your respect
High tech you get the album on cassette
And don't forget while you listenin the skillz I flaunted
That Boogie Down Bronx we on it
Chorus:
Step Into a world (Scott LaRock rest in peace)
Where there's no one there (Biggie Smalls restin peace)
But the very best (We'll love y'all always and forever)
No MC can test (And we wont stop)
*Step into a world (And we wont stop)
Where there's no one there (Cause we can't stop)
But the very best (And we wont stop)
No MC can test (Cause we can't stop)*
*Chorus to fade*
I'ma make you dance
And we wont stop cause we cant stop
KRS-One Puff Daddy Bad Boy Remix
Hit me baby
Verse One: Puff, KRS
Hear the sound of my money machine
See the 600 benz see the chrome rims gleam
See the *distortion* KRS and the Puff Daddy
See the young black and famous rich like matty
With the power and knowledge at our fingertips
With the style make the ladies wanna lick they lips
Shake they hips shake they rumps faced up
Good livin they could fly by the way we jump
Player uh...
Hip-Hop mayor phat rhyme sayer
From the Boogie Down to the Himilayas I'm...
Comentated, illustrated,
Description given adjective expert
Network till yo neck hurt
Like bedwork I rocksteady
You aint really ready for the teacher
Just when you think you got me licked
I come with another hit oh...
Chorus:
Step into a world (and we wont stop)
Where there's no one there (cause we can't stop)
But the very best (and we wont stop)
No MC can test (cause we can't stop)
Verse Two: Puff Daddy
Politic with the teacher as the hits reach ya
Puff daddy and KRS-One double feature
Uptown diplomats watching chips get stack
So and so this and that
Just show me the money aint nuttin funny
Have you stuck on stupid broke feeling crumy
Ain't no time for Girl 6
Cause i got a ten holdin my stack and big benz
Correagrapher causing your funky dope maneuver
Bad Boy represent keep it to us
Killin you softly wit my song
Crawled from the ice
I know you betta think twice
Bout the
Still #1 South South Bronx
At the Latin Quarter dancin wit your daughther
You can't handle me
I keep it tight with the Bad Boy family that's right
Chorus:
Step into a world (And we wont stop)
Where there's no one there (Cause we can't stop)
But the very best (And we wont stop)
No MC can test (Cause we can't stop)
Verse Three: KRS-One
Uhh uhh South Bronx
You sitin and you wonderin
How we keep it comin in KRS and Puff again
To pushin to shoven and
The neigherborhood be buggin when we comin in rulin
(With more Wildcats than Rick Pitino i mean yo)
Jus coolin like Lavert i do work they love me
Big wet sheets c'mon Puffy
Young ,black and educated thats how we made it
Study and bring the money in
You cant fade it
The scholar gets the dollar
While the other scholarships holler
With no dinero your zero
You think i care what you whisper
You got the wrong picture
I'm chillin with chief Simone eatin dinner (ha ha)
The 1997 winner of your respect
High tech you get the album on cassette
And don't forget while you listenin the skillz I flaunted
That Boogie Down Bronx we on it
Chorus:
Step Into a world (Scott LaRock rest in peace)
Where there's no one there (Biggie Smalls restin peace)
But the very best (We'll love y'all always and forever)
No MC can test (And we wont stop)
*Step into a world (And we wont stop)
Where there's no one there (Cause we can't stop)
But the very best (And we wont stop)
No MC can test (Cause we can't stop)*
*Chorus to fade*
Lyrics submitted by DallasLeigh
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Worst remix of a song ever. The original is SO fucking good. And what with the whole "REAL HIP-HOP" theme of the album, it's just so senseless how P Diddy got on a song with such a legend.
$$$, I suppose.