I Don't Smoke

"I Don't Smoke"
Single by DJ Dee Kline
Released 22 May 2000
Format CD single, 12"
Recorded 1999
Genre UK garage, breakstep
Label EastWest
Songwriter(s) Nick Annand
Producer(s) Nick Annand

"I Don't Smoke" is a song by English breakbeat/UK garage musician DJ Dee Kline. Originally released in 1999 on Rat Records, the song became a major underground club hit and was rereleased on 22 May 2000 as a single on EastWest the following year. It peaked at #11 on the UK Singles Chart.[1]

The song features a sample of comedian Marcus Brigstocke, taken from the sketch show Barking. The sample in the song features Brigstocke repeating the lines, "Do you smoke Paul? No I don't. Me neither. I don't smoke cigarettes, I don't smoke cigars, I don't smoke a pipe, pipe, pipe, pipe, pipe...", followed by "I don't smoke the reefer" in a faux Rasta accent. He talked about it on The Graham Norton Show in 2010, where he explained that he was impersonating Jim Davidson's character Chalkie White for a sketch show, and that it was sampled into the track. Brigstocke said he was "delighted and mortified at the same time" when he heard the sample.[2]

A rework was released in 2014 in collaboration with Specimen A and Majestic MC, titled "Don't Smoke 2014".

Track listing

UK CD single
  1. "I Don't Smoke" (Radio Edit) - 2:57
  2. "I Don't Smoke" (Nu Skool Rave Mix) - 5:53
  3. "I Don't Smoke" (Rhythm Masters Remix Edit) - 5:10
  4. "I Don't Smoke" (Original Mix Edit) - 5:48


References

  1. ↑ "DJ DEE KLINE | Artist". Official Charts. Retrieved 2014-01-13.
  2. ↑ "Marcus Brigstocke, I Don't Smoke The Reefer". YouTube. 2010-06-07. Retrieved 2014-01-13.


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