10 Not-So-Nutritious Songs Associated with Veggies | Playlist 🎧

1. Matt Lucas, “Thank You Baked Potato” 🥔

🎵 “Thank You Baked Potato” • 🏷 Loudmouth Music Ltd • 🗓 2020

“Baked Potato changed my life / Baked Potato showed me the way / If you want to know what is wrong from right / You must listen to what Potato say…” Okay… I totally ❤ baked potatoes, but I’m not sure that I’ve ever listened to one… ha-ha! 🎵 “Thank You Baked Potato” 🥔 arrives courtesy of English comedian Matt Lucas. It’s a reworked version of his famous classic, with proceeds going towards FeedNHS.

“Baked Potato” is infectious and lighthearted in a time where everyone in the world needs more of that.  Set in a major key, Matt Lucas and his baked potato give advice for being safe during COVID-19.  After the opening verse, excerpted above, that sound advice is given in an entertaining fashion on the chorus, before the outro celebrates – you guessed it – Baked Potato:

“Wash your hands and stay indoors
Only go to grocery stores
...Keep your distance, make some space
Remember not to touch your face...”

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2. Foals, “White Onions” 🧅

💿 Part 1 Everything Not Saved Will Be Lost • 🏷 Warner • 🗓 2019

“No escape from this room and I’ll wait for a wave / To come wash away, lead me out of this place / I fight for air, don’t keep me there.” Clearly, Yannis Philippakis, the front man of English alt-rock collective Foals is totally feeling some pressure of sorts.  On the energetic 🎵 “White Onions” 🧅, the third track from the band’s 2019 album, 💿 Part 1 Everything Not Saved Will Be Lost, a sentiment of being trapped and being unable to escape is captured.

The lyrics are few on “White Onions,” but they definitely pack a punch, at least in regard to conveying an uncomfortable sentiment. “Lyrically, [‘White Onions’ is] the logical response to this feeling of being caught in a bind and there’s references to mazes and cages,” Philippakis tells Consequence of Sound during the track-by-track interview for the project.  He goes on to say, “… It’s like this labyrinth, this issue of how to find the correct way out.” That explains not only the aforementioned lyrics, but also the repetitive, but highly-effective lyrics such as “I see a lair… / I fight for air… / You keep me there…,” and later, “I see a maze… / I break the cage…” Philippakis also acknowledges the simplicity to COS, but also dubs it a favorite from Part 1 Everything Not Saved Will Be Lost.

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3. Fantasia, “Collard Greens & Cornbread” 🥬

💿 Back to Me • 🏷 19 Recordings • 🗓 2010

So, for 🎵 “Collard Greens & Cornbread” 🥬, we take it back to the beginning of the 2010s.  That’s right, folks.  “Collard Greens & Cornbread” appeared on 💿 Back to Me, the third studio album by Grammy-winning, Season 3 American Idol winner, Fantasia.  Actually, Fantasia won her sole Grammy to date for the song “Bittersweet” from this album, after earning numerous nominations throughout the aughts from Free Yourself (2004) and Fantasia (2006). So, enough background, let’s get into this unapologetic southern, soul fool, shall we?

“Collard Greens & Cornbread” features superb, soulful production work here.  Of course, it pays big dividends when your sample is a Marvin Gaye/Tammi Terrell gem (“Your Precious Love”).  Fantasia definitely sounds inspired, delivering exceptional vocals, phenomenal ad-libs, and a boatload of personality. The songwriting is feisty, playing off like a soap opera.  “Tomorrow, you might hate me and find somebody new,” she sings on the first verse, continuing, “But today, I’m with you / Ain’t that some love?” Of course, the centerpiece is the collard green and cornbread referencing chorus:

“Oh, I ain’t gon’ lie, boy you got me out of my mind in L.O.V.E
I go crazy when you love me
Got me acting a mess
Even got the nerve to say I’m better than my momma
Collard greens and cornbread, yeah
Oh, collard greens and cornbread, yeah.”

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4. Tyler, the Creator & A$AP Rocky, “Potato Salad” 🥔 🥗

🎵 “Potato Salad” • 🏷 Columbia • 🗓 2018

Good things tend to happen when Tyler, the Creator and A$AP Rocky collaborate. The good pals link up once more for a surefire winner, 🎵“Potato Salad” 🥔 🥗. Can you say delicious? “Potato Salad” keeps things pretty tight, just crossing the three-minute mark. The intro performed by Tyler, the Creator, sets the tone – whets the palate!

“Ayy, you gon’ start me from the top, Listen
Shout out Harlem, man
Shout out A$AP Rocky, man
AWGE in the building, man
What’s good? Is that potato salad?
Yo, listen.”

Soulful production work serves as an awesome backdrop.  The sample is familiar for R&B fans of the 00s – Monica’s “Knock, Knock” (After the Storm).  Tyler drops the first and third verses, in addition to the aforementioned intro and outro.  He has his fair share of moments, including “Niggas give me the cold should, I can speak for myself / So I keep a high waist and alligator the belt / And got a belt with the holster, I ain’t playing games” or “Married to the money, my bitch green / No, I don’t sip lean, but ride around in rockets like Yao Ming,” which both hail from the first verse.  He also delivers a bullet on the third verse, asserting, “Bum niggas wish they could make a garden shed / But they sleeping on me man like their arm is dead…”

A$AP Rocky has his fair share of bright spots on the second verse.  He opens with a bang, spitting:

“Fuck clothes, I cop pieces
Couple thots with me and them hoes is like divas
Got my Vans on but they look like sneakers
Flipped a couple packs, Based God in the speakers.”

He also references Kodak Black and the skit “Calldrops” which appears on his 2018 album, Testing. All in all, Tyler and Rocky deliver solid rhymes on “Potato Salad.” Both flex hard on the track. The potato salad is pretty tasty, or to quote Joe Jonas in “Cake by the Ocean”,  “fucking delicious.”

5. Shelley FKA DRAM, “Broccoli” 🥦

Ft. Lil Yachty

💿 Big Baby DRAM • 🏷 EMPIRE / Atlantic • 🗓 2016

“In the middle of the party, bitch, get off me (god damn) / In the cut, I’m rollin’ up my broccoli (god damn) …” Hold up – how do you ‘roll up broccoli’ exactly, Shelley FKA DRAM.  I mean, I can see removing the stalks of this absolutely delicious green vegetable, but I can’t see you “rollin’ up” no broccoli – what the hell man? Okay, okay, I’m kidding – DRAM is obviously talking about weed on his Grammy-nominated gem, 🎵“Broccoli” 🥦.  Letting him finish his lyrics: “…Yeah, I know your baby mama fond of me (god damn) / All she want to do is smoke that broccoli (god damn).”  And there’s the clarification that ‘broccoli’ in this case is a wacky veggie to say the least!

Nonetheless, veggies have NEVER sounded so appetizing until Shelley came along. “Broccoli” gave the Virginia rapper-singer a breakthrough hit in addition to his Grammy-nomination.  Aside from an assist by Lil Yachty who drops an insensitive Columbine reference, “Broccoli” delivers quite the high: excellent production set in a major key and positive vibes where there’s totally no “fuck-shit.”

“Ain’t no tellin what I’m finna be on
I’m beyond all that fuck shit...”

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6. Mac Demarco, “Salad Days” 🥗

💿 Salad Days • 🏷 Captured Tracks • 🗓 2014 

Throughout his 2014 album 💿 Salad Days, singer/songwriter Mac Demarco seems incredibly down – there is the sense of the constant ‘bummer’ if you will. Even though Demarco gets down about various things, he also offers atoning words of wisdom and relatable truths.  There is a magic about Salad Days that makes the 11-track/34-minute effort special and almost hypnotic. The title track, 🎵 “Salad Days” 🥗 gets the nod on this veggie-fueled list.

“Salad Days” commences the album abruptly. Even so, the record makes perfect sense once it settles in.  Nonchalantly performed, Demarco’s approach is part of the endearment.  Essentially, he delivers the song from the perspective that his life is done, despite his young age:

“Salad days are gone
Missing hippy Jon
Remembering things just to tell ‘em so long.”

Even if the “salad days are gone,” based on quality alone, Demarco seems to have ample livelihood left.

7. Tyler, the Creator, “OKRA”

🎵 “OKRA” • 🏷 Columbia • 🗓 2018

🎵 “OKRA”, by title alone, fits the bill of a veggie song.  After all, Okra is a type of vegetable – simple enough.  That said, the bigger significance of the second Tyler, the Creator song associated with a vegetable is that it has a LGBTQ+ 🏳️‍🌈 angle.

Sure, for the most part, “OKRA” doesn’t sound like it fits the LGBTQ+ bill in the least.  However, the third verse raises curious case of the potentially ambiguous sexuality of Grammy-winning rapper, hence it’s inclusion in 🎧 A Compendium Comprised of 100 Notable LGBTQ+ Songs. Tyler seems to join the bandwagon in admiration for Academy Award-nominated actor, Timothée Chalamet – can you blame him?

“Tell Tim Chalamet to come get at me
Skin’ glowing, clear of acne.”

Looking back on his 2017 Grammy-nominated album, Flower Boy, he did admit to “kissing white boys.” Even with a fancy for Chalamet, he later references his “bitch mixed like jambalaya.” Perhaps he’s merely complimenting Chalamet’s skin… who knows with Tyler. Regardless, isn’t it possible “Okra” dabbles in sexual fluidity, whether intentionally or merely for shock value?

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8. R. Kelly, “In the Kitchen” 🥗

💿 TP.3 Reloaded • 🏷 Zomba • 🗓 2005

“Girl, I’m ready to toss your salad.” Yikes.  Yeah, that’s not the best look from a Grammy-winning artist who’s been imprisoned due to his sexual misconduct.  R. Kelly is definitely a gifted musician who has penned some truly classic songs.  His contribution to R&B can’t be understated – dude’s a boss. However, far too often, Kells has allowed pleasure to get him into a sticky situation – totally inappropriate wording, I know.  Nonetheless, 🎵“In the Kitchen,” which appears on 2005 album, 💿 TP.3 Reloaded, is associated with the theme… very, VERY loosely associated.

“Cutting up tomatoes / Fruits and vegetables and potatoes / Girl, you look so sexy while you’re doing the damn thing.” See, R. Kelly mentions vegetables, and specifically namedrops tomatoes and potatoes! That said, the allure of “In the Kitchen” (formerly “(Sex) in the Kitchen”) is his freakiness – SEX, SEX, SEX! Obviously, the salad that Kelly refers to IS NOT the same sort of nutritious dish loaded with veggies… no further explanation needed.  Honestly, the salacious chorus says it all:

“I want sex in the kitchen, over by the stove
Put you on the counter, by the buttered rolls
Hands on the table, on your tippy toes
Girl, we’ll be making love, like the restaurant was closed.”

9. Schoolboy Q, “Collard Greens” 🥬

Ft. Kendrick Lamar

💿 Oxymoron • 🏷 Interscope • 🗓 2014

“Kush be my fragrance, we love marijuana / Function on fire, burn the roof of this motherfucker.” From the opening groove to the gimmicky, infectious chorus, 🎵 “Collard Greens” 🥬 is quite distinct.  It’s also quite high, as in high-flying, or better yet, flying high if you catch my drift. If you don’t, let me just break this 💩 down for you. ScHoolboy Q isn’t rapping about a delightful southern dish! Save that for the forthcoming entrée section! He’s rapping about weed… kush… ganja… marijuana!

“Oh, oh luxury
Chidi-chidi-ching could buy anything, cop that
Oh, oh, collard greens
Three degrees low, make it hot for me drop that.”

With an ideal tone and compelling flow, ScHoolboy Q is on autopilot on the standout of his 2014 album, 💿 Oxymoron. Kendrick Lamar captivates on the second verse, providing Spanish and gun sound effects among many other things.  Stoners can relate to the high of “Collard Greens,” as well as rap enthusiasts who don’t partake of wacky tobaccy.

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10. Anthony Hamilton, “Cornbread, Fish & Collard Greens” 🥬

💿 Comin’ From Where I’m From • 🏷 RCA • 🗓 2003

Ah, Fantasia wasn’t the only southern R&B artist talking about some cornbread and some collards! In fact, seven years prior, Grammy-winner Anthony Hamilton even added ‘fish’ to the mix on his 2003 single, 🎵“Cornbread, Fish & Collard Greens” 🥬.  R&B definitely had a different sound in the early aughts, but still, a funky, neo-soul song that references food is novel to say the least. Hamilton got much more love for the biggest hit of career, “Charlene”.  “Charlene,” more than anything, helped propel 💿 Comin’ From Where I’m From from a modest no. 33 debut on the Billboard 200, to RIAA platinum certification.

“I knew just what I had to be / When I heard you say what you said to me / To every dude in sight / Look like you working up an appetite for the night, check it.” Hmm, so clearly, “Cornbread, Fish & Collard Greens” isn’t really about a sick southern meal filled with fat and calories, but rather, sex.  This girl is trouble, and Anthony knows it, hence why he says, “Best off being a friend to me… Don’t know what I might do.” The keyword there, of course, being ‘do.’ One of the best lines from the song occurs on the second verse, where Hamilton spots her game without a hitch:

“Now tell me do you really think
You can walk around like your shit don’t stink
I’m on to you
Oh, baby girl, I’m on to you (I’m watching you).”

So, she’s totally got these guys thinking with their pants, and while Anthony is woke to it, I’m definitely not convinced he won’t indulge.  The chorus, my friends, is where the food comes into play:

“Cornbread, fish, and collard greens
I’ve got what you need
If you want it (cause I’m a pimp, babe)
If you want it (I’m a pimp, girl)
Cornbread, fish, and collard greens
I got what you need (what you need)
If you want it (I can rock your world)
If you want it (I’m bigger juice than Jheri curl).”

Hmm, just wonder how big the juice is, Anthony…

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