Does Your Mama Know About Me?
This goes out to my homie Drez, who’s holding it down on the west coast and documenting so much of this lowrider culture.
The thing that gets me about this song is, it’s so broad – it can speak to you no matter what you’re “about”. I played this for a gay friend the other day and he got goosebumps. Of course, the songwriter (Tommy Chong!) was referring to his racial make-up as he was dating, according to him, mainly black girls at the time. But it’s an enduring classic that holds as much specific meaning for me as it did for so many back in the 60s and 70s when it was first a hit.
Enjoy…