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I Don't Smoke

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Released
  
22 May 2000

Recorded
  
1999

Label
  
EastWest

Format
  
CD single, 12"

Genre
  
UK garage, breakstep

Writer(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.

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.

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

I Don't Smoke Wikipedia