"I Don't Smoke" | |
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Single by DJ Dee Kline | |
Released | 22 May 2000 |
Format | CD single, 12" |
Recorded | 1999 |
Genre | UK garage, breakstep |
Label | EastWest |
Writer(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.
The song features a sample of comedian , 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.