Tonight’s featured artists had a hit song most people though was about drugs but was really about a kind of cars. Can you guess the artists or the song?

It was the lines in the song ‘Lowrider’  "Take a little trip" and "Rides a little higher" led many listeners to believe this song was about drugs, but ‘War’ drummer Harold Brown there was a very different story. Brown says, “We did not want it to sound as if we were referring to drugs. As a rule most Lowriders are not big druggies, because we all had regular jobs as machinists, body and fender and mechanics. We didn't have any extra money for drugs. We put the money into our cars. Drugs didn't come into the picture then. That became a Hollywood thing for some reason. Maybe Cheech and Chong?

The sound is better on the video above but if you'd like to see them play it live, this was their performance on 'Soul Train'

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