The name Mona Lisa has echoed through hip hop's history pages for various reasons, mostly involving female encounters of mystery and beauty. Slick Rick encountered a virgin in a pizza parlor. Wyclef was looking for a date, be it Friday or (if she's busy) Saturday-ay-ay-ay-ay. But, Cashius Green is the first rapper to know enough about the Leonardo da Vinci painting to use "Mona Lisa" as slang for Spanish women that shave their eyebrows.
Off his Sunny Side Up mixtape, "Mona Lisa" is a vintage cut that sounds like it could have been a lost b-side as Pharcyde was transitioning from the schoolyard humor of Bizarre Ride II the Pharcyde into the Dilla-keys of Labcabincalifornia.
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