Quite separately and likely later, “dutchie” was coined for a “blunt” made from the leaf wrapper of a Dutch Masters cigar (fyi: “blunts” are made with blunt cigar wrappers “joints” use cigarette paper). A “dutchie” in patois is a dutch oven (a kind of versatile pot used for slow cooking). So they sanitized and re-purposed a weed song into a song about poverty, hunger and music as spiritual food. Musical Youth were literally children, and you would have to be high or Gen Z to think that British black kids were going to be singing about drugs in the Thatcher/Reagan years. The practice is invested with spirituality, which includes sharing it counter-clockwise (i.e. A “kouchie” is a Rastafarian chalice pipe, which looks a lot like a bong but actually works like a vaporizer. “Pass The Dutchie” is absolutely NOT a song about weed, although it is an adaptation of “Pass The Kouchie”, which most definitely IS a weed song. Meowbie from BostonSo many half-baked answers here! Let’s straighten this out.The group, now entirely underage, was seasoned for about six months before their The Youth Of Today album was released and "Pass The Dutchie," the first single, became a huge hit. This led to a deal with MCA Records, who convinced Waite to replace himself with a youngster: 14-year-old Dennis Seaton. Waite put his two sons, Patrick and Junior, in the band with two of their classmates, Kevin and Michael Grant, and recorded a single on their own called "Political," which got the attention of the BBC DJ John Peel, who played it on his show. The group was formed by Freddie Waite, who had been in a reggae band in Jamaica. The band members were of Jamaican descent and lived in the Birmingham area of England.
The Mighty Diamonds' "Pass The Kutchie" has a heavy, slow beat and got very little airplay, but Musical Youth's take on the song was an instant hit in the UK, where it sold 100,000 copies the first day it was released and made #1 in September 1982. The five boys in the group were between the ages of 11 and 16 years old at the time, and their manager suggested they record the song with the modified lyric. "Pass The Kutchie" was a song that came out earlier in 1982 by the reggae group The Mighty Diamonds, which was adapted by Musical Youth, or at least their handlers. A "Dutchie" is a Jamaican cooking pot, and while there's not much reason to pass one around, it was an acceptable substitute for the original lyric: "Pass The Kutchie," Kutchie being Jamaican slang for a pot that holds marijuana (a pot pot?).
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