Music Industry Job Opening: Blunt Roller

I’ve heard–and not being a boxing fan, I’m not sure if this is entirely true–that Mike Tyson once employed a dude named Crocodile whose only job was to following Mike around all day, constantly telling him how great he was.

There was Danny Ray, James Brown’s cape man. For 46 years, his main job was to drape a cape over James’ shoulders at the end of “Please, Please, Please.”

Rock’n’roll is filled with tales of various jobs for flunkies, but the best has to be Official Blunt Roller. This is from The Weed Blog:

I was at a music festival in California in 2011 and I got a chance to meet the members of Cypress Hill. It is a moment that I often measure my life around, as in the pre-Cypress Hill meet up part of my life and the post-Cypress Hill meet up part of my life. The group was doing a meet and greet at the event, and I made sure to be one of the first ones in line. While I was waiting for my turn to meet the group, I couldn’t help but watch a guy whose sole purpose at the event seemed to be to roll blunts for the group members and entourage. This guy could roll blunts faster than anyone I had ever seen before, and they were all uniform in shape and size. I don’t think I’ve ever seen anyone as good at rolling blunts as he was.

I was left wondering if that was an actual job for the guy, or if he was just the best at it out of the crew so he did it out of necessity? He didn’t seem to actually be a part of the group’s crew, he seemed like an employee. I was never able to confirm it, but I do know now that there are actually quite a few blunt rollers in the music industry. So many that apparently Billboard was able to find enough of them to determine the average salary of a blunt roller while on tour. According to Billboard, it’s $500/week, and also includes free hotel and travel expenses.

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