It was one of those Australian hip-hop scene rumours that we never thought we’d get the full story on, but Spit Syndicate have finally addressed allegations they stole pizza from music legend Bob Dylan’s fridge.
In a tale befitting yesterday’s 4/20 celebrations and hopefully putting an end to two years’ worth of rumours, Spit Syndicate member Nick Lupi took to Facebook to explain how it was he who did indeed steal the Dylan pie.
According to Lupi, it all went down in 2014 when he and bandmate Jimmy Nice were in Los Angeles. After two weeks’ worth of partying, the pair ended up at the home of a friend of a friend they’d made in LA, whose name was Pablo Dylan.
Pablo, the grandson of the legendary songwriter, invited Lupi and Nice back to the Dylan compound to jam at his home studio – a granny flat located within the sprawling gated compound. Much debauchery and songwriting ensued.
“As the session / kick-on was wrapping up around 8am, I (Lupi) left the granny flat to venture into the actual house itself,” Lupi writes. “Framed photos of Bob Dylan and his entire family adorned the mantelpieces, platinum and gold records hung on the walls.”
“It finally hit me that we had somehow ended up off our heads recording a rap song in the gated family compound owned by one of the 20th century’s most prolific singer-songwriters. What would Mum think, I wondered, not for the first time that trip.”
“Before I headed back to the granny flat, I was struck by a pang of hunger. My appetite, absent for most of the evening, had re-appeared.” Apparently, Lupi had a mean case of the munchies and decided to go looking for some grub.
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“My instincts kicked in and I headed to the kitchen, straight to the fridge,” he writes. “Sure enough, it was one of those stainless-steel double door numbers. I opened the fridge, and staring back at me were the last two pieces of a pizza.”
“Not for the first time in my life, my hunger overpowered my respect for other people’s property. Without a second thought, I grabbed both pieces and stuffed them into my mouth, furiously chewing as I tip-toed out of the kitchen, petrified of running into Pablo, Jakob or Bob.”
Lucky for Lupi, none of the Dylan clan caught him in the act and it’s not clear just whose pizza it was nor whether Bob himself or any other members of the Dylan family even noticed if the pizza was gone.
