That Feeling When You Go to Bed Stoned and Then Wake Up and Get Stoned Again
It's hard to imagine that Bob Dylan, Three six Mafia and Toby Keith have much in common, merely all three artists understand the power of a classic stoner track. Marijuana has served equally the inspiration for classic cuts in rock, hip-hop, popular, and of grade, reggae, and is notwithstanding influencing more than than a few of our biggest artists today.
Billboard has put together a countdown of 25 tracks that talk nigh toking up, with each song including a "authority" level that measures their inebriated energy on a scale of i (mildly buzzed) to 10 (totally stoned).
25. "Because I Got High"
Afro Man
Nearly Smokin' Lyric: "I was gonna clean my room until I got high/ I gonna get up and observe the broom but then I got high/My room is still messed up and I know why (Yep, hey!)/ Considering I got loftier, considering I got high, because I got high."
Say-so: I. At get-go, "Because I Got High" sounds like a fun, harmless joke nearly how smoking weed leads to unproductivity. But when Afro Human's problems get more than and more serious — he goes from cut course to losing his wife and kids — this song just becomes a buzzkill.
24. "Dooo It!"
Miley Cyrus
Near Smokin' Lyric: "Loving what you sing/And loving smoking weed/Weed, weed, weed, weed"
Dominance: TWO. While the rails hit No. 23 on Billboard Twitter Top Tracks and gave some fun insight into the questions that plague a high Cyrus, it'southward a bit likewise repetitive — not unlike a stoner'southward philosophical musings….
23. "James Joint"
Rihanna
Most Smokin' Lyric: "I'd rather be smoking weed/Whenever we breathe"
Authorization: FOUR. The first verse finds Rihanna romancing the stoner, simply as she gets into "breaking things" and "the police" coming, the less-pleasant and more paranoid thoughts begin to accept over.
22. "How High"
Method Human being and Redman
Most Smokin' Lyric: "Look up in the sky, it's a bird, it's a airplane/ It'southward the funk doctor spock smokin buddha on a train/ How high? And so high that I can kiss the sky/ (Upwards, up to the sky!)"
Potency: Five. Though information technology simply has a few literal weed references, this mid-'90s rap precious stone was the original theme vocal for one of the greatest stoner music duos to date, Method Man & Redman. To witness them perform it in concert is to see burly security guards hopelessly attempt to put out dozens of simultaneously lit-up joints.
21. "You Don't Know How It Feels"
Tom Fiddling
Most Smokin' Lyric: "Let's get to the indicate/ Let'due south curlicue some other joint/ And permit'south caput on down the road/ At that place'due south somewhere I got to get."
Potency: FIVE. The rock 'due north' roll equivalent to Dr. Dre's "The Side by side Episode," Petty'due south hit isn't really about weed. The one line that is, however, is but too memorable to become unacknowledged. Radio stations famously censored information technology, but that hasn't stopped anyone from shouting it out loud in their car.
twenty. "Roll Some other Number (For the Road)"
Neil Young
Most Smokin' Lyric: "Think I'll roll another number for the road, I feel able to get under whatever load/ Though my anxiety aren't on the ground, I been standin' on the audio/ Of some open-hearted people goin' down."
Potency: SIX. Though Neil Immature's classic isn't solely near weed, the song's full general sentiment is all stoner, and information technology's impossible to mind to these skulking guitar strums without slowing down to a snail's pace.
19. "Broccoli"
DRAM ft. Lil Yachty
About Smokin' Lyric: "Yeah I know your babe mama fond of me/ All she desire to do is smoke that broccoli."
Potency: SIX. DRAM and Yachty's experience-good canticle is riding the high of career validation as much as the more herbal kind, only there's still more than plenty of both to pass around.
18. "Young, Wild & Free"
Wiz Khalifa & Snoop Dogg ft. Bruno Mars
Virtually Smokin' Lyric: "Roll joints bigger than King Kong's fingers/ And fume them hoes downwardly until they're stingers. "
Dominance: SEVEN. Yep, it'south a softball pop hitting. But "Immature, Wild & Gratis" is dope because it unites legendary smoker Snoop Dogg with young puff dragon Khalifa and information technology ropes in sweetie pie crooner Bruno Mars, whose hook makes this a playful, loftier-ranking Hot 100 jam virtually hazy times and non only another album cut to be cherished simply by serious stoners.
17. "Reefer Man"
Cab Calloway
Virtually Smokin' Lyric: "If he trades yous dimes for nickels/ And calls watermelon's pickles/ Then yous know/ You're talkin' to that reefer man"
Potency: SEVEN. For those that not only fume, simply tease folks that can't handle their green with a absurd temperment, this 1932 song'south a laugh riot, poking fun at folks that don't know what's what or which way is up after they low-cal up.
sixteen. "Addicted"
Amy Winehouse
Most Smokin' Lyric:"When y'all smoke all my weed homo/You gotta call the light-green human being/And then I can go mine and you get yours"
Potency: Vii. Not only is this super-relatable (mooching is a big no-no) but the horns and that jazz trounce, combined with Winehouse'due south indelible vocals, will have you floating on cloud nine.
fifteen. "We Exist Burnin'"
Sean Paul
Most Smokin' Lyric: "Everyday we be burnin' not concernin' what nobody wanna say / We be earnin' dollars turning 'cause we listen de pon we pay / More than gilt and oil and diamonds – girls, we need dem everyday"
Say-so: SEVEN. Not but is Sean Paul clear of his love for blazin' on "Burnin'" — he sets that honey to a dancehall crush we tin can get down too. Paul'south "We Be Burnin'" spent a full 28 weeks on the Hot 100 chart, peaking at No. six.
14. "D'Evils"
Sir
Nearly Smokin' Lyric: "Quarter pound of fire burnin' daily/ Harder to call back, gettin' harder to recall"
Dominance: 7. Not as in your face with its smoke-blowing equally some of the other songs on this list, merely the looped "1 spliff a twenty-four hour period" sample (courtesy of Baton Boyo) is certainly hard to ignore, equally is its serenely blazed overall vibe.
13. "Weed With Willie"
Toby Keith
Most Smokin' Lyric: "At present we learned a hard lesson in a small Texas town/ He fired up a fat boy and he passed it around/ The concluding words that I spoke earlier they tucked me in/ I'll never fume weed with Willie once more"
Potency: Vii. On this Shock'n Y'all bonus runway, Toby Keith spins a yarn about sharing a edgeless with one of America's most notorious pot enthusiasts: Willie Nelson. The country legend's stuff might be a little too powerful for Keith, who opts for the whiskey and declares, "I'll never fume weed with Willie again."
12. "Marijuana"
Kid Cudi
Nearly Smokin' Lyric: "Pre- pre- pretty greenish bud/ All in my blunt/ Ohhh I need information technology."
Potency: Vii. Kid Cudi swore off smoking weed, just he certainly spent a practiced chunk of his offset two albums celebrating the pastime. On "Marijuana," the airiest track on Man on the Moon II: The Legend of Mr. Rager, Cudi likens marijuana to a best friend, saying that it "ever had my back" and "never left me lonely."
xi. "Rainy Day Women #12 & 35"
Bob Dylan
Most Smokin' Lyric: "I would not feel then all solitary/ Everybody must get stoned!"
Potency: SEVEN. Dylan was no stranger to philosophical songwriting in the mid-60s, but the opening track to Blonde on Blonde remains a particular triumph for marijuana enthusiasts. Backed past a contumely band, the typically poetic Dylan delivers a loopy anthem punctuated past the exclamation, "Everybody must get stoned!" at the finish of each verse.
10. "The Next Episode"
Dr. Dre feat. Snoop Dogg, Kurupt and Nate Dogg
Near Smokin' Lyric: "Hey-ay-ay-ay! Fume weed every 24-hour interval!"
Potency: 8. On this 2001 West Coast classic, the Doctor recruits his conglomerate, Snoop Dogg, Kurupt and Nate Dogg (R.I.P.), to testify how the left side lives: namely, sporting greenery of every type.
9. "Pass The Kouchie"
The Mighty Diamonds
Nigh Smokin' Lyric: "Pass the kouchie pon the left hand side / Pass the kouchie pon the left hand side / It a go bun, it a go dung, Jah know"
Authorization: NINE. The Mighty Diamonds' 1982 classic was loved by many in Jamaica, but exploded it in the U.K. and U.S. when Musical Youth covered it as "Pass the Dutchie." Musical Youth interchanged pots, substituting the "kouchie" with a Dutch oven.
8. "I Got five on It"
The Luniz
Most Smokin' Lyric: "I'thousand gone, beatin my breast like King Kong / It'south on, wrap my lips around a 40 / And when it comes to get another stogie / Fools all kick in similar Shinobi."
Potency: 9. Listen closely to Luniz's 1995 "I Got 5 On It," and you'll become a full lesson on the do's and don't's of dope.
7. "Sweet Leaf"
Black Sabbath
Most Smokin' Lyric: "My life is free now, my life is clear/I love you sweetness leafage, though you can't hear."
Say-so: Nine. Marijuana, of course, is an inanimate object. But don't tell that to Ozzy Osbourne, who professes his dearest directly to his "sweetness foliage" equally though it's his wife or some mythical metal goddess over grinding guitar riffs. Being pro-weed never sounded then romantic.
vi. "Hits from the Bong"
Cypress Colina
Most Smokin' Lyric: "Still it, goes downwards shine when I get a clean hit/ Of the skunky, funky, smelly light-green sh*t/ Sing my vocal, puff all night long/ As I take hits from the bong…"
Potency: NINE. Complete with bong rip sound furnishings and a hazy soul sample, Cypress Hill'south hip-hop classic could persuade even the straightest of the straight edge to have a walk on the high side.
5. "Fume Two Joints"
Sublime
Most Smokin' Lyric: "I smoke two joints a dime a slice, and 2 the time before / I smoke ii joints before I smoke two joints / And and so I fume two more"
Potency: NINE. Anytime, anywhere is the mentality when information technology comes to the toke on Sublime'southward 1992 striking, "Smoke Two Joints." Originally by The Toyes, Sublime adds in other samples (Across the Valley of the Dolls movie, Eazy-Due east, Simply Ice and Bert Susanka) and seals information technology with the sounds of a bubbling bong.
4. "Laissez passer That Dutch"
Missy Elliott
Well-nigh Smokin' Lyric: "Laissez passer that dutch, pass that dutch/Popular that, pop that, jiggle that fat"
Potency: Nine. This smokin' track fabricated the Hot 100 in 2003, and with its unstoppable shell it's a certified banger — plus it features Elliott spitting "pain in your rectum," which somehow comes across as worse than a pain in the ass.
three. "Legalize It"
Peter Tosh
Most Smokin' Lyric: "Singers smoke it, and players of instrument too/Legalize it, yeah yes, that'due south the best affair you can do"
Potency: Ix. Whether they call it weed, marijuana, tampee or ganja, smokers have been grooving to Peter Tosh's plea for legalization for decades. Reggae legend Bob Marley later tried his hand at a new version of "Legalize It" after guesting on Tosh'south 1976 album of the same proper noun.
ii. "Stay High"
Three vi Mafia
Most Smokin' Lyric: "What'southward up Mary! Mary Jane!/Since I have met you, daughter, y'all ruined my brain/Y'all stole my heart, right from the start"
Say-so: Ten. Earlier they became Academy Accolade winners for "It's Hard Out Here for a Pimp," Three six Mafia crafted arguably the greatest hip-hop song about smoking weed ever laid to tape. From the syrupy soul sample to Young Buck'due south wild middle poesy to the zonked-out elation of the chorus, "Stay Loftier" (or its censored counterpart, "Stay Fly") invites the listener to do just that.
ane. "Mary Jane"
Rick James
Nigh Smokin' Lyric: "And when I'm feeling low, she comes every bit no surprise / Turns me on with her love, takes me to paradise."
Say-so: Ten. Rick James' oftentimes-sampled 1978 hit is one of the first songs to ascertain punk-funk. "Mary Jane" opens up strong with strings, then lightens up with female vocals that introduce the star of the show and James' leading "lady." Similar Ozzy, James knows how to turn crooning about weed into a strong act of seduction.
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Source: https://www.billboard.com/music/pop/420-songs-weed-marijuana-smoking-anthems-1558962/
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