Though it only has a few literal weed references, this mid-’90s rap gem was the original theme song for one of the greatest stoner music duos to date, Method Man & Redman. Spock smokin’ buddha on a train/ How high? So high that I can kiss the sky/ (Up, up to the sky!)” Most Smokin’ Lyric: “Look up in the sky, it’s a bird, it’s a plane/ It’s the funk Dr. The first verse finds Rihanna romancing the stoner, but as she gets into “breaking things” and “the police” coming, the less pleasant and more paranoid thoughts begin to take over. Most Smokin’ Lyric: “I’d rather be smoking weed/Whenever we breathe” 23 on Billboard Twitter Top Tracks and gave some fun insight into the questions that plague a high Cyrus, it’s a bit too repetitive - not unlike a stoner’s philosophical musings…. Most Smokin’ Lyric: “Loving what you sing/And loving smoking weed/Weed, weed, weed, weed” But when Afroman’s problems get more and more serious - he goes from cutting class to losing his wife and kids - this song just becomes a buzzkill. At first, “Because I Got High” sounds like a fun, harmless joke about how smoking weed leads to unproductivity. Most Smokin’ Lyric: “I was gonna clean my room until I got high/ I gonna get up and find the broom but then I got high/My room is still messed up and I know why (Yeah, hey!)/ Because I got high, because I got high, because I got high.” Since it’s probably 4:20 somewhere, Billboard has put together a countdown of 25 tracks that talk about toking up, with each song including a “potency” level that measures their inebriated energy on a scale of one (mildly buzzed) to 10 (totally stoned). But now, as people wise up and draconian regulations about marijuana roll back, it’s safe in many states to roll one up and enjoy (responsibly, of course).Ī number of artists, from Willie Nelson (duh) to the Grateful Dead’s Mickey Hart to Jay-Z to Travis Barker, have gotten in the game, either endorsing or becoming owners (or partial owners) in various brands of THC and CBD, which you can read about here. Most of them, in fact, began singing or rapping about the ganja back when it was straight-up illegal in America. Whether it’s Dylan’s “Everybody must get stoned” double entendre or Wiz Khalifa boasting, “Roll joints bigger than King Kong’s fingers/ And smoke them hoes down until they’re stingers” on “Young, Wild & Free,” his collab with the doggfather of all stoners, Snoop Dogg, musicians have bravely fought cottonmouth and given voice to the sticky icky for decades. Marijuana has served as the inspiration for smoking cuts in rock, hip-hop, pop and (of course) reggae, and is still influencing more than a few of our biggest artists today. So when yuh see di S.P.It’s hard to imagine that Bob Dylan, Three 6 Mafia and Toby Keith have much in common, but all three artists understand the power of a knockout stoner track. Just gimme di trees and mek we smoke it yo (Smoke it yo) It don't mek we please so don't provoke it yo (Voke it yo) We nuh need nuh speed so we nuh gon coke it yo (Coke it yo) Set we mind at ease we gotta take it slow Studyin' people a use it don't abuse it Cau di concentration well reputed Dat's why herb man dem a di wise one And it found on di grave of King SolomonĪnd it good fi di eye sight and di chest sight And it give yuh nuff insight just gimme di light And, mek we blaze it we should a neva waste itĪgain, we be burnin' not concernin' what nobody wanna say We be earnin' dollars turnin' cau we mind deh pon we pay Some got gold and oil and diamonds all we got is Mary J Legalize it, time you recognize it When a farmer grows it he knows to close it Economical benefit help fi those who a fi Deh yah pon di hard jugglin' Cau di system only keep man strugglin' This purple haze it mek mi crazy Mek mi write new tune yeah dat's what pays me But I'm not di only occupation Goin' to get some I give yuh education When we a bun a weed we supportin' and promotin' Lau di crack and di coke ting yeah we soakin' Herb a di healin' of di nation Legalize it right now we wanna blaze oneĮveryday, we be burnin' not concernin' what nobody wanna say We be earnin' dollars turnin'g cau we mind deh pon we pay Some got gold and oil and diamonds all we got is Mary J Legalize it, time you recognize it floatin', don't provoke him Cau di weed weh we smokin' need fi soakin' Best ting fi di meditation And di best hygrade a Jamaican Just gimme di trees and mek we smoke it yo (Smoke it yo) It don't mek we please so don't provoke it yo (Voke it yo) We nuh need nuh speed so we nuh go coke it yo (Coke it yo) Set we mind at ease we gotta take it slow
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