

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. 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.
