10 of Hip-Hop’s Greatest Stoner Rap Acts
The tightly rolled relationship between hip-hop and marijuana has blessed us with too many dope tracks to name. Music and puffable medicine go way back, but no genre has embraced stoner culture quite like rap.
Countless MCs have named entire albums in honor of the bud or conducted their shows with a microphone in one and a blunt in the other. Some have even given themselves cannabis-inspired aliases. And several—most recently Kodak Black—have been caught green-handed with baggies.
Now, a few rap artists are elevating their fondness for weed beyond verses and into business, launching their own strains of the stuff as its legalization is sweeping the nation.
In celebration of 4/20—Christmas for stoners—XXL looks at two handfuls of rap stars who have become synonymous with the ganja. We got 10 on it. —Luke Fox
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