Fúmate ese Churro: Top 10 Stoner Songs

10. “MaríaJuana”
by Zaturno ft. Hermanos Bernal
[Chile]

Chile’s MC Zaturno has always been very open about his unconditional love for this lady, María Juana.

Since his times with the pioneer rapping trio Tiro de Gracia and even before that, when he was the first partner in rhyme of the now-world-famous Ana Tijoux (back then still Anita), Zaturno hasn’t wasted any chance he had in front of a mic to make clear statements about this love he publicly professed.

But this one here has to be, by far, the most explicit of his love letters to said lady. A real pot-smoking anthem.-JD

09. “Grifos Everyday”
by Kartel de las Calles (KDC)
[Mexico]

Originally from the streets of East LA, Pelygro and Kartel de las Calles (aka K.D.C.) formed over a decade ago in Tijuana, where the crew made it their base, gang banging, throwing up some hood, rapping, and, of course, smokin’ that herb.

“Grifos Everyday” expresses their gangster lifestyle of being high all the time, a nice li’l rhyme over a solid reggae beat. Here, they rap about buying a toston and blazing too much to the point of feeling numb, so the guys move on to smoking some hashish and chronic from a bong filled with beer and rolled with bible paper to balance things out with a bag of tostilocos.-IR

08. “El Humo de este Fasito”
by Damas Gratis
[Argentina]

Back in the early 2000’s, Damas Gratis revolutionized Argentina’s music industry by successfully introducing a gangsta version of cumbia that was labeled cumbia villera. One of the distinguishing characteristics of this sub-genre was the inclination to talk openly about the consumption of marihuana (amongst many other illegal substances).

Damas Gratis‘ leader Pablo Lescano made references to his favorite plant in many of their songs, but this is probably the most famous one. Fasito (diminutive for faso) is Argentine slang for joint and in the song’s chorus Lescano says to his ex-girlfriend “I’m not sad, I’m not crying for you, it’s the smoke of this joint that makes me cry,” classy. -JD

07. “Ganjah en mi habitación”
by Zona Ganjah
[Chile]

There’s no denying that the folks from Chile-based dancehall/reggae band Zona Ganjah love smoking that herb, hence naming their entire musical efforts in the sake of that buddha. Migrating to Argentina, Zona Gangah found a home and musical base in Argentina’s Rastafarian music scene with other reggae en español contemporaries like Alika, Resistencia Urbanba, Fidel Nadal among others.

Among many of their songs that pay tribute to weed, “Ganjah en mi habitación” or ganjah in my house, pretty much says, hey, I smoke to praise Jah, to elevate my consciousness, and to be ONE with the universe. Jah Rastafari!-IR

06. “Poquito a Poco”
by Estopa
[Spain]

The brothers Muñoz made a lot of noise in Spain, back in 1999, with their self-titled debut album as Estopa. Mainly because of their explicit lyrics about themes not commonly touched by the flamenco rumba genre.

Out of that first self-titled album came this one song about passing the joint around.

“Let me smoke because I feel lonely, let me smoke because I don’t wanna be sad” says the chorus, and later on to make it official (so you don’t mistakenly think that they’re talking about any other kind of smoking) Estopa changes the line “poquito a poco” of the title for “porro a porro” (joint by joint).-JD

05. “Loco”
by Andres Calamaro
[Argentina]

This video makes it to the list for its questionable queso factor; the peculiar aquatic dancing women, the slow-mo trailing movements throughout the video, and of course, because Andres Calamaro sings about relaxing while smoking a porrito.

It’s well known the pop rock Argentine megastar loves to get high, especially with other songs like “Sin Chocolate” and “Aquí no podemos hacerlo” (no folks, not the sexual act…or maybe?), among a few others. Oh, and let’s not forget about his 1988 album, Live en Ayacucho, that has a huge bud plant on the cover. The dude did it before Dr. Dre released The Chronic in 1992. Calamaro definitely deserves that credit.-IR

04. “Toda la Semana”
by Más Graves
[Spain]

“I smoke weed every day of the week,” repeats this hypnotic slow-moving instant classic by rap en español pioneers Supernafamacho and Jotamayúscula, collectively known as the Más Graves production team. Both are widely recognized in Spain as part of the legendary rap crew El Club De Los Poetas Violentos (or CPV), for putting Madrid in the world map of hip-hop almost 20 years ago.

This side of the Atlantic, however, they’re mainly known for their involvement on La Mala Rodríguez first couple of albums as producer and DJ (and allegedly boyfriend, in the case of the first one). No doubt, weed smoking was heavily influential on the beat production of these two, hence it makes sense that it’s their song that talks most explicitly about weed the one that gets the most plays from their 2008 album Sonido Campeón.-JD

03. “Marihuana Boogie”
by Manu Chao
[Spain/France]

I’ll confess, I may be a bit too bias when it comes to Mr. Chao, lauding about every move the man makes. But hey, the multilingual singer-songwriter not only composed some of the most gorgeous songs of the face of this planet, but his covers are pretty dope too. Yah, and we all know that Chao has mad respect for the ways of mother nature, and its natural herbs.

“Marihuana Boogie” was first composed by the zoot suit father of Chicano music, Lalo Guerrero (listen to it HERE). And even though Manu Chao’s version wasn’t an official studio song release, he graced us with that good ol’ “Marihuana Boogie” in many of his live performances and in this nice l’il cover adding his own original lyrics, and of course leaving that classic chorus as is — with the exception of slowing down the tempo to a slower and groovier pace, just like smoking the right amount of weed.-IR

02. “Pussy Marijuana Cumbow”
by El Dusty (aka DJ Dus)
[US]

New York’s Brazilian Girls recorded this song in their outstanding self-titled debut album back in 2005.

More recently an unknown West Coast rapper by the name of David Sebastian sampled it and made it into his chorus. But the version we’re the most interested in is this remix done by our Texan friend DJ Dus, also known as EL Dusty who basically just lined up the original song over a cumbow beat for this respectful remix released late last year on 7” vinyl by BSTRD Boots.-JD

PUSSY MARIJUANA CUMBOW by djdus

01. “Método de Relajación”
by Kiño ft. Drazz
[Colombia]

Okay, I actually just learned about these artists, but whoa, I’m glad I got to see the light behind that thick cloud of smoke. Rappers Kiño and Drazz not only draw influences from some of the worlds most famous stoner hip hop artists (e.g. Dr. Dre, Snoop, NWA, The Roots, Beastie Boys, etc.), but bring a unique brand of rhyming about Colombia’s buzzed moments of high laughter in a skilled and very humorous way.

The video for “Método de Relajación” is pretty hilarious and damn entertaining. Apparently there was a thing where Colombian supermodels, actresses and other, I’d say ‘air-headed’ beauts, claimed to speak el inglés, pero con muchas barreras.

Also today, Kiño premiers a special 4/20 video for all you lovely tokers, so keep an eye out for this video on his Facebook page, and in the meantime, have a few hits and some laughs with our number one stoner song below. They said it the best, Ay que reír un poco más.-IR

Tell us which bud-smoking ditty you like the most, if or if not on this list, below!