“Smoke Two Joints” by Sublime

"Smoke Two Joints" turns up on 40 oz. to Freedom, Sublime's 1992 album, but the song started out somewhere else: the Toyes wrote it and cut it as straight-ahead reggae in 1983, with the songwriting credit going to Chris Kay and Michael Kay. The Toyes' own account places its birth on Oahu, with two of the band, Mawg and Sky, sitting under a big banyan tree on Kuhio Beach, smoking and jamming.

Sublime keep the loose, lazy reggae roll and the grin that comes with it; this is a song about exactly what it says. It's often credited to Bob Marley online, which can't be right: Marley had been dead two years by the time it was written.

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