Every 4/20 needs a soundtrack, and hip-hop has been supplying the canon for thirty years. These are the ten records that own the session.
Session music is its own genre: tempos that drop the room’s blood pressure, basslines that feel like furniture, and vocals smooth enough to think to. The countdown gets into why these particular records hold the vibe down.
From the West Coast architects who made an entire subgenre out of the haze to the modern stoner classics, we run the essential ten — the songs that turn a regular evening into a ritual.
The right record at the right moment is the whole art. Queue the list in order and let it run — sequencing matters, and we sequenced it for you.
“Basslines that feel like furniture and vocals smooth enough to think to.”
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