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Sublime has unveiled the first-ever official music video for “Smoke Two Joints,” the stoner classic from their immortal 1992 debut LP 40 Oz. to Freedom. Directed by Scott Felix, the video follows the care-free morning, afternoon and night journey of a young skater (played by Maleah Goldeberg) as she cruises through 90’s Long Beach with a posse of fellow skaters which features OG Sublime friends DJ Product 1969 and The Dagger Crew. The video also features a special appearance of Sublime’s original touring van in all its glory.
Sublime found their niche at house parties: uniting Rastas, surfers, skaters, frat boys, cholos and ink-covered outcasts with a free-flowing melting pot approach that, much like the region itself, was impossible to pigeonhole.
This video for “Smoke Two Joints” was produced by Miranda Pacheco and executive-produced by Surfdog/DKM, Leonard Williams, Dane Morck, and the Sunflower Pictures. Shane Paul McGhie plays Dr. Toby; Cyrus Hobbi plays Security Guard Denton; Doug Kampner and Tricia Cruz play her scolding mom and dad.
Earlier this year, Sublime also launched their official cannabis line Refeers by Sublime with its first available offering, a Smoke Two Joints two-pack of curated cannabis pre-rolls, exclusively available now at select Southern California licensed retail dispensaries including 420 Central in Santa Ana & Costa Mesa.
Sublime took this novelty song from an obscure Oregon jam-reggae group, The Toyes, and turned it into a stoner anthem. The turntable cuts juxtapose Beyond the Valley of the Dolls reefer madness propaganda with a sampledelic scratched hook supplied by Eazy-E. And this dropped in ’92, far before the legion of DJ Premier imitators made the sound the boom-bap default. Apart from the Beastie Boys and the Red Hot Chili Peppers (whose Freaky Styley was a fundamental influence), few others had yet synthesized hip hop into guitar music so artfully.
Sublime’s double Platinum selling 40 Oz. to Freedom belonged to Long Beach, to Los Angeles, to California. It invents its own wild dialect with a shaggy genius often lost in translation, a series of obscene surprises, soundtracking a house party that never ends, always in danger of getting busted up.
