Jane Handcock Made a Weed Anthem in 2021 — And It's Still a Stoners Banger

Before "Stingy" introduced her to a wider audience, the First Lady of Death Row Records dropped a one-of-a-kind ode to getting high. Four years later, the message still holds up.

In 2021, Snoop Dogg handed the mic to Jane Handcock for a compilation called Snoop Dogg Presents: The Algorithm — his mission-statement album about putting feeling back into music. Buried in the tracklist was "Like My Weed," a song that never chased a chart position and didn't need to. It's stayed in rotation for anyone who found it since, and it holds up in a way a lot of 2021 rap didn't.

The song is simple on its face: Handcock likes her weed in the morning, and she says so, repeatedly, unapologetically. But the writing is where it earns its keep. She raps about being so high she left her wallet and lighter behind in El Segundo, and she tips her hat to A Tribe Called Quest's very first single along the way — a small detail that signals she knows exactly where she sits in hip-hop's lineage, even on a song this loose.

That lineage matters more than it might seem. Handcock isn't just a Death Row artist — she's a ghostwriter with credits across the industry, having written for names like Kelly Rowland, Rick Ross, Teddy Riley, and Tyrese, alongside her own catalog of overlooked gems. "Like My Weed" is one of the rare Handcock songs where she's fully in the frame, voice and personality both, rather than working in service of someone else's.

It's also a song that's aged into relevance rather than out of it. Cannabis culture in 2021 was already mainstream, but the specific image "Like My Weed" traffics in — a Black woman openly, casually enjoying weed as self-care rather than rebellion — still isn't a message pop culture makes room for often enough. The war on drugs didn't affect everyone equally, and the normalization era hasn't fully caught up with who gets to be casual about getting high on record. Handcock's version of that casualness is worth holding onto.

Four years on, "Stingy" is the song most people found her through. But "Like My Weed" is the one that shows her range — an artist who can write velvety soul confessionals and a stoner anthem with equal command, and make both sound completely her own.

Sources:

1. uDiscover Music — "Snoop Dogg Presents Jane Handcock And Her New Single, 'Like My Weed'" — https://www.udiscovermusic.com/news/snoo-dogg-the-algorithm-jane-handcock-like-my-weed/
2. West Coast Styles — "Jane Handcock Drops Official Video For 'Like My Weed'" — https://westcoaststyles.com/news/2021/11/jane-handcock-drops-official-video-for-like-my-weed/
3. Apple Music — "Like My Weed" — https://music.apple.com/us/song/like-my-weed/1599378498
4. Pot TV — "Jane Handcock – Like My Weed" — https://pot.tv/video/2021/12/22/jane-handcock-like-my-weed/
5. YouTube (Official Video) — "Jane Handcock – Like My Weed (Official Video)" — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2I1X4o7m0g

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