Snoop Dogg's 'Last Dance' Is Cannabis Cinema At Its Weirdest—And There's A Funkadelic 'Dad Rock' Counterpart

On 4/20, while most were lighting up, Snoop Dogg dropped a trip—visually speaking.

Directed by Dave Meyers and produced by Psyop in collaboration with Temple Caché, the music video for “Last Dance with Mary Jane“—Snoop's cannabis-laced reimagining of the Tom Petty classic—takes viewers on a mind-bending ride through the rapper's life, inner cities and stoner dreams. The track, from Snoop's “Missionary” album, released last year via Death Row, Aftermath and Interscope, features Jelly Roll, cameos by B-Real, Method Man, Redman, Wiz Khalifa and even visual nods to Bob Marley, Tupac and Tom Petty himself.

This isn't your typical hip-hop video; it's a genre-smashing blend of handcrafted animation and generative AI, layered across a semi-autobiographical storyline about Snoop's lifelong relationship with cannabis and the justice issues it invokes.

"Being able to partner with Dre, Snoop and Dave to create a visual style that hasn't been done is exactly the type of project we live for," said Joe Maggiore of Psyop.

The visuals? Insane. Think 2D, 3D, collage, motion design and surreal AI landscapes. But it's not AI doing the storytelling—every frame was touched by human hands, ensuring emotional nuance and a narrative throughline. "Storytelling requires nuance," said Psyop's Andrew Linsk, explaining why AI alone couldn't carry the vision.

The end result is both a love letter to cannabis and a statement on America—its cities, its culture, its contradictions.

Meanwhile… Jet Black Roses Go Full Funkadelic

If Snoop's video is a lucid dream, Jet Black Roses' new single is a fever-drenched backyard boogie. Its latest track, “Psychoboogie Hoochiecoo,” arrives with a brain-melting video by Steffan Heil (of Adult Swim fame) and production by Greg Archilla (Neil Young, Collective Soul, Matchbox Twenty).

No AI. No autotune. Just brass, groove and sweat.

MusicRow nailed it: "Funky, horn-punctuated Southern rock with some built-in grease."

The band describes itself as the “Coolest Dad Rock Band in America,” but that barely scratches it. Picture the swagger of Little Feat, the freak of Funkadelic and the slink of The Meters—wrapped in Jet Black Roses' Louisiana-born harmonies and storytelling.

It’s shared stages with Styx, Sammy Hagar and Collective Soul. It’s not riding genre trends. It’s playing from the gut—and it shows.

It’s 2025 is just getting started.

Lead image courtesy of Psyop