Hip Hop Slang for Marijuana: A Comprehensive List of Urban Weed Terms

When it comes to slang for marijuana, nobody has more weed terms than Hip Hop culture. From the gritty street corners to platinum celebrity rap bars, weed slang has evolved into a full-blown dialect—creative, coded, and always on point. Whether you’re talking about rolling up some loud, puffin’ a joint, or blazing up some herb, this guide breaks down the real terms used in Hip Hop to describe cannabis in all its forms. Let’s get into the lingo.

Hip Hop Slang for Marijuana / Weed Slang:

• 420 (a number that represents marijuana)

• Aunt Mary

• Blaze (to smoke)

• Blunt (cigar hollowed out and filled)

• Boom

• Bud

• Buddha

• Cabbage

• Cheeba

• Chronic (popularized in the US West Coast)

• Dab (concentrated form, vaporized)

• Dank

• Devil’s Lettuce

• Doobie (another word for a "joint")

• Dope

• Drugs

• Flower (refers to the cannabis bud itself)

• Ganja

• Gas (high-quality, potent weed)

• Grass

• Green

• Hash (usually resin or concentrate)

• Hashish (resin)

• Herb (common in Caribbean and African American communities)

• Huff (low grade marijuana)

• Hydro (usually refers to really quality marijuana - grown hydroponically)

• I-Grade (high grade marijuana)

• Jazz Cabbage

• Jazz Cigarette

• Joint (rolled cigarette)

• Kali

• Kaya (Jamaican)

• Kief (crystals from cannabis flowers)

• Lady Mary

• Lettuce

• Lobo (short for "lobster")

• Lobster (refers to the shape and reddish color of marijuana pistols)

• Loud

• Loud Pack (large amount or very strong)

• Man Down (very strong)

• Marijuana

• Mary

• Mary Jane

• Mids (medium grade marijuana)

• Muggles

• Nana (slang in some parts of the UK)

• Nug/Nugget

• Oil (cannabis extract)

• Pot

• Reefer

• Reggie (low grade marijuana)

• Sensimilla

• Shatter (type of concentrate)

• Sinse (short for sinsemilla)

• Sinsemilla (seedless, high-quality)

• Skunk

• Smoke (can refer to both weed and the act of smoking)

• Spliff

• Spinach

• Sticky Icky

• That Oowee (strong weed)

• Trees

• Wax (concentrated form)

• Weed

• Zaza (as in exotic)