Snoop Dogg’s mind-bending music video for “Last Dance with Mary Jane,” his 2025 collaboration with Jelly Roll, seems less like one last dance with Mary Jane and more like many, many dances with the wackiest and most potent strains of Mary Jane imaginable.
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With a recognizable hook from Tom Petty’s classic 1993 track and plenty of psychedelic imagery and sequences that will make you feel like you just smoked a joint the size of the one Snoop Dogg hands to Jelly Roll at the end of the video, it’s a must-watch, if only for the sheer experience.
Indeed, whether you spark up or not, this one is a dank doozy.
Snoop Dogg’s Video For “Last Dance with Mary Jane” Brings Lost Icons Back From The Dead
The music video for Snoop Dogg, Dr. Dre, and Jelly Roll’s 2025 track, “Last Dance with Mary Jane,” begins with the unthinkable: Snoop Dogg sitting in a doctor’s office (where the practicing physician is Dr. Dre, obviously), receiving the news that he has to quit smoking marijuana or else he’ll die. What follows is what we can only describe as a weed smoker’s dream—or nightmare, depending on how you feel about crazed, sharp-toothed pigs with bat wings or an animated young Snoop Dogg dancing inside the blood vessels of his eyeballs.
The music video features several icons we’ve lost to assassinations and drug overdoses over the years, including Bob Marley, Tupac Shakur, and the man behind the hook’s sample: Tom Petty. The “Mary Jane’s Last Dance” songwriter first appears in a cannabis field, clad in dark sunglasses and a lavender ascot, singing and playing guitar while Marley smokes a joint in the foreground. A couple of minutes later, a claymation Snoop Dogg lies in a coffin full of marijuana buds as a smoking Shakur looks on as he sits cross-legged on a pedestal, smoking, naturally.
If you thought it couldn’t get stranger, well, whatever you’re smoking must be pretty strong stuff. When the song transitions to Jelly Roll’s verse, we find him towering over a prison yard, assembling slightly bigger versions of himself like a Russian nesting doll before rolling into a cannonball and busting through the prison’s cement perimeter. An eight-armed Jelly Roll rides a marijuana nugget through space, as does Heartbreakers frontman Petty. At one point, Snoop Dogg attempts to marry a half-woman, half-marijuana plant creature before a steampunk-esque villain sucks her up into some sort of greenhouse backpack. We told you, strange doesn’t quite begin to cover it.
Tom Petty Foreshadowed The 420-Friendly Collab Years Ago
Before any Tom Petty purists get their joints bent out of shape over the rap-rock crossover, you might be surprised to know that the Heartbreakers frontman behind the original track, “Mary Jane’s Last Dance,” already suggested the psychedelic collaboration. In the 2017 documentary about Dr. Dre and producer Jimmy Iovine, The Defiant Ones, Petty mused, “I tell you, the day Dre does a version of “Mary Jane’s Last Dance,” he’s gonna have a big hit. That one’s just waiting to explode. But you need somebody like Dre to do it.”
Sadly, Petty died three months after the release of The Defiant Ones, so he never got to see Dr. Dre’s version come to life. However, Petty’s estate sent the iconic producer the stems from Petty’s 1993 original, which allowed Dr. Dre to include Petty’s distinct vocals and harmonica in the 2025 track’s hook. While there’s obviously no way of knowing what Petty might have thought about the music video, we can’t help but think it would have given him a good laugh to see his off-hand comments about Dr. Dre being actualized in such a surreal, stoner-y way.
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