Snoop Dogg, Jelly Roll Sample Tom Petty From ‘Last Dance With Mary Jane’

“Last Dance with Mary Jane,” which flips Petty’s “Mary Jane’s Last Dance,” appears on the rapper’s new album Missionary

Snoop Dogghas a new album today, it is produced primarily by Dr. Dr — marking their first full collaboration since then Doggy style — and you better believe it has a central song about weed. One who presents Jelly Roll and even samples Tom Petty.

“Last Dance with Mary Jane” borrows its hook and title from Petty’s 1993 song of the same name (“Mary Jane’s Last Dance”). This gives the track a rootsy vibe as Snoop reflects on his lifelong relationship with weed, dating back to his first puff around the age of five (“It was love at first light, I fell in love at first night/My uncle told me take your time, this could be your first passion”).

Where Snoop is contemplative and sometimes playful, Jelly Roll is characteristically grave and solemn, going the “Mary Jane ain’t no weed I smoke, but a woman who broke my heart” route — though not without some (obligations contractual, we assume) metaphors of weeds. “It’s so unfair what she did to me,” he opines at one point, “how it sparked this epiphany.”

(Snoop and Jelly Roll previewed “Last Dance With Mary Jane” a few weeks agowith the rapper appearing on the Nashville stop of the country star’s Beautifully Broken tour.)

“Mary Jane’s Last Dance” is one of the few classic songs to be covered on Snoop’s new album, Missionary. “Hard Knocks” boasts excerpts from Pink Floyd’s “Another Brick in the Wall (Part 2)”; “Thank You” covers Sly and the Family Stone’s “Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Again)”; and “Another part of me” is a reinvention of the classic cop “Message In a Bottle”, with Sting re-recording the guitar line and providing new vocals.

Missionary it also boasts a host of special guests. Along with Jelly Roll and Sting, it features lyrics from Dr. Dre, Eminem, 50 Cent, BJ the Chicago Kid, Method Man, Smitty, KAAN and Jhené Aiko.