When did weed become a part of hip-hop?

[Gothen]

weeds been a major influence of all music throughout the years. from back when jazz players were huge.
as for pinpointing it in hip hop, id say thats pretty tough. like i said before, weeds always been a major part of music, and it was deffinately referred to in many songs before hip hop was even a genre.

Bingo, some documentaries (both about drugs and not) say that mostly the influence of weed in the African American music culture started all the way back in the early 1910's and 1920's with the Harlem Renaissance.

A lot of musicians started smoking muggles, or joints, and since then...well...it just seems like weed has been an integral part of the arts, whether musical or what have you.