Music·Posted on Sep 26, 201217 Hits That Are Not-So-Secretly About DrugsMusicians have been trying to sneak references to getting high into their songs for years. Here are some very famous examples. What did we miss?by Matthew PerpetuaBuzzFeed StaffLinkFacebookPinterestTwitterMail 1. Ella Fitzgerald, "Wacky Dust" [1938] View this video on YouTube youtube.com There is some chance that this song about cocaine was subtle at the time, but...probably not? 2. Peter, Paul and Mary, "Puff The Magic Dragon" [1966] View this video on YouTube youtube.com These folkies managed to score a hit children's song about smoking weed in the mid-Sixties. Good work! 3. The Rolling Stones, "Mother's Little Helper" [1966] View this video on YouTube youtube.com The Stones have a bunch of songs about heroin – apparently "Jumpin' Jack Flash" was slang for a method of injecting heroin into one's tear ducts!" – but this one is about a bored housewife who gets hooked on barbiturates. 4. The Beatles, "Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds" [1967] View this video on YouTube youtube.com I hope I'm not blowing your mind or anything, but this is a song about LSD. 5. Jefferson Airplane, "White Rabbit" [1967] View this video on YouTube youtube.com The lyrics reference Lewis Carroll's Alice In Wonderland, but it's really about tripping on LSD and/or shrooms. 6. Jimi Hendrix Experience, "Purple Haze" [1967] View this video on YouTube youtube.com It's about LSD, which once came in the form of purple capsules. 7. Black Sabbath, "Sweet Leaf" [1971] View this video on YouTube youtube.com Ozzy was never good with subtlety: This is obviously a song about smoking weed. 8. Steve Miller Band, "The Joker" [1973] View this video on YouTube youtube.com If the "midnight toker" line didn't tip you off, this is a song about weed, a drug that will convince you that there is such a thing as "The Pompatus of Love." 9. Lionel Richie, "Dancing On The Ceiling" [1986] View this video on YouTube youtube.com A lot of hit songs from the Eighties were in some way influenced by cocaine; this one is widely believed to be about getting coked up. 10. Mötley Crüe, "Dr. Feelgood" [1989] View this video on YouTube youtube.com Here's a mind-blower for you: Dr. Feelgood is a drug dealer! 11. Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, "Last Dance With Mary Jane" [1993] View this video on YouTube youtube.com The "Mary Jane" that's killing Tom Petty's pain is, duh, marijuana. 12. Oasis, "Cigarettes and Alcohol" [1994] View this video on YouTube youtube.com Cigarettes and alcohol are considered drugs, sure, but this is here mainly for the not-too-subtle reference to cocaine when Liam sings "you might as well do the white line." 13. Third Eye Blind, "Semi-Charmed Life" [1997] View this video on YouTube youtube.com This may sound like pure bubblegum, but the lyrics are about a crystal meth addict. 14. Three 6 Mafia featuring UGK and Project Pat, "Sippin' On Some Syrup" [2000] View this video on YouTube youtube.com There's a lot of rap songs about purple drank; this was the first to break through to the mainstream. 15. Chamilionaire, "Ridin'" [2006] View this video on YouTube youtube.com This one is about getting busted for driving under the influence. 16. Rihanna, "We Found Love" [2011] View this video on YouTube youtube.com "Yellow diamonds in the light" comes off as poetic imagery, maybe, but it's a reference to Ecstasy. 17. Kanye West, "Mercy" [2012] View this video on YouTube youtube.com "Somethin' bout Mary, she gone off that Molly / Now the whole party is meltin' like Dali." Hip-hop is overflowing with songs about MDMA right now, this is just a very high-profile example.