"Ashtrays and Heartbreaks" premiered on Major Lazer's SoundCloud account on April 3, 2013.

The song is performed by Snoop Dogg (under the name Snoop Lion) as a lead artist and Miley Cyrus as a featured artist, and produced by Major Lazer, Ariel Rechtshaid, and Dre Skull.

[1] The following day, the track was released as a digital single on iTunes by Berhane Sound System.

A lyric video was uploaded to Snoop's Vevo channel on YouTube.

[4][5] The video was filmed in April, 2013 by director P. R. Brown and premiered on Snoop Lion's Vevo on May 30, 2013.