"Sweet Leaf" is a song by English heavy metal band Black Sabbath from their third studio album Master of Reality, released in August, 1971.
[6] The song begins with a tape loop of guitarist Tony Iommi coughing from a joint he was smoking with bandmate Ozzy Osbourne.
"Sweet Leaf", and the Master of Reality album as a whole, arguably represents the earliest example of the music that would influence the emergence of stoner rock in California in the early 1990s.
[9][deprecated source] A compilation album, also titled Sweet Leaf, comprising covers of Black Sabbath songs by stoner rock bands, was released by Deadline Music in 2015.
[10] The main guitar riff, paired with a loop of a drum sample from Led Zeppelin's "When the Levee Breaks",[11] is the instrumental basis of the Beastie Boys' song "Rhymin & Stealin", the first track on their 1986 debut album Licensed to Ill.[12] The Butthole Surfers reworked the song as "Sweat Loaf" on Locust Abortion Technician.