With 1999’s “Fuck You,” off Dre’s 2001, Devin earned himself same major cross-market exposure and cemented a relationship with Snoop Dogg that reappeared all those years later in the form of “What a Job.” The two had worked together over the course of the early ’00s, but never before on any of Devin’s solo works. Finally, he arrived as a solo act with 1998’s The Dude, and by the time the 20th century had ended, he had landed some major features alongside West Coast big leaguers like Too $hort and Dr. By the time his André 3000 and Snoop Dogg-assisted “What a Job” dropped in 2007, the artist born Devin Copeland had already been signed to H-Town’s notorious Rap-A-Lot Records since the ’90s first, as a member of the Odd Squad duo and then the Scarface-helmed Facemob. The LP’s title was a perfect combination of the Houston, Texas rapper’s lyrical cheekiness and appreciation for cannabis and all of its properties, medicinal and otherwise. Nearly a decade after going solo, Devin the Dude released his fourth studio album, Waitin’ to Inhale.

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