The soundtrack to their
Cheech & Chong-like feature film,
Mac and Devin Go to High School finds
Snoop Dogg and
Wiz Khalifa in glorious stoner mode, offering plenty of blunt anthems and smokers delights. Production-wise, the album is split evenly between booming, G-Funk nostalgia (prime cut “I Get Lifted” features a slow, rolling,
Warren G beat) and more contemporary,
Wiz-friendly sounds (lead single “Young, Wild & Free” is polished, bright, sunshine material crafted by
Bruno Mars and his crew,
the Smeezingtons). Highly desirable names like
Jake One, Drumma Boy, Exile, and
Nottz fill the rest of the production credits, and while the material is light and redundant, anyone with a little hip-hop schooling should be prepared, and rightly assume, this is much more
How High than
Blackout! Snoop and
Wiz offer a flashy, multi-generational alternative to
Method and
Red, and bouncing between their styles keeps this single-minded effort from being a bore. The target audience should think of it as a bag marked “regs” that comes with no organic flavor or transcendent buzz, but is easy to roll and surprisingly dank. ~ David Jeffries