We hate to be the bearers of bad news, but if you’re listening to Snoop Dogg and Wiz Khalifa to hear that “realness,” you’re asking for disappointment. “Deep Cover” 
was a long time ago, and much of Snoop Dogg’s time these days is on reality TV. Wiz Khalifa’s mixtape fodder still handles business, but Rolling Papers was chockfull of poppy tunes. The film that this disc is the soundtrack for, entitled Mac + Devin Go To High School, features each of them portraying weed-smoking teenagers, despite Snoop turning 40 years old this year. It’s clear that Snoop and Wiz are doing this to have fun—and if listeners can eschew any steep expectations based on earlier catalogs, they’ll have a good time as well.
The subject matter for Mac + Devin is predictably about weed, high school-themed topics, and more weed, but the execution separates it from other marijuana-fueled projects. Despite the duo corralling a diverse set of producers that includes the likes of Drumma Boy, Warren G, Jake One and Nottz, the backdrops all offer their own variation of the album’s vibe of a carefree smoking session. Snoop Dogg and Wiz Khalifa take an unabashedly style over substance approach, with their verses serving as breathy, melodic placeholders between the album’s silky soundbeds and catchy choruses. Before the experience gets too monotonous, it’s over—the album rounds out in less than 50 minutes.
Admittedly, Wiz and Snoop have made better music throughout the course of their careers, and they’re immensely more talented than they show here. They don’t offer any memorable lines, concepts or storylines, which is highlighted even more than Curren$y’s effortless balance of style and substance in his guest appearance on “OG.” But it was likely a good idea for the duo to stay in their lane with this album, because it falters when it tries to do more. The poppy Smeezingtons backdrop and Bruno Mars chorus of “Young, Wild & Free” confirms loyalists’ worst fears, and the sleep-inducing “World Class” comes across as the stock introspective song with its empty rhymes about morality and goals.
Aside from its two missteps, Snoop and Wiz’s Mac + Devin Go To High School is a surprisingly enjoyable listen. If hopes for their musical all-star years can be abandoned for their new places, this would fit right in with any easy listening rotation.
Shout out to my homie Gatt Mardner. We were doin Mac and Devin way before this!
wack lyrics and wack beats
wow, that rating is generous. As a 20-year Snoop Dogg fan, this album and whole concept is disgusting.
You used to be an artist, B.
You tell em mini me
Its good for what it is. This album is not supposed to be taken seriously, and i think Snoop and Wiz know this. Sorry haters, but i like this.
2 of the worst rappers on 1 album…
This album is dope, straight up. Nothing ground breaking, but they both did their thing.
Disagree on that World Class track, tho. That song is smooooth as fuck. best on the album thats full of great tracks.
shut up you lil fag devin is my SON!
And When that Young Wild and Free joint dropped way back at the beginning of 2011 on HHDX, its rating on here was 4.59. thats high as fuck. now that track gets shitted on by the haters and the “purists” for being too poppy, but in reality they just hate it cuz it got popular. fuckin wannabe hipsters
Your retarted. It was high at first cause only the hardcore fans heard it first and they fucx with it. When it got popular, everyone else, including real hip hop fans, heard it and hated it, and gave it a bad rating.
you arent right at all. why did only hardcore fans hear it first? it was posted on HHDX. it wasnt exclusive to Wiz fans. When the CD version dropped on here in October, 8 months after it originally leaked, it got a rating of 4.0. still solid.
fuck this, where’s the fucking movie??
classic cd
well definitely not the best,but still nice
shameful commercialism of Hip Hop.
garbage won’t listen to it again
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Snoop went from top 10 to garbage!
I think this is a cool lil cd to puff on some turkey bags with… This album is all bout fun. I mean Lyrically this isn’t like Redman spitting hot fire back in 96 or nothing but it’s a fun lil album. 4/5
It’s an easy album to play, and mildly enjoyable. But I don’t think I’ll be going back to it in a week.
Damn good album. I love world class.
snoop you re too old for school
Repetitive choruses, rhyming n-word with n-word one after another, or me with me over and over. Mediocre to say the best, the only song I would call good is “That Good” which I had already heard before this abomination came out, this album is another example of rap music gone wrong. If they aren’t rhymking the same words with themselves, then the words only sort of rhyme.
From Burn After Rolling and Deal or No Deal to this?? c’mon wiz. and i dont even know where to start with snoop. i’ll give it a 2.5 just because i like OG lol
Snoop is probably the worst rapper from the west now.
The days from: 187 and the chronic are gone.
Snoop became the joke from the westcoast.
Go make some movies or reality shit and leave rap alone Snoop.
Lets Go Snoop Dogg nd Wiz Khalifa!!!!
Its Taylor Gang or DIE.!!
Wiz Khalifa your so cute.!(: lets see you win.!
Ur name is Bob (which makes u a guy), and ur calling another dude cute. That’s a little fruity
wiz is corny look what that record deal did to him lol i almost cringed when i heard “so what if we get drunk” haha white girl music
boring album
I took this album on vaca and lemme tell u, ppl may think it’s repetitive or boring but it puts u in a good mood and f it if I doesn’t have much substance cuz when ur on the beach it’s all about relaxin. Dope ass album! TGOD bad bitches and cold drinks!
good
damn, all this nigga raps about is weed. smh kendrick lamar putting pressure on these boys that have nothing to rap about. Its always the same shit differnt song with this guy. Ever since wiz went mainstream hes been wack,.
ohh and these niggas aint in highschool anymor. time to grow up
so there is a good verse from spitta
#OG
i love snooooooop..classic album
good album. will be in the car for a while
Fuckin’ Chill! 3,5/5 resp. 3/5
this is a quality album. i think they came into the project looking to make good chillin music not craft a masterpeice. and thats what it is, all love
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fuck your the best
i love this song
wiz khalifa dha best this your boy from baton rouge careeracademy
Man Wiz is so wack…..so his album is literally all about stacking chips and smokin weed with no clever punchlines/metaphors whatsoever, and generic pop choruses…and then this Mac and Devin album with Snoop, since they’re in “high school” cut out the money lyrics, and just write a whole album about smokin weed….Snoop cmon your better than Wiz stay away from him…absolutely no inspiration from Wiz whatsoever
Dude it’s a soundtrack album to a weed movie, you really think it’s gonna have metaphors and punchlines? You sound dumb
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