Product Reviews
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, Rovi
Product Notes
Original soundtrack to the motion picture starring rappers Snoop Dogg and Wiz Khalifa. Valedictorian hopeful, Devin Overstreet (Wiz Khalifa) struggles to pen his graduation speech when it becomes clear that all his academic overachievements have left him with little to no life experiences. He finds an unlikely inspiration in Mac Johnson, (Snoop Dogg) the least achieving student on campus. Mac, a 10-year senior and consummate ladies man, is smitten by the school's new substitute chemistry teacher. He soon realizes that the only way he'll truly have a chance with her is if he finally graduates high school. In 3 weeks time, Mac must cram four years of high school academics, and Devin must cram four years of teenage experience.