Snoop and Wiz Khalifa's 'Young, Wild and Free': Why This Song Sucks

Snoop and Wiz Khalifa's "Young, Wild and Free": Why This Song Sucks

By Shea Serrano Wed., Jan. 4 2012 at 5:30 AM

[Editor's note: Why This Song Sucks determines why particular tracks blow using science. It appears on West Coast Sound every Wednesday.]

Song: Snoop and Wiz Khalifa's "Young, Wild and Free"

History: "Young, Wild and Free" is a Snoop Dogg and Wiz Khalifa collaboration. (I know, I know). It is the first single from Mac and Devin Go To High School, the soundtrack to their upcoming movie where they will both, for certain, win Oscars*.

*No joke, in the movie Snoop plays a 15-year high school student. How does that not snag him a statue?

Atmospherics: Sounds like the inside of a cloud (smoke or otherwise); sounds like a celebration; sounds like somebody's idea of what some teenagers who smoke pot would like*; sounds like Mac Miller told Wiz he didn't want to do this song and the A&Rs panicked and were like, "Shit, shit, shit. Who can we get to fill in for Mac? Who is supposed to be a guy that people associate with smoking weed? Snoop, right? Is he still alive? Shit, shit, shit. IS HE STILL ALIVE?! DOES ANYONE HAVE SNOOP'S NUMBER?!"

*Marketing anything towards pot smoking teenagers, particularly songs and movies about the teenager pot smoking experience, is pretty much the easiest job of all time. It's like trying to sell snacky cakes to fat kids or ignorance to people that watch Kourtney & Kim take New York. They don't just WANT that shit, they actively pursue it.

Snoop and Wiz, apparently engaged in a vicious game of Who Can Look More Sickly?

Scientific Analysis: You just CANNOTCANNOTCANNOT have a song where the premise is that its protagonists are young, wild and free if the protagonists are not, in fact, young, wild and free.

Khalifa can almost pass. He's young enough (24). And I suppose he's at least a tad wild -- how else to explain him dating Amber Rose. And, technically, he's free (we'll ignore the existential shackling and subsequent dampening of man's soul that comes with tampering with Kanye's ex. But Snoop? C'mon.

Tags:

Snoop Dogg, Wiz Khalifa

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Banes Train

This article is near perfect. You pretty much hit the nail on the head.

and to all of you other high-pitched little shits

grow the fuck up.

Tonybking

Listen to the song people.. by no means should you judge it on this (obviously) extremely biased critic. The song's actually nice.. and after it's a hit.. yall should all get on here and let LA weekly know why this blogger sucks

GMP3BD

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Jbmora55

You really wrote all that? Haha hating to the max

Maryaroz

The idea is kind of funny...but this article is lame, sorry

TGOD;)

All we can say, haters gon' hate ;)

Ryan

Better than your last effort, but you stretch the Pepsi joke into a whole conceit past the single line that it warrants. Also, the graphics are consistently painful. Not because they're lo-fi, that's kind of endearing. They just aren't that funny. The candy bar anecdote is good though. Write what you know, BRO.