Two of hip-hop’s most committed blunt enthusiasts team up on this laid-back celebration of smoked-out good times, packing more weed references into three minutes than you might think possible. This is a serious joint, in every sense of the word.
At first glance it might seem odd that Snoop, a man who recently celebrated his 40th birthday, would put his name to a song called ‘Young, Wild & Free’. However, once you give the track a spin, it’s clear that age has not dimmed his timelessly liquid flow. Upstart Wiz Khalifa matches his idol with some impressively smooth verses of his own, while Bruno Mars’ contribution provides the cherry on an already pretty sweet cake.
‘Young, Wild & Free’ is taster for the soundtrack to the movie ‘Mac and Devin Go to High School’, in which the duo also star. In addition to the single, Snoop and Wiz provide the bulk of the music for the Dylan Brown-directed stoner comedy. Joining Bruno Mars on collaboration duties are artists like Curren$y and Mike Posner
The younger MC is clearly excited about his team up with one of the legends of hip-hop. “It’s a real big deal because nobody’s done it like that as far as a veteran in the game, an OG, a pioneer and then the newest, youngest, most exciting dude in rap coming through and really just giving people a complete project,” Wiz told MTV. “I’m a fan of it, separate myself from making it, [I'm] a huge fan of it. Can’t wait.”
After moving from his native Hawaii to L.A. in search of fame and fortune Peter ‘Bruno Mars’ Hernandez spent a year or so behind the scenes as a song-writer and rapidly became known as a one man hit factory. The fruits of which include writing credits on Flo’ Rida’s ‘Right Round’, Cee-Lo Green’s ‘F**k You’ plus co-writing and singing spots on B.O.B’s ‘Nothing On You’ and Travie McCoy’s ‘Billionaire’.
Somehow he also managed to find a few spare moments to squeeze in writing his own album; the first single being the super smooth number one smash, ‘Just The Way You Are’. The second single from his ‘Doo-Wops and Hooligans’ album was ‘Grenade’, an explosive torch song in which Mars uses his crystal clear voice to describe all the various imaginative ways he would top himself (fire, bullets, train, knife, decapitation etc) in order to prove his love. Definitely darker than the previous single, ‘Grenade’ has been just as successful reaching number one in the US iTunes Chart.
Bruno Mars follows his success alongside Travie McCoy by grabbing his first solo number one in the Shazam New Release Chart USA with ‘Just The Way You Are’.
