Welcome to N.Hale High, a place that stays true to its wittily punned title. Here, popular students Mac and Devin show audiences how to get down with doobies and boobies while all the while keeping it player for their hoes. Behind the “Mac and Devin” facades, the past and present of the Hip Hop genre, Snoop Dogg and “nephew” Wiz Khalifa, join forces to create the ultimate stoner twosome. Assuming the roles of two high school students, the duo personifies what it truly means to be “Young, Wild, and Free.”
In theory, the plot-line sounds viable, but things are bound to get uncomfortable once Mac aka Snoop is caught supplying a jumbo joint into the mouth of a young high school girl. But wait – that’s just the beginning. Mac has been posing as a high school student all along, but little does the rest of N.Hale know that he has in fact reached the ripe age of forty-one! Pulling contextually from the footage, the story told within this bubblegum jingle might just be gripping enough for Mac and Devin to pull through, continuing on as the Young, Wild, and Free kids they claim to be. But people, there’s just no telling… Will Mac be able to mask his secret or will Devin be left alone, smoking joints bigger than King Kong’s fingers, all by himself?
Now here lies the real conflict: Snoop and Wiz are in fact taking their Mac and Devin high school alter-egos to the big screen. Although the story line is bound to vary from the “Young, Wild, and Free” interpretation above, the Mac and Devin Go to High School flick and corresponding soundtrack will still pose a frictional discomfort for the Hip Hop culture. In truth, what we are seeing is the continuance of the our favorite G-Funk advocate’s disappointing evolution. The presence of Wiz Khalifa, on the other hand, provides nothing more than his skinny stoner tag. Despite the elementary hype, Snoop’s image is not only mindless, but false. As a forty-one year old husband, father, and Hip Hop icon, “feeling like a seventeen year old again with peach fuzz” on his face sounds more like a mid-life crisis than anything. If Snoop Doggy Dogg can’t pave the way for the future of Hip Hop, then who will? Not the skinny stoner, and sure as hell not Mac and Devin. Is mindless and false what it takes to survive today in the seemingly wilting genre? The unresolved case is adjourned, and the verdict, at the mercy of the slickest G in LBC.
