The song is the lead single from their Mac & Devin Go to High School soundtrack. In an interview with MTV News, Wiz Khalifa said: "This is a family affair, man. Everybody that you see was all involved with the project. We all got love for each other, and you know, we just keeping it moving, right? That's definitely going along with the theme of being young, wild, and free - just having fun, wild'n out. The whole theme of the video, we just getting it crackin' in the parking lot, man, just turning this thing out. So we had a couple little of our friends in the car, and we drove fast." Snoop Dogg added: "Yeah that's all. We just having fun. We at a big drive-in theatre so we could have as many people and have as many things happen as possible in the celebration of being young, wild, and free – having a good time."[3]
Music video
An audio music video was uploaded to YouTube on 10 October 2011 at a total length of three minutes and twenty-eight seconds. A music video was filmed in October. It premiered on 23 November 2011 on MTV. Bruno Mars does not appear in the music video however his vocals remain.[4] The video version replaces 'so what we smoke weed' with 'so what we don't sleep'.
