The 10 Best "Get High" Rappers Right Now

On 2011's “A Zip And A Double Cup,” Juicy J officially coined the title Get High Rapper. “Top 10 Get High rappers, number one is my rank,” he declares. On the occasion of the release of Juicy J's new album, Stay Trippy, we decided it'd be the perfect time to fill out the rest of his list. The criteria here is somewhere between how much said "Get High Rapper" raps about getting high and how many high people he reaches with his "Get High" music. (Note that we are focusing on the RIGHT NOW, meaning that previous Get High Vanguard Award winners like Snoop Lion and Cypress Hill are not included.)

It was challenging to pare this list down to 10, because unsurprisingly, a lot of current rappers enjoy drugs. What we ended up with was 10 MCs who have carved their own lanes out of the drug-rapper masses, each curating a specific aesthetic that resonates with stoners. The true essence of the Get High Rapper lies in his ability to rap about drugs in a way that makes his fans want to join him in that activity.

I asked my Craigslist roommate, who doesn’t listen to rap but is a verifiable stoner, to tell me how each rapper makes him feel in the context of his weed-smoking life, just to get as close as I could to an unbiased high person’s opinion. By the end of the session, he was freely associating Schoolboy Q with slow-motion karate chops.

Here are the 10 Best "Get High" Rappers Right Now.

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Song played for stoner roommate: "Chain Smoker"
Stoner roommate reaction: "I wish I could just read his lyrics, without even listening to it. Like, I enjoy reading Bob Dylan's lyrics, but please don't compare them. Don't put that in the article, that's weird."

Chance The "Get High" Rapper has "burned too many brain cells down" to be worried about them now. He gets the newcomer award, taking a more positive approach to Get High rapping in a sea of too-high-to-not-be-constantly-depressed-type rappers—plus he's bringing acid back into style. At the very least, Chance's music is a step away from the all-molly-everything plague of 2013 rap, which has started to lose its relevance in Get High rapping since the Miley Cyrus co-sign.

Song played for stoner roommate: "Maui Wowie"
Stoner roommate reaction: "This is like Tron, like, where you're made out of neon...lights."

Besides being a dealer on an HBO show, which adds to his Get High Actor cred, Kid Cudi came up as the "new" Get High Rapper. He popularized the lonely stoner aesthetic, and therefore made it socially acceptable for half of my college friends to stay in bed all day, sad and high, shifting their bodies only enough to reach the bong.

Song played for stoner roommate: "#Jetsgo"

Stoner roommate reaction: "This makes me want to give a foot massage. Remember that part of Pulp Fiction."

Curren$y once rapped, "One time I got so high, I thought I forgot how to read." That is all, because I expect anyone reading this to be as high as Curren$y at that moment in his life, and at this point you're just looking at strange symbols that don't convey any meaning.

Song played for stoner roommate: "I Don't Like"

Stoner roommate reaction: "This makes me want to be proud of all the weed I have. Like, I want to be holding bags of weed, thinking, 'Look at how much weed I have. Not your weed! And I'm going to smoke it all'."

Chief Keef doesn't like reggie, that's that weed he don't like. He's also the main representative of what we'll call Aggressive Get High Rappers—rappers who are super hostile about their marijuana use. But really: If you are really that high, and you fuck with loud exclusively, why are you so mad? Shouldn't you just be stationary, on your couch, with some Welch's Fruit Snacks? The answer escapes me at this moment, but perhaps a candid interview with Tadoe could provide some insight into this fascinating phenomenon.

Song played for stoner roommate: "Express Yourself"

Stoner roommate reaction: "Is he like the Neil Young of hip-hop?"

Danny Brown once said the word "blunt" 55 times in a single song. But what makes Danny a unique Get High Rapper lies in his ability to draw something personal out of his drug use, rather than just name-dropping the drug along with its quantity and quality. He switches between the two, at one moment bragging about the size of his blunts ("since I've been getting it, these blunts been getting fatter"), and in the next moment reflecting on the effects of fat blunts ("turning to these drugs, now these drugs turned my life.")

Song played for stoner roommate: "Grown Man"

Stoner roommate reaction: "I want to sing this to someone, and just be wearing really clean clothes." [Sings something unintelligible in falsetto.]

Weezy F. Baby, and the F is for "facing blunts." Lil Wayne was so high once that he called himself the "best rapper alive"...then it became true.

Song played for stoner roommate: "Black And Yellow"

Stoner roommate reaction: "I'm not into this song. I would not want to be smoking weed to that at all."

Wiz Khalifa's inclusion here is kind of obligatory, to be honest. He is the quintessential "I smoke weed, and in doing so, I become high" rapper. Perhaps he is too high to realize that he has been pretty much rapping about only weed for his entire career. That said, his eyes are smoked wide shut so he can't see the haters.

Song played for stoner roommate: "Colors"

Stoner Roommate Reaction: "Usually I like to smoke weed alone, but this makes me want to be in a cypher.The vibe of this just makes me want to be in this music video, just like, bouncing slow, in a circle of people, hitting a blunt, like, socially."

Gucci Mane was so high during the filming of Spring Breakers that he fell asleep—during the sex scene. How can we explain this other than to attribute it to his complete and utter dedication to the art of being a Get High Rapper. He named a trio of mixtapes after lean, molly, and marijuana. This has led me to a new theory on Gucci: He might be a narcoleptic. If he's able to fall asleep during the sex scene of his breakout film role, then release like a hundred mixtapes every year, he must just be rapping all the time and falling asleep randomly along the way. The guy is always rapping as if he just woke up or is about to fall asleep. The most Get High element to his rapping is his ability to assign colors and textures to everything he's talking about with a synesthetic, superhuman finesse—e.g. "Ferrari look like Funyuns."

Song played for stoner roommate: "Druggy's Wit Hoes"

Stoner roommate reaction: "This is when you smoke some really purple weed, and your friend is over, and you're just like, 'Let's just play kung-fu,' and you karate chop each other in slow motion. Like, mantis-style."

The argument for ScHoolboy lies in his ability to walk the thin line between a rapper who gets high and a rapper who imbues his music with the fact that he gets high. I mean, he'll say "let me be a fieeeeeeeend" one second, but instead of harping on his highness like some other rappers on this list, he'll nimbly move on to referring to pussies as runways. Being a Get High Rapper is a subtle art for Q, and he makes the right choices in the way he presents himself in his music. The first thing that comes to mind when you think of Q is not weed—it's his bucket hat. Then weed.

Song played for stoner Roommate: "A Zip And A Double Cup"

Stoner roommate reaction: "He makes me want to be in the back of a limousine, with zebra-print seats, and zebra-print bitches. Not like stoned at home. Not even taking the limousine anywhere, just being in it."

Juicy J moved the Get High culture forward by bringing forth a certain consciousness that the game was missing. Juicy wastes no time getting straight to the point. With direct lines like "I'm high" or "I'm getting high as fuck" or "Smoking weed from the bong" or "Where the hell is we going? I don't know, I'm high," the man (who is almost 40 incidentally) is the definition of the word trippy. I mean, he's the one that created the idea for this Get High list. Who else were going to put at No. 1?