The 10 Best "Get High" Rappers Right Now

Juicy J's album drops today, and we found the perfect way to celebrate.

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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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10. Chance The Rapper

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9. Kid Cudi

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8. Curren$y

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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.

7. Chief Keef

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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.

6. Danny Brown

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5. Lil Wayne

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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.

4. Wiz Khalifa

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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.    

3. Gucci Mane

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2. ScHoolboy Q

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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.

1. Juicy J

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