"Young, Wild & Free" was performed live several times, including on the 2012 VMA Tour and at Coachella 2012. The video features Snoop Dogg and Wiz Khalifa having fun driving karts, skateboarding and surrounded by girls at a party, interspersed with footage from Mac & Devin Go to High School. Its accompanying music video, filmed in Montclair, California in October 2011, was directed by Dylan Brown. The single was certified six times platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), five times platinum by the Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) and one-time platinum by Recorded Music NZ (RMNZ). It was commercially successful, reaching the top ten in several markets (including number seven on the Billboard Hot 100 and number six in France and Switzerland) it peaked at number two in New Zealand and number four in Australia. Some critics praised Mars's pop-nostalgia chorus and Snoop Dogg's rap but criticized Wiz Khalifa's rap performance due to being too rough. "Young, Wild & Free" received mixed reviews from music critics, who praised it for standing out stylistically from the rest of the soundtrack with hip-hop drums and a piano hook. After the song was finished, Snoop Dogg and Wiz Khalifa were added. Produced by the Smeezingtons, its composition began during a Smeezingtons freestyle studio session when progress on the song stalled, Aaron Bay-Shuck considered it a potential hit and asked them to finish it.
Since the track samples two other songs, " Toot It & Boot It" (2010) and "Sneakin' in the Back" (1974), songwriting credits were added for a total of seventeen. The track was cowritten by Mars, Philip Lawrence, and Ari Levine, along with Cristopher Brown, Snoop Dogg, and Wiz Khalifa. It was released on October 11, 2011, by Atlantic Records as the lead single from the soundtrack of the film Mac & Devin Go to High School. " Young, Wild & Free" is a song by American rappers Snoop Dogg and Wiz Khalifa, featuring vocals from American singer-songwriter Bruno Mars.
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