Music
Newfoundland teens suspended for smoking weed in rap video
by Jeremy Mersereau
January 8, 2016
Aspiring high school rapper Manzy was also kicked off his hockey team.
Who among us doesn’t fondly remember our heady halcyon days of filming ourselves smoking weed outside our high school for an amateur rap video? It’s pretty much a suburban Canadian rite of passage!
Grand Falls-Windsor high school student / aspiring rapper Brad Manuel (a.k.a. Manzy) just wanted to get the world his lunch table talking about his burgeoning music career when he posted a video for his song “Sleep Again” on YouTube. Naturally, it included obligatory scenes of bong rips, jays (both the baseball AND weed varieties), and what looks like some kind of maintenance area. Glamorous!
The Exploits Valley High (now THERE’s a name for a rap group) student and the video’s director, Lucas Hillier, were suspended after school officials became aware of the video, which violates EVH’s drug and social media policy. Both were also kicked off the school’s hockey team, which is our Canadian equivalent of the death penalty. I’m custom printing my FREE MANZY t-shirt as we speak.
Bronson Collins, assistant director of education with the Newfoundland-Labrador English school district, told the CBC that the video “is certainly not something that we would want as representing EVH or any of our schools.” You tell ’em, Collins. I’m sure Newfoundland can do better in the hip-hop department than this:
Well, the beat’s a cut above your average high school 10-minutes-in-Fruityloops production, I’ll give it that, thanks to a probably-hefty sum paid to Meek Mill/Bobby Shmurda producer Jahlil Beats. The rest of it… eh. Keep at it, Manzy.
Stock tip: I predict instances of weed-laced hip-hop videos going way up in Canada’s future. Just a hunch.
[h/t CBC]
