DeenTheGreat lit up his first blunt backwards on camera, took one pull, and nearly folded. The 22-year-old Kick star was riding in the back of an SUV with rapper Wiz Khalifa when the moment happened, and the clip of him gagging and slumping in his seat has been making the rounds since Monday. By Tuesday morning the reposts were everywhere, complete with play-by-play captions from viewers who could not believe what they were watching.
The setup came from Deen’s own channel. He posted the full session, titled DeenTheGreat Hotboxes for the First Time with Wiz Khalifa, on Sunday evening, and the Internet picked up the rawest 54 seconds and ran. In the clip, Deen takes the blunt, draws on it with the wrong end facing his mouth, and immediately starts coughing so hard his body lurches forward. His eyes water. His head drops. Wiz, seated beside him, watches the whole thing unfold with the calm of a man who has seen beginners struggle before.
Deen, whose real name is Nurideen Shabazz, has been one of the most recognizable faces on the Kick platform, where he streams daily to a following built on chaotic energy and celebrity cameos. The smoking session fits the pattern of a content run that has recently featured everything from Wiz Khalifa hotbox sessions to firing-range outings with Ray J. Nothing about the stream was subtle, and the blunt moment was no different.
The clip spread as a joke, but the punchline landed harder because Deen has spent 2026 fighting a very different kind of public battle. In May, he was arrested in Miami Beach on a felony robbery charge after police said he allegedly tried to snatch a woman’s phone during an argument outside a yacht party, according to TMZ’s reporting. He pleaded not guilty, and his attorney Richard Cooper said at the time that Shabazz had a target on his back from people looking to make a name off his work. In August, he avoided prison time in the case.
There is also unfinished business in the ring. Deen was scheduled to face former UFC champion Henry Cejudo in a Misfits Boxing main event earlier this month, but a lingering shoulder injury knocked him out of the bout, per Bloody Elbow. Cejudo went on to beat Javon Walton by split decision, then called Deen out in the cage, branding him Deen the Duck and floating a December date. Deen fired back on X with a message for the Olympic gold medalist. “Cejudo is dog s*** lol,” he wrote. “See you soon.”
As for the blunt, the general consensus online is that Deen survived. Wiz Khalifa, a noted connoisseur who has made an entire career out of his relationship with the plant, did not appear to offer remedial instruction during the viral seconds. The moment now sits in the catalog of firsts that Deen’s audience tunes in for, sandwiched between fight announcements and legal updates.
Whether the backwards hit becomes a running bit or a one-time lesson, Deen has already won the exchange. The clip is viral, his name is trending, and the next stream will bring the same crowd back to see what he does for an encore. For a streamer whose brand is doing things loudly and in public, one backwards pull fits the resume perfectly.
