His breakout came in 2010 with the explosion of his songBlack and Yellow, which sold 3m copies. His fan base wasn’t huge, but it was passionate enough to keep him in Converse and marijuana – he claimed to spend $10,000 a month on weed at one point. (He gets as high as an airplane, you know?)įor a while he didn’t really need the mainstream. His underground following swelled largely on the basis of songs about smoking weed, like Flight School. He won over his city with early mixtapes like 2006’s Show and Prove, which is highlighted by Pittsburgh Sound, on which he raps fast and nimbly. But his ascent has been unlikely: he’s a stick-thin military brat from Pittsburgh, who slowly built his career over the course of a decade. He’s run up a long string of gold and platinum singles, and though he doesn’t pass the “rapper your mother has heard of” test, that’s probably not far off. In any case, the track has pushed Wiz Khalifa into the top echelon of rap superstars, and at only 27. Featuring a falsetto hook sung by a diminutive, chubby-cheeked youngster named Charlie Puth, it has a distinctly Lite FM flavor, the kind of thing you might hear while picking up your allergy medicine at CVS. It’s easily the biggest thing Khalifa has been a part of, probably the most-spun hip-hop track since The Monster by Eminem and Rihanna, which was also No 1 for four weeks, in late 2013 and early 2014.īut that doesn’t mean See You Again is any good. A tribute to Paul Walker from the Furious 7 soundtrack, it’s a massive hit, topping charts around the world. Wiz Khalifa has had the No 1 song in America for four weeks running, See You Again. Maybe next time amidst all the partying he’ll And who cares? When Wiz is havingįun, we’re having fun. Unlikely that Khalifa will hang up his stoner persona even though it’sīecome such an exhausted routine for him after all, it’s half of what Sure, Wiz is singing here more than ever,īut that was (and never will be) his forte. ButĪrtistically speaking, the album isn’t a progression of the rapper’sĬareer it’s content to stay on the same eternally- stoned playing fieldĪs 2012’s O.N.I.F.C. You’re going to be spinning this record at plenty of house parties. If you’re in itįor the live-it-up-till-morning jams (and they are entertaining), then There are two ways to look at Blacc Hollywood. His own good to come up with any real punchlines or “did you catch Was a similarly childish ode to a woman’s curves, at least he wasĬlever (and witty) with his wordplay. Sizzling trap beats are frequently Khalifa’s saving gracesĮspecially on the insipid choruses of “Ass Drop” and “The Sleaze”.
Out All Night” and “So High” still flourish despite his blatant Voice has never been anything to write home aboutĮither (at least until the auto-tune rescues him), but bangers “Staying Lexicon here, but he still has an ear for catchy melodies. Wiz isn’t a gifted lyricist at this point and he utilizes a limited His wealth, his cars, or how much he can drink (consider Wiz a tank When Khalifa’s not bragging about the pounds he inhales, he boast about Raps on “So High”, a tired line that he’s recycling here from past tracks. Weed (after four previous albums and innumerable mixtapes) is impressiveĮven though he’s starting to re-use quips.
Khalifa can still come up with so many various ways to talk about his Part of Blacc Hollywood is a massive feat. Habit, that might be the most important aspect of this fame game. And,įor a monster stoner like Wiz who’s never been shy about his chronic Now has a child), and now he can smoke all the weed in the world. Happy? His net worth has skyrocketed, he wed a supermodel (with whom he But Khalifa couldn’t be moreĬontent with the way his career is unfolding. An arena-sizedĪnthem (that was eventually remixed as an unofficial song for the Superīowl) has a funny way of doing that. Regressing to his low-key mixtape and independent roots. Label debut, Rolling Papers, made certain that there was no Pop-rap blockbuster, “Black and Yellow”, from his 2011 major Has changed), but his career has constantly been in flux since hisĬome-up. He still holds this enviable position (though the Gang When we first met Pittsburgh rapper Wiz Khalifa, he was the young deįacto general of the Taylor Gang, a musical collective that rose out of
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