Wiz Khalifa
Event on 2016-11-18 20:00:00
with D.R.A.M., Smoke Dza, Sosamann, AV the Great, DJ SOBER, bemyfriend
Its hard not to love an original: the first of many to follow. This notion lends attribution to the worlds adoration with Wiz Khalifa. Born Cameron Jibril Thomaz, Wiz Khalifa is more than a mere M.C. He is a movement and maverick. Four years ago, he simultaneously gave blue collar Americans, as well as his native town of Pittsburgh, a Hip-Hop champion with his #1 mega-hit Black & Yellow, a nod to his citys colors. When rap marketing was primarily focused on street and nightclub promotions, an unsigned yet clairvoyant Wiz decided to share his sinsemilla-scented indie music with an overlooked demo of suburban and collegiate youth. Rap touring mined newer soil and conceived was the soundtrack for a new generation of free-spirited young hippiesfans as well as up-and-coming MCs. No matter what changes, youre always gonna want that original feeling, says Wiz. Nothing really comes in the way of that. You cant really fight it.Over the last five years, many rappers have latched onto the Wiz Khalifa wave, but while theyve mostly kept their head above water, Khalifa has soared on both indie and major plains. Before signing his second deal with Atlantic in 2010, Wiz had already amassed a respectable following, fortune and awareness. He was selling out his own 20-city tours, including the Deal Or No Deal tour and Khalifa was being crowned Rookie of the Year by top media brands, including The Source Magazine, XXL Magazine, BET and MTV. His mixtapes penetrated the culture not only musically, but also digitally, with 2010s free download Kush and Orange Juice hashtag becoming #1 on Twitter and was #1 trend search on Google. In 2010, when the reincarnation of Snoop Dogg declined an offer to join the tour of a heralded rookie named Drake, the decision made as much sense as it did dollars. Instead, the PA product took his new Atlantic deal and the triple platinum Stargate produced Black & Yellow smash and commenced his own 50-city run entitled the Waken Baken Tour. Wizs Rostrum/Atlantic Records debut Rolling Papers and follow-up ONIF both burned their way into the cultural conscience from atop the Billboard charts, reaching 197,000 and 148,000 in the first weeks, as well as producing street and commercial hits, including On My Level feat. Too Short and Work Hard, Play Hard. Each year that followed his debut release, Khalifa would appear on Forbes lists and in Grammy Award categories. Solo artist success allowed the lanky MC to spread his label owner wings. In 2011, he tapped Juicy J from the Academy Award winning legendary rap group Three Six Mafia, to be co-CEO of his Taylor Gang Records. The imprint would introduce audiences to new acts including Chevy Woods and Ty Dollar $ ign. Though King Khalifa quickly became a pop darling, the music industry wasnt alone in recognizing his enterprising mind and market magnetism, which is why the Taylor Gang bosss recent collaboration with Converses Chuck Taylor line is symbiotic perfection (its hard not to love an original). When I find that the other ways I express myself are as interesting as my music it opens up doors and makes things more interesting for me.Wiz Khalifa is very much a brand. Within each relevant brand exists a community (or few), and within each community is a lifestyle. This lifestyle was definitely portrayed on his fourth studio album Blacc Hollywood. The 28-year-old millionaire has reaped gold and platinum fruit by being relentless and individualistic. As illustrated on the ONIFC cover, Wiz is inspired by rock star greatness. Khalifa says that the era that exhaled such ethos the most was the 1980s, when leather-tight geniuses like Eddie Murphy and Ozzie Osbourne reigned supreme. Clarifying the misspelling of Blacc, Khalifa says: Its not a color, its a mind frame of early 80s Rock & Roll when nobody gave a fuck and everybody was a star and everybody had a limo. The music was so good and there were so many stars born from that attitude that I just wanted to channel that and represent it with the album.Every Wiz album must possess the production of the Taylor generals go-to maestros Jim Jonsin and Stargate. While the track Drop It Down On It deliciously invites, premium seduction occurs when Jonsin teams up with decorated scribe Rico Love (Usher, Nelly, T.I.) and allows Khalifa to release the songbird within. Of course theres a ton of exotic smoke in Blacc Hollywood, demonstrated in tracks So High and KK featuring Juicy J and Project Pat, and a succession of movies made with white women and white liquor, displayed in the track Raw. There are even epic DJ Mustard-produced after parties co-hosted by Snoop and Ty Dollar $ ign, shown in the track You And Your Friends; and Blacc Hollywoods grandest fiesta is shaping up to be the Dr. Luke turn-up Staying Out All Night. But none of this should be a surprise. The Blacc Hollywood extravaganza began months ago as its lead single We Dem Boyz, produced by Detail (Lil Wayne, Beyonc), snatched the summer anthem of 2014 crown before the season began. Temperatures only got hotter when the remix dropped with the sizzling East/South/West lineup of Nas, Rick Ross and Schoolboy Q. His current hit, See You Again, off the FAST AND FURIOUS soundtrack, catapulted to the top of the charts across 95 countries. Holding the #1 spot on Billboards Hot 100 for a consecutive 12 weeks, See You Again continues to break records by being Spotifys most-streamed track in a single day in the United States and in a single week in 26 countries. In addition to winning 3 Teen Choice Awards in 2015, See You Again continued its success by winning a Critics Choice Award in the category Best Song, earning three Grammy Award nominations in the categories Song of the Year, Best Pop Duo/Group Performance and Best Song Written for Visual Media, and a Golden Globe nomination in the category Best Original Song Motion Picture. This is what Wiz Khalifa does: Create moments. He did just that when he co-headlined a national Boys of Zummer Tour with and Fall Out Boy; hitting over 40 amphitheaters across North America before its final show at the famed Hollywood Bowl on August 10th. This is who Wiz Khalifa is: The rock star with the luxurious life who works as hard as he plays, doing it all in jumbotron-sized peacock fashion. Im a full-time Dad but I love to have fun. This is pure super stardom. Constant progression. I have a good time living it but Im gonna have way more fun rapping about it.
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