Latest Release
- 25 OCT 2024
- 1 Song
- Fast & Furious 6 (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) · 2013
- Rolling Papers (Deluxe Version) · 2010
- Furious 7 (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) · 2015
- Calm Down - Slow Rap & R'n'B · 2014
- 23 (feat. Miley Cyrus, Wiz Khalifa & Juicy J) - Single · 2013
- Suicide Squad (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) · 2016
- Mac and Devin Go to High School (Music from and Inspired By the Movie) [Deluxe Version] · 2011
- Overexposed · 2012
- Finally Rich (Deluxe Version) · 2012
- O.N.I.F.C. (Deluxe Version) · 2012
Essential Albums
- Wiz Khalifa’s breakthrough wafted so casually to the top of hip-hop’s 2011 heap it’s easy to miss how accomplished it actually was. It’s a party-rap album that happily parlays party-rap traditions into modern pop songwriting and production, in ways that helped crack open the conversation for what pop and hip-hop hybrids could be. And at a time when the luxurious melancholy of Drake was starting to cast its long, warm shadow over the culture, Wiz—like Snoop Dogg before him—presented himself as nothing more than a laidback dude looking for a good time. “They say all I rap about is bitches and champagne,” he shrugs on the album-opening “When I’m Gone”. “You would too if every night you seen the same thing.” The difference with Wiz is that you can tell he’s enjoying it. Lyrically, he’s a charm offensive: He’ll be there when you call (“Roll Up”), he loves his camo shorts (“Taylor Gang”) and he wields his endless supply of joints like magic wands that, with a wave, can make the stress of daily life disappear (pretty much every song). But the sheer catchiness of the music—its sing-along choruses (“Black and Yellow”), its synthesiser sparkle (the benny blanco-produced “No Sleep”)—turn even his modest goals into the kind of anthems that elevate partying to a spiritual pursuit. “Know some who say life’s a bitch,” he raps on “The Race”. “Well, I’ma keep flirting.”
- 2023
- 2023
- 2022
Artist Playlists
- Spaced-out imagery and intoxicating visuals.
- The Pittsburgh MC is all about chill vibes, as are his heroes.
Compilations
- Mr. Green & De Luxe All Stars
More To Hear
- This tribute to Paul Walker is also a tribute to Charlie Puth’s friend.
- The rap veteran talks his new EP, The Saga of Wiz Khalifa.
- The rapper talks his EP The Saga of Wiz Khalifa.
- An exclusive look inside the Grammy nominee's life and career.
- Fighting talk on the boxer's Chaos Theory album.
- Wiz's "Gin & Drugs" is the Beats 1 Banger, plus 88rising's NIKI.
- The Bronx rapper guests. “Hopeless Romantic" from Wiz Khalifa.
More To See
- 2019
- 2019
- 2019
- 2019
- 2019
About Wiz Khalifa
Some rappers want to take over the world; Wiz Khalifa just wants to meet girls, get money and smoke as much weed as his constitution will allow. From the beginning, there was something low-key and effortless about him, a joie de vivre that made his music—“No Sleep”, “Work Hard, Play Hard”, “Mezmorized”—feel like a party. Or, as he put it on “Black and Yellow”, “Get fly and take trips and that’s that—real rap.” A military kid, Khalifa (born Cameron Thomaz in 1987) spent most of his childhood bouncing around before settling in Pittsburgh. He started releasing mixtapes around 2005, racking up an increasingly high-profile set of features before breaking through with 2011’s Rolling Papers. From the beginning, Khalifa seemed indifferent to genre, mixing hip-hop with hints of club music and the anthemic quality of great pop—a flexibility that made him as likely to show up on a Maroon 5 track as a Chief Keef one. (It’s worth noting that some of his biggest tracks were produced by Stargate, benny blanco and the Bruno Mars team The Smeezingtons—pop producers, not rap ones.) After reaching a pop peak with his 2015 Charlie Puth collaboration, “See You Again”, Khalifa scaled things back, releasing a sequel to Rolling Papers and a breezy collaboration with New Orleans rapper Curren$y (2009), followed by The Saga of Wiz Khalifa in 2020.
- GENRE
- Hip-Hop/Rap