Cameron Jibril Thomaz (born September 8, 1987 in Minot, North Dakota), bett… Read Full Bio ↴Cameron Jibril Thomaz (born September 8, 1987 in Minot, North Dakota), better known by his stage name Wiz Khalifa, is an American rapper based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, signed to Rostrum Records. According to the Black and Yellow Songfacts, his stage name is derived from khalifa, an Arabic word meaning "successor", and wisdom. His nickname growing up was "Wizard" which was shortened to Wiz when Khalifa was fifteen.
In 2005 he released his first official mixtape, Prince of the City: Welcome to Pistolvania, and later in 2006 he released his first full length street album entitled Show and Prove. Since then he has released a further six mixtapes and a collaboration mixtape titled How Fly with friend Curren$y. He released his debut album, Deal or No Deal, in November of 2009, it reached #1 on the iTunes hip hop chart, and then reached the top ten on iTunes' overall album chart the week it was released. Previously signed to Warner Bros. Records, he left the label in July 2009 after numerous delays in releasing his planned debut album for the label, First Flight. Khalifa stated to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette that, "I learned a lot during my time there and matured as an artist during the process. I'm happy to be moving on with all of my material and having the chance to be in control of my next moves".He is also the founder of the rap crew Taylor Gang, which includes friends Kev Tha Hustler, Ekko, Smallz Money and Gene Stovall. They derived the name from the fact they always used to wear Chuck Taylor shoes.
Khalifa was born on September 8, 1987 in Minot, North Dakota to a mother and a father serving in the military. The family moved to Pittsburgh when Khalifa was the age of two. His parents' military service caused the family to move on a regular basis.
Over the next thirteen years, he would move between Pittsburgh and South Carolina, Georgia, Oklahoma, Germany, Japan, and England as his parents were reassigned to different posts. In October of 1990 Wiz was separated from his mother,who left him in the hands of her sister while she served in Operation Desert Storm.
During his travels, Wiz was forced to mature quicker than his peers. He was constantly faced with new surroundings, new schools, and new sets of friends, and he found it difficult to become attached to anyone outside his family roots. This nomadic life gave Wiz an opportunity, though, to broaden his mind and offered him many experiences from which to draw inspiration. He began to perceive the world differently than most kids, and he would write his thoughts down every day.These thoughts would become the foundation for his future recordings.
By the age of 14, with a few songs under his belt, Wiz was already drawing comparisons with his commanding voice and witty wordplay. While he has been influenced by artists such as Jay-Z, Camron, and the Notorious B.I.G., Wiz was determined to create his own identity that would, one day, be loved and revered by fans.
Ready to take the next step, Wiz began his search for a recording studio to record new songs. He found one, ID LABS, where owner Eric Dan immediately recognized Wiz's talents. Along with Chad Glick of ID Management, they began to network Wiz to another Pittsburgh native, Benjy Grinberg of Rostrum Records. Benjy realized the raw talent that Wiz possessed, and immediately brought him into the Rostrum family in 2002.
Soon after, Wiz Khalifa began his ascent into the music scene in the Pittsburgh area. He has been hailed by the award winning Pittsburgh Post-Gazette pop music critic, Ed Masley, as having “the skills, the looks, the confidence, the drive, and the charisma for the job.” The New Pittsburgh Courier says, “The combination of a young, charismatic M.C. with a slew of stop-and-rewind rhymes together with a local independent label with major industry connections has set the stage for a hip-hop artist representing Pittsburgh to reach superstar status for the first time ever.
In 2010, with the success of Kush and Orange Juice still present, Wiz Khalifa signed with Atlantic Records. Wiz's style along with his production team, Johnny Juliano, Sledgren, and E. Dan make this a winning combination for success.
He is also well known for his debut single for Atlantic, "Black and Yellow", which peaked at number one on the Billboard Hot 100. His debut album for the label, Rolling Papers, was released on March 29, 2011. He followed that album with O.N.I.F.C. (abbreviated for mainstream markets from "Only Nigga In First Class") on December 4, 2012 which was backed by the singles "Work Hard, Play Hard" and "Remember You". O.N.I.F.C. debuted at number two with 131,000 in first week sales.
Pittsburgh City Council declared 12-12-12 (December 12, 2012) to be Wiz Khalifa Day in the city. Khalifa graduated from Pittsburgh's Taylor Allderdice High School and in January 2012, purchased a home in nearby Canonsburg, Pennsylvania.
In April 2013, Khalifa revealed that after having his son he decided to work on a new album that he was planning to release in 2013. On April 17, 2013, Wiz Khalifa and Curren$y announced that they will drop their collaboration EP Live in Concert on April 20, 2013. The EP featured seven new songs. On June 24, 2013, he announced that his fifth studio album would be titled Blacc Hollywood and would be released in 2013. On September 3, 2013, Khalifa revealed he had recorded songs with Miley Cyrus, Adele and Juicy J for Blacc Hollywood. In October 2013, Mannie Fresh confirmed that he provided production for the album. On February 11, 2014, Khalifa released Blacc Hollywood's first single titled "We Dem Boyz". The album was then supported by the singles "KK", "You and Your Friends", "Stayin Out All Night", "Promises" and "So High".
Khalifa released an EP with TY Dolla $ign on March 31, 2015, entitled "Talk About It In the Morning". That same month, Wiz released the lead single for the film "Furious 7" called "See You Again" as a tribute to Paul Walker. The single has since gone on to global success. "See You Again" spent 12 non-consecutive weeks at number one on the Billboard Hot 100, tying for the longest-running rap number-one hit in the US.
On January 23, 2015, Khalifa was featured on a remix release of the Fall Out Boy song "Uma Thurman". On May 18, they performed the song together on the 2015 Billboard Music Awards show. In the summer of 2015, he began touring the United States with Fall Out Boy and Hoodie Allen in a tour titled "The Boys of Zummer Tour". The tour featured performances of "Uma Thurman" by Fall Out Boy and Khalifa. Later that year, on December 15, 2015, Wiz released the mixtape "Cabin Fever 3". During the Golden Globes on January 10, 2016, Wiz announced that his next album, titled Khalifa, would be released on the 22nd of that month. However, the album was released on February 5, 2016. On May 24, 2016, he released "Pull Up", a standalone single in promotion of his sixth album, Rolling Papers 2, which was released on July 13, 2018.
On April 20, 2020, Khalifa released, The Saga of Wiz Khalifa. The album included collaborations with Tyga, Logic, Mustard and Ty Dolla $ign. In May 2020, Khalifa featured on the song "Drums Drums Drums" with Travis Barker.
In 2021, Khalifa competed in season five of The Masked Singer as "Chameleon". He finished in third place.
In 2005 he released his first official mixtape, Prince of the City: Welcome to Pistolvania, and later in 2006 he released his first full length street album entitled Show and Prove. Since then he has released a further six mixtapes and a collaboration mixtape titled How Fly with friend Curren$y. He released his debut album, Deal or No Deal, in November of 2009, it reached #1 on the iTunes hip hop chart, and then reached the top ten on iTunes' overall album chart the week it was released. Previously signed to Warner Bros. Records, he left the label in July 2009 after numerous delays in releasing his planned debut album for the label, First Flight. Khalifa stated to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette that, "I learned a lot during my time there and matured as an artist during the process. I'm happy to be moving on with all of my material and having the chance to be in control of my next moves".He is also the founder of the rap crew Taylor Gang, which includes friends Kev Tha Hustler, Ekko, Smallz Money and Gene Stovall. They derived the name from the fact they always used to wear Chuck Taylor shoes.
Khalifa was born on September 8, 1987 in Minot, North Dakota to a mother and a father serving in the military. The family moved to Pittsburgh when Khalifa was the age of two. His parents' military service caused the family to move on a regular basis.
Over the next thirteen years, he would move between Pittsburgh and South Carolina, Georgia, Oklahoma, Germany, Japan, and England as his parents were reassigned to different posts. In October of 1990 Wiz was separated from his mother,who left him in the hands of her sister while she served in Operation Desert Storm.
During his travels, Wiz was forced to mature quicker than his peers. He was constantly faced with new surroundings, new schools, and new sets of friends, and he found it difficult to become attached to anyone outside his family roots. This nomadic life gave Wiz an opportunity, though, to broaden his mind and offered him many experiences from which to draw inspiration. He began to perceive the world differently than most kids, and he would write his thoughts down every day.These thoughts would become the foundation for his future recordings.
By the age of 14, with a few songs under his belt, Wiz was already drawing comparisons with his commanding voice and witty wordplay. While he has been influenced by artists such as Jay-Z, Camron, and the Notorious B.I.G., Wiz was determined to create his own identity that would, one day, be loved and revered by fans.
Ready to take the next step, Wiz began his search for a recording studio to record new songs. He found one, ID LABS, where owner Eric Dan immediately recognized Wiz's talents. Along with Chad Glick of ID Management, they began to network Wiz to another Pittsburgh native, Benjy Grinberg of Rostrum Records. Benjy realized the raw talent that Wiz possessed, and immediately brought him into the Rostrum family in 2002.
Soon after, Wiz Khalifa began his ascent into the music scene in the Pittsburgh area. He has been hailed by the award winning Pittsburgh Post-Gazette pop music critic, Ed Masley, as having “the skills, the looks, the confidence, the drive, and the charisma for the job.” The New Pittsburgh Courier says, “The combination of a young, charismatic M.C. with a slew of stop-and-rewind rhymes together with a local independent label with major industry connections has set the stage for a hip-hop artist representing Pittsburgh to reach superstar status for the first time ever.
In 2010, with the success of Kush and Orange Juice still present, Wiz Khalifa signed with Atlantic Records. Wiz's style along with his production team, Johnny Juliano, Sledgren, and E. Dan make this a winning combination for success.
He is also well known for his debut single for Atlantic, "Black and Yellow", which peaked at number one on the Billboard Hot 100. His debut album for the label, Rolling Papers, was released on March 29, 2011. He followed that album with O.N.I.F.C. (abbreviated for mainstream markets from "Only Nigga In First Class") on December 4, 2012 which was backed by the singles "Work Hard, Play Hard" and "Remember You". O.N.I.F.C. debuted at number two with 131,000 in first week sales.
Pittsburgh City Council declared 12-12-12 (December 12, 2012) to be Wiz Khalifa Day in the city. Khalifa graduated from Pittsburgh's Taylor Allderdice High School and in January 2012, purchased a home in nearby Canonsburg, Pennsylvania.
In April 2013, Khalifa revealed that after having his son he decided to work on a new album that he was planning to release in 2013. On April 17, 2013, Wiz Khalifa and Curren$y announced that they will drop their collaboration EP Live in Concert on April 20, 2013. The EP featured seven new songs. On June 24, 2013, he announced that his fifth studio album would be titled Blacc Hollywood and would be released in 2013. On September 3, 2013, Khalifa revealed he had recorded songs with Miley Cyrus, Adele and Juicy J for Blacc Hollywood. In October 2013, Mannie Fresh confirmed that he provided production for the album. On February 11, 2014, Khalifa released Blacc Hollywood's first single titled "We Dem Boyz". The album was then supported by the singles "KK", "You and Your Friends", "Stayin Out All Night", "Promises" and "So High".
Khalifa released an EP with TY Dolla $ign on March 31, 2015, entitled "Talk About It In the Morning". That same month, Wiz released the lead single for the film "Furious 7" called "See You Again" as a tribute to Paul Walker. The single has since gone on to global success. "See You Again" spent 12 non-consecutive weeks at number one on the Billboard Hot 100, tying for the longest-running rap number-one hit in the US.
On January 23, 2015, Khalifa was featured on a remix release of the Fall Out Boy song "Uma Thurman". On May 18, they performed the song together on the 2015 Billboard Music Awards show. In the summer of 2015, he began touring the United States with Fall Out Boy and Hoodie Allen in a tour titled "The Boys of Zummer Tour". The tour featured performances of "Uma Thurman" by Fall Out Boy and Khalifa. Later that year, on December 15, 2015, Wiz released the mixtape "Cabin Fever 3". During the Golden Globes on January 10, 2016, Wiz announced that his next album, titled Khalifa, would be released on the 22nd of that month. However, the album was released on February 5, 2016. On May 24, 2016, he released "Pull Up", a standalone single in promotion of his sixth album, Rolling Papers 2, which was released on July 13, 2018.
On April 20, 2020, Khalifa released, The Saga of Wiz Khalifa. The album included collaborations with Tyga, Logic, Mustard and Ty Dolla $ign. In May 2020, Khalifa featured on the song "Drums Drums Drums" with Travis Barker.
In 2021, Khalifa competed in season five of The Masked Singer as "Chameleon". He finished in third place.
Self Titled
Wiz Khalifa Lyrics
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You know how we do! yeah This is what I do
Young from my side of the city the dip side
Let's Ride yes Sir All my
Gangsters grab your weapons
Punks hit the door let's get it
Let's get it yeah uhh
I ain't nothin nice line em up buckem twice
Lay em' down middle fingers up
Screamin fuck your life
I roll them 7′s out go
Head and tuck your dice
Crack your skull never seemed sicker
In your fuckin life see I don't hustle white
Scrawny but my knuckles right
Left hand will leave them shook hooks
Not the stuff you write
And when your hands ashy only
Time you've touched the white
Snatch your grind now it my
Grind you couldn't hustle right
See I'm a hungry dude feelin the pain
Ribs touchin got the thrill in my vains
And you niggas is all in the sunshinen
But we still in the rain
And for the team leave
You spillin your brains
Cause I ain't feelin you lames
Now clowns should be feelin ashamed
So put the heat to your temple and bang
Me and my soldiers in that that black
On black we killin the game
You dudes pumped put a chill in your frame
Let's go man!
You should print my information
Quote my rhymes top 5 dead or alive
Yo! Brothers respect mine
The kid that they yapping
About they won't stop
You know who rule this shit the city is mine
Ready willing and able
And I've been keeping it stable
Have a leg on the table
Since the killing of Abel
Bullets rip through your facial
Yeah will give you a face full
I'm into making it painful on
Demand like your cable
See you dudes is some divas
Leave us we move with the heaters
Beef and we shoot through your beaters
We turn you dudes to believers
Yeah I'm rocking and ready blown
I'm cockin em steady
Popping em I'm heavy dropping the
Top on the chevy
Let em bang through the smith and
Your brain will be missing
Changing the game it was written changing
The lanes when I'm whipping
It's only natural you hate me cause I'm hot
Cause I get love in the streets and
I ain't never played the block
You see I do me and you can't
Never play me cause you not
The flow is Ludacris
Coming for that number one spot
So get outta line and get smacked in
I move with the movers
You lose with the losers they
Smooth when executing manuevers
You should print my information
Quote my rhymes top 5 dead or alive
Yo! Brothers respect mine
The kid that they yapping
About they won't stop
You know who rule this shit the city is mine
Young from my side of the city the dip side
Let's Ride yes Sir All my
Gangsters grab your weapons
Punks hit the door let's get it
Let's get it yeah uhh
I ain't nothin nice line em up buckem twice
Screamin fuck your life
I roll them 7′s out go
Head and tuck your dice
Crack your skull never seemed sicker
In your fuckin life see I don't hustle white
Scrawny but my knuckles right
Left hand will leave them shook hooks
Not the stuff you write
And when your hands ashy only
Time you've touched the white
Snatch your grind now it my
Grind you couldn't hustle right
See I'm a hungry dude feelin the pain
Ribs touchin got the thrill in my vains
And you niggas is all in the sunshinen
But we still in the rain
And for the team leave
You spillin your brains
Cause I ain't feelin you lames
Now clowns should be feelin ashamed
So put the heat to your temple and bang
Me and my soldiers in that that black
On black we killin the game
You dudes pumped put a chill in your frame
Let's go man!
You should print my information
Quote my rhymes top 5 dead or alive
Yo! Brothers respect mine
The kid that they yapping
About they won't stop
You know who rule this shit the city is mine
Ready willing and able
And I've been keeping it stable
Have a leg on the table
Since the killing of Abel
Bullets rip through your facial
Yeah will give you a face full
I'm into making it painful on
Demand like your cable
See you dudes is some divas
Leave us we move with the heaters
Beef and we shoot through your beaters
We turn you dudes to believers
Yeah I'm rocking and ready blown
I'm cockin em steady
Popping em I'm heavy dropping the
Top on the chevy
Let em bang through the smith and
Your brain will be missing
Changing the game it was written changing
The lanes when I'm whipping
It's only natural you hate me cause I'm hot
Cause I get love in the streets and
I ain't never played the block
You see I do me and you can't
Never play me cause you not
The flow is Ludacris
Coming for that number one spot
So get outta line and get smacked in
I move with the movers
You lose with the losers they
Smooth when executing manuevers
You should print my information
Quote my rhymes top 5 dead or alive
Yo! Brothers respect mine
The kid that they yapping
About they won't stop
You know who rule this shit the city is mine
In the first verse of the song "Self Titled" by Wiz Khalifa, the rapper confidently asserts his dominance and toughness from his side of the city. He calls on his gangster friends to arm themselves while telling his enemies, referred to as punks, to flee. The aggressive tone is evident as he declares that he is not nice, ready to take down anyone who stands in his way. Wiz Khalifa uses vivid imagery of rolling dice and cracking skulls to portray his ruthless nature, emphasizing his ability to outsmart and overpower his adversaries.
In the second verse, Wiz Khalifa continues to proclaim his prowess as a rapper and a force to be reckoned with in the industry. He boasts about his skills and demands respect for his lyrical prowess, declaring himself as one of the top five rappers alive. He dismisses those who try to compete with him, asserting his dominance over the rap scene and declaring that the city belongs to him. With clever wordplay and a confident delivery, Wiz Khalifa establishes himself as a formidable presence in the rap game, unapologetically claiming his spot at the top.
The third verse showcases Wiz Khalifa's versatility as he shifts between boasting about his rap skills and his willingness to engage in violence if necessary. He describes his readiness to use weapons and inflict pain on his enemies, highlighting his commitment to staying at the top of the game by any means necessary. Wiz Khalifa's aggressive flow and gritty lyrics convey a sense of determination and grit, painting a picture of a rapper who is unafraid to do what it takes to maintain his status in the industry.
Overall, "Self Titled" by Wiz Khalifa is a track that exudes confidence, aggression, and a relentless drive for success. Through his bold declarations and vivid imagery, Wiz Khalifa establishes himself as a force to be reckoned with in the rap world, ready to assert his dominance and secure his spot at the top of the game. The lyrics paint a picture of a rapper who is unapologetically himself, unafraid to confront his enemies and assert his place in the competitive music industry.
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@yureion
Wiz use to snap for real...
@fhmasjjahhddga
Thats what I said he need to go back to this shit
@Keif420x
Seen this shit live. Damnnnn
@killahking8
1:28 Bullets Rip Threw Ya Facial!!!
@xxproimage
actually no this was the wiz the shit you hear now doesnt sound like wiz
@mixaaah
this doesnt even sound like wiz khalifa