Wiz Khalifa: It’s Not Cute to Cry in a Threesome [VIDEO]

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It's your boy, Wiz.

Make some noise for Wiz Khalifa!

This man is a star right now.

You know what it is.

Wiz Khalifa.

The Reapers.

Always evolving. Always changing.

December 12th.

Yo, Wiz really needs to be my icon now.

He's one of the most successful.

Multi-platinum selling record of all time.

Whoa, whoa.

Oh.

It's fun.

It is your founding father, Alex Cooper, with Call Her Daddy.

Like...

Anybody else would be, like, too timid or scared.

They would think there was, like, a rule

or they would have to ask somebody or something like that.

I have not smoked in an interview in so long

because sometimes it's not the vibe.

Like, I can't tell if someone would be down or not.

Clearly, you're the right person to smoke with.

For sure.

Okay.

Can people typically tell if you're high

or are you really good at hiding it?

I'm pretty stoned, like, throughout the day.

Yeah.

So, you know, you could tell by my demeanor.

Like, I'm usually really cool, easygoing.

I always got some good jokes.

You'll definitely hear a lot of laughter.

Oh, wow.

And if you can't tell by, like, just seeing me

or being around me, you'll smell it for sure.

Like, how long would you say you've always been, like,

I've been high all day since, like, what age?

I started getting stoned, like, you know,

wake and bake and, like, showing up to school baked.

You know what I'm saying?

I wouldn't advocate that for anybody else.

But for me, that was definitely my thing.

And then it translated into my adult life.

I never really slowed down or had anything

where I was like, you know, I'm not going to smoke for this.

what is the difference that you feel

when you're doing music of, like, when you're high

versus when you're sober?

because sometimes you just got to perform

how you got to perform.

But back then, I just noticed

I was able to hear different parts of the music

that I hadn't heard before.

I was able to hear fucking tambourines over here

and saxophone over here.

And I'm like, holy shit.

Like, I never really experienced music

in those layers like that before.

And being high as shit is what definitely

opened all of that up for me.

And yeah, that was the best experience for me, man, for sure.

Damn.

and being like, I never heard the tambourine.

It was never—

And it's like—

I hear there's like 19 different things happening.

And you hear everything at the same time.

Yeah, yeah.

But you're able to, like, ingest it in a better way.

so much more fun because I'm not just listening to the song.

I'm hearing it progress.

I'm like, bruh, that flute wasn't there

at the beginning of the song.

And I'm trying to explain it to somebody

and they're like, I don't give a shit.

You're high, bro.

And I'm like, I am, but I hear this shit

and it sounds fucking crazy.

to be like, when you're fucking sober,

you're not hearing that first shit.

The flute is going undercover.

No one gives a fuck about the flute

until you're high.

The flute is key.

And that might be the climactic point

that makes you fall in love with the song.

You might listen to the song for two minutes and 45 seconds

and right when that flute comes in,

it just melts your heart.

that you were completely fine,

but a normal person that maybe doesn't smoke a lot,

if they were in that situation,

they would be absolutely fucked?

If you lived my life and you weren't high,

you'd be fucked.

I'm pulling up stone.

They expect it.

It's not like back in the day

where you're considered a bad parent

if you smell like weed.

I'm pretty sure my son smells like weed.

I don't know because I can't smell it,

but I'm pretty sure he smells like pot.

And yeah, I'm pulling up stone.

I'm pulling up high

because I want them to connect with the real me.

They're not going to get a fake version of me

or this made-up parent

that society makes you think that you're supposed to be.

I am who I am.

And it's not because I'm a celebrity or anything,

but it's because it's really what I believe in

and why not get the real me?

And why would I have to change who I am

or act like I'm not that

just for these places that I'm going to go?

That's not how I'm going to be living my life ever.

Hell no.

What is the dumbest thing you've ever done while you're high?

I do a lot of dumb shit.

I don't know if I have the number one dumbest thing.

I just really need people behind me to cover my tracks.

Give me an example.

I'm never going to be at your level, but...

so it's never really anything unsafe

like leaving a car fucking in drive and hopping out.

Like I don't do shit like that.

But like, you know, forgetting stuff.

I get pretty forgetful.

it's usually the microwave.

and I've had moments where I'm like,

I swear to God, I press start

and I'm watching my food just sit in there

and nothing's happening.

Oh, that's pretty cool.

And then I've been sitting there for like 10 minutes contemplating life

just like when's my chicken parmesan ready

and it never started.

And I'm not upset though,

because I'm like, I had a great moment alone

staring at the microwave contemplating life

and then eventually I'll press start.

Like, I got three minutes to myself.

There you go.

Now the clock starts.

but in case it's updated,

who is your dream blunt rotation?

Mm-hmm.

Greg James.

Snoop gotta be in there.

And Bill Clinton.

Why Bill Clinton?

We got, I mean, he's a legend.

He's a smoking legend.

Might not be for the right, you know what I'm saying?

Yeah, I didn't inhale.

You remember Bill?

Bill been putting it down forever, man.

Bill been, yeah, yeah.

I'm 29.

but like, are you saying he actually publicly smokes?

No.

that put you up on game about Bill Clinton and the weed.

Really?

Put Bill Clinton in that major rotation.

For sure, we can't leave Bill out.

See, they already forgot about you, Bill.

I got you, bro.

We gonna bring you back into the rotation.

They done kicked Bill out the rotation.

I'm bringing him back.

because she the boss for real, for real.

You know what I mean?

For sure.

So we got to smoke with Big Hill to get to Big Bill.

about Snoop being like, I'm done smoking?

Were you in on the joke?

Did you know this shit?

There's no way that that nigga was stopping smoking weed ever, yo.

Like, anybody who believed it

or all the people who did believe it,

I was just, it was just so funny

because I'm like, bruh, y'all are falling for it.

Like, that's why he's doing it.

Did you believe it?

I didn't believe it because I was like,

I am also on the side of, like, business and media being like,

there's got to be an angle.

There's no fucking way he's just posting himself crying,

being like, I'm done smoking.

Like, for what?

Like, why?

There's got to be now, like, a follow-up to be like,

I'm launching this new product.

I didn't even want to text him

because I know he had, like, a list of people who had texted him.

He might have answered, like, the first three,

but I knew I wasn't getting no answers.

So, I'm like, I'm going to just wait.

I'll see, and then...

So, you're from Pittsburgh.

All right.

So, PA, represent.

All day.

For high school,

obviously, I know you got started young with music,

but, like, socially, if I was to ask kids from your high school,

like, what were you like?

What do you think they would say?

and he was always handing out CDs

because that's my real name, Cameron,

and everybody called me Cam.

They'd be like, Cam was always rapping.

He was always telling people he was going to be on

because that's all I did,

and I was just the same way.

Big hoodie, cargoes, book bag full of weed.

Same shit.

Yeah, I'm the man.

Yeah, but I'm super, I'm, like, low-key.

I'm not, like, out there, but I'm sweet.

I'm handsome.

I'm funny.

So, I definitely know how to use that to my advantage.

what would be your approach?

You want to get the girl.

What are you doing?

just straight up spending time putting that work in.

We talk in eighth grade.

I'm writing letters.

I'm showing up to the class before the bell with a letter.

You give me yours, I give you mine.

You give me one, I give you two.

I'm folding it up like a heart.

You're good.

We going to high school.

We on the phone all night.

I'm making you mixtapes, you know what I mean?

Oh, wow.

Little playlists and all of that.

I got a car, so I'm taking you to the movies.

We going out to eat.

I'm buying you nice little Valentine's Day gifts.

We get matching sneakers.

Yeah, yup.

All of that.

So they must have all fallen in love.

Because there was more popular boys in school.

I wasn't like, there was athletes and, you know,

dudes were like, they had money already in high school.

It was different in my high school.

The niggas had money.

I would have been like, okay, this is it.

We got to get married.

That's fucking hot.

Like, that's dope.

That's unique.

I went to three proms.

Did you ask all of them or did they ask you?

The last prom was my favorite one.

First one was cool too, but my last one was my favorite one

because I went to prom with a girl that I went to elementary school with.

Oh, wow.

And it was so cute because I had a crush on her back there.

Her name was Mia.

She's like the prettiest girl in school.

And me and her, we had a crush on each other, but we never talked to each

other, did anything or dated or none of that.

We just was like, oh, we're family because we were young.

So we're like, we're family, but we like each other.

And then I moved away from Pittsburgh and then I came back and she was

fine as hell.

And I'm like, goddamn.

Mia?

Yeah, I'm like Mia.

She's like, oh shit, you're Cam.

I'm like, yeah, I'm like, because I was taller and she was bad and I'm the

tall, skinny homie.

So, but we didn't even date throughout high school, but we just went to prom

together just to like cap it off.

We didn't kiss.

We didn't do nothing.

We kept it solid.

Damn.

Proud of myself.

Proud of you.

Well, I still am tall.

Sounds like a good prom date to me.

Was there a specific moment when you look back that you're like, damn, I

made it and I'm, I know I'm going to have a successful career in this

industry.

Okay.

Right before I put black and yellow out.

I was working on a lot of mixtape stuff at that time.

And it was getting, it was super popular on the internet, but it was

like starting to translate into shows where I was doing like, you know,

5,000, 10,000.

I'm like, goddamn, it's a lot of people.

And then like all the famous people started coming out of the cut.

Like everybody started hitting me up and just wanting to be a part of

it or wanting to see me or wanting to come to my show.

And I remember Jay-Z was at one of my shows and I'm just so normal, like

regular at the time.

So I'm just used to everybody like, you know, coming and going and then

a label was trying to sign me.

So they brought Jay-Z to the show and then they introduced us.

They was like, hey Wiz, this is Jay.

And I was like, what's up, bro?

And I was just like, what's up, man?

And I was going to the stage and then I stopped.

I was like, oh fuck.

I was like, wait, Jay-Z?

I'm like, don't just say the Jay, say the Z part too.

He was like, uh, like just, I'm like, goddamn nigga, I almost walked

straight past you.

But Jay-Z was at my show like before I even like blew all the way up.

I made sure I got a picture and because I'm a really, really big Hov

fan, but it was like at those moments right there.

I'm like, what the fuck?

I'm like right about to go on stage in two seconds.

I'm like, Jay-Z is here.

I went and told my DJ like, bruh, Hov is here.

He was like, what the fuck?

So yeah, shit like that started happening.

That's when I knew like, yeah, all right.

You're like, what's up?

What the fuck?

What the fuck, Jay-Z?

I'm like, all right, A, B, C.

You could have helped me out there.

Damn, that's dope to have someone that obviously successful

and so incredibly influential in the music space.

I mean, that must have just been so cool for you to even

just see someone like that.

You clearly looked up to to even just be like being at

one of your shows.

Yeah, that's wild.

That's like a dream though.

That's someone like you can't even make that story up.

Like that's one of those like, of course, that's an

I made it moment.

almost two decades.

What is the hardest lesson that you've learned?

ways that shit happens in like when you're not a new artist

anymore and you're transitioning through those those points.

Um, it's just because you put in so much work and you expect

like that work to stick but in this industry and especially

in rap music, everything is just so trendy and disposable

and whatever era that you lived in or existed in it comes

and it goes so fast and you don't realize that it's coming

and going so like for me being a parent is like really really

important.

So I didn't focus as much on music as I did on family and

spending time at home.

So in two three years, I watch numbers change.

I watch all types of things change to where I thought like

that shit was just there and it's not you got to really like

chase after that shit and go for it.

And I think that's where a lot of artists, you know, find

themselves like at a crossroads like where they want to do

it or not because when you have to hit that reset button

and go hard like you did back in the day just to re-earn

that respect and re-earn that attention and remind people

of the things that you're capable of it could be frustrating

and it can be like man.

I don't want to do that shit or I don't got time for that.

I got other shit to put my energy to you know what I mean?

So I think that's like the biggest and hardest thing that

I had to like learn about this shit.

so sadly like it's such a formula in music.

I feel like we see like people when they're hot like we could

name the people right now that are like everyone has their

attention and everyone's focusing on this person and when

it goes in waves, it must be so hard as an artist to be like

I made if anything be more like well suited for my craft

now, I'm better at it.

I know how to handle it better and yet once you're not the