Short Biogrphy of Wiz Khalifa, young musician who won 'The Best New Artist at the BET Awards of 2011'. Review of his released mixtapes, tours and activities.
Print View August 19, 2011 (FPRC) -- Known by his stage name Wiz Khalifa, was born as Cameron Jibril Thomaz on September 8, 1987 in Minot, North Dakota. His mother and a father were serving in the military. The family moved to Pittsburgh when Khalifa was the age of two. 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. His parents divorced when Khalifa was about three years old. He would move between Pittsburgh and South Carolina, Georgia, Oklahoma, Germany, Japan, and England as his parents were reassigned to different posts over the next thirteen years.
Wiz was forced to mature quicker than his peers during his travels. He was constantly faced with new schools, and new sets of friends, and he found it difficult to become attached to anyone outside his family roots. This kind of life gave Wiz an opportunity to broaden his mind, and offered him many experiences from which to draw inspiration. He would write his thoughts down every day and began to perceive the world differently than most kids. 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.
Pittsburgh has long been searching for its first major Hip Hop star. Some have flirted with success, while others have floundered in the masses. At the age of 19, Wiz Khalifa has developed into the prodigy that Pittsburgh has been looking for, and he plans to represent his city to the fullest.
His stage name is derived from khalifa, an Arabic word meaning "successor", and wisdom, which was shortened to Wiz when Khalifa
was fifteen. Khalifa stated that the name also came from being called "young Wiz 'cause I was good at everything I did, and my granddad is Muslim, so he gave me that name; he felt like that's what I was doing with my music." He got his stage name tattooed on his 17th birthday.
He released his first official mixtape 2005 Prince of the City: Welcome to Pistolvania. His first full length street album named Show and Prove he released later in 2006.
In 2007, Khalifa released two mixtapes: Grow Season, hosted by DJ
Green Lantern and released on July, 2007, and Prince of the City 2, released on November, 2007.
His debut Warner Bros. single "Say Yeah" reached number 25 on the Billboard Rhythmic Top 40 music chart.
The samples "Better Off Alone" by Alice Deejay. Khalifa's vocals from "Say Yeah" appear near the end of Pittsburgh mash up producer Girl Talk's 2008 album, Feed the Animals, over music from Underworld's "Born Slippy", Usher's "Love in This Club", and the Cure's "In Between Days".
Khalifa appeared with The Game, David Banner and Play-n-Skillz at U92's Summer Jam at the USANA Amphitheatre in West Valley City, Utah on August 2, 2008. Khalifa released the mixtapes Star Power in September 2008, and Flight School in April 2009.
He left the Warner Bros. Records 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?.
Since then he has released a further six mixtapes and a collaboration mixtape titled How Fly with friend Curren$y. His debut album, Deal or No Deal, shown up in November of 2009. It reached first place on the iTunes hip hop chart.
As part of the 2010 South by Southwest Music Festival Khalifa performed at Emo's in Austin, Texas in March 2010. He appeared on the cover of XXL magazine that same month, for the magazine's annual list of Top 10 Freshman, which included Donnis, J. Cole, Pill, Freddie Gibbs, and Fashawn. Wiz Khalifa was named 2010 "Rookie Of The Year" by "The Source", with alongside Rick Ross, "The Man Of The Year"
Khalifa released the free mixtape Kush and Orange Juice for download on April, 2010. Due to Khalifa's devoted grassroots fan base, the mixtape became the No. 1 trending topic on Twitter.
He performed at the 2010 Rock the Bells festival, along with hip hop veterans Wu-Tang Clan, Snoop Dogg, Lauryn Hill, A Tribe Called Quest, Rakim, KRS-One, Jedi Mind Tricks and Slick Rick. Khalifa declined an invitation to tour with rapper Drake and launched his own. The tour "Waken Baken" a 50-city national tour with rapper Yelawolf, scheduled to last from September to October 2010, sold out every venue. On November 2010, during this tour Wiz Khalifa was arrested for possession and trafficking of marijuana at East Carolina University. He was released the next morning after a $300000 bail, and resumed his tour.
Winning with nearly 70,000 votes, Khalifa was named MTV's Hottest Breakthrough MC of 2010, and beating out finalists Nicki Minaj, J. Cole, Travis Porter, and Diggy Simmons.
2010-11: Mainstream success
Khalifa released "Black and Yellow", produced by Stargate, which has received radio airplay.The title of the song refers to the colours of the
Pittsburgh Steelers. The single was peaked at number 1 on the Billboard Hot 100.
On March 29, 2011, Khalifa released his first studio album, Rolling Papers. The album debuted at number two on the US Billboard 200 chart, with first-week sales of 197,000 copies in the United States. On June 26, 2011, Khalifa won Best New Artist at the BET Awards of 2011.
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's girlfriend Amber Rose ? who has been a tabloid fixture since dating Kanye West ? told hip-pop site GlobalGrind that she was planning to get married and have kids with the rising rap star.
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