Wiz Khalifa is an American rapper. He released his debut album, Show and Prove, in 2006, and signed to Warner
Bros. Records in 2007. His euro dance-influenced single, Say
Yeah, received urban radio airplay, charting on the Rhythmic Top 40 andHot Rap Tracks charts in 2008. Khalifa parted with Warner Bros. and
released his second album, Deal or No
Deal, in November 2009.
He released the mixtape Kush and Orange Juice as a free download in April 2010.
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 to spinner.com 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 includes Camp Lo, The
Notorious B.I.G. and Bone
Thugs-n-Harmony among his influences.
Khalifa
performed at Emo's in Austin, Texas in March 2010 as part of the 2010 South by Southwest Music Festival. 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. He toured with rapper Yelawolf on a 20-date tour, the Deal Or No Deal Tour. Khalifa released the free
mixtape Kush and Orange Juice for download on April 14,
2010. Due to Khalifa's devoted
grassroots fan base, the
mixtape became the No.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. Shortly afterward on
March 31, 2011 Wiz Khalifa performed at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia as part of the
school's annual Dooley's Weekend.
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