The Hip Hop Chronicle UK recently caught up with Wiz Khalifa to discuss his smash-album Rolling Papers and his upcoming film project with Snoop Dogg High School. During the interview, Wiz revealed that he his a major fan of legendary Juice Crew emcee Big Daddy Kane. He explained that his love for the Smooth Operator first developed through his dad’s influence, but that as he got older, he came to respect Kane’s technical prowess.
“I’m a huge [Big Daddy] Kane fan,” he explained. “My dad listened to a lot of that stuff [when I was] growing up. I was born in ’87, so I was like four or five in the early ’90s, but it came from the ’80s to the early ’90s, so he was listening to all of that through that time. Just for me, that’s what I thought was cool because it was my dad, I thought he was the shit. And then as I got older, I listened to Kane’s flow, what he was saying and how he was spitting and shit, he was totally different from anybody back then; his patterns, his wordplay and just his swag, like how he was smooth and how he brought that smoothness to the rap game when everybody was tough and hard. When rapping was about beating niggas up, he was like, ‘Yo, I’m a cool nigga’…I love his swag.”
Watch the full interview belows to see Wiz talk about Rolling Papers and his favorite types of weed.
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The interviewer sounds funny as fuck! lol
Wiz my nigga tho
Im from the uk (london) and this guy sounds funny.
You made Ghostface’s list of 10 softest niggas in the rap game! Congrats man!
Fuck you and Ghostface.
Fuck anonymous
After hearing Wiz all these years, his favor for Big Daddy Kane sure doesn’t show.
finally, someone in the game right now recognizing the legends before him. you don’t see that much, …ever.
haha it doesnt show in ur ryhmes u week week week mc
I second that
It’s weak you don’t know how to spell weak.
recently caught up with Wiz Khalifa to discuss his smash-album Rolling Papers
^^ that album was a piece of shit, hardly a smash album, whatever the fuck that is anyways
The token “look I have cred” name drop. Kane would bust you in the mouth if he had to share a stage with you.
Dude’s whole style softer than baby thighs son.
LOL
wiz is a sell out. ol pop star ass nigga lol. new age v.ice