Wiz Khalifa has long been known for his affiliation with marijuana and many consider him of the “stoner rap” variety when it comes to Hip Hop.
Recently sitting down with HardKnockTV, the Pittsburgh native says he wants to not be solely labeled a ‘weed head’ rapper and believes that once he expands his endeavors beyond music, the label will start to peel off.
“I was just talking with one of my homies yesterday, I kind of want to break the stigma of everything I do is like a ‘stoner this’ or a ‘weed head’ that, which is cool, that’s what I built my marketing and my brand but at the end of the day everyone who is successful in film or in music get’s high and they don’t look at them as the stoner,” Wiz says when asked about what else he would like to accomplish. “Once I get past that point I think I’ll make more movies so to people id doesn’t look forced or look like I’m trying to change lanes or change gears. It’ll just be people ready for me to do that anyway.”
Wiz Khalifa was also asked about his hometown homie Mac Miller and his recent signing to Warner Bros. Records.
“Being from Pittsburgh, we’re bigger than a label or a situation,” Wiz says. “We started doing music exactly the same way so we going to get to where we want to be in life regardless.”
Watch the full video interview segment below:
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Well maybe this dumb MF’r should not write songs where literally every damn word is about smoking dope & getting high. Seriously what a moron.
While I won’t resort to calling him names, a bit too immature for me, he really did dig his own grave. My man Cudi had the same problem. All those songs and all those photo-shoots with weed in his mouth really did come back to bite him.
how did it bite Cudi?
um yeah , he kinda went about his whole image totally wrong from the start then…dumbass!!!
well that’s going to be kinda hard since he kinda took Currensy’s whole stoner style on How Fly and ran it into the ground..Weed is all he’s talked about since then and people are getting tired of the facade
No worries wiz everything has a “stigma” about you dressing like a transvestite, having gay ass purple hair, marrying a bald tennis ball, and now using autotune and rapping weak as fuck, you used to be good possibly could have been one of the greatest to do it, not now though, if anything try and get the stoner stigma back…