Wiz Khalifa became untethered during a recent concert in Los Angeles and exploded on two DJs providing support for the show.
According to a tweet posted by No Jumper, the incident took place at the Poppy Night Club where DJ Mike Danger and MC Tron were also on the bill.
In the video clip, Khalifa screams at them in front of the audience and was apparently incensed they weren’t playing any selections from his latest album Multiverse, which was released on Friday (July 29).
“Bitch ass n-gga, if you wanna fight, n-gga we can do it,” he says. “Y’all n-ggs suck, don’t hug me bitch. Y’all n-ggas suck. Play my new shit n-gga, play it n-gga, play ‘Bad Ass Bitches.’ Y’all are horrible DJs. I came here tonight to promote for y’all and have a good ass time and have a great time, but you know what I’m not gonna do?
“I’m not gonna sit here and let these hoe ass n-ggas act like this shit is acceptable. I’m a real ass n-ggas dawg. My album just came out today. My album just came out today, play my new shit dawg.”
Wiz Khalifa’s rant elicited a passionate response from several famous names in the turntablist community, including DJ Rob Swift of the X-Ecutioners. Taking to Instagram on Sunday night (July 31), the veteran DJ called out the weed-friendly rapper for his false sense of entitlement.
“The arrogance from @wizkhalifa towards the house DJs in this video encapsulates the puffed up sense of importance from a lot of you rappers,” he wrote. “I don’t know what it is about holding a microphone to your mouth that gives rappers like @wizkhalifa a sense of grandiosity but let me be the first one to say, I’ve sat behind the scenes with many of y’all and I see right through the act. Most of y’all are insecure, can’t fight and none of y’all are killers, that’s for sure!
“With the recent awareness surrounding Mental Health, I’d be interested in reading a study comparing the level of mental illness among rappers like @wizkhalifa versus their DJ counterparts. I’d bet my savings account rappers like @wizkhalifa would win that battle!
He concluded: “Rappers like @wizkhalifa have this false sense of entitlement. They require more admiration from fans than these IG models. It’s insane!”
Longtime Oakland-based DJ Platurn also had a few words for Wiz Khalifa, tweeting, “Wiz Khalifa sucks as a rapper and clearly he’s an even shittier person…this situation is clear insight into what DJing has turned into in modern times…anyone that doesn’t protect their talent when they’re being accosted is a bullshit fuckin’ venue…those DJs should have left.”
Swift later headed to Twitter where he had a little Hip Hop history lesson for Wiz Khalifa: “Rappers like @wizkhalifa actually expect DJs to recognize them as superior which is crazy to me cause DJs started this whole entire culture. So actually, DJs are superior to rappers!”
In other Wiz news, the rapper has stated that he believes Hip Hop is trapped “in a box” because of the current divide between old and new generations.
Having just dropped off his latest funk-infused album Multiverse, the Taylor Gang head sat down for an interview with XXL where he spoke about the lush live instrumentals he relied on for the backdrop of the project.
He said he made the decision to do this because he wanted to show the younger generation a different “musical experience” than they’re used to.
“It just reminds people of different musical experiences,” he told the outlet. “Right now, we’re kind of in a box just because the younger generation, they haven’t really experienced the things that we went through, you know what I mean? So, it’s like, to give them that option so they can feel it and know what it feels like.”
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He continued: “That’s not to say that anything is right or wrong or better or worse, but it’s just to give you that experience and involve you into it, and to give you a chance to get that on a heightened level.”
Did he handle it badly? Sure. But it makes no sense that a DJ would not play an artist’s music who is that night’s club’s main draw, especially the day their new album is released. Hate Wiz and the way he handled it reconfirms he’s a sucker. But he has a point.
I feel like unless Wiz hands them a list of requested songs that you shouldn’t really start playing random selections off a brand new album, not knowing what is good or not. Hell, it’s probably trash so they avoided it on purpose. But man. WIZ is a cocky ass dbag. A self important, better than thou dick. We are clearly peasants while he I’d above us, right…
He would have had a valid point if maybe he was a brand new artist or he just happen to be there and got on the mic but this is not the case, I live in LA and knew about this party, just like his manager knew about this so a list of songs should have been given to the DJ and usually is, for a artist to just drop a album that day or before, no DJ really has the time to pick songs or even listen to his album like that, that’s the artist teams job, if the DJ had started playing songs all Wiz was gonna keep doing is saying next song next song until he got what he wanted to hear, that’s why the manger gives the list so the DJ doesn’t have to try to search and load up the songs.
I get where Wiz coming from. He in the building he a big rap star whether you like it or not he put out an album of what he consider funk bangers so throw on a new joint for 30 seconds and keep it moving. Rob Swift is a legend and I don’t want to contradict him but if the DJs didn’t want the smoke they would have put on a new track for 30 seconds. I heard snippets of the new album there’s no way they couldn’t find a track they couldn’t play a minute of and peace. just try and get along or it a fight. make your choice
Most rappers are pissed you’d play their music before they perform because you kill the material before they take their stage…Whiz comes from an internet generation of hip hop where he wasn’t really performing until he blew up…why he sucks as a performer…
Great point. I opened for Slick Rick and his manager specifically told us (several times) not to play any Slick Rick. De La Soul, Red and Meth, Planet Asia, AZ and several others did the same in my experience.
Wiz usually a lot more chill than this. Got a point but you provoking violence talking like that. Level head and clear messaging, being brash is a bad look and more times than not will elicit the opposite response intended.
I LIKE WIZ BUT I DON’T APPROVE OF THIS. HE LOOKS FRAIL AND BUTT TRYING TO SON THAT DJ WHO IS OBVIOUSLY A PUNK.
From everything I’ve heard and read, that new Wiz album is absolutely terrible and he fell off hard. It’s funny how frail ass bitch niggas start going to the gym and get some muscles suddenly become tough.
Wiz Khalifa fans are in their late 20s and still never hit puberty ?
he looks awful here, really disrespectful
Fuck Wiz. Dude sucks. Disrespectful.
Last night was a nightmare for me. Here I am a fan of Wiz Khalifa and loved his new album spent hours doing a crazy review for my Youtube Channel to promote his music and while waiting for the rendering of the video, took up my phone and went online and the first thing I saw was Rob’s post of WIZ violating those DJs in the Club and I was like Hell No! this can’t be happening right now. The dude made some of the dopest music since Black & Yellow and I gave him his flowers for what he did with this album and now I can’t post my review because I’m a DJ as well and support all DJs and was very hurt to see how he treated them. What haunt me all night was me thinking what if I was the DJ at that spot and my review was already up on Youtube and he violated me like that in front of all these people when I’m pushing his music to my fans out of respect for him while he’s acting all Hollywood? That shit would destroy anyone mentally. Now that review will be lost in my archive of videos like the ending of Raiders of the Lost ARK. I’m sorry Wiz but that shit ain’t right. You hurt us.
Major L to the skinny stoner on this one. DJ should have rocked that skinny bitch as soon as he said he wanted the fade.
If one of them dudes had of accepted the fade Wiz wasn’t gonna fight nobody his security would have stepped in to catch the fade. That was weak as phuck!