Wiz Khalifa Gets Real: Girl Dad Life, Dealbreakers, Bash’s Future, New Album Kush & OJ 2 + More
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
What's up his way up at the Angela Yee, I'm here,
Jasmine Brand is here, and the.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Guy is in the building with's Khalifa's here? What's up with?
Speaker 1 (00:11):
I was telling you that one time that I smoked
and couldn't feel my legs.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
It was your fault.
Speaker 3 (00:16):
You scared weed.
Speaker 1 (00:17):
I know, I'm not I still do it again. It
wasn't a bad experience.
Speaker 4 (00:20):
You are of a kind of edible.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
I do enjoy edibles.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
And you know what, people a lot of people who
smoke a lot aren't that big on edibles.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
Like you know what I'm saying, They're a little stronger.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
Yeah, I like, I like.
Speaker 5 (00:33):
I like giving people a weed, like for the first time. Yeah, well, yeah,
I'm a good person.
Speaker 4 (00:37):
You couldn't You couldn't feel your was it like a
do you remember if it was?
Speaker 2 (00:40):
Like I say, it was two times that did this
to me.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
There was one time that actually went viral because it
was that powerhouse yep, and I smoked.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
I didn't know what was going on after that.
Speaker 5 (00:51):
Yeah, God, I had an interview and yeah, I don't.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
Know what happened. I took like a I probably only
took two polls. That's how strong it is, Oh my goodness,
But that's a good.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
Thing, right. You don't want to have to like do
too much much now, it's.
Speaker 5 (01:03):
Just a little bit, keep it moving. You can always
tap back in, you know, if you want some more.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
How do you feel seeing so many people come out
with strains, But really you're a person that somebody should
trust because.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
You do this.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
But then you see people who don't even really like
smoke and you know, and then they're like, oh, I
got a cannabis strain.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (01:20):
A lot of people got into it like just for
the money because they see, like, you know, the business
behind it, But you really got to get out in
front of that business.
Speaker 3 (01:29):
You have to like do.
Speaker 5 (01:30):
Zoom calls and meet with the dispensaries and go do
meet and greets and like really really put in the
legwork for your brand to work. And that's the difference
between you know the success of our brand and the.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
Other ones is I didn't just put my name on it.
I'm out here working.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
You were doing that ship when it was illegal.
Speaker 5 (01:48):
You know, I be doing it and burn burn Burner too.
He's yeah, you know, he put me up on game.
But that's really who showed me how to you know,
really put it down in the weak game.
Speaker 3 (01:59):
So that's why we're at where we're at with it, is.
Speaker 4 (02:02):
The weak game for you. Is it been more lucrative
than music.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
No, not at all.
Speaker 5 (02:08):
I make a lot of money off shows my music
so emerged, Yeah, emerching things like that, So it's not
just actual like streams or anything like that. We do
pretty good on music, but the weed it's been something
that the branding and just expanding all over the world,
not even just here in America. We're in Germany, We're
in Thailand. So it's setting stuff up for you know,
(02:31):
the next ten twenty years that we might not even
be able to.
Speaker 3 (02:34):
Touch right now.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
And you have the rolling papers too.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
Rolling papers are important, So talk about that because it
felt like it took you a while to get it
the way you want it is.
Speaker 3 (02:41):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (02:42):
Absolutely, I wanted to do a good product. I wanted
to do something that I don't have to go back
and redo over and over again. And like I said,
I'm really like into well you guys know.
Speaker 4 (02:52):
That all everyone.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
If I want to put it out there, I gotta
really love it. So you know, it took a.
Speaker 4 (02:59):
Second, but there paper seems so hard to roll.
Speaker 3 (03:02):
No, they're easy.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
Okay, he chested me. He got it right.
Speaker 4 (03:06):
Yeah, they're so thin, and I feel like it's like
almost like Bible papers, Like it's just so fragile.
Speaker 3 (03:10):
I just got to put more weed in there.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
Okay, you got it, girl, And you have shrooms coming
out too, right, talk to me about the psychedelics and
so what's the plan with that?
Speaker 5 (03:22):
Just as the laws changed right now that they're not
like full on psychedelics rooms, they're like the ones that
you can grow on your own. They're legal, so they
don't have like the kick in there. But as the
laws changed, then you'll be able to grow the psychedelics
as well through the same brand.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
It's so confusing with the laws, like they rolled us
back then they do this.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
I'm like, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
So our producer got married and mano, but shrooms to
the wedding and when I tell you, he was wilding
out after that.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
But we had a good time.
Speaker 4 (03:53):
Did you try?
Speaker 2 (03:54):
I did have a little bit.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
I'm a microdos so I'm always I'm always cautious, like
I never want to do too much.
Speaker 5 (04:00):
Yeah, no, just a little bit. Like I feel like
if you do a little bit, you can always go
back and do.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
More right right exactly.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
I take your time because sometimes it don't kick in
right away, and so you take it and you're like,
I don't feel nothing, And then.
Speaker 4 (04:14):
Tried it a few times, you I never feel anything,
And I'm okay with that. Okay, but it means I
haven't done enough. I'm sure.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
Yeah, you'll get there.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
And I feel like people were so judgmental about it previously,
and now it's like everybody's like, oh, yeah, I'm doing it.
Speaker 3 (04:24):
Yeah, it's like the thing to do.
Speaker 5 (04:25):
You go to parties and people are just eating little
gummies or a little chocolates or and that's how people
wind down. Now a lot of people aren't drinking as
much alcohol and they kind of just want to do
something that's chilled but still social and shrooms and edibles
and things like that.
Speaker 3 (04:40):
They're becoming safer for that.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
You said you only drink once a month. Now I
try to, okay. I was at Cochella for a couple
of days.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
Yeah, once a month could be like a whole week.
That month's fair.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
How is Coachella? Talk to us about that? Because it
looked like you was having a time. Everybody's fee I
had a good time.
Speaker 5 (05:00):
I was out there to enjoy myself and work juicy
and three six Monthia brought me out and then Tye
brought me out on Sunday. So I probably wouldn't have
been up there if it wasn't for them. I don't
just go party or you don't. But I was there,
so I had a good time.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
Yeah, you said you hadn't been there in years, six years,
I've never been to for real.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
It's hot, it's dusty, dirty. Security guards.
Speaker 5 (05:27):
They they're over doing it something, not all of them,
because a lot of them looked out and not the.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
Ones helping me, but the rest of the rest of it.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
They be doing a lot. They be doing a lot,
so it's too much for me.
Speaker 5 (05:37):
I get like over stimulated now, so if I'm not
at work, I really don't like dealing with all of
that stuff.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
Was a good time, and that's a fun time to
be that you had your young lady with you. That's
fun to be able to have somebody that can rock
with you like that. That's not going to be like
where I'm ready to go, like she having more fun
than you.
Speaker 5 (05:56):
Sometimes we got it like I'm a I'm a lie person,
especially when I'm enjoying myself. So if I'm there to
hear some music, I'm not just gonna be standing there
acting gluesy like, I'm gonna be.
Speaker 4 (06:08):
Like enjoying myself.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
And people got to understand how long you've been in
this game.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
I think yesterday was the fifteen year anniversary, you know
for Cush and Ojay.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
That when I tell you, that is something that to
this day.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
I saw people I think Double Xel might have posted it,
and I saw everybody was talking about what their favorite
songs behind there and how that still slaps like even today.
Speaker 5 (06:30):
Yeah, yeah, I'm really appreciative of that because a lot
of people have really good memories of that. And that's
why I'm happy to be able to, you know, still
do what I do is because it just makes people
feel good.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
What's the pressure of doing a part too?
Speaker 3 (06:42):
Then?
Speaker 5 (06:43):
I don't have no pressure. I have ye, I know
what pocket I'm in, I know what Yeah, I know
what people expect from me, and I'm not scared to
deliver that, you know, And that's what I really want
to deliver. Not like I said, I want to make
those moments, you know, stand out again in people lives.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
You've been doing some amazing freestyles too, and people are like,
he's bringing back like the essence of that mixtape era.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
You know what else?
Speaker 1 (07:08):
I read that that mixtape was the first mixtape to
ever trend on Twitter.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
Yeah it was.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
That's a wild you know how crazy that is to
be able to have that, like, yeah.
Speaker 3 (07:17):
Yep, be like one of the first trending.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
Rappers because think like we don't even think about you.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
Know how that is?
Speaker 3 (07:25):
No.
Speaker 5 (07:25):
I mean, for me, I was utilizing social media. I
still do, but it was new for an artist to
utilize social media to like boost their career, and a
lot of the artists who were already on at that time,
they didn't see the relevance and that, so they were
kind of like shining away from it. But when I
came into the game, it became like, Yo, you need this,
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you need that, you gotta have this account, you gotta
have that, right and yeah, it kind of just molded
that and shaped it and show showed what you can
do based off of that. So I'm really happy to
have like, you know, been a pioneer and busting that
door down.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
But we got a little review of the new project. Yeah,
so it is a mixtape it's an album.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
But it's an album.
Speaker 3 (08:05):
Okay, it's an album.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
Let's be clear, we are.
Speaker 3 (08:10):
It's real, it's a real album.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
I want to say, what's happening that Mano wants to
walk out to that at his wedding because.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
Today, Yeah, yeah, it's smooth, Yeah it is.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
I like it because it just feels the music feels good.
We were in here without know we like we were smoking.
Speaker 4 (08:26):
Yeah, yeah, we were here. It makes me also kind
of want to smoke, also want to clean my house.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
But it's so ful too, it's very so we want.
Speaker 3 (08:33):
To like it's all of those things.
Speaker 5 (08:35):
Yeah, just right around, top down, windows open, makes you
want to get dressed.
Speaker 3 (08:40):
It makes you want to do all of.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
That stuff, maybe lay on the rooftops till somewhere.
Speaker 3 (08:46):
Your whole life up.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
Because I feel like there's so many people who can
be like Emmicky or trying to create a sound, but
you just really enjoy.
Speaker 3 (08:55):
Yeah, and I'm talking about all the things that are real.
Speaker 5 (08:58):
I'm not really reaching and I respect everybody who's you know,
producing and making music now, but I wasn't trying to
like fit in with anything that's going on. And I
digest all the music that's going on now, But that
wasn't my goal to try to make anything that sounds
like what's going on now is.
Speaker 3 (09:17):
I wanted it to sound like.
Speaker 5 (09:18):
What I do, and yeah, I was kept it authentic
and I kept it originally.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
It feels good.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
Thank you, And I want to ask you, did you
decide to do this as a part two in celebration
of the fifteen year anniversary or was it just happened?
Speaker 5 (09:31):
It just happened now way, I started working on it
around this time last year, and it took me about
the same amount of time to create the first one
as well, So by the time I was done, it
just landed at this time and you named.
Speaker 4 (09:44):
It after the entire project was done.
Speaker 5 (09:46):
Nah, I knew it was going to be that walking
into it, because I knew, just me wanting to release
a full project, there would be nothing more exciting than
doing cushion orgies too. Like I could come try to
come up with a whole new concept and people wouldn't
gravitate towards it as much as they would cushion orange
juices too, So I'm like, I might as well do
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what people you know, what they want.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
Think about the different mindset you're in now that you
were back then too. It's a whole different whiz today,
but some things are still the same.
Speaker 3 (10:17):
Yeah, like what the majority what different are saying?
Speaker 2 (10:20):
You're still chill?
Speaker 3 (10:21):
Yeah, I'm still chilling. What else?
Speaker 1 (10:23):
Let's see, But you do have an eight pack now,
so I'm big wiz now ye that working? What does
that do for you? Because it feels like something for
you that is like I remember when you were on
the road and you had to have your equipment with
you to be able to work out, and then this
whole like you know, even just working with this the
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fighting lead that you're working, it's like an m M
yeah yeah, PFL that's perfect for you.
Speaker 2 (10:49):
But what does that do for you?
Speaker 1 (10:51):
Just like the balance of being able to do what
you want to do, but then also being able to
work out all the time and like maintain your physique.
Speaker 5 (10:59):
It's something that that challenges me and that's something that
I need. Like doing music, I love it, but it's
not always challenging. And you know, working out and doing
yoga and stuff like that, I learned stuff about myself
that I apply to my life every day and it
really just helps me mentally and helps me deal with people,
and it gives me something to offer as well, So
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that's why I stick with it.
Speaker 4 (11:21):
You meditate as well, Yeah, yeah, it's.
Speaker 5 (11:23):
All meditation when you look at it, but you know, yeah,
yoga we do like guided meditation and breath work and
sound bowls and all.
Speaker 3 (11:32):
Of that stuff.
Speaker 4 (11:32):
Do you calm your mind? You know, that's the biggest complaint.
Everyone is like, I can't meditate because I can't clear
my mind.
Speaker 5 (11:38):
You gotta breathe. You gotta focus on your breath. You
gotta take one breath at a time. You got to
set a goal of like maybe five deep breaths and
by the time you get to three, you'll be in control.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
Maybe all these lessons, I think that's amazing.
Speaker 3 (11:51):
Yeah, I really do this.
Speaker 1 (11:53):
But when you were saying that it helps you, like
learn how to deal with other things, like, give me
some examples of how this working out, this meditation helps
you in real life when it comes to dealing with
people and this business. Because this business is a tough one.
It brings people down.
Speaker 5 (12:07):
Yeah, you can get wound up really tight, and you
could also start to focus on a lot of things
that you can't control. And I think through these practices
it helps me like just focus on what I can control,
like right there in the moment, and it helps me
be happy without like you know, trying to feel validated
through other things. Like I get validation through the feeling
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that I get from my yoga, So I'm not really
trying to impress nobody. I'm not trying to do If
I come up with an idea, it's because I love it.
It's not for a reaction or anything like that. And
I'm able to create from a way better space like
that than thinking, you know, what's going to you know,
be the next big thing or whatever, because we're all
looking for that. We want that, whether it's in our
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career or personally or whatever. But a lot of that's
a lot of the times it's coming, it's on the way.
So it just helps me like fall back and accept
all of these.
Speaker 4 (12:59):
Things super grounded clearly. But do you ever feel insecure
about anything? Is there anything that you are ever? Because
I feel like you're like always.
Speaker 5 (13:09):
At a you know, people like behind the mask, na, Na,
I'm always confident. I'm always like looking on the bright side,
like I could see the beauty and everything, like even
if something does happen, you know, I see a purpose
or a reason for it, and I see a way
out of it, a way for me to, you know,
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either enjoy it or learn from it, and that comes
from experience, but that also is a choice. And like
I know that, you know, life's not gonna be easy
or it's not gonna be everything. Every day's not a party,
but you have to enjoy each moment the same way,
so you take the good with the bad, and that's
where your real character comes from.
Speaker 1 (13:49):
People need to listen to this because another thing about you,
you're a great co parent.
Speaker 2 (13:54):
You've been that, and that's not easy for a lot
of people.
Speaker 1 (13:58):
What tips would you get people out there if they're
like going through it and they can't get along and
you know, back and forth, but there is a child
involved and you got to make sure that you're good
for that.
Speaker 2 (14:07):
What would you tell.
Speaker 1 (14:08):
People out there who are listening that are like I
can't stand my baby mom or I can't stand my
baby daddy.
Speaker 2 (14:12):
Yeah, fuck my baby daddy, my baby daddy.
Speaker 5 (14:15):
Everybody's situation is different, so it's not it's not easy
at all, But like the way that it starts isn't
how it's got to finish. So if you start out
like fucked up and arguing and shit like that, then
at least like try to you know, you know, don't
keep that shit going forever, right, try to work it out. Yeah,
get it out, work through that, Understand your place and
that and like how much control you have, and work
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on the things that you can be better. And hopefully
you have a partner who grows and matures and a
lot of it has to just do a time and growth,
so hopefully you can grow and mature and get to
that point.
Speaker 3 (14:47):
Yeah, that's my advice.
Speaker 1 (14:49):
Yeah, and for young Bash, it looks like maybe he
might want to be a rapper.
Speaker 5 (14:53):
I don't know, man, that dude's crazy. You see him
rapping at I don't know.
Speaker 1 (14:58):
I just feel like when I see him with you, Yeah,
and it just looks like maybe he's you know, he's
like a rock star.
Speaker 5 (15:04):
Yeah, he's got a big personality. Yeah, he's definitely an individual.
Speaker 4 (15:08):
I wonder where he gets it from.
Speaker 1 (15:10):
Yeah, No, for real, I just be amusing things that
he does when he's with you all the time that
you're like, this is my kid, right, Yeah.
Speaker 3 (15:16):
It's crazy.
Speaker 5 (15:16):
Every time you put a camera on him, he's like
two little fingers up where you learned that ship from?
So ship like that that I did never even pass
down to him, that's what be throwing me off.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
That's hilarious.
Speaker 3 (15:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (15:30):
Now, I so recently this was in the news that
you sold your place in Pittsburgh. Yeah I did, okay,
So are you going to get another place? That's gotta
feel because that was like a house that you have
for a long time, and so what was behind you
saying are you just never there?
Speaker 3 (15:44):
I just had a daughter.
Speaker 5 (15:45):
I don't know if y'all know that she's eight months,
but I haven't like shown her to the world or shown.
Speaker 3 (15:50):
The world her.
Speaker 5 (15:51):
Yeah, yeah, because I just, you know, I want to
keep some stuff to myself.
Speaker 3 (15:55):
I'm older now for real.
Speaker 5 (15:59):
I feel like as soon as Ash was born, like
everybody seemed bad and did so, so it's like, you know,
I could. I'm like, that's another thing that I wanted
to show that we can control as well. It's like,
you don't have to give everybody everything, so just know
how twisted the world is. It's like, you guys will
get her when I'm ready to give y'all her. But
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my mother wanted to move out to l A like
as soon as I had my daughter, she was to you.
Speaker 3 (16:25):
Just wanted to help.
Speaker 5 (16:26):
Yeah, I'm done being so far away, like I want
to I want to see my grandbaby like life.
Speaker 2 (16:35):
How is having a girl different than having it?
Speaker 1 (16:38):
Because people always say when men have daughters it changes
something in you.
Speaker 3 (16:44):
I don't think it changed a lot like like that.
I think. I think I think as she grows.
Speaker 5 (16:51):
Yeah, yeah, I think she starts to get more personality
and stuff, like she already has one. But I think
just having a new born in general and make me soft.
And she's my big be girls, so it's like, yeah,
I got the double up.
Speaker 2 (17:05):
Bashed with her.
Speaker 3 (17:05):
He's really good.
Speaker 5 (17:06):
He's like you know, big brother, super protective, but he
loves the responsibility. He's never been like the jealous type
of kid where he thinks, like you love one more
than the other. Yeah, yeah, he's good to go.
Speaker 2 (17:21):
That's so nice. Do you see yourself having a big
wedding again?
Speaker 5 (17:25):
I didn't before, but the older that I get, I'd
be like it would be cool. Yeah, I like I
like weddings.
Speaker 2 (17:33):
You like a party, the party.
Speaker 5 (17:37):
And yeah it would be cool. I don't I don't mind,
like you know, sharing my last name again.
Speaker 1 (17:43):
Okay, it feels like it's something you've been discussing and
thinking about.
Speaker 5 (17:47):
Okay, sorry, it's the first time I said that.
Speaker 3 (17:53):
Yeah, that's a nice mirror.
Speaker 1 (17:55):
He's like, let's move on from that. But you know,
and even if you think about like I can't imagine
you being with somebody, and you talk about this on
the new album, you know you can't be with nobody
that chips off of other girls, and you definite can't
be with nobody that don't smoke. Also, So those are
two things that I must have for you.
Speaker 5 (18:14):
Yeah, I mean, it's like a confidence type of thing
when it when it comes to other women, because I
just want I just understand like what I do and
what that brings. But I also understand that if my
partner is a powerful person too, even if they look
a certain way and they dress a certain way, I
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have to be comfortable with that as well. So it's
really just reciprocating the same type of energy, like I'm
not going to excuse me run or ruin your life
or your fun or anything like that. You could dress,
you could be sexy, you can go out, But when
I'm doing what I'm doing and I'm on stage, and
my shirt is off, or if there's ten girls screaming
my name, you gotta know what to do with that.
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And it's not to say like you know, just just
some people who who they know they can't deal with that.
They're like, I love you to death, but I'm not
gonna sit there while she's smiling on your face.
Speaker 3 (19:06):
Like that right.
Speaker 2 (19:08):
For you to do the cherry with the girls.
Speaker 3 (19:10):
Oh, I'm doing all that.
Speaker 5 (19:13):
But if she wanted a cherry in her mouth from
another nigga, I gotta be cool with that too.
Speaker 2 (19:16):
And she's a difference.
Speaker 5 (19:19):
I'm confident because I'm really one of them. So it's like,
get your cherry, but my one, get your She ain't
gonna want that.
Speaker 3 (19:28):
You got to know who you with.
Speaker 5 (19:30):
You can't be with a girl and not know she
wanted that cherry the whole time. Y'all gotta have that understanding.
You can't be finding out that night. That's what breaks
up relationship.
Speaker 1 (19:39):
Is with me, you could tie to stand with your tongue, okay,
feel how would you feel dating somebody and they had
girls swimming?
Speaker 2 (19:52):
You can handle that? You think, I don't.
Speaker 4 (19:54):
Know, I just don't.
Speaker 1 (19:55):
I just don't need to be around it all the time,
like a club owner or something, or a promoter.
Speaker 5 (19:58):
But the type of guy I am would rather have
you around than and me be by myself.
Speaker 2 (20:03):
Yeah yeah, yeah, because.
Speaker 4 (20:05):
As long it's not the thing. This gets tricky when
the girls get disrespectful.
Speaker 3 (20:09):
They're going to be disrespectful.
Speaker 2 (20:11):
Yeah, it's gonna happen.
Speaker 5 (20:12):
Yeah, we need to go ahead and get that out
of the I don't know about that, but they're going
to do it like on the on the like they're
gonna be like, oh my god, you're so pretty.
Speaker 2 (20:20):
Yeah that's the.
Speaker 5 (20:25):
Like, now we've got a problem exactly exactly just like
that in that order.
Speaker 1 (20:30):
Can you check a girl grab the dick? Can she
do that then? Or she got a chill out still?
Speaker 5 (20:34):
Yeah, she could check a girl. I'll probably check her too.
I'd be like, slow down, sweetheart, we ain't doing all that.
Hands off the merchandise, okay.
Speaker 1 (20:42):
Or what if like a girl's like, oh, can you
just you know, blow some in my face? So I
could that's okay too. What do they call that a shotgun?
Speaker 5 (20:50):
There's like a respect level to if anything, if we're together,
I'll let her do.
Speaker 1 (20:54):
It, okay, And you're okay with your girl like with
other girls.
Speaker 5 (21:00):
Yeah, okay, yeah for sure, she's not really like that,
but like, but girls like to entertain and y'all they
like to y'all like to do what y'all do.
Speaker 3 (21:08):
So it's like, have a good time.
Speaker 1 (21:09):
Now you're about to go on tour. Also Tailor Gang.
So who's going to be on a tour?
Speaker 3 (21:14):
Me, Chevy and Fed and then we got a bunch
of special guests coming.
Speaker 2 (21:17):
Nice it looks secretive.
Speaker 1 (21:19):
Well, I would assume people from the album. Yeah, absolutely,
for sure, currency.
Speaker 3 (21:23):
Yeah, definitely definitely.
Speaker 2 (21:25):
Okay, who else.
Speaker 3 (21:30):
You got to ride along for the whole tour? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (21:34):
It could be that is it could be.
Speaker 1 (21:38):
What else is on your list of things to do?
Because it feels like you just, you know, live in
your dream everything that you're involved with with PFL, with
the Fighting League, with you know, having your KK I'm
also obviously the music, obviously the merch, the rolling papers,
everything that you have. What else is on the list
of things that with Khalifa is like I still want
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to accomplish.
Speaker 5 (22:03):
Accomplishing I just honestly I take it like day by day,
Like right now I'm focused on the music and really
entertaining my fans. But you know, there could be a
time where I just need a little bit of time
to myself. I might want to go to Thailand for
a few months. I might want to act.
Speaker 3 (22:20):
I might want to learn an instrument acting.
Speaker 2 (22:23):
I mean, you've done that already.
Speaker 5 (22:25):
But so I'm just taking it like one thing at
a time. My album cush Norngs is the most important
thing to me.
Speaker 2 (22:33):
He's like, back to the album.
Speaker 5 (22:34):
Yeah, no, no, no, the most Yeah, it's the most
important thing, like for real. It's it's really like what
my heart is set on right now. It's what all
my intention is is going towards.
Speaker 2 (22:46):
And it's gonna be some fun, cookout stuff for me.
Speaker 3 (22:48):
And it's going to last for longer than just four twenty.
Speaker 5 (22:52):
You know, people is going to associate it with the
you know, the day that they got stoned as fuck,
but it's going to last throughout the summer when you
come to the tour, when you you know, have a
day off, when you go on vacation, and then next
year when the festivals start back up again. It's just
really going to become a theme in a soundtrack to
a lot of people's lives. So I'm putting all my
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energy into.
Speaker 1 (23:14):
That, and you've also been rolling it out like a
real like single came out, you know, at the end
of last year and another single. I feel like people
aren't doing that as much as they used to, like
a whole plan and a promo and roll out right.
Speaker 3 (23:26):
That was the goal.
Speaker 5 (23:27):
I wanted to extend the experience because if I would
have just went like, you know, track list, single album,
then it would have been forgotten already. But we're still
talking about and then people are still excited for it,
and it's going to set up for the next couple
of things that we that we have coming or if
we want to do anything. So it's really important to
like make sure it hits how it's supposed to.
Speaker 2 (23:49):
And you also have a Max B interlude on there.
Talk to me about that.
Speaker 1 (23:53):
Max B was one of my most iconic early on
Lip Service episodes when I was as serious, he was wild,
but he's a good time. But talk to us about
that interluding how that even just being a.
Speaker 5 (24:04):
Big fan of Max, he's super you know, yeah, he
is waving. He's important. He's important to my era of
mixtapes before I was, before I was making you know,
mixtapes that people listen to. He's who I would listen to,
like just go get all his mixtapes, or I just
followed his you know, trajectory or what he was doing
(24:24):
and it just made sense and it resonated with me.
And then, you know, just coming up in my career,
I always showed him love. I always you know, let
people know how much he was an inspiration to me
and my whole.
Speaker 3 (24:34):
Fan base too.
Speaker 5 (24:35):
So that's what it's really about, is just you know,
entertaining our fans and his fans at the same time,
and just giving people that feeling.
Speaker 1 (24:43):
They need as somebody who's also been really big independently
but also big as a signed artist. Can you talk
to me about the pros and kinds of each because
I always hear people downing both sides of it, Like
somebody who's independent will be like, you know, oh why
is that person signed? But somebody who's I would be like, oh,
independent is not the way to go. Can you talk
to us about the pros and cons of both?
Speaker 3 (25:05):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (25:05):
So, uh, independent you have to work a lot harder.
You don't have as much, like you know, just people
working for you, whereas their job.
Speaker 2 (25:15):
You got to hire people.
Speaker 3 (25:16):
Yeah, you people. You got to spend your own money.
Speaker 5 (25:18):
You're in competition with people who are spending you know,
millions of dollars and you're just depending on your fans.
So you know, it's a lot when you when that's
what you're up against and you're and you're trying to
get to that level. Way more stressful, it's it's I
don't think it's more stressful because when you're signed, you
have a lot of stresses.
Speaker 2 (25:39):
Why are they doing what they're supposed to do?
Speaker 3 (25:41):
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 (25:42):
You've got to go over to dates with them and.
Speaker 3 (25:44):
Yeah, I was about to say.
Speaker 4 (25:46):
You have more creativity when you're independent.
Speaker 5 (25:47):
Yeah, you have more freedom when you're independent, you can
drop whatever you want to. But having a label structure,
there is a lot of good to go with that,
you know what I mean, especially when you're the type
of artist who can make those type songs on that level.
When you have a label behind you, it helps a lot.
But there's more freedom of course being independent, but you're
just gonna have to.
Speaker 3 (26:08):
Work way harder.
Speaker 2 (26:09):
What works better for you you think?
Speaker 5 (26:12):
I think for me it works being able to go
in between both, like if I could.
Speaker 2 (26:16):
Because you can structure a deal how you want.
Speaker 5 (26:18):
Yeah, you can structure it for how you want, however
long you want, if it's one album or you know,
however many albums. You don't have to just sign because,
especially with me, because I have leverage, I've done this before.
Speaker 3 (26:31):
So I could just chill for a minute.
Speaker 5 (26:33):
I could drop four independent project projects and be like, Okay,
I want to do this fifth one on a major right,
and it'll work.
Speaker 3 (26:39):
It'll be perfectly fine. So I think that's the best.
Speaker 5 (26:42):
Thing for me, is just gauging what is more for
my fans and what I want to do on this
level where it's a roll out and it's a plan.
Speaker 2 (26:50):
Do you like being a label boss too?
Speaker 3 (26:53):
I do?
Speaker 1 (26:53):
Okay, some people feel like that's just if there's a
lot of artists that are like now they're coming to you,
and you can sometimes be the mad guy.
Speaker 3 (27:01):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (27:01):
I mean, I think the good thing about the industry
or just the game in general is like artists are
self sufficient, so we don't really have to do too.
Speaker 3 (27:09):
Much for them to succeed.
Speaker 5 (27:12):
And if I can, you know, see you as somebody
with talent the potential, it's not because of what I
can do for you anyway, So you're already bringing something
to the table, so we're good.
Speaker 1 (27:22):
Yep, all right, Well listen, Wiz, I appreciate you so much,
you know you always like, no matter where I'm working at,
You're gonna come.
Speaker 3 (27:28):
Through and I'm gonna give you some weed too.
Speaker 2 (27:30):
And oh I didn't want I got you the first thing.
Speaker 1 (27:34):
The first thing I thought when you was on the
schedule is like, I hope he brings some weed. Is
that a shame that people expect that from I mean,
that's part of who he is.
Speaker 3 (27:42):
You can hear the album for real now, like, oh man,
this is the best album I ever heard.
Speaker 2 (27:51):
You see how you could look at this and see
the quality in it?
Speaker 4 (27:55):
You don't? But you didn't roll this yourself? This is
your your company?
Speaker 3 (27:58):
Did this?
Speaker 2 (27:59):
Has somebody hire for that?
Speaker 5 (28:00):
I personally rolled all of the No I used the
rolling t at the bottom.
Speaker 1 (28:05):
Up that is my and the rolling train that I
use is from you too. That's the one that I
have at home for the times that I.
Speaker 3 (28:11):
Do pretty much all the only one you need, I know.
Speaker 2 (28:13):
That's right, all right?
Speaker 1 (28:14):
See, that's what we're talking about quality. But again, the
new album, because it's not a mixtape. Just to be clear,
it's out on Friday.
Speaker 5 (28:21):
On Friday or for eighteen, but you can pre save
it now. Make sure you guys pre save it so
it just goes straight to your phone.
Speaker 3 (28:28):
Pre rolling now rolling.
Speaker 5 (28:30):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (28:32):
No, I'm going to use this tonight because I want
to go home and I feel my legs again.
Speaker 4 (28:36):
Yeah, wait a minute, it's going to be that kind
of situation.
Speaker 3 (28:38):
Do I need to like just take two puffs and
then put it out.
Speaker 2 (28:41):
Because you have.
Speaker 4 (28:44):
Interview.
Speaker 2 (28:44):
I think you should do it before. I think that
would be phenomenal and you can be stuck. Okay, no, terrible, Right,
let's wait till the end of the day.
Speaker 3 (28:50):
You heard it be stuck stuck.
Speaker 1 (28:52):
I think that's amazing because you did it to me.
But I had to do all these interviews and I
was like, I don't but I felt good.
Speaker 3 (29:00):
Yeah, I felt good. Yeah that's all that matters.
Speaker 1 (29:03):
You're gonna have some good fleet probably okay, perfect, all right, Well,
thank you again.
Speaker 2 (29:07):
Always amazing to see you. We appreciate you. Congratulations, thank
you
Speaker 3 (29:13):
Way up.
What's up his way up at the Angela Yee, I'm here,
Jasmine Brand is here, and the.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Guy is in the building with's Khalifa's here? What's up with?
Speaker 1 (00:11):
I was telling you that one time that I smoked
and couldn't feel my legs.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
It was your fault.
Speaker 3 (00:16):
You scared weed.
Speaker 1 (00:17):
I know, I'm not I still do it again. It
wasn't a bad experience.
Speaker 4 (00:20):
You are of a kind of edible.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
I do enjoy edibles.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
And you know what, people a lot of people who
smoke a lot aren't that big on edibles.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
Like you know what I'm saying, They're a little stronger.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
Yeah, I like, I like.
Speaker 5 (00:33):
I like giving people a weed, like for the first time. Yeah, well, yeah,
I'm a good person.
Speaker 4 (00:37):
You couldn't You couldn't feel your was it like a
do you remember if it was?
Speaker 2 (00:40):
Like I say, it was two times that did this
to me.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
There was one time that actually went viral because it
was that powerhouse yep, and I smoked.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
I didn't know what was going on after that.
Speaker 5 (00:51):
Yeah, God, I had an interview and yeah, I don't.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
Know what happened. I took like a I probably only
took two polls. That's how strong it is, Oh my goodness,
But that's a good.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
Thing, right. You don't want to have to like do
too much much now, it's.
Speaker 5 (01:03):
Just a little bit, keep it moving. You can always
tap back in, you know, if you want some more.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
How do you feel seeing so many people come out
with strains, But really you're a person that somebody should
trust because.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
You do this.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
But then you see people who don't even really like
smoke and you know, and then they're like, oh, I
got a cannabis strain.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (01:20):
A lot of people got into it like just for
the money because they see, like, you know, the business
behind it, But you really got to get out in
front of that business.
Speaker 3 (01:29):
You have to like do.
Speaker 5 (01:30):
Zoom calls and meet with the dispensaries and go do
meet and greets and like really really put in the
legwork for your brand to work. And that's the difference
between you know the success of our brand and the.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
Other ones is I didn't just put my name on it.
I'm out here working.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
You were doing that ship when it was illegal.
Speaker 5 (01:48):
You know, I be doing it and burn burn Burner too.
He's yeah, you know, he put me up on game.
But that's really who showed me how to you know,
really put it down in the weak game.
Speaker 3 (01:59):
So that's why we're at where we're at with it, is.
Speaker 4 (02:02):
The weak game for you. Is it been more lucrative
than music.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
No, not at all.
Speaker 5 (02:08):
I make a lot of money off shows my music
so emerged, Yeah, emerching things like that, So it's not
just actual like streams or anything like that. We do
pretty good on music, but the weed it's been something
that the branding and just expanding all over the world,
not even just here in America. We're in Germany, We're
in Thailand. So it's setting stuff up for you know,
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the next ten twenty years that we might not even
be able to.
Speaker 3 (02:34):
Touch right now.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
And you have the rolling papers too.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
Rolling papers are important, So talk about that because it
felt like it took you a while to get it
the way you want it is.
Speaker 3 (02:41):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (02:42):
Absolutely, I wanted to do a good product. I wanted
to do something that I don't have to go back
and redo over and over again. And like I said,
I'm really like into well you guys know.
Speaker 4 (02:52):
That all everyone.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
If I want to put it out there, I gotta
really love it. So you know, it took a.
Speaker 4 (02:59):
Second, but there paper seems so hard to roll.
Speaker 3 (03:02):
No, they're easy.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
Okay, he chested me. He got it right.
Speaker 4 (03:06):
Yeah, they're so thin, and I feel like it's like
almost like Bible papers, Like it's just so fragile.
Speaker 3 (03:10):
I just got to put more weed in there.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
Okay, you got it, girl, And you have shrooms coming
out too, right, talk to me about the psychedelics and
so what's the plan with that?
Speaker 5 (03:22):
Just as the laws changed right now that they're not
like full on psychedelics rooms, they're like the ones that
you can grow on your own. They're legal, so they
don't have like the kick in there. But as the
laws changed, then you'll be able to grow the psychedelics
as well through the same brand.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
It's so confusing with the laws, like they rolled us
back then they do this.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
I'm like, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
So our producer got married and mano, but shrooms to
the wedding and when I tell you, he was wilding
out after that.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
But we had a good time.
Speaker 4 (03:53):
Did you try?
Speaker 2 (03:54):
I did have a little bit.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
I'm a microdos so I'm always I'm always cautious, like
I never want to do too much.
Speaker 5 (04:00):
Yeah, no, just a little bit. Like I feel like
if you do a little bit, you can always go
back and do.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
More right right exactly.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
I take your time because sometimes it don't kick in
right away, and so you take it and you're like,
I don't feel nothing, And then.
Speaker 4 (04:14):
Tried it a few times, you I never feel anything,
And I'm okay with that. Okay, but it means I
haven't done enough. I'm sure.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
Yeah, you'll get there.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
And I feel like people were so judgmental about it previously,
and now it's like everybody's like, oh, yeah, I'm doing it.
Speaker 3 (04:24):
Yeah, it's like the thing to do.
Speaker 5 (04:25):
You go to parties and people are just eating little
gummies or a little chocolates or and that's how people
wind down. Now a lot of people aren't drinking as
much alcohol and they kind of just want to do
something that's chilled but still social and shrooms and edibles
and things like that.
Speaker 3 (04:40):
They're becoming safer for that.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
You said you only drink once a month. Now I
try to, okay. I was at Cochella for a couple
of days.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
Yeah, once a month could be like a whole week.
That month's fair.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
How is Coachella? Talk to us about that? Because it
looked like you was having a time. Everybody's fee I
had a good time.
Speaker 5 (05:00):
I was out there to enjoy myself and work juicy
and three six Monthia brought me out and then Tye
brought me out on Sunday. So I probably wouldn't have
been up there if it wasn't for them. I don't
just go party or you don't. But I was there,
so I had a good time.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
Yeah, you said you hadn't been there in years, six years,
I've never been to for real.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
It's hot, it's dusty, dirty. Security guards.
Speaker 5 (05:27):
They they're over doing it something, not all of them,
because a lot of them looked out and not the.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
Ones helping me, but the rest of the rest of it.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
They be doing a lot. They be doing a lot,
so it's too much for me.
Speaker 5 (05:37):
I get like over stimulated now, so if I'm not
at work, I really don't like dealing with all of
that stuff.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
Was a good time, and that's a fun time to
be that you had your young lady with you. That's
fun to be able to have somebody that can rock
with you like that. That's not going to be like
where I'm ready to go, like she having more fun
than you.
Speaker 5 (05:56):
Sometimes we got it like I'm a I'm a lie person,
especially when I'm enjoying myself. So if I'm there to
hear some music, I'm not just gonna be standing there
acting gluesy like, I'm gonna be.
Speaker 4 (06:08):
Like enjoying myself.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
And people got to understand how long you've been in
this game.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
I think yesterday was the fifteen year anniversary, you know
for Cush and Ojay.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
That when I tell you, that is something that to
this day.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
I saw people I think Double Xel might have posted it,
and I saw everybody was talking about what their favorite
songs behind there and how that still slaps like even today.
Speaker 5 (06:30):
Yeah, yeah, I'm really appreciative of that because a lot
of people have really good memories of that. And that's
why I'm happy to be able to, you know, still
do what I do is because it just makes people
feel good.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
What's the pressure of doing a part too?
Speaker 3 (06:42):
Then?
Speaker 5 (06:43):
I don't have no pressure. I have ye, I know
what pocket I'm in, I know what Yeah, I know
what people expect from me, and I'm not scared to
deliver that, you know, And that's what I really want
to deliver. Not like I said, I want to make
those moments, you know, stand out again in people lives.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
You've been doing some amazing freestyles too, and people are like,
he's bringing back like the essence of that mixtape era.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
You know what else?
Speaker 1 (07:08):
I read that that mixtape was the first mixtape to
ever trend on Twitter.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
Yeah it was.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
That's a wild you know how crazy that is to
be able to have that, like, yeah.
Speaker 3 (07:17):
Yep, be like one of the first trending.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
Rappers because think like we don't even think about you.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
Know how that is?
Speaker 3 (07:25):
No.
Speaker 5 (07:25):
I mean, for me, I was utilizing social media. I
still do, but it was new for an artist to
utilize social media to like boost their career, and a
lot of the artists who were already on at that time,
they didn't see the relevance and that, so they were
kind of like shining away from it. But when I
came into the game, it became like, Yo, you need this,
(07:46):
you need that, you gotta have this account, you gotta
have that, right and yeah, it kind of just molded
that and shaped it and show showed what you can
do based off of that. So I'm really happy to
have like, you know, been a pioneer and busting that
door down.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
But we got a little review of the new project. Yeah,
so it is a mixtape it's an album.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
But it's an album.
Speaker 3 (08:05):
Okay, it's an album.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
Let's be clear, we are.
Speaker 3 (08:10):
It's real, it's a real album.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
I want to say, what's happening that Mano wants to
walk out to that at his wedding because.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
Today, Yeah, yeah, it's smooth, Yeah it is.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
I like it because it just feels the music feels good.
We were in here without know we like we were smoking.
Speaker 4 (08:26):
Yeah, yeah, we were here. It makes me also kind
of want to smoke, also want to clean my house.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
But it's so ful too, it's very so we want.
Speaker 3 (08:33):
To like it's all of those things.
Speaker 5 (08:35):
Yeah, just right around, top down, windows open, makes you
want to get dressed.
Speaker 3 (08:40):
It makes you want to do all of.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
That stuff, maybe lay on the rooftops till somewhere.
Speaker 3 (08:46):
Your whole life up.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
Because I feel like there's so many people who can
be like Emmicky or trying to create a sound, but
you just really enjoy.
Speaker 3 (08:55):
Yeah, and I'm talking about all the things that are real.
Speaker 5 (08:58):
I'm not really reaching and I respect everybody who's you know,
producing and making music now, but I wasn't trying to
like fit in with anything that's going on. And I
digest all the music that's going on now, But that
wasn't my goal to try to make anything that sounds
like what's going on now is.
Speaker 3 (09:17):
I wanted it to sound like.
Speaker 5 (09:18):
What I do, and yeah, I was kept it authentic
and I kept it originally.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
It feels good.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
Thank you, And I want to ask you, did you
decide to do this as a part two in celebration
of the fifteen year anniversary or was it just happened?
Speaker 5 (09:31):
It just happened now way, I started working on it
around this time last year, and it took me about
the same amount of time to create the first one
as well, So by the time I was done, it
just landed at this time and you named.
Speaker 4 (09:44):
It after the entire project was done.
Speaker 5 (09:46):
Nah, I knew it was going to be that walking
into it, because I knew, just me wanting to release
a full project, there would be nothing more exciting than
doing cushion orgies too. Like I could come try to
come up with a whole new concept and people wouldn't
gravitate towards it as much as they would cushion orange
juices too, So I'm like, I might as well do
(10:06):
what people you know, what they want.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
Think about the different mindset you're in now that you
were back then too. It's a whole different whiz today,
but some things are still the same.
Speaker 3 (10:17):
Yeah, like what the majority what different are saying?
Speaker 2 (10:20):
You're still chill?
Speaker 3 (10:21):
Yeah, I'm still chilling. What else?
Speaker 1 (10:23):
Let's see, But you do have an eight pack now,
so I'm big wiz now ye that working? What does
that do for you? Because it feels like something for
you that is like I remember when you were on
the road and you had to have your equipment with
you to be able to work out, and then this
whole like you know, even just working with this the
(10:44):
fighting lead that you're working, it's like an m M
yeah yeah, PFL that's perfect for you.
Speaker 2 (10:49):
But what does that do for you?
Speaker 1 (10:51):
Just like the balance of being able to do what
you want to do, but then also being able to
work out all the time and like maintain your physique.
Speaker 5 (10:59):
It's something that that challenges me and that's something that
I need. Like doing music, I love it, but it's
not always challenging. And you know, working out and doing
yoga and stuff like that, I learned stuff about myself
that I apply to my life every day and it
really just helps me mentally and helps me deal with people,
and it gives me something to offer as well, So
(11:20):
that's why I stick with it.
Speaker 4 (11:21):
You meditate as well, Yeah, yeah, it's.
Speaker 5 (11:23):
All meditation when you look at it, but you know, yeah,
yoga we do like guided meditation and breath work and
sound bowls and all.
Speaker 3 (11:32):
Of that stuff.
Speaker 4 (11:32):
Do you calm your mind? You know, that's the biggest complaint.
Everyone is like, I can't meditate because I can't clear
my mind.
Speaker 5 (11:38):
You gotta breathe. You gotta focus on your breath. You
gotta take one breath at a time. You got to
set a goal of like maybe five deep breaths and
by the time you get to three, you'll be in control.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
Maybe all these lessons, I think that's amazing.
Speaker 3 (11:51):
Yeah, I really do this.
Speaker 1 (11:53):
But when you were saying that it helps you, like
learn how to deal with other things, like, give me
some examples of how this working out, this meditation helps
you in real life when it comes to dealing with
people and this business. Because this business is a tough one.
It brings people down.
Speaker 5 (12:07):
Yeah, you can get wound up really tight, and you
could also start to focus on a lot of things
that you can't control. And I think through these practices
it helps me like just focus on what I can control,
like right there in the moment, and it helps me
be happy without like you know, trying to feel validated
through other things. Like I get validation through the feeling
(12:29):
that I get from my yoga, So I'm not really
trying to impress nobody. I'm not trying to do If
I come up with an idea, it's because I love it.
It's not for a reaction or anything like that. And
I'm able to create from a way better space like
that than thinking, you know, what's going to you know,
be the next big thing or whatever, because we're all
looking for that. We want that, whether it's in our
(12:50):
career or personally or whatever. But a lot of that's
a lot of the times it's coming, it's on the way.
So it just helps me like fall back and accept
all of these.
Speaker 4 (12:59):
Things super grounded clearly. But do you ever feel insecure
about anything? Is there anything that you are ever? Because
I feel like you're like always.
Speaker 5 (13:09):
At a you know, people like behind the mask, na, Na,
I'm always confident. I'm always like looking on the bright side,
like I could see the beauty and everything, like even
if something does happen, you know, I see a purpose
or a reason for it, and I see a way
out of it, a way for me to, you know,
(13:30):
either enjoy it or learn from it, and that comes
from experience, but that also is a choice. And like
I know that, you know, life's not gonna be easy
or it's not gonna be everything. Every day's not a party,
but you have to enjoy each moment the same way,
so you take the good with the bad, and that's
where your real character comes from.
Speaker 1 (13:49):
People need to listen to this because another thing about you,
you're a great co parent.
Speaker 2 (13:54):
You've been that, and that's not easy for a lot
of people.
Speaker 1 (13:58):
What tips would you get people out there if they're
like going through it and they can't get along and
you know, back and forth, but there is a child
involved and you got to make sure that you're good
for that.
Speaker 2 (14:07):
What would you tell.
Speaker 1 (14:08):
People out there who are listening that are like I
can't stand my baby mom or I can't stand my
baby daddy.
Speaker 2 (14:12):
Yeah, fuck my baby daddy, my baby daddy.
Speaker 5 (14:15):
Everybody's situation is different, so it's not it's not easy
at all, But like the way that it starts isn't
how it's got to finish. So if you start out
like fucked up and arguing and shit like that, then
at least like try to you know, you know, don't
keep that shit going forever, right, try to work it out. Yeah,
get it out, work through that, Understand your place and
that and like how much control you have, and work
(14:36):
on the things that you can be better. And hopefully
you have a partner who grows and matures and a
lot of it has to just do a time and growth,
so hopefully you can grow and mature and get to
that point.
Speaker 3 (14:47):
Yeah, that's my advice.
Speaker 1 (14:49):
Yeah, and for young Bash, it looks like maybe he
might want to be a rapper.
Speaker 5 (14:53):
I don't know, man, that dude's crazy. You see him
rapping at I don't know.
Speaker 1 (14:58):
I just feel like when I see him with you, Yeah,
and it just looks like maybe he's you know, he's
like a rock star.
Speaker 5 (15:04):
Yeah, he's got a big personality. Yeah, he's definitely an individual.
Speaker 4 (15:08):
I wonder where he gets it from.
Speaker 1 (15:10):
Yeah, No, for real, I just be amusing things that
he does when he's with you all the time that
you're like, this is my kid, right, Yeah.
Speaker 3 (15:16):
It's crazy.
Speaker 5 (15:16):
Every time you put a camera on him, he's like
two little fingers up where you learned that ship from?
So ship like that that I did never even pass
down to him, that's what be throwing me off.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
That's hilarious.
Speaker 3 (15:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (15:30):
Now, I so recently this was in the news that
you sold your place in Pittsburgh. Yeah I did, okay,
So are you going to get another place? That's gotta
feel because that was like a house that you have
for a long time, and so what was behind you
saying are you just never there?
Speaker 3 (15:44):
I just had a daughter.
Speaker 5 (15:45):
I don't know if y'all know that she's eight months,
but I haven't like shown her to the world or shown.
Speaker 3 (15:50):
The world her.
Speaker 5 (15:51):
Yeah, yeah, because I just, you know, I want to
keep some stuff to myself.
Speaker 3 (15:55):
I'm older now for real.
Speaker 5 (15:59):
I feel like as soon as Ash was born, like
everybody seemed bad and did so, so it's like, you know,
I could. I'm like, that's another thing that I wanted
to show that we can control as well. It's like,
you don't have to give everybody everything, so just know
how twisted the world is. It's like, you guys will
get her when I'm ready to give y'all her. But
(16:20):
my mother wanted to move out to l A like
as soon as I had my daughter, she was to you.
Speaker 3 (16:25):
Just wanted to help.
Speaker 5 (16:26):
Yeah, I'm done being so far away, like I want
to I want to see my grandbaby like life.
Speaker 2 (16:35):
How is having a girl different than having it?
Speaker 1 (16:38):
Because people always say when men have daughters it changes
something in you.
Speaker 3 (16:44):
I don't think it changed a lot like like that.
I think. I think I think as she grows.
Speaker 5 (16:51):
Yeah, yeah, I think she starts to get more personality
and stuff, like she already has one. But I think
just having a new born in general and make me soft.
And she's my big be girls, so it's like, yeah,
I got the double up.
Speaker 2 (17:05):
Bashed with her.
Speaker 3 (17:05):
He's really good.
Speaker 5 (17:06):
He's like you know, big brother, super protective, but he
loves the responsibility. He's never been like the jealous type
of kid where he thinks, like you love one more
than the other. Yeah, yeah, he's good to go.
Speaker 2 (17:21):
That's so nice. Do you see yourself having a big
wedding again?
Speaker 5 (17:25):
I didn't before, but the older that I get, I'd
be like it would be cool. Yeah, I like I
like weddings.
Speaker 2 (17:33):
You like a party, the party.
Speaker 5 (17:37):
And yeah it would be cool. I don't I don't mind,
like you know, sharing my last name again.
Speaker 1 (17:43):
Okay, it feels like it's something you've been discussing and
thinking about.
Speaker 5 (17:47):
Okay, sorry, it's the first time I said that.
Speaker 3 (17:53):
Yeah, that's a nice mirror.
Speaker 1 (17:55):
He's like, let's move on from that. But you know,
and even if you think about like I can't imagine
you being with somebody, and you talk about this on
the new album, you know you can't be with nobody
that chips off of other girls, and you definite can't
be with nobody that don't smoke. Also, So those are
two things that I must have for you.
Speaker 5 (18:14):
Yeah, I mean, it's like a confidence type of thing
when it when it comes to other women, because I
just want I just understand like what I do and
what that brings. But I also understand that if my
partner is a powerful person too, even if they look
a certain way and they dress a certain way, I
(18:34):
have to be comfortable with that as well. So it's
really just reciprocating the same type of energy, like I'm
not going to excuse me run or ruin your life
or your fun or anything like that. You could dress,
you could be sexy, you can go out, But when
I'm doing what I'm doing and I'm on stage, and
my shirt is off, or if there's ten girls screaming
my name, you gotta know what to do with that.
(18:56):
And it's not to say like you know, just just
some people who who they know they can't deal with that.
They're like, I love you to death, but I'm not
gonna sit there while she's smiling on your face.
Speaker 3 (19:06):
Like that right.
Speaker 2 (19:08):
For you to do the cherry with the girls.
Speaker 3 (19:10):
Oh, I'm doing all that.
Speaker 5 (19:13):
But if she wanted a cherry in her mouth from
another nigga, I gotta be cool with that too.
Speaker 2 (19:16):
And she's a difference.
Speaker 5 (19:19):
I'm confident because I'm really one of them. So it's like,
get your cherry, but my one, get your She ain't
gonna want that.
Speaker 3 (19:28):
You got to know who you with.
Speaker 5 (19:30):
You can't be with a girl and not know she
wanted that cherry the whole time. Y'all gotta have that understanding.
You can't be finding out that night. That's what breaks
up relationship.
Speaker 1 (19:39):
Is with me, you could tie to stand with your tongue, okay,
feel how would you feel dating somebody and they had
girls swimming?
Speaker 2 (19:52):
You can handle that? You think, I don't.
Speaker 4 (19:54):
Know, I just don't.
Speaker 1 (19:55):
I just don't need to be around it all the time,
like a club owner or something, or a promoter.
Speaker 5 (19:58):
But the type of guy I am would rather have
you around than and me be by myself.
Speaker 2 (20:03):
Yeah yeah, yeah, because.
Speaker 4 (20:05):
As long it's not the thing. This gets tricky when
the girls get disrespectful.
Speaker 3 (20:09):
They're going to be disrespectful.
Speaker 2 (20:11):
Yeah, it's gonna happen.
Speaker 5 (20:12):
Yeah, we need to go ahead and get that out
of the I don't know about that, but they're going
to do it like on the on the like they're
gonna be like, oh my god, you're so pretty.
Speaker 2 (20:20):
Yeah that's the.
Speaker 5 (20:25):
Like, now we've got a problem exactly exactly just like
that in that order.
Speaker 1 (20:30):
Can you check a girl grab the dick? Can she
do that then? Or she got a chill out still?
Speaker 5 (20:34):
Yeah, she could check a girl. I'll probably check her too.
I'd be like, slow down, sweetheart, we ain't doing all that.
Hands off the merchandise, okay.
Speaker 1 (20:42):
Or what if like a girl's like, oh, can you
just you know, blow some in my face? So I
could that's okay too. What do they call that a shotgun?
Speaker 5 (20:50):
There's like a respect level to if anything, if we're together,
I'll let her do.
Speaker 1 (20:54):
It, okay, And you're okay with your girl like with
other girls.
Speaker 5 (21:00):
Yeah, okay, yeah for sure, she's not really like that,
but like, but girls like to entertain and y'all they
like to y'all like to do what y'all do.
Speaker 3 (21:08):
So it's like, have a good time.
Speaker 1 (21:09):
Now you're about to go on tour. Also Tailor Gang.
So who's going to be on a tour?
Speaker 3 (21:14):
Me, Chevy and Fed and then we got a bunch
of special guests coming.
Speaker 2 (21:17):
Nice it looks secretive.
Speaker 1 (21:19):
Well, I would assume people from the album. Yeah, absolutely,
for sure, currency.
Speaker 3 (21:23):
Yeah, definitely definitely.
Speaker 2 (21:25):
Okay, who else.
Speaker 3 (21:30):
You got to ride along for the whole tour? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (21:34):
It could be that is it could be.
Speaker 1 (21:38):
What else is on your list of things to do?
Because it feels like you just, you know, live in
your dream everything that you're involved with with PFL, with
the Fighting League, with you know, having your KK I'm
also obviously the music, obviously the merch, the rolling papers,
everything that you have. What else is on the list
of things that with Khalifa is like I still want
(22:01):
to accomplish.
Speaker 5 (22:03):
Accomplishing I just honestly I take it like day by day,
Like right now I'm focused on the music and really
entertaining my fans. But you know, there could be a
time where I just need a little bit of time
to myself. I might want to go to Thailand for
a few months. I might want to act.
Speaker 3 (22:20):
I might want to learn an instrument acting.
Speaker 2 (22:23):
I mean, you've done that already.
Speaker 5 (22:25):
But so I'm just taking it like one thing at
a time. My album cush Norngs is the most important
thing to me.
Speaker 2 (22:33):
He's like, back to the album.
Speaker 5 (22:34):
Yeah, no, no, no, the most Yeah, it's the most
important thing, like for real. It's it's really like what
my heart is set on right now. It's what all
my intention is is going towards.
Speaker 2 (22:46):
And it's gonna be some fun, cookout stuff for me.
Speaker 3 (22:48):
And it's going to last for longer than just four twenty.
Speaker 5 (22:52):
You know, people is going to associate it with the
you know, the day that they got stoned as fuck,
but it's going to last throughout the summer when you
come to the tour, when you you know, have a
day off, when you go on vacation, and then next
year when the festivals start back up again. It's just
really going to become a theme in a soundtrack to
a lot of people's lives. So I'm putting all my
(23:13):
energy into.
Speaker 1 (23:14):
That, and you've also been rolling it out like a
real like single came out, you know, at the end
of last year and another single. I feel like people
aren't doing that as much as they used to, like
a whole plan and a promo and roll out right.
Speaker 3 (23:26):
That was the goal.
Speaker 5 (23:27):
I wanted to extend the experience because if I would
have just went like, you know, track list, single album,
then it would have been forgotten already. But we're still
talking about and then people are still excited for it,
and it's going to set up for the next couple
of things that we that we have coming or if
we want to do anything. So it's really important to
like make sure it hits how it's supposed to.
Speaker 2 (23:49):
And you also have a Max B interlude on there.
Talk to me about that.
Speaker 1 (23:53):
Max B was one of my most iconic early on
Lip Service episodes when I was as serious, he was wild,
but he's a good time. But talk to us about
that interluding how that even just being a.
Speaker 5 (24:04):
Big fan of Max, he's super you know, yeah, he
is waving. He's important. He's important to my era of
mixtapes before I was, before I was making you know,
mixtapes that people listen to. He's who I would listen to,
like just go get all his mixtapes, or I just
followed his you know, trajectory or what he was doing
(24:24):
and it just made sense and it resonated with me.
And then, you know, just coming up in my career,
I always showed him love. I always you know, let
people know how much he was an inspiration to me
and my whole.
Speaker 3 (24:34):
Fan base too.
Speaker 5 (24:35):
So that's what it's really about, is just you know,
entertaining our fans and his fans at the same time,
and just giving people that feeling.
Speaker 1 (24:43):
They need as somebody who's also been really big independently
but also big as a signed artist. Can you talk
to me about the pros and kinds of each because
I always hear people downing both sides of it, Like
somebody who's independent will be like, you know, oh why
is that person signed? But somebody who's I would be like, oh,
independent is not the way to go. Can you talk
to us about the pros and cons of both?
Speaker 3 (25:05):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (25:05):
So, uh, independent you have to work a lot harder.
You don't have as much, like you know, just people
working for you, whereas their job.
Speaker 2 (25:15):
You got to hire people.
Speaker 3 (25:16):
Yeah, you people. You got to spend your own money.
Speaker 5 (25:18):
You're in competition with people who are spending you know,
millions of dollars and you're just depending on your fans.
So you know, it's a lot when you when that's
what you're up against and you're and you're trying to
get to that level. Way more stressful, it's it's I
don't think it's more stressful because when you're signed, you
have a lot of stresses.
Speaker 2 (25:39):
Why are they doing what they're supposed to do?
Speaker 3 (25:41):
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 (25:42):
You've got to go over to dates with them and.
Speaker 3 (25:44):
Yeah, I was about to say.
Speaker 4 (25:46):
You have more creativity when you're independent.
Speaker 5 (25:47):
Yeah, you have more freedom when you're independent, you can
drop whatever you want to. But having a label structure,
there is a lot of good to go with that,
you know what I mean, especially when you're the type
of artist who can make those type songs on that level.
When you have a label behind you, it helps a lot.
But there's more freedom of course being independent, but you're
just gonna have to.
Speaker 3 (26:08):
Work way harder.
Speaker 2 (26:09):
What works better for you you think?
Speaker 5 (26:12):
I think for me it works being able to go
in between both, like if I could.
Speaker 2 (26:16):
Because you can structure a deal how you want.
Speaker 5 (26:18):
Yeah, you can structure it for how you want, however
long you want, if it's one album or you know,
however many albums. You don't have to just sign because,
especially with me, because I have leverage, I've done this before.
Speaker 3 (26:31):
So I could just chill for a minute.
Speaker 5 (26:33):
I could drop four independent project projects and be like, Okay,
I want to do this fifth one on a major right,
and it'll work.
Speaker 3 (26:39):
It'll be perfectly fine. So I think that's the best.
Speaker 5 (26:42):
Thing for me, is just gauging what is more for
my fans and what I want to do on this
level where it's a roll out and it's a plan.
Speaker 2 (26:50):
Do you like being a label boss too?
Speaker 3 (26:53):
I do?
Speaker 1 (26:53):
Okay, some people feel like that's just if there's a
lot of artists that are like now they're coming to you,
and you can sometimes be the mad guy.
Speaker 3 (27:01):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (27:01):
I mean, I think the good thing about the industry
or just the game in general is like artists are
self sufficient, so we don't really have to do too.
Speaker 3 (27:09):
Much for them to succeed.
Speaker 5 (27:12):
And if I can, you know, see you as somebody
with talent the potential, it's not because of what I
can do for you anyway, So you're already bringing something
to the table, so we're good.
Speaker 1 (27:22):
Yep, all right, Well listen, Wiz, I appreciate you so much,
you know you always like, no matter where I'm working at,
You're gonna come.
Speaker 3 (27:28):
Through and I'm gonna give you some weed too.
Speaker 2 (27:30):
And oh I didn't want I got you the first thing.
Speaker 1 (27:34):
The first thing I thought when you was on the
schedule is like, I hope he brings some weed. Is
that a shame that people expect that from I mean,
that's part of who he is.
Speaker 3 (27:42):
You can hear the album for real now, like, oh man,
this is the best album I ever heard.
Speaker 2 (27:51):
You see how you could look at this and see
the quality in it?
Speaker 4 (27:55):
You don't? But you didn't roll this yourself? This is
your your company?
Speaker 3 (27:58):
Did this?
Speaker 2 (27:59):
Has somebody hire for that?
Speaker 5 (28:00):
I personally rolled all of the No I used the
rolling t at the bottom.
Speaker 1 (28:05):
Up that is my and the rolling train that I
use is from you too. That's the one that I
have at home for the times that I.
Speaker 3 (28:11):
Do pretty much all the only one you need, I know.
Speaker 2 (28:13):
That's right, all right?
Speaker 1 (28:14):
See, that's what we're talking about quality. But again, the
new album, because it's not a mixtape. Just to be clear,
it's out on Friday.
Speaker 5 (28:21):
On Friday or for eighteen, but you can pre save
it now. Make sure you guys pre save it so
it just goes straight to your phone.
Speaker 3 (28:28):
Pre rolling now rolling.
Speaker 5 (28:30):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (28:32):
No, I'm going to use this tonight because I want
to go home and I feel my legs again.
Speaker 4 (28:36):
Yeah, wait a minute, it's going to be that kind
of situation.
Speaker 3 (28:38):
Do I need to like just take two puffs and
then put it out.
Speaker 2 (28:41):
Because you have.
Speaker 4 (28:44):
Interview.
Speaker 2 (28:44):
I think you should do it before. I think that
would be phenomenal and you can be stuck. Okay, no, terrible, Right,
let's wait till the end of the day.
Speaker 3 (28:50):
You heard it be stuck stuck.
Speaker 1 (28:52):
I think that's amazing because you did it to me.
But I had to do all these interviews and I
was like, I don't but I felt good.
Speaker 3 (29:00):
Yeah, I felt good. Yeah that's all that matters.
Speaker 1 (29:03):
You're gonna have some good fleet probably okay, perfect, all right, Well,
thank you again.
Speaker 2 (29:07):
Always amazing to see you. We appreciate you. Congratulations, thank
you
Speaker 3 (29:13):
Way up.
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