Wiz Khalifa
New up and coming rapper Wiz Khalifa is set to drop his debut studio album Rolling Papers.
Khalifa has in his past released several mixtapes and been widely praised as one of the best
hip hop mixtape artists of 2010. With the buzz attracted from his mixtapes, he won MTV's
award for "Hottest breakthrough hip hop artist of 2010".
Rolling papers album features his first official single Black and Yellow, which sold well over
two million and became one of the highest selling hip hop singles of 2010.
His song Black and Yellow represents his roots, the city of Pittsburgh. As the city's colours are black and yellow. The NFL team pittsburgh steelers also adopted the single as their entrance music to their football games. Having generated huge media buzz and support, it also caught the eye of fellow rapper Lil' Wayne, who produced a remix of the song, which he called 'Green and Yellow'. He produced it for the 2011 Superbowl, a game where Wiz Khalifa's favourite team, the Pittsburgh Steelers, and Lil wayne's favourite team, the Greenbay Packers, would have a showdown. Lil' Wayne's remix brought even more publicity to the up and coming rapper's song, as it has thus far been notably popular for being remxied numerous of times by fellow rappers including Tyga, Young Jeezy and others of that high caliber. Hip Hop legend Snoop Dogg offered Wiz Khalifa to work together and create the official remix of the song which is known as the "Black and Yellow (G-Mix)". It also features T-Pain and Juicy J.
His album Rolling Papers features hip hop heavyweights such as CurrenSy, Rick Ross, Too Short and Snoop Dogg. It has also been rumoured to feature The Game, as Wiz tweeted that he had just finished creating a track in the studio with the former G Unit Rapper.
His second single off his debut album 'Roll Up' has just been recently released and features RnB singer Cassie in the film clip, although she does not sing. Roll Up, similarly to Black and Yellow, also received wide praise and reached #6 on the Hip Hop charts.
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