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"This week has been pretty special for Wiz Khalifa. In addition to learning that his breakout single "Black & Yellow" went Gold and releasing a "G-mix" for the track, the Pittsburgh, PA MC celebrated with a homecoming concert on Thursday (December 16).

On the same day, Wiz's camp released the "Black & Yellow G-Mix" featuring a few of the smokey MC's favorite rappers. Snoop Dogg, Juicy J and T-Pain guest on the track and while the trio of features might seem random, we support Khalifa's creative freedom.

Last month, following his arrest for weed possession, the Kush & OJ MC stopped by our offices to chat about the unlikely producers behind his now Gold-selling single.

"Stargate, they're really musical guys as well, any beat that I got from them was already sequenced so it's stuff that I listen for anyway when I make my music so when we got in the studio, we meshed really well," said Wiz. "It was kinda crazy because, you know, me being a rapper and them being pop, nobody knew where it was gonna go but then it ended up working out perfect."

The Norwegian pair, Tor Erik Hermansen and Mikkel Storleer Eriksen, were introduced to Wiz Khalifa through the MC's Atlantic Records A&R and, to the label's credit, the song's a rousing success the newcomer.

"It's going crazy right now, radio and the video's heating it up and I'm just real happy to have that crossover success—it's looking like we're having that crossover success that people were sketchy and didn't know if I was gonna be able to do that or not," said Wiz. "So with the single doing what it's doing, it's really helping me out." "

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Friday

Dec172010

(EVENT) Wiz Khalifa Headlining The 2011 Bamboozle Festival | April 29, - May 1st, NEW JERSEY

December 17, 2010

"The Bamboozle Festival, the annual three-day music extravaganza scheduled for April 29, 30 and May 1 at the New Meadowlands Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey has announced additional main stage performers. Newly added main stage performers include: Lil Wayne, Mötley Crüe, Taking Back Sunday, The Gaslight Anthem, Wiz Khalifa, Bruno Mars, LMFAO, Chiddy Bang, and Dashboard Confessional.

These bands will be joined by previously announced main stage performers including A Day To Remember, Boys Like Girls, New Found Glory with Marky Ramone, Circa Survive, Waka Flocka Flame, Streetlight Manifesto, and the RX Bandits. Tickets for three-day packages are currently available for purchase. For ticket information as well as additional artists announced please visit: www.thebamboozle.com."

More confirmed performers will be announced shortly for The Bamboozle Festival, as well as information about The Bamboozle Roadshow 2011.

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Dec062010

"Kush, Cartoons and Camaros, Inside Curren$y's Customized Culture" By Rebecca Haithcoat

December 6, 2010

"It's Thanksgiving week, and Curren$y is in Amsterdam. Reason enough for a champion of chiefin' to be grateful: For a rapper like Curren$y, whose lifestyle mantra of "J.E.T.S. (Just Enjoy This Shit)" is fueled by smoking fuzzy little trees, this week is like entering the Promised Land. But he's not there http://askhowflyy.squarespace.com/just for the weed — he's performing at High Times' annual First Generation Hip-Hop Tribute Cannabis Cup along with Devin the Dude and Kid Cudi.

"I don't even know how to pronounce the name of the venue I'm playing. It's at Melkweg Max?" he says hesitantly, erupting into his contagious staccato laugh. "You should come though. You can make it if you leave now."

He says it like it's not just possible but probable. Hopping on a red-eye to get red-eyed with the self-proclaimed "Hot Spitta" is an enticing invitation — even though it's the kind of idea that disappears when the high dissipates. But Curren$y doesn't just float into fantasy every now and then, he lives in the clouds.

The Big Easy–turned–Big Apple rapper isn't from California; it just seems like he is. In addition to preferring its sour, he used to skate, believes in karma and maintains a state of preternatural cool. But save for his loungey ad-libs and the hooks into which he intentionally reclines, the 29-year-old — born Shante Franklin — is quick and precise with his music.

Growing up in New Orleans, the only guns he shot were in video games. His lyrics and Twitter feed read like a ticker tape of VH1's I Love the '80s episodes. On his new album: "Pilot Talk is like drawing lowriders on the back of your three-subject spiral notebook." When he refers to cops as "Carl Winslows" in the ode to heroic pacifist lady-killer "Michael Knight," bleary-eyed '80s babies identify.

"[The '80s had] the best stuff," he exclaims. "You know how your mood can change by something small happening, and you go from happy to super pissed off? I reference a time I was goin' outside to play with a G.I. Joe tank and a box of action figures. ... I slammed my thumb in the door, and then I couldn't play. It was one of my greatest downfalls in my life! That shit still burns me. That's how important all of that back then was. That shit saved my life! Turbo Teen, Kid 'n Play had their own cartoon; MC Hammer had his own cartoon with talkin' shoes. ..."

And he's off on a tear, hyena-giggling as we slam the Nickelodeon show Salute Your Shorts, extolling the virtues of cartoon "Camaros that could fly" and tickling himself over how moms love Peabo Bryson. With such unaffected delight, it's easy to imagine Curren$y translating well in animation himself."

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