Tuesday, August 3, 2010
Gimmie 3 Yrs I'll Have This
Muscle Man
Wiz talks rides and accidentally hitting a biker in the face with a McDonald’s bag. Enjoy. Via Complex
Take one listen to any of Wiz Khalifa’s mixtapes or albums, and it will quickly become apparent that the Pittsburgh native loves weed. Nah, you don’t get it—dude loves smoking herb as much as Kim Kardashian loves taking pictures of herself. Besides music and his loved ones, there’s only one thing that comes remotely close to garnering the same amount of love: his 2010 Dodge Challenger. It’s the first car he won’t let his friends burn one down in and the first car he’s given a name to. We caught up with Mr. Kush and Orange Juice to find out why he wanted a Challenger so badly, what his current dream ride is, and what not to do with a McDonald’s bag after you’ve finished eating.
Interview by Andrew Rivera
Complex: What was your first car?
Wiz Khalifa: The first little joint that I could get on my own, that I was making payments on, was an ‘05 Envoy. It had a leather interior and shit. Then I got my muscle car, a 2010 Dodge Challenger. Really, I never knew what car exactly I wanted when I was younger. My parents weren’t too much into that kind of stuff. So I didn’t really know until I was like 16 or 17 when I started liking muscle cars and getting into engines and all that.
Complex: What drew you towards that?
Wiz Khalifa: Just the look, the feel, the appeal of it. It’s badass, dog. The respect you get from other people for it, too. Spitta [Curren$y], he really put me on when I met him. He got the SS Monte Carlo, he got the SS El Camino, he got the pickup trucks and shit. So me [purchasing the Challenger] was kind of a big for me and it was big for the city too ’cause it’s black and gold.
Complex: Have you gotten any props from people while driving it?
Wiz Khalifa: The older white guys love it. They’re like, “Sweet car! How many horses? What size is that Hemi, man?!” Older white chicks love it, too. I’m definitely gonna be scoring plenty cougars in that thing, where I’m from. I drove past with my seat back kind of far, so you couldn’t really see me, and this one chick was like, “I’m about to faint!” I heard another girl say she wanted to fuck the car, not me. I have no idea why they’re so attracted to cars…I like it though.
Complex: So is it better to be a great car or a rapper?
Wiz Khalifa: Car. [Laughs.] You could stop rappin’, but if you’re a good car than you gonna be straight. If I don’t sell no records in Italy and I still got a nice car? I could still get booty.
Complex: Did you have any rides before the Challenger and Envoy?
Wiz Khalifa: I lost two cars! I still got the Envoy—I finished the payments and gave it to my mom. I had a [Chrysler] Sebring Coupe and I fucking blew the engine out after four months. After that I had a ‘98 [Pontiac] Bonneville. That was my shit; I was in high school and that was my first name car. That’s what people knew me for, like, when you seen the Bonnie you knew it was me. That shit blew up, too, out of nowhere, just driving. [Laughs.] I was going to Maryland, and I was on the turnpike so I had to get towed and spend the night in Breezewood, PA—but I had an ounce of weed so I was straight.
Complex: Does that not make you nervous?
Wiz Khalifa: I carry [weed] in good faith. I just act like nothing is going on. I just got pulled over. He wasn’t clockin’ me, he didn’t know how fast I was going, but I was speeding like fuck. [The cop] pulled me over and he was like, “You smokin’ anything funny in here? You got like a little dime bag or something? Just tell me now.” I just told him that I smoked more than the average dude and that I had an ounce in there. He made me get out and dump it out on the ground and step it out. The cops in Pittsburgh are nice. Plus it’s a waste of time since I didn’t have any baggies or a gun. I’ve been pulled over enough times in my city, they know who is dangerous and I’m not a dangerous dude. I’ve been pulled over more times than I’m proud of, enough to know what to do and what not to do. I don’t advise anyone to drive with weed. My luck isn’t everyone else’s luck. So don’t do that shit.
Complex: Are you pretty lenient when it comes to what people can and can not do in your car? Like, eating in it and driving it?
Wiz Khalifa: In my car now?! You can’t eat in that shit, hell no. In the old truck, yeah, because that’s what I bought it for: so we could all just hang out. My Challenger? No eating. If you’re not me, you’re not smoking in there. No blunts. No Black and Milds. My Mom can’t smoke cigarettes in there…man, I’m pretty strict about that. Motherfuckas be eatin’ cheese sauce and shit. Nah, you better wait ’til you get out. [Laughs.] Ain’t nobody else driving that car for a minute. There’s three people who I would let drive now. Two of them passed away and one of them is in jail right now. So nobody is touching that. [Laughs.]. I bought my car on May 4th and on a scale of 1 to 10, how in love am I with my car? 13.
Complex: Have you named it?
Wiz Khalifa: His name is Charlie.
Complex: Most people go with a girl…
Wiz Khalifa: It’s a dude. He’s too mean-looking. It’s not a bitch. It could’ve been a bitch. Sometimes I want to be like, “That’s my bitch”, but it’s not my bitch, it’s my boy. He’s mean as fuck, dudes in Camaros be trying to race me. I don’t usually race. I just rev it up a little bit and they know their engines don’t sound like that, so they stop. I’m about to put some pipes on it and new little stickers and shit. The old-school cursive Challenger writing. Get the racing stripe going over the top and—I love my car.[Laughs.] I try not to love it too much because I don’t want nothin’ to happen to it, but it’s hard not to.
Complex: What’s your dream car now?
Wiz Khalifa: I want a pickup truck. I think I want to buy Spitta’s Viper truck off of him. I think he’ll chuck it to me because he’s getting all this new shit. New shit for him is like older, vintage shit. That truck right there is a new modern truck. He don’t drive it anyway, it’s just sitting in New Orleans. When I went down to visit him that’s what I was driving.
Complex: Have you ever been in any accidents?
Wiz Khalifa: Please don’t ask me that. Don’t jinx me, yo. I’m scared of car accidents. [Laughs.] I’m fucking scared of car accidents, dog. Never. It’s real. My dad was in a car accident and I’ve never seen my dad hurt. He was fucked up and that bugged me out.
Complex: Any beef with other drivers on the road?
Wiz Khalifa: Oh man! I just did some fucked-up shit the other day! [Laughs.] It was horrible! This dude wanted to kick my ass. He was on a motorcycle and I was high so I was like whatever. I had McDonald’s and he was on a motorcycle behind me. I had been driving for like five minutes. I don’t know what it was that made me let the bag go and it flew out the window with a half-full cup and I looked at it in the rear-view mirror and it hit dude in his face. He was trying to ride up on my side, screaming, “You fucking asshole!” He definitely had orange juice all over him. He tried to swerve out of the way, but he just went right into it. It was awful. I felt real bad, but I had to be tough. I was like, “Fuck you” or something like that. He was like, “You’re an asshole. I’m gonna kill you!” He wanted to kill me! [Laughs.]
Monday, August 2, 2010
SnapBack Nicca Back Up In Dis *****
How I Design Clothess........
Lmao!!!!!
Sunday, August 1, 2010
C'Mon Taz Cheetah Skinnies??
Bossip: For real, what’s with those cheetah pants?
Taz: I got these pants at a premier store in Tokyo while shooting the “Stronger” video with Kanye. The store was called Loveless and the pants were so cold! When I bought the pants and tried them on, cats was like’ Aw, you trippin, you can’t wear them pants. And, this is Kanye!This was two years ago, and this was the first time that somebody said some shit about it. Even when I first bought them, even I was feeling crazy, like ‘These pants are tight as fuck,‘ he laughs. But, this shit is fly, though. Like, some superhero shit. There was a girl there and I asked her if I should get the ones I had on or the tighter ones. I tried on the tighter ones and she said, “That’s sexy.” So I said ‘Well, fuck what Kanye said, I’m getting the pants!”
That picture got out and people were like, ‘Yo, that dude looks crazy.’ But, I’m like no that dude’s been on that. Now, I’m stepping out as a designer, as a professional. Style is a hobby of mine. It goes back to the Harlem Renaissance and the Black Wall street in Tulsa, Oklahoma. That’s where my roots are from. I’m from a long line of dignified people. I’m colorful with my demonstration, but I’m from a long line of actors. Luckily, I know who I am, and I feel free enough to express myself as an artist, like a white dude might. Like, a rock star might I am a rock star!
When you meet designers, this is how they dress. You know, when their minds were liberated in the seventies and the late sixties? We’re not in that zone anymore. Everything is brown, beige, black burgundy, and anytime you wear any color, it’s a problem. Shit’s just lame right now.
Bossip: The group picture of you and Kanye in Paris had everyone questioning your sexuality. You want to clear that up?
Taz: I can’t speak for everybody in that collective. I can speak for myself. I know Kanye pretty well. Really the blame for that…is probably me, man. I’m inspiring these kids to be brave and try to be fashion designers and shit like that, you know? So, I take the blame. I’m the one with the most flamboyant shit on. But, I’m the one who knows that science behind that. In regards to being gay, when you look up the term gay, gay means happy. Now, homosexual, means fucking a man. And, that’s what I definitely don’t do. Anybody that knows me knows how I get down. You want to know about me, ask your bitch about me. Let your girl tell you how fresh the style is. Women get it more than dudes.
People have to educate themselves. Take a trip to your local library. Smoke a joint and go to the beach and just meditate every once and while. I’ve been blessed to be able to travel around the world, so I’m more open-minded. Since 1992, I’ve been going to Paris. I kind of share my nationalistic standpoint, and all its values. I’m trying to inspire other people to be free as well…other people who aren’t lucky enough to travel.
Bossip: You claim to be a scientist, what do you mean by that?
Taz: If I wear a green jacket, it’s symbolic of my heart chakra, because I know about my seven selves. They call it the chakra system. It’s seven different colors and it’s called the inner rainbow that everybody and everyone has. These are things that you’ll find coded in your Bible or your Coran, or your Torah. It’s for people who are a educated and are privileged to have a proper education, developing the mind and knowing the philosophy or psychology of something. It’s like a ladder. At the bottom, it’s red and the top it’s a bright violet, almost white. Red represents fire, your lower self and your animal self. Symbolic for the first stage; creation. It’s right there at your reproductive organs. Your animal self. If I’m wearing cheetah pants, it’s because I’m putting the right shit that’s supposed to go on my lower self, my animal self, because I know the science behind it. I don’t just wear clothes, this shit is like a demonstration. It’s art.
Bossip: When did you get on the scene?
Taz: In 1998, I got on with Dr. Dre and I had a distribution deal with Aftermath records. I helped Dre do The Chronic album. That was my introduction to the industry. I was there when Eminem first came.
Bossip: Tell me about your group, Sa-ra?
Taz: Sa-ra is three cats in a rock band. Sa-ra is apart of Kinetic Science If you look it up, “Ra” would mean light, fire and masculinity. “Sa” means “of.” So, Sa-ra means of the light; of God. Children of God is also what it translates to. Sa-ra’s been the biggest secret in the music industry for four years. Sa-ra, was initially signed to Kanye’s Good Music, but his label was dropped by Interscope. We produced for John Legend, Erykah Badu Herbie Hancock, Jill Scott and Bilal. Man, we produced tracks for everybody. We’re coming out with an album in July called The Nuclear Evolution: The Age of Love. It’s very, very creative. We produced Erykah’s latest album: New Amerykah. It has ten tracks and we produced five.
Bossip: What’s the sound of the album?
Taz:It’s like Jimmy Hendrix mixed with Dr. Dre. Public Enemy. But, it’s also like Billy Strayhorn with Duke Ellington and they compositions they made. It’s real cool. It’s for intellects. It’s not for muthafuckas that’s not trying to read a book. It’s really to wake stupid people up, but, moreso, for intellectuals and creative people to enjoy.
Bossip: What’s the deal with TI$A?
Taz: TI$A is my new brand. All of the new ruckus about my outfit and the pants, that’s all under TI$A. On the fashion stuff, I’m known in L.A. since the 80’s. I’m a known shoplifter, a famous shoplifter from L.A. that collected Polo. On some street shit, I’m known in Chicago, New York, and probably parts of Atlanta, Florida, Dallas and Detroit as a street dude for polo fashion boosting. I did that from 1988 to 1998. When I got with Dr. Dre, I went cold turkey and stopped boosting.
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