His stage name, Wiz Khalifa, has a deep philosophical meaning and attracts attention, so there is a desire to find out who is hiding under it?
The creative path of Wiz Khalifa
Wiz Khalifa (Cameron Jibril Tomaz) was born on September 8, 1987 in the city of Minot (North Dakota), which has the mystical nickname "Magic City".
The Receiver of Wisdom (that's how Cameron's stage name translates) from a magical city. An amazing coincidence. It seems that fate itself patronizes the young man.
Tomaz's parents are military personnel, before settling permanently in Pittsburgh, they managed to live in Germany, England and Japan. The family broke up when the boy was only 3 years old.
It's hard to believe, but Cameron made his first conscious and rather successful attempts to create something of his own when he was still a child. And at the age of 12 he recorded his first track. My father had his own amateur studio.
Cameron Tomaz's transformation into Wiz Khalifa
The first creative success and recognition of his talents can be considered the agreement of the management of the recording studio ID Labs to record Cameron's tracks for free.
At that time, the guy was barely 15 years old. Then he took the pseudonym Wiz Khalifa, and on his 17th birthday he made himself a gift - he tattooed his new name.
The talented young man was noticed by B. Grinberg - in the recent past, assistant to the executive director of the famous music label LA Reid, who at that time had just created his own company and was looking for promising performers.
Greenberg realized that something special could be created from a promising young man. They started to cooperate.
At that time, a new trend appeared on the Internet. Well-known and not so famous rappers recorded, as a rule, under other people's minuses, their own mixtapes and posted them on the network.
On this wave, in 2005, Khalifa, under the auspices of Greenberg, recorded his mixtape, called Prince of the City: Welcome to Pistolvania and "let go to the will of fate in free swimming." For a young performer - a good achievement, but not for Wiz.
Literally a year later, the guy could already boast of a full-fledged official album Show and prove.
The success of Wiz Khalifa
It's amazing how such seemingly mutually exclusive characteristics as gouging, incredible talent and crazy ability to work can be so harmoniously combined in one person.
Cameron in 2007 signed a contract with the famous music company Warner Bros. records. True, with the help of Greenberg, the guy would not be a mega-talented lucky guy, would this happen even with a hundred such acquaintances?
The result of Wiz's collaboration with this label was the composition Say Yeah, which instantly became popular. The single got into the rotation of several radio stations and charts. Collaboration with Warner Bros. Records was productive, but for some reason short-lived.
In 2009, the rapper returned to Greenberg and was not mistaken again. His next hit, Black and Yellow, settled at the top of the prestigious Billboard Hot 100 for a long time, and sales of the Rolling Papers collection, released two years later, amounted to about 200 copies in the first week alone.
The next record - the composition See You Again lasted on the Billboard Hot 100 chart for 12 weeks, and sounded in the movie "Furious 7". In 2017, the video clip for this song, performed by the rapper together with Charlie Puth, posted on the YouTube channel, was viewed more than 1 billion times, recognized as the most viewed content on the channel.
Wiz Khalifa's personal life
Wiz Khalifa is not very friendly with the law. The guy has several arrests on his account. Once he even managed to disrupt the release of 28 grams, which was scheduled to be held online. The same mess is going on in the personal life of the star. However, here it is unoriginal.
In 2011, the rapper had a girlfriend - Amber Rose, who was as creative as he was. In 2012, a tragedy happened in their couple - an unsuccessful pregnancy that ended in a miscarriage.
But fate was favorable to them, and in February 2013, Amber gave birth to a beautiful boy, and in March of the same year, the couple decided to seal their relationship by marriage, which, however, did not last very long - a little more than a year.
Cheating passions
Amber decided their marriage was a mistake and she filed for divorce. According to some tabloids, the reason for the serious act was the constant infidelity of the new husband.
Evil gossips claimed that Amber herself did not lag behind Cameron in infidelity. The couple preferred not to comment.
Cameron did not grieve for long, and already in 2017 he started a new romance. This time with a Brazilian, again model Isabella Guedes. And again, the love of the fickle young man did not last long. Less than a year later, the lovers broke up for the same reason. Cameron was convicted of treason.
But Wiz Khalifa does not lose heart, and believes that the real relationship is still ahead of him. In the meantime, the rapper works and has fun. This was confirmed by his recent photos on Instagram, where the guy is addicted to cannabis and boasts of new precious jewelry.
Wiz Khalifa today
In 2018, the rap artist's discography was replenished with the LP Rolling Papers 2. Recall that this is a continuation of the 2011 album. The compilation was topped by 25 tracks.
A year later, the premiere of the studio album "2009" (with the participation of Curren $ y) took place. On the wave of popularity, he presented the work Fly Times TGOD Vol.1 (the official release took place in 2019).
In early January 2020, he unexpectedly dropped the mixtape It's Only Weed Bro. In the same year, his discography was replenished with the album The Saga of Wiz Khalifa. On September 9, 2020, he introduced Big Pimpin.
At the end of January 2022, he rapper took part in the recording of the single Ordinary Life. In addition, Kiddo took part in the recording of this track, Immanbek, as well as Russian producer and hip-hop artist KDDK.
The rapper took part in the recording of the album by rap artist Juicy J. The record was called Stoner's Night. By the way, this is not the first collaboration of artists. The compilation was topped by 13 tracks.
