“I was able to work more hands-on with this one, sort of the way I am with my mixtapes, where we strive for the best and we really don’t settle or accept anything other than the best,” Khalifa says. Khalifa feels “Blacc Hollywood” is his best work yet. Meanwhile, “Blacc Hollywood,” the studio album Khalifa originally talked of releasing before the end of 2013, but was put on the shelf - a move that opened a window to release “28 Grams” - is now set for release on Aug.

In May he released his latest in a long line of mixtapes, “28 Grams,” which was far more substantial than the usual such project, checking in with 28 tracks. The words and concepts and everything were literally a constant flow from the start of the song to the end.Khalifa has seemed inspired over the last year and a half. “It didn’t take long for me to explain the groove that I wanted to be in and we just wrapped everything around that. “That was just one of those nights where I got together with the guys and we wanted to come up with something that felt familiar but was all original,” Wiz remembers about recording the track. On “Candlelight Girl” in particular, he shows off unexpected vocal chops reminiscent of when Childish Gambino dropped “Redbone.” So this kind of breaks it backs down and highlights different sides of musical inspiration.”Īnd while singles like “Iced Out Necklace” find Wiz in celebratory mode, the bulk of the album features more singing than we’ve heard from him before. “Through technology and just the way music is really quick, people are throwing it all together and you really don’t get to experience the bits and pieces that make it what it is. “I feel like nowadays music is kind of put into a box and I wanted to break out of that box and have a real musical experience and diversify how people hear music these days,” Wiz explains.

Wiz khalifa cd khalifa