This time it's ALL about weed - his own favourite brand in fact - but it's underpinned by a gorgeous, spooky string sample and a minimalist arrangement that just screams 'this is music to smoke to'. Wiz is in romantic mood here, but still manages to drop in a reference to smoking weed in his second verse rap. It's big, it's brash and it continues pretty much where 'Hope' left off.Ī bit of a shift of gear here with a slow and surprisingly melodic number with a big pop chorus and, of all things, it sounds like he's singing about love. One of the singles already released from the album, the track leads in with staccato strings and some heavily auto-tuned vocals with Wiz rapping about money-grabbing girls and show-off guys hanging around in clubs. We're a few second in and already we're onto some of the rapper's favourite subjects, champagne and girls.
Right from the beginning, this expansive intro track gives a signal of the kind of sound we can expect from the record, kicking off with a monologue about making decisions in life over distant piano chords and dreamy, wah pedal-drenched guitar licks, before the whole thing gives way to a twinkling synth riff over a a deep, grinding bassline and slow, trap-style drumbeats. So what can we expect this time around? Is he still preoccupied with lyrics about champagne and weed? Judging from that cover artwork with his face obscured behind a thick cloud of smoke, we're going to guess that he is. Next week he returns with his fifth studio album, Blacc Hollywood. That's thanks in part to his Billboard Chart-topping singe 'Black and Yellow', named after the colours of his home NFL team the Pittsburgh Steelers, but ever since he's been churning out slick, R&B-influenced rap and earned himself a loyal following, with more than 15 million Twitter followers and a string of hits to his name. That first LP showed plenty of promise and helped the rapper & singer-songwriter build a reputation on the underground scene, but by the time of his third album R olling Papers Wiz Khalifa had gone from promising underground artist to full-blown, gold-selling rap star. Wiz Khalifa has come a long way since his 2006 debut, Show and Prove.
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