Club Shay Shay - Club Shay Shay - Wiz Khalifa Part 2

Episode Date: December 11, 2024

Join us for part 2 as Wiz explores the cultural evolution of cannabis, from its taboo status to its current position as a multi-billion-dollar industry, and his role in changing perceptions alongside icons like Snoop Dogg. Their collaborative projects, from music to tours and even a movie, highlighting the strong bond between the two.Wiz offers a behind-the-scenes look at his entrepreneurial ventures, from Khalifa Kush to his approach to balancing fun with responsibility. He shares stories of his partnership with Snoop and how their friendship has fueled both their professional and personal growth.The conversation also touches on his approach to collaborations, his relationship with Ty Dolla $ign, and his selective process in signing new artists. Wiz advises up-and-coming musicians to work independently, stressing the importance of owning their music and handling their own business.Wiz opens up about his journey into MMA, how it’s impacted his life, and how it differs from his early passion for rap. He discusses the lifestyle of a mixed martial artist, the growing fitness culture in entertainment, and the camaraderie among entertainers like Jim Jones who prioritize health and wellness. The conversation includes humor about rappers taking part in intense workouts, showcasing Wiz’s confidence in his discipline.In his personal life, Wiz reflects on parenting, blending his father’s stern discipline with his mother’s lenient, fun-loving nature. He shares insights into co-parenting with ex-wife Amber Rose, lightheartedly recounting their trip to the strip club after their divorce, and talks about how fatherhood has made him a more patient and understanding parent.Finally, the discussion touches on athletes like Ricky Williams, Bill Walton, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Kevin Durant and others, who have embraced cannabis, reflecting on its cultural and personal connections. The conversation even includes a lighthearted mention of a potential "Smoke Olympics" with Lil’ Boosie.Packed with stories, laughs, and nostalgia, this episode is a must-listen for fans of hip-hop, entrepreneurship, and cultural evolution. Tune in to hear Wiz’s incredible journey and why his legacy continues to grow.#volume  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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pro hockey to professional women's athletes to raising children and all the messiness in between. So listen to Moms Who Puck on the iHeartRadio app, Apple podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Thank you for coming back. Part two is underway. You know what? Look, I've known Snoop probably 30 plus years and he's one of the few people that when you meet him,

he makes you feel like he's known you for 100 years. And I love what he did because a lot of times, and I can just speak to us, is that we don't wanna see us because if somebody might be, man, he might be trying to do better than me, I ain't telling him ish. Right, right. But that's not what Snoop did.

Exactly. Snoop pulled you in and said, bro, hey, you smoke, hey, do your thing, hey, I'm here to help. I appreciate that. Yeah, he did. I love that about Snoop. I love that about him too. He did the complete opposite of hate on me.

He made a movie with me. He was like, nigga, I'm kidnapping you, coming to LA, we making a movie. Right. And he embraced the hell out of me, man. And like, when he heard Cushion Orange Juice, he was like, bro, this remind me of like, my old shit. Like, just the, he was like, you don't remind me of Snoop Dogg.

He was like, but just the way you kicking that shit and just the vibe of it. He was like, bro, like, I haven't heard nothing like this in a long ass time. So he was really into it before people were making comparisons. Like letting him know what my legacy could be. But then he started hanging out with me. He was like, oh, this mother f***er's a rock star. Yeah, so we really developed a bond. We've been on tours together and we made movies together.

We've done so much stuff branding-wise together, helping each other grow. It's like damn, bro like I wouldn't even know what to do without Snoop. I don't know, Snoop say, he say you gave him a run for his money though. With the weed? Yeah. Oh yeah, hell yeah.

I mean I have to, I'm the young lungs. I be working out and all that shit so I'm like, I got the young lungs. Yeah, exactly. Dispensaries. Obviously weed has become legal, but there's not a whole lot of, or if any, black that own dispensaries. Would you like to see that change?

I would like to see it change. I just want to see the business change. Because a lot of black-owned businesses be like, well, a lot of black-owned weed businesses be like selling pounds to like in the streets. And it's like, you can't f*** that up. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, a lot of black-owned weed businesses. Be like, selling pounds to n****s in the streets. And it's like, you can't f*** that up. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. You gotta do the right thing. You can't do both.

You gotta do it the right way. Correct. When the homie comes to you and asks you for peas, you gotta be like, no, we don't do it like that. Right. You know what I'm saying? Yes. Buy the books, and you have to go through a process.

It's gonna take a little bit of time. You gotta have to deal with people that you might necessarily not wanna have to deal with, but there is a way to present it because in the marijuana industry, it's not black or white or anything. It's green. Green.

Minimally and figuratively. Yeah, like for real. So like come on in. Like I would love that, but I would also love to see us our black-owned Dispensaries do it the right way right for longevity and to stay legal and to stay you know I mean, there's like small little rules that you know, okay You can have a dispensary, but you can't smoke in here. You know, I mean you can't smoke around the dispensary, right?

Don't light up and test it out and figure it out and then you can't hold. Then when they come shut you down and then you back. Yeah, they're like, oh, you don't like black people. It's like, no, we told you you can't smoke in here and you did. Right.

So like, come on. And also, we gotta get out of this habit. Black owned don't mean free. Ha ha ha ha. I mean, people think, are you black? I'm black, ain't let your boy get that. Yeah, nah, black owned means support your boy get that. Yeah, no, black on me is support your boy. Yes!

And not just by wearing it, I mean buy it and wear it. Don't have me giving it to you. Cause that's what I get, you know, we sell merch now and it's like, hey, send me the hoodie. I'm like, bro, I gotta pay for that. Yeah, I gotta pay for that. This isn't promo. But obviously, I mean, they, I mean,

I don't know how many people know that you're in liquid death, but I'm probably sure they'd be asking, hey, man, hook your boy up with somebody that water, hook your boy up with a hat, hey, we're making your boy some of that weed. Yeah. OK, I mean, that box would cost you what, about $500? What, this?

Yeah. Shit. More than that. This pre-rolls is like 50 bucks a piece. And how many in there? 200. Oh, lord. Yeah, yep.

Oh, dude. I can't smoke. I can't smoke. Isn't that too much? I'll send a n***a a case of water. Woo. You said 250 dollars? 10. $10K for that? Yeah, yup. And that's only gonna last you a week? Oh, that's gonna last me the whole year.

I ain't smoking water. I ain't smoking water the whole day. I ain't like half a water the whole day. Oh no. That's what I'm saying. I'll send you the case of water. We'll be good. Yeah, yeah.

I ain't smoking water. Man, I ain't know that thing cost like that. Weed cost. But that's some of the money. I ain't smoking water. I ain't smoking water. I ain't smoking water. I ain't smoking water.

I ain't smoking water. I ain't smoking water. I ain't smoking water. I ain't smoking water. I ain't smoking water. good. Yeah, yeah, I'll give you more. Man, I ain't know that thing cost like that. Weed cost, but that's some of the more expensive, because that's like top of the line, right? Yeah, yeah. All of them don't cost that much.

No, no, no, no, no. OK. This is like the designer weed right there. OK. Yeah, yeah. So you got like the Ferrari Lamborghini weed. Exactly. OK.

Exactly, 100%. Yeah, I think I might need a Honda yeah you got the Honda we you got into that liquid death how did how did cuz Ronnie I did an interview with Ronnie and Ronnie probably drank like three cans while we were doing it mm-hmm how it. How did you get involved with this? It was something like right before COVID. They just came to me and were like, we're looking for investors and people to, you know, kind of be the face of our company. Like we don't have too many people.

We're this, we're that, we started up, we did this, we did that. And I was like, it sounds alright to me. They're like, we'll give you this and it's free water forever. I was like, it sounds alright to me. They're like, we'll give you this, and it's free water forever. I was like, free water. That sounds cool, but more than that, it's like building a company of like, it's edgy. Oh yeah, definitely. I mean, water in a can.

And that's what their whole thing, when they told me, there's like a lot of people who don't wanna touch us because of our marketing and our branding there's like but we're not changing it they're like that's what we think our selling point is the same shit that people hate is like the reason that we feel like people's gonna love us and they're like we got this we got these flavors we got this whole plan I'm like sounds good to me. Oh they got flavor water too? Yeah we got flavors we got

sparkling water we got iced tea now we got a we got flavors. We got sparkling water. We got iced tea now. We got uh, we got smaller cans Yeah, we doing it big. Okay. Yeah. Hell yeah But yeah, it was just something that they brought to me as an idea and we went full in on that shit Is there a particular a particular strategy that you use when investing in a company? Yeah, I usually don't take as much upfront, but I usually take ownership of the company. Right. Yeah, yeah.

If I can get a piece of the company for helping blow it up, yeah, we can work. And I work with PFL. I work with a lot of different people where it's like. With Kevin Hart, right? Yeah, exactly. Where it's like, I know, I use my influence and my expertise and you know, we're more of partners

than it is like a licensing or like me just working for them, you know what I mean? Your partnership. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. Yeah, hell yeah. So the PFL, Professional Fighters League, that's like the UFC, correct?

It's MMA. MMA. Yeah, MMA, big martial arts. Big martial arts, yeah. Yeah, yeah? It's MMA. MMA. Yeah, MMA, big martial arts. It's mixed martial arts, yeah. And shout out to Dana, we're not like, I don't hate Dana White, but it's mixed martial arts. So how did you and Kev get into, how did you and Kev decide to come in on this venture?

Just through living the lifestyle, Kev works out as well. And I don't know if you ever seen him hit mitts, but he's like really good with the hands. So when you dive into it more than just like training for you know what I'm saying whatever. For health purposes. Yeah like you kind of you know meet people and then he's very influential you know through his movies and his comedy and everything like that and with me just through music and weed and just culture, those types of companies are always looking for people to take their business to the next level.

And it brings people on because after me, Jake Paul got involved with the people as well. So it's like we're expanding just throughout generations and influences as well. Well, what'd you think about the Jake Paul, Mike Tyson fight? I think it was smart for them to do that fight. I've seen a couple clips where it looked like

Mike held back a few punches. He did. And as a fighter, I know when a nigga hold back some punches. Right. And I was like, damn, he could have took his hand off. But if it's true that Mike couldn't throw the uppercut. I don't know what was true, but there was an overhand.

That he pulled back. Oh yeah, he pulled that joint for sure. Because he just showed, it would have been over. I mean, Jake is tough. So I don't want to say that it would have been over. He ain't taking that. I don't want to say that it would have been over. He ain't taking that. I don't want to say it would have been over. We have a shot that you...

But it would have been a different fight had Mike thrown that m*** full on. We would have seen a different fight. The two punches that have the most impact is the uppercut and the looping, because you can't see it. The uppercut is coming from underneath. I'm looking at you and boom, the overhead, by the time you realize it, is too late. And he's like trained just to naturally throw that. After he does a certain movement, it just like follows. And I seen him kind of wind it up, but he like pulled it back.

I was like, that was nice of him. Yeah, and plus, Mike is known for the combo. Body, uppercut. Yeah. I love Jake, so there's no like Jake Slander going on here. Like I love how he sets his fights up, he's an entertainer. People can talk as much shit as they want, but they still watch the fights.

Correct. What'd he do, 60 million, 70 million on Netflix? Something million. Yeah. That's what it's gonna do. Yeah. Something D million. Hello, Jay Glazer said,

the only person that hurt him with a body shot was you. When did you get into mixed martial arts? Like seven years ago. What made you decide to do that? I just stumbled in the gym, bro. Just walked in there and never left. Were you fascinated by it? Was I fascinated?

No, not really. Like, it wasn't even nothing that I seen myself doing. Like, I just walked into the gym and you know what it was? It was more like the community to me. Like, you know, I felt really like welcome. I still do feel welcome by the fighters, by the trainers, by anybody who's like willing to give off that information.

I met some really, really cool people just through my fitness journey. And like that just showed me something like bigger than the physical aspect of it. But Wiz, you do realize, most MMA fighters, they ain't got bread like you. You came in there, you got bread. And to go and to want to subject yourself

to that type of training. And it's like, you're not gonna, hopefully you don't ever have to use it, but I don't think that's why you went in there. Like you said, you was on this fitness journey. You kind of likened it to community that the MMA that it entails. And so you're like, man, I feel a part of this. Yeah, but I think being a martial artist

is a lifelong thing. You don't have to have a reason to be a martial artist. You want to get a black belt? I'm gonna have a black belt eventually. I do taekwondo. I'm gonna keep practicing jiu-jitsu. Muay Thai, they don't really have a belt system. But as long as I keep practicing,

I'll be considered a black something. But it's like, the majority of black belts, they're not competing, they're not walking down the street saving the city or anything like that. They just have their training in their back pocket and real martial artists, they train every day. And MMA is mixed martial arts. So even Muay Thai, kickboxing, boxing,

they're all martial arts. You know what I'm saying? So I consider myself a martial artist and training every day. Right. Do you wanna do a celebrity or MMA match with somebody? Do you want to do a celebrity or MMA match with somebody? Um, do I want to do a celebrity MMA match with somebody? Who you calling out? A?

I wouldn't call out nobody, because nobody is as tall as me. Nobody really like moves how I move, so it's like... Is there any celebrity or entertainer that does MMA? There's a lot of entertainers that do MMA, but they don't do it on a high level. They do it on an entertainer level. They're not really getting black eyes and shit like that. And in a real MMA situation, whether it be Muay Thai,

I would do kickboxing more than boxing. I wouldn't just do hands. Because I got long ass legs, why not be able to? You will use them. You know what I'm saying? And I don't just do hands. Right. Because I got long ass legs, like why not be able to? You wanna use them. You know what I'm saying? And I don't know anybody who wants to get kicked in the head by me. No.

Yeah, I don't, would I do it? Yeah, but I just don't think anybody will want to do it. Right. Like nobody in their right mind is going to be like, this nigga is 6'5", buck 80, go ahead, kick me in my face. Knock me out in front of everybody. That's it. Buck 80, go ahead, kick me in my face. Knock me out in front of everybody. That's it.

That's it. That's it. You got into it because you weight, it helped you gain weight. You was like, when you started, when you started, how much did you weigh? Buck 40. At 65?

Yeah, yup. You a skeleton. Yeah. Yeah, I was little. And then you got the training, you got hooked. Yeah, yup. Yeah, yeah, I was little And then you got you got the training you got hooked. Yeah. Yep Yeah, hell. Yeah, was it was it the same kind of rush you got when you started rapping? Was it the same rush I got when I started rapping no I wasn't because when I started rapping I just quit everything it was like in the studio all the time

This is like a different point in my life life where I can balance it with everything. It taught me balance. And it's like, I could be in the studio for this amount of time, but I wanna make sure that I get my workout done as well. So it wasn't, it's discipline. It's not the same. Oh, that's what it taught.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's taught me discipline. I went shopping yesterday. I bought you a gift off Amazon. I think you're gonna really like this. I was there the whole time. Yeah, yeah. There's a gift sitting there. Yeah.

What we got. Oh, that's a little punch and little thing. Yeah, yeah, yeah, so you, cause you say you, yeah, you work on your head, yeah. Nice. That's a good idea, man. Thank you, bro. I got you.

I got you. Thank you. This is really nice. It's a desktop or a punching bag. That's cool. While you're in the studio, you know, you want, hey, in between, you get somebody to give them a 10 minute break.

I'm like, who's this company? I might need to buy them. I like that. But I see a lot of rappers. I see Gunna, I see Offset in the gym, they're posting their POVs. That's good. Yeah, yeah. I love seeing the homies working out, man.

I think we all inspire each other. 2 Chainz be working out. Yep, Chainz. There's a lot of artists who work out. Jim Jones is one of the original, like, get fit, you know what I'm saying, rappers. Is that the new wave? Guys in the gym now? Definitely. wanted the original, like, get fit, you know what I'm saying, rappers. Is that the new wave, guys in the gym now? Definitely, definitely.

Because before, hey, you guys are- Definitely. I mean, Park rested, so he was amped up and didn't do no working out. Yeah, I think he was hitting some workouts. You think Park, okay. Yeah, he was hitting some burpees or something. Okay.

But Park was small, though. Yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly. I think now it's like, there's more in the fitness. Like before it was like, you know, I just wanted to smoke weed and get fucked up. But that part of my life is, you know, is. You still wanna smoke weed,

but I wanna do other things too. I still wanna smoke weed and get fucked up. But it's not the main goal. It's like, you know what I mean? There's other things to life. And I think like people are starting to figure out, like, you know, they've done like studies and shit and they're saying there's more people going to, and I think people are starting to figure out, they've done studies and shit, and they're saying there's more people going to the gym

than going to the club these days, which is cool. I'm cool with that, I like that. Have you gotten in the gym with any of the guys? Have you seen any of them in the gym? Do they do anything? I see them working out, but I don't know if they're in the gym like what you doing. Yeah, no, I haven't.

I wanna take them through like one of my workouts. Yeah, that's my invite for the rappers. Like come do a Wiz workout. Who do you think would be able to go through an MMA workout? I wanna speak positive and just say, you know, all of my... I don't know Wiz because that type of,

training is different. You might train one way, but somebody that doesn't train that way and they put you through theirs, and it makes you feel like you have a workout. I'm gonna try to straight up, like any of them just coming straight in there, like pause.

Anybody walking straight into the gym, like just off of doing whatever you're doing, and you're walking straight into the gym to the workout, you're getting killed. Yeah, it's gonna hurt you. But show, 100%. Because if you lift weights and don't do cardio, the cardio aspect is gonna kill you.

If you do cardio and don't do the weight components, the weights components gonna kill you. And then when you combine the two, You're dead. If you got any type of workout experience, you might make it through one of those. But it's gonna fuck with you for sure. So yeah, I would just say, just try it out.

You know what I'm saying? I like it because it's a challenge. So anybody who really wanna get challenged, they would be like, all right, cool. But we don't take it easy on anybody to the point where it's like, you can do this, you can't do that, you gotta try to do the same stuff. You gotta try to do everything. Everybody. Yeah, yeah. do this, you can't do that, you gotta try to do same stuff. You gotta try to do everything.

Everybody, yeah, yeah. Ryan Garcia, people thought Ryan was trying to use you as a pawn as he shook your hand on camera after the racist rant. Did you know about the racist rant before? Yeah. You cool with Ryan? I am cool with Ryan.

First of all, I don't know if that was really him saying all that racist stuff. Second of all, he ain't know if that was really him saying all that racist stuff. Second of all, he ain't the first person that said that shouldn't have been saying that I shook their hand. Right. So I ain't tripping over, right? He ain't cool with me. He didn't call me a n***a. He did? He said he didn't call me a n***a.

Oh, you're right. Okay, okay. Own and Labeled. You own your own label, Taylor Gang Entertainment. What have you, what have, having been in the business, I think it's probably easier for you to own a company because you understand the inner workings of said company and how the business actually works. And you could tell the guy, guys, it don't work like that. Right. Because, you know, sometimes people have a preconceived notion of how they think

the business work or how they think it should work right when you've actually been in the business and you know how the business work mm-hmm what's the hardest thing to try to get artists to understand as they're coming in and they're new and you've been at this thing for 20 years. I think the hardest thing to get them to understand is like, let me think, let me think on that. I think the hardest thing to get them to understand is like the process of getting to that big point that they're trying to get to.

Because when you're an artist, you think everyone is it. process of getting to that big point that they're trying to get to because when you're an artist you think every one is it you're like this is the one this is it and then you just start to figure out like by number 10 you're like oh shit like that wasn't it like right but even on number 10 you still think it's the one it's hard to tell an artist, like, this might not be it. You know what I'm saying? Put your all into it. We're going to do everything that we can.

But if it doesn't blow up or take off or put you in a $5 million house, it's not because we're not on your team. You know what I'm saying? Sometimes it just ain't it. Because everybody thinks they're going to be the next Jay-Z, the next Wiz, the next loop the next And they think everything that they do is gonna be that thing to do it for him nobody and that's a good thing because if you're

Artist you want to be confident. You don't want to be like, oh man, this might or might not you'd be like man It's gonna get me the up out of here But you got to be ready to deal with it not if it doesn't yeah exactly a lot of don't know how to deal with that And they don't know how to keep riding it out if that doesn't happen immediately. What's up, everybody? I'm Neal Burke here to tell you about a new podcast, I Heart Podcast in the National Hockey League. It's NHL Unscripted with Burke and Demers. Hey, I'm Jason Demers, former 700 game NHL defenseman turned NHL network analyst. And boy, oh boy, does daddy have a lot to say. I love you, by the way, on NHL defenseman turned NHL network analyst and boy oh boy does daddy have a lot to say.

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but they still want to be in the game? It's not hard for me because I don't do it. I would never. Because once they come to you and say, okay, if you come in to do this, we're going to do this. Now, if you try to do this and that, you can stay over there because I want no part of that. You can't do that. You can't do that with me at all.

There's no none of that. Yeah, because there's no one foot in and one foot out. The other one is going to outweigh the other one. The bad one is going to outweigh the good one. You know what I mean? You're not going to get a million dollars and be like, OK, now I can stop doing what I was doing. You're going to go to jail, and you're not ever

going to get the opportunity to reach it to where you were supposed to be doing what you were supposed I was doing. You're gonna go to jail and you're not ever gonna get the opportunity to reach it to where you was supposed to be doing what you were supposed to be doing. Or it's gonna set you back so far that you're just fucking up your chances by gambling. And I don't gamble like that, you know what I'm saying? I'd rather like take time and build something up and just work at it, like, instead of like trying to have both,

like, I don't do that, so, nah. Are you doing something with college athletes? Oh, well, I had done a few NILs. Okay, how did it go? It went really good. Okay. It was like, low key, like, some of the first little situations,

and it like, you know, it did a lot for the artists, I mean, for the you know it did a lot for the artists I mean for the artists it did a lot for the athlete and you know for what we were promoting right so it was a good little thing. You signed Juicy J, Todd Dollar signed. Why do you think they trusted you? Because I think everybody's heard these stories with about the music industry. Yeah. And man, I got had. Yeah. Man, I made like $4.42 on my first album. Yeah. And the album did 10 million.

Yeah, nah, hell nah. I think at that time, not even at that time, but just in general, like, we have such a influence, you know what I'm saying, of like what's cool and what's not cool. And, you know, Ty working on his music for a long-ass time and just needing that platform. Not really needing, but just that platform being there,

you know, just took it to the next level. And Juicy already being a legend, and just having a reinvention. I think it just all, like, with timing and us really being cool with each other, us really f***ing with each other, loving each other's music, supporting each other. And in turn, it created a wave that everybody through the fans and everybody got to experience. It still gets an experience tied dollar

He and Kanye released the album vultures. Mm-hmm if they ask him to get on, you know Ask you to get on vultures to with him you down. Hell. Yeah Why wouldn't I be Because I'm thinking like how do you determine who you're gonna rock with on the album? Who me? Yeah. I don't. Somebody hit you up say hey we want to get you on this. I'm down to work with anybody. Yeah but 250, 500 what are you looking for? If you, well Ty is my brother so I'm not charging him nothing. You my brother, you nothing. If you got a budget, like you said, like 250.

Yeah, yeah, for sure. I ain't gonna be no rapper there. No, but if you the homie, so you can get a verse whenever. If you text me and be like, Wiz, I got this song. You send me the song, I'll send it back to you the same night with a verse on their ad-libs. Yeah, you know what I mean? I'm about to get up there and do it.

Exactly, man. You get a little liquid there. Yep, but I told you I own everything now. Huh? Whoa, whoa, whoa, see I knew it wasn't catching up somewhere. I read you almost signed Lil Uzi Vert. Why you didn't sign him? Shit, he signed with Cannon and Drama,

but he was like down with Taylor Gang, and we wanted to manage, like co-manage. I don't think it was ever supposed to be like a label thing because we had brought him through Atlantic, and they were always supposed to handle that side of it, but it was more supposed to be like co-management type of thing. But even just him ending up with Drama and Cannon and Lake and them, they're still families.

So it's a win-win. How do you determine an artist that you want to work with, that you want to sign to your label, that you want to help grow? How do you determine that with? I just go off if I like them or not. If I like their music, usually I'll catch on to an artist's music, like, before it takes off,

so I can see the potential in, like, The Wave or, you know what I mean? They might have, like, a cool little fan base. They got their own little lingo and all of this stuff. So it's like, damn, I could see what that world is, and I could see what, you know, our platform can do for that world. That's usually what makes me wanna work with an artist.

Do you, are you listening to artists now? Do you like, okay, do people send you a lot of stuff and say, hey Wiz, take a look at this, tell me what you think. Yeah, they send me a lot of stuff and I think a lot of people just off of me being a legend in a game at this point, they're like, I would love to work with Wiz or,

you know, I would be signing the Taylor game, blah, blah, blah. But I just think the way that the game is set up now, it just makes more sense for artists to really work for themselves. Like, you know what I mean? Really? Yeah. Unless you're a writer or unless you already have a

complete package and you're just writer or unless you already have a complete package Mm-hmm, and you're just looking to go to the next level and you don't want to do like all the work Independently and you're looking for somebody to do that But my advice for any artist would just be like just do it all yourself you know And if you want to if you want to put a legend or if you want to be a part of somebody's crew or some shit Like that you can always do it later. You don't have to give them your music.

And I think that's just me being cool because I don't wanna take anything away from anybody. I don't wanna own anybody's music. I don't see somebody and see dollar signs, but there's a bunch of talented people who can make a lot of money out there. Do you ever get stuff and like, this ain't it? Man, these days there is no such thing as this ain't it. It could be the weakest song ever bro, that shit is gonna go crazy somewhere bro. There's 15 seconds

in there. So I look at everything like, even if it's not my personal taste. I'm right. There's somebody who will go crazy to this shit Like I see I see the the beauty and all of this shit. Well, you did bake sale with Travis Scott. How was that experience? It was cool as hell He popped up on me at a studio. We were in Hollywood I think I was in Paramount and I was just randomly recording in the back and he had been in a room up front He heard I was there and he just popped in and threw some beats on and started freestyling. I was like, record that shit. And he recorded the first verse and we got stoned.

And he just left. And he left his shoes in there and everything. So it was just Travis Scott's shoes and his voice playing on the thing. Everybody's coming in and they're like, yo, is that Travis? I'm like, hell yeah, and his shoes is right over there. So it was crazy. Congrats on welcoming the daughter this year. Oh, thank you.

How is your parenting skills or your parenting style different than your parents? I would say that I'm very similar to how my dad parented me, where he was like really calm and gentle. He didn't really raise his voice, but he was stern. Right. You knew he meant business when he said something.

Oh, hell yeah. Because military fathers are very disciplined. They're very structured. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. He's super stern, like, just as a guy, you know what I mean? Just as a man. He's like a, he's just got this energy about him. And I carry my father's energy for sure.

And I'm like my mother where I'm like super cool and lenient. Like my mom is like very chill. She's like the life of the party, turnt up, music playing, movies on, whatever, whatever, like just loud, people over, like you know what I'm saying? So I'm a combination of both of them. And I would say I'm different.

I'm probably, and I give my parents grace because I'm older, probably just due to the circumstance, I'm a little bit more patient than them. Yes. I hope you don't got patience. Man, like, cause my mom would just whoop everybody in the house like, soon as something went wrong, everybody's getting a beating,

everybody's getting cussed out. And my dad was more like taking my privileges, punishment. Yeah. You know, you didn't do this, all right, well, blah, blah, blah. It's like, well, my son, I'm like, come on, man. I'd be cleaning up after him and shit. Like, I'd be packing his bag for him and helping him out. My dad would have never done that shit for me.

Right. So, yeah. Is being a dad everything you thought it would be? Absolutely. It's everything I thought it would be and more actually. Really? Yeah. Because I knew I would love having kids, but I didn't know that I would just like be willing

to sacrifice so much for my kids. And there's like a lot of the times where I would just rather be there with them or be available for them. So it's like certain stuff is like, nah, I ain't gonna do that or I'm only gonna do that much of that so I can get back to the shit that I actually love. Right.

Yeah, yeah. Now, is it true that after divorce with Amber, y'all went to the strip club? Uh, I mean, not immediately. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. No, actually, it was like the day after the divorce was finalized. Hold up.

How you divorced the woman and then turn around and take the woman to the strip club with you? Because we cool. We just can't be in a relationship together. Y'all can look at women together, but we can't be together. Yeah, we agreed on that. You took your mom to the strip club too one time? Mm-hmm.

How was that? It was cool. You never been to the strip club with your mom? No, I ain't going with her. Come on, man. Nah. I told you my mom was cool. Yeah, my mom ain't that cool.

Didn't I tell you she was lenient? Yes. Yeah. But how was that going? How was that going? I couldn't even imagine going to the strip club with an ex. Why not? Man, man.

I told you I'm a big ass player, man. Don't forget this stuff. I ain't, I ain't. I ain't. But I don't, so did like, do women find that like, that's your ex, that's your wife, right? No, that's my ex, that's your ex-wife? And she here with you?

Or do you get, did you get questions like that? Yeah. Are you like, yeah, okay, and? I mean, we buying each other lap dances. You're like, come on now, do that again. Oh, really, I give her the money and let her throw the money on the ass. So she got the big stack of money

and she's throwing it on the ass, like, you know what I mean? know I mean did you have a good time huh great time you was having a good time too huh I always have a good so what city would you say have the best strip clubs Houston better than I yeah better than a but Houston nights the way yeah see exactly yeah I mean I'm not saying the A's not cracking. But Houston is like just a different level. I ain't never been to the strip club. What? Not in Houston.

What? I went to the strip club the first time probably about five months ago, first time about 17 years. OK. I know where I stopped. I ain't going back. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But Houston, them women. I need a 17 year break too.

Yeah. Man, if the women in the clubs look like the women walking down the street. Yeah. Boy, you got hell on your hands. They look even better in the strip clubs. Huh? I mean, it's down south, so they're super nice.

Like, yeah, Houston strip clubs. What? Top tier. Was it hard, you and Amber was married, you have a child together, I think Sebastian, her son. Was it hard, you separate, go your separate ways, but you're gonna raise the child together. Was that hard?

Or because you experienced it with your mom and dad and saw how they did it, and you're like, hell, they did it, I can do it. I think it was difficult at first because we were really tight in our relationship, just together. So it was unfortunate that it didn't work out. That really sucked.

And I think we both felt some type of way about that. But as time went on, I think we were both really allowed to be really great parents, separate from each other. She's a great mother, she's a great person, I'm a great father, I'm a great person. Sometimes being in a relationship can dilute that. Because you're like, man, you blah blah blah, you did this, you did that.

But now that's all we have to focus on. And that's really, really positive for us. And we're able to make great decisions based off of that. What did you think about Maze saying that you and 21 Savage did your best music when y'all was with Amber? Who said that? Maze.

The rapper Maze? Yeah. Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha. First of all, I'm with Maze. I don't know why he would say some crap like that. Don't be pumping Amber's head up. She don't need no more of that. Right.

Yeah, I mean, if that's what he think, if that's his opinion. Right. Are you open to getting married again? Nah. You done with that? Just the whole, like, signing the paperwork, legal part of marriage. I'm not against having a partner for life. I'm just against like, the legal side of marriage.

What about the public side of it? I don't really enjoy the public side of it. Yeah, I wouldn't, I wouldn't, I wouldn't... Subject that person to that? Not even subject that person to that. I wouldn't take that path for myself. Because that's a person to that. I wouldn't take that path for myself, because that's a choice. Yes.

I wouldn't choose that. Right. Yeah, at all. So are you cool with dating someone that's not a celebrity? Could you date, I don't, I'm proud to go get killed, a normal woman that worked at nine to five that's not in the industry, that's not a celebrity,

that's not a rapper, that's not an entertainer, that's not in the industry, that's not a celebrity, that's not a rapper, that's not an entertainer, that's not... Um, I mean, like, preference-wise, it doesn't matter what your job or what you do is. So I don't think that determines. But just, like, coming from, like, a normal background, it would be... it's more difficult to, like, have them be accustomed to these. Because they don't understand your lifestyle.

They don't understand it. And there's things that people think them be accustomed to these. Because they don't understand your lifestyle. They don't understand it. And there's things that people think that they're ready for. It's more like, we could be at a dinner, and six chicks can come up to me and want to take a picture with me, and I have to be nice to them. Right.

Any normal woman is going to feel some type of way. Correct. You have to be special and like really up on game to be like, let me put my feelings to the side. Let me support. Let me not trip on him afterwards. Let me not make him feel guilty. Like, you know what I'm saying?

Let me not insinuate anything. The stuff that normal women would do, because that could mess up my situation, because I don't need that every time I'm doing what I'm doing. This comes with what I'm doing. As long as I'm not being disrespectful, like, you know, smacking ass or anything like that, like, we should be cool.

Right. And if I can smack some ass, then let me know. Ah! Ah! Ah! He probably gave you the green light of Skrill Club, not the rest of us. Not the rest of us.

So let me ask you a question. What do you think the time limit is? You're not going to get mad, but how long do you think the time limit is? You're not gonna get married, but how long do you think a person should get to know someone? How long should they date before they pop the question? Ten years. Damn!

Yep. Well they better start getting together when they're in their twenties. Yep, ten years. Why ten? Cause that's long enough to know the person, the person's family, and the person that you're going to deal with when y'all move in together. You think that person, so do you think you should move in right away or do you wait until

you actually marry until you move in with that person? It depends on what your situation is, like what the circumstances are. Okay. So some people going to move in right away, still need time to figure it out. If you don't move in right away, you're gonna learn, you're gonna have one person when you're not living and then you're gonna have another person

when you are sharing things. You're gonna be sharing finances. Whoa! Yeah, it's tricky when you start doing that. Yeah, but you got a little finance over here that you let her see. You got the big finances over there that you let the financial people see.

Yeah, all right. Come on, Wiz! That woman wants to see everything, brother. I'm just signing that paperwork. It's hers! Oh, dog. Oh, dog. We got a little joint account.

We got a little dollar in there. See, that causes arguments, because they're like, oh, well, you don't trust me with your money. No, not that much money. See, that's what I'm saying. Those women who want to see it all, brother. No, they want to see if you're sending something to somebody else.

10 years, you don't know what's going on. You're like, I've been here this long, he obviously doing something, right? Right. Great, let me ask you this. Who are four people you would want to smoke with, dead or alive? I'm gonna give you four that you want to smoke with.

Bob Marley, Malcolm X, Ronald Isley, and you said four? Four. Donatello from the Ninja Turtles Give me give me a five your four Mount Rushmore weed smokers me Snoop Willie Nelson and Bob Marley I Know that was the list I would go I would go I would go with also There's a lot of great weed smokers like be real. I don't want to take be right WeReal. Right. We got to make B-Real an extra place, yo. Okay. Yeah, B-Real is on there too. Wow. Yeah, B-Real for

sure. You smoked with Michael Phelps. Mm-hmm. I mean, the man won like a thousand gold medals. Right. And swimming. So he got to have some lung capacity. He got some lungs. He got to. Yeah, he got lungs. Huh? Yeah. I told him not to inhale the joint, like the whole thing in one, cause I thought he was just gonna smoke the whole joint with one pool. But he, nah, he held it down, he didn't.

He's a cool dude though, he's super chill. Yeah, yeah. He's a hippie dog. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Smoke weed and swim. I don't know how you do that. We got lungs, bro. I know, but normally for like holding your breath underwater, not the pool.

Bro, you ever hit a bong? No. Yeah, you gotta have some lungs. But you hit bongs or you just mainly do that? I smoke bongs. I smoke bongs, dabs, bowls, joints. I just don't smoke blunts. Why not blunts?

I don't like tobacco. Okay. Yeah, you could live forever smoking just pot. You start mixing the tobacco with it. That's when the other stuff come in too. Yeah, that's when it gets tricky. So let me ask you a question. How many joints you think you smoke a day?

If I could count upwards of 29. A day? If I could count upwards of 29. A day? Yeah. There's only 24 hours in a day where you gotta sleep at least eight hours. But I might smoke like three back to back. Yeah. Oh, especially when I'm recording, even more than that.

Cause I'm just like I might have two in my hand like this. What? And you only smoke your product? Yeah, Khalifa Kush only Ten you at least ten years almost ten years twelve years. How do you how do you come up with this combination? Burner brought it to me. Shout out to Burner and in he Burn a boy Burner.er from the Bay. Okay. But if he's not on the weed Mount Rushmore, he's on the weed,

what's the equivalent to Mount Rushmore but not quite Mounty-ish. He's something. Yeah. He's legendary. He's got like, Burner's a legend in the weed gang. He's pretty much legalized weed, his damn self. And he brought me this strain like 10 years ago. He was just bringing me packs like from the Bay. Like we would just always smoke the newest, freshest, coolest weed. And then he was like, you know what, I'm gonna just bring you this one,

I'm gonna see if you like it. It's not what people are with right now, but I'll see if you like it. And I was like, man, I love this weed. Like it was the perfect weed, and it's been the same exact one since that day. Yeah, yeah. What's up everybody, I'm Neal Burke here to tell you

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Yeah, we trademark it, the name, and we get the genetics, which is the seeds and the clones, and you know, we lock that in a golden case because nobody can get that. Right, so nobody can't. Nobody gets the original, but we cloned it and then that's where we get everything else. Okay, put this clone on a private jet with six armed guards. Just a little baby, little weed plant, you know what I mean?

You're getting flown to this state so we can turn you into a whole room full of this shit. So that's how it happens. Do you do cross-pollination? Well, we do that for the other strands, like the calipha mints and the violet sky and the baby turtle. They're all crosses with original KK with other plants.

So you get other weed plants and you let them f***. Yeah. Let me ask you this. Who are some of your athletes, stoners of all time? The best athlete stoners of all time? What's my boy name? What's the dude who quit playing football? Ricky Williams.

Ricky Williams. Ricky Williams. You ever smoke with Ricky? No, I ain't smoke with Ricky yet. Mike Tomlin. Mike Tomlin? Mike Cobbler. You got Westis-Soul Bill Walton was a weed smoker. Kareem. He not too big in the weed community.

I'm trying to, Michael Beasley? Lamar Odom. He not too big. Lamar Odom, oh Matt Barnes, that's my name. Yeah, okay. Yeah, Matt, he's one of my favorite pothead athletes. Oh, KD. KD Smoke?

Hell yeah. I didn't know that. KD's with the weed, bro. You gave him, you let him try some of yours? Oh yeah, my weed? Yeah. No. Ah!

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Are you going to have it? Yeah, I think it was we created a group chat that's called Smoke Olympics. All stoners in there. OK. Everybody got too high and forgot. It's been years. I haven't gotten a message from this group chat. I'm sure they're still there but everybody just got stoned and forgot we was supposed to do something.

Snoop says he has a person that rolls his joints, pay him 50 grand a year to roll all his joints. You got anybody you just get to pre-roll. I got this machine, so it's like a 100-joint roller. So you put 100 joints in there, and you just dump weed into it, and it just rolls them for you. And it rolls them to the set amount that you... Yeah. Damn. It just packs them like...

It takes about, like, 20 seconds. It just packs it all and levels it out, and you just smack it, stuff them, twist them, throw them in a thing. So you gotta twist it. That's the only thing that you can do. Just twist the end. Wow.

Yeah, yep. You said the only time is like when you go overseas, you go to the Middle East, and you go to Dubai, you go to Saudi Arabia. You can't have that. So you gotta go over there, you're going over there to perform, you're going over there for at least a week.

Hell no. You're going there for a day? Yeah. That's it, you fly away there? Yeah. So you got a concert, you fly away there, perform, and get back on the plane at least? Yeah.

Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha. I'm not staying there, I can't smoke. Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha. How long do you actually think you could go without smoking? Could you go a week? Would I want to? No. Could I? I could do anything, dog. I don't know, Wiz. I'll be perfectly fine. But we don't speak like that. We speak good stuff. We don't speak like that. We speak good stuff.

We don't talk like that. We say, I could do it if I had to. Have you ever gone to jail in a foreign country for weed? Yeah, currently. Like not for any amount of time, but they definitely arrested me when I was in Romania. And they took, did they take it? They took the weed? Yeah, yeah, they took the, did they take it? They took the weed?

Yeah. Yeah, they took the weed. They gave it back to you? No, hell no. They kept that. I wouldn't have wanted if they gave it back to me because I'm good. I see, you know, Snoop, like I said,

Snoop has done what you're doing, Snoop has been doing the acting. You wanna do more acting? Yeah, I would definitely do more acting, butop is done with you. What you're doing, Snoop, has been doing to act. You wanna do more acting? Yeah, I would definitely do more acting, but I got all these tattoos. You can cover that up, but I'm not cutting my hair. So I'm gonna be limited, you know, with the acting. Right, but that Snoop got hair, Snoop is...

Yeah, so, you know, as long as I can get roles that fit. See, me, I would much rather do like animated shit. You know what I'm saying? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Or I could direct, or if there is a role for me, because there are roles that I could play. Right. There's things that you're going to see me do.

But yeah, I definitely want to do acting. I want to get into like action stuff. That'll put like all my training to use. Right, OK, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So like, definitely like some action shit some kung fu shit kicking some do some walls I Want to kick it through the wall right? Yeah? How many tattoos you got with I'm covered you got so your whole body not my whole body, but like everywhere So I got like space for like a couple little things here, but like my upper body is fully blasted

It's like a whole whole piece and then the back is a whole piece. My neck fully blasted, arms blasted. So the legs is like the most room that I would have. Are you planning on getting more? Yeah yeah I'm getting my daughter's name. I'm getting one dedicated to cushioned orange juice. I got some other shit that I want to get to. So where are you on, I see a lot of guys now are going under anesthesia, and what would normally take multiple sessions, they're getting it done in one session. Yeah, that's stupid.

Is it? Yeah, that's too much damn trauma to your body. Like you ain't supposed to, like, you get fucked up for that long, you gotta heal for that long. And it's not gonna be nice, like a big, all that shit healing. Yeah, like, I think, who is that?

Zion, I think Zion just got a whole back. I think that got his back or something. See, that's cool because like, not cool, but like, I get it because you probably didn't have a whole back piece or whatever and instead of like waiting for a minute and putting the back piece together you just want to get the look. Which is fine, you know what I'm saying? But like, I'm an OG in this shit so I'm getting smaller tattoos now.

I'm not sitting there for eight, you know, I used to do like eight, 10, 12 hour sessions and shit like that. With no anesthesia? No, we ain't get no anesthesia for that. Like, come on man, you ain't putting me under. Nah, I can't do that kind of pain. But if you don't wanna sit there for eight to 12 hours,

then don't get the damn tattoo, you know what I'm saying? Just get one. Get it in increments. Get it in increments, get three here, get four there, you know what I'm saying? Don't get the damn tattoo like you know I'm saying just get one get it in increments get three here get four there You know I'm saying don't get put under Cuz yeah, it's just not a good idea, but if it works it works It probably looks good when it's done, but me I'm not even getting big ass tattoos no more I'm getting like little shit here and there right I'll be seeing get tattoos over tattoos. I like that, too

Oh really I'm gonna start tattoos over tattoos. I like that too. I'm gonna start tattin' over my tats. That's hard, bro. That's hard to me. I got so many tattoos, I'm tattin' over tats. You once sued your manager to get out of a 360 deal. Can you explain to our audience at home that's not in the music industry, or that doesn't understand, what is a 360 deal?

A 360 deal is when they manage you, they own part of your publishing, they own everything. They own part of your touring, What is a 360 deal? A 360 deal is when they manage you, they own part of your publishing, they own everything, they own part of your touring, they own part of your merchandising. So basically they're getting money off of everything that you do. So the whole pie, they're a part of it.

Yeah, they're a part of it. And while it may sound cool, where you're like, well, I trust them, as an artist, you don't have to give one person... That kind of control. That kind of control, yeah, everything. And it's better that you own the majority of your stuff, and the stuff that you want to give out and share with people,

you share with them and you allow them for the amount of time that you do it. But to be locked in, you know, doing that forever for the extent of your career, you're not going to benefit from it as an artist. Somebody else is going to benefit from it. And you know, that works out for that person, but it doesn't work out for you. You sold part of your catalog, Black and Yellow, See You Again.

Why did you decide to sell part of your catalog? You make a certain amount of money a year off of that stuff, like streaming and things like that. But that over an amount of time, when you account for spending, you'll never accumulate that much off of those particular songs as you would selling your catalog for whatever it's worth. Of course you negotiate and you make it in your favor,

but the main goal when you do that is to make more money off of those songs than you would ever make in your life. In one big chunk. Right. Like, you know, throughout time, you know, and... Yeah. But you can take that money... A hundred and ten years, you'll make a hundred and ten million off of that song.

But somebody's giving you a check for a hundred and ten million. You can invest it, and instead of making a hundred and ten million over a hundred years, you can make a billion dollars. Yeah. Yeah. Or you can do that, make another catalog that other people consider valuable again and cash out again.

Right. It doesn't stop there. So it's like business. You build a business up to a certain point and then you give it to people who can take it to the next level or have the time to do whatever and then you use that money to further yourself.

So, like, yeah, it's like that. Right. Any projects coming out you wanna promote? Yes, I have a new album coming out, when's this dropping, this December? Next year, I'm putting my new album out. It's called Cushion Orange Juice 2. It's my favorite album that I've

done in a very, very long time. It returns to the original sound that people loved me for. And I got in the studio with Mike Will and Terrence Martin and DJ Quig and Problem or Jason Martin and a whole list of musicians and just really created something that is musical, there's real people playing instruments on here. And not to just brag about that because when you hear somebody say there's real people playing instruments, you can take it so many different ways. But this shit is jamming, but it's not just like programmed, you know what I mean? Like music, kind of how current music is now. It's a lot more depth and a lot more warmth to it,

to where it's an experience, you know, not only into like my lifestyle, but into my taste in music. And it's really, really fun for me to be able to like just show people what the I think is cool and like introduce it in a way where they're excited for it because they know what the first Cushion Orange Juice was hit for.

So now I'm coming back with the second one and everybody's like, okay, cool, we wanna hear it. And I fully delivered on there. So next year I'm gonna drop Christian Orange Juice 2 and we already dropped two videos off of there but this comes out the third video will be off of there so we dropped three videos off of there or three no four singles I'm sorry Khalifa's Home, Hide It featuring Don Tolliver, Bring Your Lungs featuring Smoke Dizzy, and Hit It Once,

which is like the ultimate freaking weed song. And there's a video for Hit It Once, and there's a video for Khalifa's Home. And yeah. So keep watching out, keep checking out. It's going to be a process and be leading everybody into it. I'll be dropping these things called day to days on YouTube You can check my YouTube out. They're like a behind-the-scenes look at all the cool shit that I do And that's really all it is. It just shows you how awesome I am

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