Dumb Blonde - Wiz Khalifa: I'm Blessed to Be a Healer

Episode Date: July 7, 2025

This week, the one and only Wiz Khalifa brings the chill - and a smile that could light up the world. The multi-platinum rapper, father, and certified smooth operator sits down with Bunnie to... talk growing up in a military family, dad life, and his deeper purpose: spreading joy. He opens up about how his parents’ divorce shaped him, and how it influences the way he co-parents today. Wiz shares his approach to staying calm, and how he finds healing through music, hot yoga, MMA, and morning routines. He also talks about the release of Kush & Orange Juice 2, the long-awaited follow-up to the mixtape that defined an era. Plus: his favorite stoner snacks, his dream strip club, and why he never gets tired of performing his hits like "Black and Yellow". Wiz Khalifa: Website Watch Full Episodes & More:www.dumbblondeunrated.comSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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Starting point is 00:02:35 What's up babies? Today we have on the couch, Wiz Khalifa. Hey, what's up? How you doing? I'm chilling. Dude, I'm so happy you're here. Happy to be here. Thanks for having me.
Starting point is 00:02:47 You are just like the smoothest cat, always and forever. Every time I see you, you have a smile on your face. You're just a chill vibe. You remind me so much of my dad, because I used to always say my dad was like the coolest cat. And then I found out that you were born September 8th. My dad was September 4th.
Starting point is 00:03:03 Oh yeah, that makes perfect sense. Yeah, so you guys have just that like super chill, super cool vibe. Yeah, thank you. Yeah, of course. If I could compare you to anybody, I'm sure you get this a lot. I swear you and Snoop Dogg are like the same human,
Starting point is 00:03:16 just different font. Exactly. Literally, was he an inspiration for you growing up? Huge inspiration for me growing up, especially in my teen years, like just being like a taller and skinny dude, it was like, you know, I had to find my swag and then just looking at Snoop,
Starting point is 00:03:30 that was like the tallest, coolest, skinniest dude ever. So it was like, you know what I mean? I definitely modeled myself just my whole, you know, approach after, you know, Snoop's rules. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Absolutely, I've missed pop's rules. Yeah. Yeah, absolutely. I miss Pimp Snoop. Yeah. Can we bring him back?
Starting point is 00:03:48 There's a lot of people who don't even know he was a pimp. Oh, I do. I listen. I grew up in that lifestyle in Vegas. So I loved Pimp Snoop. I'm like, bring him back. Remember when he used to hang out with Bishop Don Juan all the time? And like that whole era that he went through. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. He raised us.
Starting point is 00:04:04 He raised us right. He did raise us right. So you know how him and Martha Stewart have that TV show? If they were to replace Snoop with you, who would you bring on as your Martha? Who would be my Martha? Yeah. I think like Chelsea Handler.
Starting point is 00:04:20 Oh, yeah. Yeah, I like her. She's fucking hilarious, dude. Yeah, she's funny as hell, yeah. We love Chelsea in this house. She actually gave as one of the first people who gave us like our first break as far as like reality TV.
Starting point is 00:04:33 She believed in our family and like shot. I know she's a fucking, she's so dope. I didn't even know that. She just a G to me as well. She is. Yeah, so that would be like my Martha for sure. Yeah, dude, I think we need to, we need to do that. We could.
Starting point is 00:04:45 We need to get Wiz and Chelsea Handler in a fucking TV show together. That would be so fire. That would be awesome. I know that you're stoned all the time and you're not smoking today on my podcast. Do you feel out of your element a little bit? No, I'm good. I got high before I came in. All right, good. So it's all good. I'm not tripping.
Starting point is 00:05:01 What are some of your favorite stoner foods? Favorite stoner foods, I would have to go with Funyuns as far as chips. Yeah. I like to eat a lot of fruit. Yeah. I like to eat like pineapple and grapes and straw. I just like get a big ass bowl of fruit.
Starting point is 00:05:18 Just mix it all together. I love it. It reminds me of that TikTok. I like a lot of fresh fruit. Yeah. From the Step Brothers. Is that from Step Brothers? Yeah, for real. I like a lot of fresh fruit. From the step brothers. Is that from step brothers? I like a lot of fresh fruit.
Starting point is 00:05:25 Cereal anytime at a day. What's your favorite cereal? Apple Jacks. Really? That's different. I knew I normally hear like Lucky Charms or Captain Crunch. Okay, for real. I usually hear a cinnamon toast crunch.
Starting point is 00:05:38 I do love a good cinnamon toast or honey grams. Yeah, honey grams is good. Don't fuck around. Honey nut Cheerios. Delish. Yeah, don't sleep sleep on them. I love me some Applejacks are good because they're like flavored and they're sweet and the consistency they don't get all soggy. Yeah I like Applejacks. Have you ever thought about doing like reality TV? I think you are literally made for it I did. Thank you so much. I used to watch so much reality TV when I was a kid, like
Starting point is 00:06:08 real world and like all of that stuff. I miss the OG real world. Me too. And I used to like, that was my thing. I wanted to be like a personality. Yeah. And yeah. So as I got older, I started to make my own little series on YouTube. They're called day to days, but they're like, you know, they're not TV ready because there's a lot of weed on there. Right. But yeah, if I ever got the opportunity to do something like that, like a show like My Family or My Life or just My Personality, I would love that.
Starting point is 00:06:38 I think that would be hella fun. I think you have enough star power now to make that happen. Yeah, I'm a super fun dude too. I try anything. It don't matter what it is. I think people would just want to see you like raise your kids. Like I would probably like the dynamic between you and your son. I love kids.
Starting point is 00:06:53 Even if I got to do like stuff with other people's kids as well too. Like you know what I'm saying? Yeah. I want to do like a weird summer camp type thing. Oh, that would be so sweet. Yeah, where we like play games and we boxing and we working out I want to do like a weird summer camp type thing. Oh, that would be so sweet. We like play games and we boxing and we working out and we having fun. We being creative.
Starting point is 00:07:11 I'll be tight. I love that. If anybody's listening that can make that happen, you guys need to reach out to his team and make that happen. It was a summer camp. Have you ever seen that TV show? I'm drunk history. I have. Okay. So say Netflix came
Starting point is 00:07:26 to you and they gave you a show called High History. What would your first historical moment be that you would relive that you'd get stoned and just relive? I would want to get stoned and relive. That's all good. I mean, history is like pretty dark. Like when you think about it. It is actually. So I don't wanna go through that. He's like no dark shit.
Starting point is 00:07:55 Yeah, no dark shit. I probably wanna get stoned and go to like a Muhammad Ali fight. That'd be dope. Yeah, that would be cool. That would be iconic. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Dude, that would be so cool. Yeah, yeah, be so cool. What a moment in time.
Starting point is 00:08:06 For sure. I wish boxing was like it was back in the day. For sure. Like Mike Tyson, Sugar Ray Leonard. My dad was a huge boxing fan growing up. So like I got to watch all that growing up. And I just feel like boxing is cool now, but it's not like it was back in the day.
Starting point is 00:08:23 Absolutely. Yeah, the sport of it has changed cool now, but it's not like it was back in the day. Absolutely. Yeah, the sport of it has changed and just like how people enjoy it has changed. But back in the day, yeah, it was awesome. It was exciting. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:08:37 You have like really, really good fighters and multiple really good fighters too. So many. Yeah, a lot of them. Mike Tyson used to hang out in the strip club that I worked out all the time. And he was the coolest dude. He used to give me money because I never bothered him. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:08:54 He'd be like, I'd walk by and he would just hand me like a thousand dollars and just like, thank you for leaving me alone. Yeah, he just respected that. Yeah, no, he was just so, because everybody was always on him and always wanted his attention. And he noticed that I never like just, you know, he was already getting bombarded. But he was just so, because everybody was always on him and always wanted his attention. And he noticed that I never like just, you know, he was already getting bombarded, but he was just the sweetest dude.
Starting point is 00:09:09 That's nice. That's why it's crazy that he would- I love Mike now too. He's so cool. Like- He's amazing. He's just super chill. He'd be smoking weed and he just in his own world.
Starting point is 00:09:17 He's a good dude, man. Anybody that can raise pigeons the way he does and love them. Because honestly, like pigeons are like a forgotten bird because they used to do so much. Like they used to fucking send messages during the war and like, you know, like they were very useful. And now they're like known as like, you know.
Starting point is 00:09:36 Dirty birds. Dirty birds. And then, you know, there's Mike over there just raising pigeons. Loving on that dirty bird. Loving the shit out of a dirty bird. So I learned some cool facts about you and your childhood that I actually had never known about you.
Starting point is 00:09:51 Can we go on this journey? Yeah, let's do it. So you were a military kid? Yeah, yup. Take me on that journey because it says that you were like, you lived in Germany, Japan and the UK growing up. Yeah, I was born in North Dakota. My parents were cold as hell when they had me.
Starting point is 00:10:06 Right. Yeah, North Dakota is like, it's crazy out there. How cold it is. It's brutal. I went back for a few shows and shit and I don't know. We might've been there in like June, but it still felt like it was like December. It never gets warm there.
Starting point is 00:10:22 Yeah, no, it's crazy. We've been there on a few shows too. And I'm like, what the fuck is there to do out here? No, besides have kids. Have babies. Literally. And be in the military, I guess. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:10:32 But so my parents, they, my mom is from Pittsburgh and my dad is from New York. So they met in basic training, which was away from both of those places. So when they had me and my older sibling, my older sibling was born on Guam. And I was born in North Dakota, which is like two totally different things.
Starting point is 00:10:49 And then for the earlier part of my life, yeah, I moved around a lot. I did live in Europe for a while, I lived in Japan for a while, I lived in a lot of Southern States. And my mom being from Pittsburgh, that's how I ended up going back there. And that's where a lot of my roots are at, my real family.
Starting point is 00:11:07 And that's why I spent the majority of my time like going to school and stuff like that. But it was really cool, like experiencing, living all over in different countries and different states and things like that. Absolutely. Like how that had to have like shaped a little bit of, well actually a lot of like how you look at life.
Starting point is 00:11:25 Absolutely, it definitely exposed me to a lot of different cultures and a lot of different ways of life. And I got to experience it young on a personal level because I was meeting a lot of kids and just mingling with them. And now as an adult and really being able to go back and dive into these cultures and experience them
Starting point is 00:11:43 as a grown man. It just, it really like brought in my mind and just opened me up to a lot of different things. That if I didn't have that, I wouldn't have been, you know, where I'm at. I thought that was such a cool fact about you cause I didn't know that. And I was like, that's actually really cool
Starting point is 00:11:58 that you're like so cultured. Yeah, it's super cool. And like all the bass kids around the world, they feel like a connection with me. Because like, always is one of us. Yeah. Because moving around a lot as a child has to be hard, you know, like, because you kind of don't have a sense of feeling like belonging anywhere permanently. It's that and then there's like a lot of anxiety, like from always being the new kid.
Starting point is 00:12:24 Because when you're when you're younger, the concept of making friends, you want to just have friends forever. But you have to like make friends and then leave them. So that'd be the hard part is like, oh, I've known you for like two, three years and now I'm never going to see you for the rest of my life. Are there any friends that you have kept in contact with that you met? I do. I do. I have a couple of couple friends my boy Tyrese from from Oklahoma
Starting point is 00:12:48 My partner Zack he came to see me a couple times My partner Wesley he live in North Carolina. I haven't seen him in years, but I still remember that fool Yeah, there's a lot of there's like girls that I used to date back in the day who be popping up and show I'm sure they do They're like hey, whiz I'm like, yeah, you ain't getting... Those days is over. No, I get that. I think it's a testament of who somebody is, though, to be able to maintain relationships from childhood, because I have friends from fucking second grade
Starting point is 00:13:17 still, you know, so it's like it just shows that you care and that you are able to keep those relationships going. Yeah, absolutely. Even like my friends from Pittsburgh, a lot of them are from middle school and high school. But we just got together for a Will's bachelor party and we still kick it just on the same level, just talking shit, having a great time. And I really value, like you said, those relationships. It means a lot to me.
Starting point is 00:13:40 Is it because people, they know you from before all of this, right? Right. And they keep you grounded. Yeah. When you do it the right way, they know you from before all of this. Right, right. And they keep you grounded. Yeah, when you do it the right way, they seen you on your way up. They know that it didn't just happen overnight. Like some people, they might look at you and it's like a magic trick. Right.
Starting point is 00:13:56 But like you said, they know you. Like we were in class together, we rode the bus together, we went to school dances together. You know, those relationships are really valuable. I love that. Yeah, every time I go back to Vegas, my girls make sure to humble me. Every time I'm there, they're like, bitch,
Starting point is 00:14:11 you are, we knew you before you were bunny. You know, like calm down. Yeah, you need that sometimes. So I read also that your parents divorced at three. Where did dad go and were you raised of the majority of time by your mom? It was a even split. So my dad remarried and he's still married to my stepmom to this day.
Starting point is 00:14:34 So we're still a family. And then my mother, she went back to Pittsburgh. So my dad and stepmom were still in the military and my mother was in Pittsburgh. I will live with my mom for two years and then I will go live with my dad and stepmom were still in the military and my mother was in Pittsburgh. So I would live with my mom for two years and then I would go live with my dad and stepmom for two years. Wow, that's a different agreement. Normally it's like every other weekend.
Starting point is 00:14:54 Yeah, no, they hated each other. Oh shit, okay, gotcha. They didn't get along at all. And it was the 90s and there was really no concept of like how to like navigate through that. They didn't have as much talk about that back then as they do now. So they handled it the best way that they seen fit. And that was that.
Starting point is 00:15:15 Do you think that that plays into your role with how you co-parent with your baby mamas now? Because now you have two, right? You've got Vash and then you've got the little girl now. Yeah, my girl Kayden. Yeah. So do you think that seeing how your parents didn't get along back then was kind of like, you were like,
Starting point is 00:15:31 I'm not going to be like that. And that was a driving force in making sure you had good relationships with the mother of your children. Yeah, I think it subconsciously played a role, because to me, that was normal when I was a kid, like spending two years with one parent and two years with another. But having kids, I could never be away from my son
Starting point is 00:15:51 for no two years. Like that's insane. So if I got to get along with his mom, if I got to freaking kiss her feet, I'm doing whatever I got to do to make sure that we're all on the same page. So that's not the agreement. And like I said, my parents did the best that they could.
Starting point is 00:16:09 And I don't fault them for that at all. But I do know the difference between seeing your parents function and not seeing them function. And I would much rather, you know, my kids see me and their parents function. Absolutely. I'm an eighties baby myself. And I just feel like parents of that era,
Starting point is 00:16:32 they were not ready to cope with their trauma. They were set in their fucking ways. You were not going to tell them how they are going to raise their kids. And like, they were just like, it was just, I don't know. I feel like we're such a generation of kids that are healing what our parents wouldn't. Yeah, absolutely.
Starting point is 00:16:47 That makes sense. I think even just as a, yeah, I totally agree with that. And I think as adults, our parents went through a lot as well, they had trauma, you know, before, but they were going through a lot as adults. And I think we're blessed because late 20s, early 30s, late 30s looks way different now than it did back in the day. Dude, yeah, I'm 45 and I look at pictures of women
Starting point is 00:17:12 that were 45 back in the day and they look like the freaking golden girls. Yeah, exactly. Nobody would even know you were 45 if you didn't say it. So it's like, and even saying 45 isn't an older age, it just looks different now. Right, yeah. And we're in an era where we're taking full advantage
Starting point is 00:17:31 of that and where we understand what kind of gifts we have based off of what we went through and what we were raised with. Yes, absolutely. Yeah, I mean, if people are lucky enough to still have their parents around, a lot of the times your parents learn more as they get older too.
Starting point is 00:17:48 They become way cooler. Super cool. Like, why couldn't you have been like this fucking 30 years ago? Exactly. There'd be stuff like my son does. I'm like, so you're not going to whoop his ass and kick him down the steps and run him over with the car? Because that's what you did to me.
Starting point is 00:18:08 That is hilarious. No, I totally get that. So I also read that you started writing lyrics and recording music at age nine or 10. Like, were you just musical from the gate? Like, have you always had that sense of like, just rhythm and soul? I think, yeah. that sense of like just rhythm and soul? I think, yeah, also actually like my parents played
Starting point is 00:18:28 a lot of music in the house, just like getting ready or cleaning up or driving. So it was always around me and it was something that made me feel good. But I got some of my best memories from music or where I was at or what I was doing. So that kind of translated into my love for music. And then my cousins, they were rapping and doing shit just because they were older than
Starting point is 00:18:54 me. So that's when I figured out that I could actually make it. And I was like, oh, okay, this isn't that difficult. It's like when you get an instrument and you start playing, it was the same thing for me. I was just kind of fucking around, like writing raps here and there. And then people just start telling me how good I was. So I just practiced and kept going and going and going.
Starting point is 00:19:13 And my mind is like, I got a really big imagination. So I would see stuff that people didn't necessarily see as like doable. I would see it as like, okay, we can make an album. We could make merch, we could put on a show, we could, you know what I mean? So I just started developing into this over time, but it was all based off of enjoying music
Starting point is 00:19:39 and loving how it made me feel. I remember watching music videos and just being blown away or like saving up all my money to go buy, you know, Bone Thugs and Harmony tape or something like that. You know what I mean? Like it was so valuable to me. It wasn't like just music. So like that's what started me creating
Starting point is 00:20:00 and doing what I'm doing. Music was the soundtrack to your life. I feel like our parents actually, that was one of the really cool things that they did for us, is I grew up in a very musical household too. And like, you know, I had so many influences. What were some of your influences growing up that inspired you to rap, but also just even that weren't in the rap genre? Yeah. My dad listened to everything. He listened to Journey, he listened to Bob Marley, he would listen to Whitney Houston.
Starting point is 00:20:29 Oh, I love Whitney, yep. My dad had a huge record collection, so we would just sit down and listen to funk records, everything, and my mom was more like the hip hop, like she's current. Mom's the G. Oh yeah, my mom's a G, she listened to Too Short. Oh, I love it, I love it. Okay, so mom's with the shit. yeah, my mom's a G. She listening to too short. Oh, I love it.
Starting point is 00:20:45 I love it. Okay, so mom's with the shit. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. All right, cool. My mom smoked weed and everything. I love mom. That's who I got smoking weed from for sure. Yeah, my mom is a G.
Starting point is 00:20:55 And so yeah, it was like the combination. Like I had everything. And then we grew up in a really good era of music too, where it was diverse. It was really good R&B along with really good rap music. Bring it back. 90s R&B, can we bring that back Keith Sweat. Who doesn't love Keith Sweat? That shit makes you feel good in here.
Starting point is 00:21:28 It's not just hearing it. But yeah, so all that influence, but especially from rap music, Bone Thugs of Harmony was a huge influence to me. Growing up in Pittsburgh, we're in the Midwest, so we were close to Ohio, but just that sound and it just resonated with me. And then the look, they had the braids and the sunglasses,
Starting point is 00:21:49 and like, they were just hard to me. Like, I love Bone. I was a Bone girl, too. Yeah, for sure. When I first got with Jay, he's a Three Six Mafia dude. So we literally had Bone Thug and Three Six Mafia wars in the house. Of course, he won, because he's daddy, so.
Starting point is 00:22:01 Yeah, yeah, yeah, no, for sure, for sure. But no, I'm a Bone thugs girl through and through. They're actually coming on the podcast. I'm really excited. Hell yeah. I'm gonna be like, that's probably going to be a fan girl moment for me. You got to yo, it's bone.
Starting point is 00:22:14 Yeah, for sure. So where do you think that like your smoothness came from? Do you think it came from your mom? My smoothness come from my dad. Really? For sure. Do tell. He's just a smooth dude, yo.
Starting point is 00:22:25 He's real mild tempered, mild mannered. Just everybody loves him. Everybody's best friend. He don't raise his voice. He's, you know, he's just a cool dude. He's a really, really cool dude. And he just been a cool dude. Like he taught me how to be cool for sure.
Starting point is 00:22:45 I love, is dad still around? Yeah, yeah. Good, I love that. Yep, I spend a lot of time with my dad, especially like having my daughter. My dad comes out to the house a lot and just kicks it. He doesn't really do too much. Like he used to party and turn up and do all that shit,
Starting point is 00:23:02 but now he'd be like in my backyard taking pictures of birds and stuff. Yeah. Yeah. Isn't it crazy how life just like calms you the fuck down? And I'm like, he's happy, you know? I don't try to really take him out of his element. I used to, I used to be like, daddy, come on, man.
Starting point is 00:23:17 Let's like go get some jet skis or something. He's like, nah, I just want to, you know, connect. Yeah. I feel you. I feel that too. I sit outside with my cows all the fricking time. Okay, real talk. Why is there a fee for everything now?
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Starting point is 00:24:47 submission of payment file. Fees apply at out-of-network ATMs. Bank ranking and number of ATMs according to US News and World Report 2023. Chime checking account required. So your name was Khalifa. One came, one part of it came from an uncle, another part of it came from a Muslim grandfather? Yeah well the grandfather is his dad so it was both of them. Okay, gotcha. Yeah, so I was kind of, it's my mom's little brother, but it's my mom's father as well. So while my mom would be out doing whatever she needed to do, whether it was work or just
Starting point is 00:25:17 partying, whatever she was doing, I would hang out with my uncles and be at my granddad's house. And my granddad is like, well well he was, he passed away, but he's straight Muslim. Pray five times a day, be in the mosque seven days a week, helping the brothers out at jail. Everybody knew my granddad because of what he did for the community.
Starting point is 00:25:41 So yeah, that was like a real powerful moment for me just being a kid and wanting a name that was like, wasn't my name, but I would carry as my name. Yeah, absolutely. And yeah, it came together. It was wisdom, Khalifa, at first, but my dad being cool as hell, he took the dumb off and was just calling me Wiz.
Starting point is 00:26:02 Yeah. He was like, I don't like the wisdom. I don't like that. He was like, just whiz. That's so cool, though. And I love that you had a grandfather that introduced spirituality into your life. Yeah, absolutely. Do you hold any lessons from him that he taught you? The majority of it is just like the strength in like family and in yourself,
Starting point is 00:26:20 your daily routine. My granddad was a wild dude as well, back in the day before he took on his religion. He had been to jail a lot of times, he had been on drugs, and he completely changed his life around and helped kids and helped other people in the same situation that he was in
Starting point is 00:26:40 get out of those situations or at least navigate through them. And that's what I learned from my granddad is just to really be a leader. And he was real stern too. Like he wasn't no punk. Yeah, he's gangster too. Yeah, he was super gangster.
Starting point is 00:26:54 He was really upfront. Everybody respected him too. So, you know, just having that as like a backbone, you know, that was good. That's awesome. Yeah, that's great for a young man. Yeah, that's so cool to be able to, you know, look back on that with just fond eyes. So take me on this come up Okay, you dropped your first mixtape at 16 Prince of the City. Welcome to pistolvania
Starting point is 00:27:15 take me on that entire journey of when you drop that first mixtape going all the way to Getting signed with Warner in 2009. Okay, so I dropped my first mixtape. I think I was like 16 years old in high school. So I'm selling the mixtape in school, like physically pressing them up and selling it. And I had a- Kids these days will never understand.
Starting point is 00:27:39 Never. They don't even know. They don't know about burning those CDs. They won't have to burn a CD for what? They go on TikTok. There's no CDs to burn anyway. I know. I know. They took albums away from us.
Starting point is 00:27:50 Now they're taking CDs away from us. It's crazy. It's just all in the air. So I'm selling my CD. I'm going to different stores. And I was a real hustler to the point where I would show up and drop off 10, 20, 50 CDs and go collect the money as well the next week.
Starting point is 00:28:09 And people see me around the city and they really respected what I was doing and the people who I was working with at the time as well. And it just kept building up, building up, building up till I was about 19. And then I got a record deal with Warner Brothers. And but it was for a single, it wasn't for an album. And the single did pretty well, it was called Say Yeah. And while I was on Warner, I learned how to do radio and do drops and meet DJs and go to car shows
Starting point is 00:28:39 and just really promote myself. So from early stages, I got the street hustle, and then I learned the business hustle and the creative side of it as well. I'm always working on that. I lost my record deal at Warner Brothers. They didn't want to do my album because they just couldn't see the vision.
Starting point is 00:28:59 Which I don't. Did you lose it or did you walk away? Because I think I had read that you had walked away from it. They had the option to do the album and they didn't take the option. Gotcha. Okay. So we had the option to leave or stay and there was no reason to stay because
Starting point is 00:29:13 they weren't going to work on my project. Right. So we did leave, but they didn't want anything to do with me. They had already just chalked it up. The money that they spent, they were like, it's cool. It's whatever you can go back to Pittsburgh. So I did go back to Pittsburgh. And that's when the internet started to change,
Starting point is 00:29:31 like YouTube, Twitter, those were the main vehicles for me. Like YouTube was brand new, cause I graduated in 06, and YouTube was like kind of still, you know, like turning around, but Twitter was brand new. And I was like kind of still, you know, like turning around. But Twitter was brand new and I was like, okay, cool. I could do something off of Twitter. And so I started just being on social media and just being consistent, making YouTube videos and making mixtapes that were directed towards, you know, the audience that I had and that
Starting point is 00:30:04 I was building and that I knew that I had. And that just took me to a point where I was bigger and better on my own than any, you know, label or anything could market for me. Absolutely. Yeah, so that's when I started to like really travel and tour and then I got my deal with Atlantic through that time.
Starting point is 00:30:21 So you left Warner in 2009, but then you blew up in 2010, correct, with Black and Yellow off of Twitter, right? That's crazy. Not many people can say they blew up off of Twitter. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Because that's a fucking scary, first of all, it's scary as hell. I get scared going over there.
Starting point is 00:30:40 Twitter's crazy. It was different back in the day. Right, right, right, it's crazy. It wasn't how it is now. Yeah, for sure. But it's so cool that that is part of your story, that you used a platform that not, most people get famous off of YouTube from back in the day
Starting point is 00:30:54 or something like that, but you got to utilize Twitter the way that you did. Yeah, for sure. Twitter was like a subculture back then. So you had the mainstream, but people were low key more tapped in to Twitter than anything else. They felt like that was more real life and it was cooler.
Starting point is 00:31:12 And we had that edge where I could just keep supplying those same fans and it became more popular than the mainstream stuff. And I didn't really see that happening, but that was the goal because we just felt like we were so cool. Like we was cooler than everybody. So I was like, you might as well watch us.
Starting point is 00:31:31 And that's what really took us to the top for sure. What did that feel like though? Like for, cause this was before you even had like a number one on the radio and you're just literally going viral on Twitter. What were you feeling? What was Wiz in that moment feeling? I was super confident, really cocky, very aware of myself.
Starting point is 00:31:50 We love a king who can own it. Oh, yeah. I was owning it. Yeah, man, I knew what I was dealing with. And like you said, I had trended on Twitter a couple times, whether it was just me coming up with a topic and having everybody on Twitter talking about it, or whatever it was, I knew that I could control the internet
Starting point is 00:32:13 the way that I did. And when I dropped certain tapes like Cushion Orange Juice that shut sites completely down, you couldn't even go on the site. I'm like, oh yeah, I'm that dude. Like clearly, y'all are telling me. How can you not? Yeah, how can you not?
Starting point is 00:32:27 Yeah, y'all let me know. Yeah, for sure. Do you ever get tired of singing black and yellow? Jay and I literally said this at stage coach because he was like, yeah, Wiz is coming out to sing black and yellow. And we both started laughing. We were like, poor Wiz.
Starting point is 00:32:38 He's probably so fucking tired of singing this song. Oh, I never get tired of it. Aw, really? I love that song. That is so cool. I mean, it's a vibe. It's a vibe. It represents a great time in life.
Starting point is 00:32:48 It's a happy song. Anytime Black and Yellow comes on, if you're not smiling and dancing and having some sort of a moment with that song, then you're just dead inside. And I can perform that song all over the world. It doesn't matter what language they speak. You can say Black and Yellow.
Starting point is 00:33:04 So I'm good with that. I could see them in China and Japan singing Black. That's what language they speak. You could say black and yellow. Yeah. So I'm good with that. Yeah. I could see them in like China and Japan singing. That's what I'm saying. Right. Getting it cracking out there. I love it. Listen, they're like, they're crazy when it comes to like,
Starting point is 00:33:15 they're fanatical. They are. I've been to like, I was in Korea and they were singing Young Wild and Free in the airport, just like right in front of me. Oh. This is awesome. That is amazing.
Starting point is 00:33:25 It's so sweet. That's a moment in time. You've evolved from black and yellow to like boss, entrepreneur, martial artist. What version of you are we just starting to see now? You're just starting to see, I think the more mature me. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:33:46 Yeah, I've always been ahead of my time, just as far as my thought process, but now my actions and the way that I treat myself, it represents all of that too. Yeah, so that's a lot of things that people don't see me doing, but the result of it is just how I am now or how I'm able to operate and move,
Starting point is 00:34:09 which I'm really, really proud of and grateful for. I feel like with age, it slows us down. You know, like how your dad's watching birds and stuff like that. It just, there's something, how old are you now? I'm 37, I'll be 38 this year. Yeah, so you're 37, 38. Do you feel like you're gonna start slowing down a, or do you still have that drive in you?
Starting point is 00:34:27 I feel like I've already slowed down a lot. And I think I just changed things that are important to me, or just certain things that used to turn me on. They really don't do it for me no more. And I like that feeling, because I'm like, yeah, I'm growing out of stuff. It's growth, yeah. And I'm a different person.
Starting point is 00:34:44 I'm not who I was. And I like that, because because I'm like, yeah, I'm growing out of stuff. It's growth, yeah. And I'm a different person, I'm not who I was. And I like that, because some people get stuck and they're just that same person over and over. And then you just become like this novelty. And it's like, I don't want to be a character. I'm a real person. I might have a very large smile and a great personality that attracts people,
Starting point is 00:35:07 but that's not my goal in life is to just give that and give that and give that. You can love me for that, I'm cool with that. That's straight, you see what everybody else sees. But the things that are deeper are way more important to me now. Absolutely, I love that so
Starting point is 00:35:28 2011 you dropped rolling papers and became pretty much like a household name when you look back at the 2011 rolling paper self what's something you love about him and what's something you've completely outgrown? I love the hustle the drive the, the self-awareness, the self-branding. And something that I outgrown is the lack of sleep. Right. Yeah, I didn't sleep. We need our sleep. Yeah, I need my sleep, yo.
Starting point is 00:36:00 I'm going to bed. But I didn't care about sleep back then. I would sleep on the couch like 45 minutes and get right back up and get to it. I don't think I could do that anymore. It hurts. I saw, literally, that is exactly what it is. I saw some girl on TikTok was talking about
Starting point is 00:36:16 she was coming out of work at like 6 a.m. And I used to do that coming out of the strip club. I could never, I would literally probably have a panic attack if I saw the sunrise. Oh yeah, it's painful. Yeah, I can't do that at all. Do you feel like artists are healers? I don't feel like all artists are healers, no.
Starting point is 00:36:35 Because some people are projecting their bullshit onto the world. Wow. Yeah. And some artists are so much artists that they're not even freaking human. Yeah. And that's the thing about art, you know?
Starting point is 00:36:49 Some people value that and live for their art more than actual life itself. But I think the people who focus on being great people are also great you know, great artists as well. Yeah. And they're not, I don't think one is better. I think actually the chaos gets celebrated more than the peace. Well, that's because that's what the earth is operating on. Right. You can see that going on right now.
Starting point is 00:37:16 Right. But I think peace is the goal. Absolutely. So regardless of what people are into, we should try to reach that. You know what I'm saying? We need to figure it out. We need to fucking analyze ourselves as a whole right now and figure out how to get back to that.
Starting point is 00:37:31 Yeah. Yeah, cause there's a lot of dark ass art. There is. There is. I consider you a healer though, for sure, 100%. You're a good vibe and you're like a happy vibe, you know? What do you think that like your music does for people
Starting point is 00:37:45 as far as healing? I've been blessed to be able and have been told to just change people's lives and just make the best memories for them. Like some people have met their husband or wife at my concert or, you know, I see people making out in the crowd and crying and a lot of people made life decisions based off of what they were doing at the time.
Starting point is 00:38:11 And sometimes my, like you said, soundtrack to your life, the music got them through that and helped them understand or helped them pivot or helped them cope or whatever it was. And I got a lot of weed smoking and riding and just party and feel good stuff. But also have freaking See You Again, which is like,
Starting point is 00:38:32 you know, one of those songs that help people get through a lot of stuff. Yeah. That's your save me pretty much. Thank you. Like my husband saved me. Like that's that song that people will play at a wedding, a funeral, a frickin'
Starting point is 00:38:45 bar mitzvah, like everywhere. Graduations. It's never gonna get old. Like, and as an artist, we're blessed to have those types of songs. Because we don't try, you don't think that it's gonna go that far or do that. But then when it actually does on that scale, you're like, wow, okay, cool. This is what it's all about. Fuck everything else. I think it does show that people are leaning towards looking for peace too. And is it cause songs like that, like see you again, you know, that brings people.
Starting point is 00:39:15 Peace, you know, for the whole time that that song's playing, it's making them feel a certain type of way. Yep. I think that's the goal with music in general too, is to make people feel something. And the more you learn about how in control you are, the more sensitive you are with that message too. Yeah, absolutely. You strike me as a really deep person.
Starting point is 00:39:36 For sure. Do you, what do you think that your soul's assignment was for coming to earth? My soul's assignment for coming to Earth is to literally make everybody else feel better because I feel so good. Right. I'm so blessed to just wake up and smile. Like I have to make somebody else smile.
Starting point is 00:39:57 Yeah. Are you always in a good mood or do you have some down days too? I never really have down days. I have moments that frustrate me. And that's what it's about too, is like not avoiding chaotic situations, but navigating through them. Right, facing them head on.
Starting point is 00:40:16 Right. You gotta go through it to get to it. You gotta go through it to get to it. So that defines who you are as well. Like you can't just go around the bullshit. Sometimes you gotta go through the bullshit. That shows how tough you are as well. Like you can't just go around the bullshit. Sometimes you got to go through the bullshit that shows how tough you are. Absolutely.
Starting point is 00:40:28 And those are the times where I really just try to center myself and just try to think about what the real end goal is. And it's never to be pissed or never to be upset. So it's easy for me to let that go. Cause I know like in the end, I'm not even trying to be mad. So how do we get to where we all cool? Yeah.
Starting point is 00:40:48 When you are in those moments that you're like flustered or upset, what is something that you do that maybe somebody listening to this podcast could be like, oh, you know what, Wiz does that. I'm going to try it. Breathe. Yeah, I'm telling you. Take a deep breath. Have you ever done like meditation or like box breathing?
Starting point is 00:41:03 Yeah, I do hot yoga. So that's like a lot of, I do that three times a week. I love that. I could not picture your tall ass in a yoga pose. Me, tall as hell for an hour and a half sweating in the front of the room with everybody else. Are you limber as hell? With my hair up in a bun, yeah.
Starting point is 00:41:20 I love that. Dude, we need a fricking reality show. Please, this is fucking gold. It's like content gold. You in a fucking hot yoga class would be phenomenal to just watch. I would tune in. I know a lot of ladies who love watching it too.
Starting point is 00:41:35 Yeah. I love it. I love it. So let's talk about the 15 year anniversary cushion OG too that you just dropped. I mean, it was so good the first time you were like, let's fucking circle back. Yeah, yeah.
Starting point is 00:41:49 It was a classic, like a defining moment in my career. Definitely got my identity off of the first cushion orange juice. And a lot of people just had great memories of just smoking out, chilling with the homies, having a great summer, hooking up, whatever it is, getting fresh, traveling. That's what the first Cushion Orange Juice
Starting point is 00:42:10 was really about, and I wanted to return that feeling for people who were there and then people who need that now. And I worked on the album for a whole year, and it was just like coincidental that it looped all the way around to the exact same time that I dropped the first one. Yeah. And we were ready to drop the second one. And yeah, the reception has been really good. All the fans love it. They're telling me that it's as good as and maybe even better than the first one. I haven't heard one bad reaction from it at all. Everybody gets it.
Starting point is 00:42:43 bad reaction from it at all. Everybody gets it. And- Is that a fear that you have ever? Like whenever you drop an album, do you ever get that thought in your mind of like, what if this doesn't resonate with the masses? I've had that before. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:42:56 There was a couple albums that I dropped where I wasn't completely confident. Yeah, for sure. Cause I didn't know there was some experimental stuff. I was like, are people going to really fuck with this? Are they going to accept it from me? Did I do what I was supposed to do? Like, should I have done something else?
Starting point is 00:43:12 Like, I've had those thoughts before for albums. I feel like as an artist, though, like each album that you drop is a testament to where you're at in your life at that moment. You know, so I feel like if they all sounded the same, then that would show that you're not showing any growth and people would probably get bored. Yeah. You know, because it's the same thing over and over again.
Starting point is 00:43:33 Absolutely. It's scary, like reinventing. Right. And you know, and like, you got to be ready to lose some people to gain some people as well. So it's like you said, it's just a lesson in all of that. I feel like you've been able to maintain who you are though. Absolutely.
Starting point is 00:43:49 Over the years. I don't feel like you've changed too much. You've just always been with. Yeah, I've always been with. I never really changed. I got I'm really multifaceted. And I think that's a strength. That's something that plays to my strong side, because I could do, That's a strength. That's something that plays to my strong side because I can do, I can mix genres. And a lot of artists aren't really able to do that. They can just stay in one lane or you expect one thing from them.
Starting point is 00:44:14 But you can expect a plethora of stuff from me and it's still gonna be whiz. What do you feel like one of your most slept on tracks is? Like if there was one track that could have got a lot more attention, what would it have been for you? One of my most slept on tracks that should have got more attention. I have a lot of plaques, so I can't really say that. Everything that I put out, it usually goes like gold or platinum.
Starting point is 00:44:41 Yeah. You don't have to pick one if you don't want to. And then the stuff, like I did an album, it was called Multiverse. It was a really good album, but I didn't go big with this album. It was for a small, small audience. And I think later on down the line,
Starting point is 00:45:07 people will appreciate that for what it was. Right. Yeah, I don't think it was slept on. I think it's just going to take a while to get appreciated. I mean, look at the Goo Goo Dolls right now. Their song Iris literally has come back. Right. And it was made frickin' 20 years ago.
Starting point is 00:45:22 Right. That album could do the same thing. Yeah. That's what's cool about music is it's timeless. It's timeless and we listen to records, right? So there's artists who drop albums that you like, hold on, I didn't even know this motherfucker put that shit out.
Starting point is 00:45:35 But you're still gonna grab it, put it on and listen to it because you enjoy that artist. So it doesn't matter if it got really hyped up or not. It can still, like you said, enter your world. Yeah, I feel like albums catch fire so much later on now, too, because things are always coming back into style. So it's like, all it takes is one video going viral now with it.
Starting point is 00:45:56 And literally, people are like, it's a whole new set of eyes on your music. Yeah, it creates a narrative that people just want to be a part of. Absolutely. Have you ever done a feature with somebody or featured on something and then like regretted it later? No, I'm always happy about my features.
Starting point is 00:46:15 Yeah, I've been blessed to be a part of some really cool ass songs. Payphone with Maroon 5, that was one that I've never even seen happen. Yeah. Like shit like that. Like Sporta Miley Cyrus song 23. I mean doing a song with Miley in general is just fucking, that's top tier.
Starting point is 00:46:34 I just did a song with Good Charlotte too before I came out here. That's amazing. Is it rock? Yeah. I love Good Charlotte. I'm a West Coast girl, so I fucking love Good Charlotte. Good Charlotte is the shit. Yeah, they're amazing.
Starting point is 00:46:46 Yeah, yeah. All right, let's switch gears. Let's talk about being a dad. Because you have Bash, and then you also have your daughter now. What would you say is the difference in between raising boys and girls? Have you noticed anything yet?
Starting point is 00:46:59 Because I know she's fresh, right? She's like how old? She's 10 months. 10 months. So I mean, you've got a long ways to go being a girl dad, but just in this short time, do you notice a difference? Not yet. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:47:12 Yeah, not yet. Because she's so fresh and then my son is 12. So it's like so much. It's a lifetime of difference. Experience, yeah. So I think in the next few years, especially as her personality starts to come in. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:47:26 Um, yeah, I'm going to start to see the real girl dadness start to happen. Are you excited about it? I'm super excited. I mean, I'll be like shopping for her and buying her outfits. Oh. I'll be picking out her outfits. And like, we'll do like three a day.
Starting point is 00:47:41 So I'm like, let me get one at least. She gets three outfits a day. Yeah. Hell yeah. Oh my gosh. I love that. Yeah. Yeah. She's like our little baby dog. I bet she's fly as hell though. Super fly.
Starting point is 00:47:52 She got chrome hearts and all that. Oh my dude. Hello. I've been trying to get chrome hearts forever. Look at her. She got a little baby chrome. I love that. That's so cool. What's something that Bash has said to you
Starting point is 00:48:06 that's made you like question your whole personality? As far as like giving it to him? Has, no, no, has he ever like checked you like, dad, that's not cool? Or like been like, you know, like just made you question like what the fuck, you know? He's quick. Like he's all day with it.
Starting point is 00:48:22 So like sometimes he'll just be like, your teeth look like you ate a piece of cheese or something. I'd be like, damn bro. Like he likes to rip on people. So like he just goes all day. That is hilarious. Has he, does he have your musical inclination? Like he does, he does.
Starting point is 00:48:44 He listens to a lot of different types of music. I test him out on new music. So I'll be like, I put on some shit that I know is brand new. I'll be like, you like this? He'll be like, ah, it's cool. Blah, blah. I'll be like, play me what you like.
Starting point is 00:48:55 And he likes old school rap. He likes newer rap. He likes rock and roll. He played me some crazy shit the other day from some band that I never heard before. And then he's got MF Doom on his display for his phone. I'm like, all right, cool. So he's developing.
Starting point is 00:49:14 He's very eclectic already. I love that. But that's just a testament to you and Amber obviously showing him pretty good music. What's something you're teaching him that no one ever taught you? My parents did a good job raising me, so I wouldn't say that nobody ever taught me. But the biggest lesson right now
Starting point is 00:49:40 is I teach him to respect himself and to respect others so that they can respect him. Absolutely. Because they're not going to respect you if you don't respect yourself. So I'll be like, the things that you do, they have to be a representation of who you are and what you want people to say about you. And we will have those conversations over and over. I'm like, of course you're going slip up and you're gonna make mistakes, but the main thing is to be respectful
Starting point is 00:50:09 to yourself and other people. And that's how you demand respect yourself. Yeah, now that's amazing. I feel like this generation is lacking respect too. Like kids nowadays, they're just like, they're fucking wild. And the respect factor is not there. So the fact that you're teaching bash that is amazing. Absolutely.
Starting point is 00:50:29 How are you and Amber getting along these days? You guys still getting along? Yeah, hell yeah. We're super good. I love Amber because, you know, I'm sure you hear this all the time, but you know, I grew up in Vegas, I grew up in the whole scene of like dancing and working girls and stuff like that.
Starting point is 00:50:41 So, you know, for her to be this outspoken role model, outspoken role model for us, I've just always respected her. She's just always been who she is. Yeah, she's a great chick. She's a great mom. She's a great friend. Yeah, that's like my partner for real.
Starting point is 00:50:59 Like you don't get too many partners in life. And Amy is too, that's Cadence's mom. We're really great partners. And we've been together longer than me and Amber were together, but me and Amber's relationship is lifelong. Right. We ain't in a relationship, but we together though. Do you believe in soulmates?
Starting point is 00:51:19 Cause soulmates don't always have to be romantic either. Like you guys can be friends. I don't know about soulmates because to me like a soulmate, you might not necessarily even have kids with that person or you know this this person might help you build your empire or but me and Amber like we're stronger than a lot of people because we have difficult conversations. we're stronger than a lot of people because we have difficult conversations. We navigate through that shit. And that's what makes us so strong is
Starting point is 00:51:50 we don't argue every time we disagree. We're allowed to disagree, but we're still gonna get through it together because she's not throwing low blows, I'm not being disrespectful. We don't have any underlining freaking animosity towards each other. And that makes the situation way more positive than anything. It doesn't get negative. You
Starting point is 00:52:11 know, we might get a little heated sometimes when we talk because we're both passionate and we both have our own opinion. But the heatedness, I might be stressed out from from my job. So she might be like, okay, what's wrong for real? Like, don't just be upset. Tell me what's going on and then we'll talk about this. Or if she's in a situation, I'm like, you don't have to, I'm not checking you at all. You don't have to check in with me.
Starting point is 00:52:41 You know what I'm saying? I respect your life. I want you to have all the space in the world. Please have space. I respect your space. I validate your space and all that. I would never want to get in the way of that. Only time we have to come together is when we make decisions.
Starting point is 00:52:58 So like, let's make this work. Yeah. I always say, what is it? Communication is key, comprehension is vital. So if you're talking to somebody all day long and they're not hearing you, it's not gonna get anywhere. And I love that you guys have that communication. Do you also have that with Cadence's mom?
Starting point is 00:53:17 I've met her before, right? Yes, I met her at a stagecoach. She's beautiful. Thank you. Gorgeous. Yeah, she's beautiful. Thank you. Gorgeous. She's a great girl as well. She's like, like I said, and that's my partner too.
Starting point is 00:53:30 We do everything. She makes sure I eat. That means a lot to a man, especially these days. Yeah, hell yeah. It's a lot. She holds it down, like for sure, in ways that other women would never even be capable of.
Starting point is 00:53:49 She does it like happily too, you know. When you say that, can you give us an example of something that like most women wouldn't be able to deal with? Just my schedule in general. I wake up at 5.30 and I'm up all day. I got the gym, I got meetings and Zoom calls. I got merch samples coming to the house.
Starting point is 00:54:07 I got, you know, a fire pit being built. I got three dogs. That's that Aries moon. You have an Aries moon. Yeah, I do. I checked it. Because I have an Aries moon, my husband has an Aries moon.
Starting point is 00:54:19 And there's always some shit going on. Like we've always got a project. Always, a project on top of a project. Right. And we gonna have some fun too. Right. So you gotta be ready to party as well. You gotta do all that and party.
Starting point is 00:54:34 We have to make sure we have fun time. I love that that seems like you just want to always make sure that you have fun in whatever it is that you're doing. And I think that's a really sweet quality to have because a lot of people don't stop to enjoy life. They get so carried away with just the grind. And you're like, nope, we're gonna have fucking fun.
Starting point is 00:54:52 We're gonna have some fun. We're gonna make some memories. And that's where the inspiration comes from. You gotta actually do shit and live. And then if your life is just beautiful, it's poetic. So you just grab those feelings and then you just put them into whatever your project is at the time.
Starting point is 00:55:09 Yeah, sir. Can you take me on the journey of you doing MMA and fitness? Yeah. When, how did you get into this? Cause I think that's amazing. Thank you. It's very taxing on the body to be doing stuff like that. So.
Starting point is 00:55:24 Yeah, I trained pretty hard too. I got into it, my big homies, they were doing jujitsu at the time. And they were like, hey, you need to come to the gym and we're going to rough you up and all this stuff. So as soon as I got to the gym, they instantly were like, you need to lift weights. Like you're way too small. You got to eat and you got to lift weights. You could actually do something if you, you know what I mean, took it seriously. So I got on like a regimen where I was, you know,
Starting point is 00:55:54 doing certain amount of calories and making sure I started sleeping. And then I just liked how my body felt and like what it did to me mentally as well. And the martial arts part of it just kind of turned into its own little thing because I was naturally a little bit gifted at it but just being the type of person where I want to do something over and over and over and try to perfect it that's the perfect sport for that because you just get better every day. So each and every day you learn a new techniques
Starting point is 00:56:25 or just fine tuning or practicing or drilling or there's always something to do. So it's like that forever project for me. Like that's how I feel like martial arts is, it's just something that I could practice for the rest of my life. And it is good for my body and it's good for me mentally. It's a skill that I could use if I needed to.
Starting point is 00:56:46 Yeah. Hopefully not though. Nah, I don't see. But being a dad though, you gotta be ready for that shit too. Cause it's like, look, I'm not calling security. I'm gonna beat your dad up. Yeah, yeah, absolutely right.
Starting point is 00:57:00 Would you ever fight in the ring professionally? If they offered it to you? Cause I think I had read also that you said you wanted to be a wrestler for a day I did would you still do that? I would more do some wrestling shit than fighting because wrestling is like entertainment is acting Actually getting in the ring and doing that's not what I trained for right, but I'm trained Good enough to do some shit. I'm always ready. And anybody who's ever seen me do what I do,
Starting point is 00:57:30 they know what level I perform on. So the whole getting in the ring is more for entertainment. Like it makes everybody money. And it's like, I'm not really into all that. What if they came to you with like a bag though? What's the bag though? I mean, we name your price. What if they came to you with like a bag though? What's the bag though? I mean, name your price. It would have to be like 50 million.
Starting point is 00:57:49 And then you would get in the ring. Yeah, it would be like Floyd Mayweather prices. I mean, you know, they might do it. I need 50 M's for my first fight, guaranteed. Cause it's gonna be like, it's gonna pull a big crowd. Yeah. And I'm gonna knock somebody out, cold. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:58:04 What's your move? What is your move? Like if you had a move in the ring, what would it be? and I'm gonna knock somebody out, cold. What's your move? What is your move? Like if you had a move in the ring, what would it be? Well, if I did boxing, it would probably be like an overhand right. Yeah. Yeah. That's pretty much night-night.
Starting point is 00:58:18 Or my lead left hook. Ooh, south-ball. Yeah, no, what a lead left is orthodox, but it's just coming from the left. So I'm either hit you in the face or a nice little lead left body shot. Gotcha. But if we do a Muay Thai, there's nobody seeing me in Muay Thai. Like boxing is different because you only got hands. Right. But if I get to use my feet in my elbows and my knees, yeah, it's oh, there's nobody seeing me in action. You're knocking somebody out.
Starting point is 00:58:46 Yeah, and I'm tall as hell too, so you're not even getting close to me. Yeah, just one round kick. The hardest kick is probably like the spinning back kick. So like, if we really- You'd knock somebody's head off. Yeah, or like break some ribs or like puncture some lungs or something like that. Yeah, or like break some ribs or like puncture some lungs
Starting point is 00:59:05 or something like that. Yeah, nice spinning back kick. I like it, now we're talking. Yeah. We gotta make this happen too. Yeah, I like elbows too because it's like- Let me just manage you, I'm just kidding. Yeah, because when you're boxing,
Starting point is 00:59:17 you got like the gloves are protecting them. Right. But if we do MMA and I elbow you in your forehead and I split your forehead open and you're bleeding, it's gonna be hard for you to fight me for the rest of the fight. Or break a nose. Or if I knee you and break your rib in the first round,
Starting point is 00:59:33 you're not really gonna wanna keep. Wiz, I feel like you're ready for this. I feel like you're- I don't wanna hurt anybody. I don't like hurting people. I feel like you would rock the shit out of somebody. I like to have fun, but they gotta pay me 50 M's if you wanna see some blood.
Starting point is 00:59:47 All right, well, whoever's listening, let's make that fucking happen, because I'm tuning in. I wanna see somebody get their ass wet. What is something embarrassing you do alone that no one knows about until now? Something embarrassing that I do alone that no one knows about.
Starting point is 01:00:04 I cry a lot. Really? Yeah. You're emotional. Yeah, I have emotions. That's sweet though. Yeah. Every movie.
Starting point is 01:00:11 I don't think that's embarrassing. It is to me, cause I'll be why I was watching like, what's that, Encanto? What's that Disney movie? I'm not sure. It's the one with the Spanish girl and her family. What's that movie called? Man, I was crying in that shit the other day.
Starting point is 01:00:27 You cry too? I'm crying just thinking about it. It was so sweet. I'm not watching it now. It was the sweetest freaking movie ever. It's so sweet. It's sweet, it's not sad? No, it's just sweet.
Starting point is 01:00:39 It's like the sweetest thing. I mean, of course it's like sad to hit you, but it's like, it's so sweet. It was like, I was like, oh man, here we go. I don't think that's a weakness though. I think that a man that can, you know, show emotion, that's awesome. That just means that you're in tune with it.
Starting point is 01:00:54 Yeah, for sure. I think I'm very in tune with it. He said I'm very in tune with it. So let's say some aliens came down to earth and you're the spokesman for earth. What's the first thing that you would show aliens and prove to them like that we're actually like cool people down here?
Starting point is 01:01:10 I would definitely smoke weed with them. Yeah, you don't think they're not already smoking weed? I think they're like past smoking weed. This might be like really prehistoric to them. They're like, we've got to bring them back to their origin. Right? So I would, cause they're aliens, like everything isoric to them. They're like, we've got to, we got, we got to bring them back to the origin, right? So I would, cause they're aliens, like everything is fast to them. It's just like, let's slow it down a little bit.
Starting point is 01:01:32 I would smoke some weed with them and I will probably play them like a parliament Funkadelic record. Oh, there we go. Yeah, I would put on some, some earth music. Yeah. Yeah. Would you only smoke weed with them or would you drop acid with them? I don't really do too much acid. I can't either. Oh, okay. Yeah. Yeah, so I would rather just smoke the weed
Starting point is 01:01:53 Okay. Yeah smoke weed listen to records watch a movie go for a ride get burgers. Oh Any particular burger? Um Oh, any particular burger? Um, where are the aliens landing? Are they landing here? Not here. Nashville sucks. Let's take them to LA. To LA? At least there's probably more to do there. So we go to Astro Burger or something like that in Hollywood. Because we get to cruise through Hollywood in the lowrider, smoke weed, and go get burgers.
Starting point is 01:02:21 Have you ever dropped acid before? Have you heard of psychedelics? Yeah, I did acid. You don't like them? I think I did too much. Yeah. I did acid with Diplo. Oh, I would never do acid with Diplo. It sounds like a good idea, right?
Starting point is 01:02:34 I know. Nope, doesn't sound good to me. I'm like, it's Diplo. Like, this is gonna be awesome. I feel like he's on a permanent acid trip. He is. He's walking acid. Yeah.
Starting point is 01:02:49 So how did that go? It was interesting. It was intense. That's what it was. It was super duper intense. And it wasn't like a bad trip or anything, but I could definitely feel it. And I would like go places and be like,
Starting point is 01:03:13 hold on, I need a little second to myself. And then I would just be randomly somewhere else. It was like a movie. It was like, I would blink and then I would wake up in another room. And I would blink and I would wake up in another room. I would have anxiety. It was like a movie. It was like, I would blink and then I would wake up in another room. And I would blink and I would wake up in another room. I would have anxiety. It was crazy.
Starting point is 01:03:27 And I thought I was Aladdin on a magic carpet for a minute. I thought I was Michael Jackson when I did Mushrooms. Okay, cool. Yeah. I get it. I feel that. Yeah, I definitely for sure thought I was like sailing over the city on a magic carpet.
Starting point is 01:03:39 Yeah. So that was your first and only time doing it? Only time. Okay. He's like, yeah, I never. Yeah. I turned into a Latin, I'm cool. All right, final question. Build your dream strip club,
Starting point is 01:03:53 name, theme, signature drink and house rules. Name, Nippleopolis. Ha ha ha. Ha ha ha. Ha ha ha. Ha ha ha. Ha ha ha. Ha ha ha.
Starting point is 01:04:04 What was the other one? The other one was, hold on. I'm still hung up on Nippleopolis and how fast you thought of that. You've thought of this before with the late, oops, hold on, sorry. Build your dream strip club name. What's the theme? What's your signature drink?
Starting point is 01:04:23 And what's the house rules? Okay. The theme is 80s baddies. Yes, video vixen. Yeah, those are my favorite chicks. Oh, me too. They're so good. Love them.
Starting point is 01:04:38 Like nice bodies, like perfect boobs, cute little butt. Yep. Little bush, you know. Are you into bush? I like the little 80s bush little butt, little bush. Are you into bush? I like the little eighties bush. We like the bush. Well, we might have a bush floor. Yeah, it'd be a floor for bush.
Starting point is 01:04:54 Not the bush floor, it's hairy upstairs. It's hairy, it gets hairy. And then downstairs, Nipolopolis is regular. The signature drink will be the Napoleon Dynamite. I'm crying. What's the last one? I'm sorry. I'm still just hung up on what you're saying here. I'm so, I can't get over the bush floor.
Starting point is 01:05:17 Signature drink and what are the house rules? House rules. Oh, we got gotta respect the ladies. That's the number one rule. Yes. Tip well and- Leave room for the Holy Spirit. Leave room for the Holy Spirit.
Starting point is 01:05:36 I like that. All right, cool. I like it. I love that. Welcome to Nippleopolis. Wizz, thank you so much for coming on the podcast, babe. Thank you for having me. I'm happy to be here, thank you.
Starting point is 01:05:47 I appreciate you so much. Come back any time. I will. All right, and thank you guys for tuning in to another episode of Dumb Blonde. I will see you guys next week, bye.

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