Wiz Khalifa Research Papers

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Wiz Khalifa
Cameron Jibril Thomaz was born on September 8, 1987, but you know this young man better as Wiz Khalifa. He was born in Minot, ND. His parents served in the military and he lived in lot of different places like Germany, United Kingdom, and Japan before he settled in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. One of his most famous songs Black and Yellow is a tribute the city he grew up in. He attended Taylor Allderdice High School.
He was scouted by a music company in 2004 when he was 16, but they thought he was too young so they decided that they would wait to sign until 2004, this music company was called Rostrum Records. He released his first album in 2006 it was Show and Prove. Album has sold over 10,000 copies. In 2007 he signed with anther …show more content…

He released this song on September 14, 2010, on its 18th charting week it reached number 1 on Billboards 100 songs and in the same week, and on that same week the song sold over 190,000 digital copies in that week. That means that the single had to have sold 2,720 digital copies per day to reach that in a week
One of his most recent albums Blacc Hollywood was released on August 19, 2014. It features 13 songs and the length of this album is about 54 minutes. The album feature Nikki Manaj, Juicy J, and many other artists on this album.
In His personal life he has been dating model Amber rose since 2011, he proposed to her on March 1, 2012. They got married on July 8th 2013. Since then they have had one son, he was born on February 21st, 2013, his name is Sebastian Taylor Thomaz. He is currently 2 year old.
Khalifa is open to the public about using cannabis, he claims on interviews that he spends $10,000 a month, this means that he spends about $120,000 per year on cannabis, plus he says he smokes daily. But in early 2014 he was sponsored by the Cookie Factory, a medical marijuana dispenser, they give it to him for free, and they sell his Khalifa Kush