Wiz Khalifa’s freestyle run over the past 12 months has been outstanding. Since November of 2023, he is dropped 14 freestyles. Nowadays, that is greater than most rappers do of their complete careers. The Pittsburgh, Pa. MC kicked off his freestyle collection as a reminder that he nonetheless had it in him after he took a much-needed break from the web round that point. “I had simply utterly disconnected from social media for about two months and kinda simply used myself as inspiration,” he tells XXL. “As a fan of myself, I used to be like, ‘I might love if I did that.'” And so he did.
The momentum he is constructed off the releases set him up properly for the arrival of his extremely anticipated Kush + Orange Juice 2 album, which dropped April 18. It has been 15 years for the reason that first installment of Kush & Orange Juice got here out in 2010, the identical 12 months Wiz was an XXL Freshman. To mark the anniversary of each, XXL invited Wiz again for a particular freestyle session and to revisit these bars from the previous. What we did not count on? That he’d ship verses straight from his freshly dropped observe, “Prime Golf.” Not fairly the throwback we had in thoughts—however hey, it is Wiz. We nonetheless received mad love for him.
Throughout his response to his 2010 XXL Freshman freestyle, Wiz cracks just a few jokes on himself for going shirtless and flaunting little arms. “The shirt off? Who the hell did I feel I used to be,” he says with fun. “Tremendous scrawny. Simply little, canine. No shoulders, no lats. No triceps poking. Simply little arm, just a bit, not scary arm. However the bars have been insane.”
The 37-year-old Taylor Gang chief recollects writing the verse for his Freshman freestyle within the studio just a few days earlier than the shoot with the late Nipsey Hussle, who was in the identical class as Wiz, and Curren$y, who was a Freshman the 12 months prior. “I used to be actually blissful and grateful for XXL for taking me to the following level in my profession,” Wiz provides. The sensation is mutual.
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