{"id":154367,"date":"2025-04-29T12:14:55","date_gmt":"2025-04-29T16:14:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2025\/04\/29\/wiz-khalifa-talks-new-album-kush-orange-juice-2-friendship-with-snoop-dogg-collaborating-with-j-cole-3\/"},"modified":"2025-04-29T12:14:55","modified_gmt":"2025-04-29T16:14:55","slug":"wiz-khalifa-talks-new-album-kush-orange-juice-2-friendship-with-snoop-dogg-collaborating-with-j-cole-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2025\/04\/29\/wiz-khalifa-talks-new-album-kush-orange-juice-2-friendship-with-snoop-dogg-collaborating-with-j-cole-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Wiz Khalifa Talks New Album \u2018Kush &amp; Orange Juice 2,\u2019 Friendship With Snoop Dogg &amp; Collaborating With J.\u00a0Cole"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- no image --><\/p>\n<div><!-- do not apply CSS styles to this element! --><\/p>\n<div class=\"pmc-paywall\">\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tWhen <a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/wiz-khalifa\/\">Wiz Khalifa<\/a>\u2018s seminal mixtape <em>Kush and Orange Juice <\/em>dropped in 2009, the Pittsburgh staple brought a new sound and lifestyle that forever shifted the hip-hop landscape. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t\u201cThe mode I was in \u2014 tapped in with the fans, being on the road, buying Jordans, wearing Chucks, wearing camo shorts every day,\u201d recalls Khalifa a decade-and-a-half later to <em>Billboard<\/em>. \u201c[I] was literally smoking Kush and drinking orange juice, [and] putting the world onto a whole lifestyle that we were living.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tEarlier this month, Khalifa kept the <em>Kush and Orange Juice<\/em> legacy alive when he released the sequel to his magnum opus. He enlisted familiar faces such as Taylor Gang affiliates Ty Dolla $ign, Juicy J and Chevy Woods while linking up with new characters including LaRussell, Don Toliver and Larry June, making this 23-track ride memorable. The album\u2019s standout tracks, such as the swagger-filled \u201cPimps n Hustlers\u201d and the Curren$y-featured \u201cJet Taylor,\u201d showcase the same gusto that made <em>Kush and <em>Orange Juice<\/em> <\/em>a classic.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t\u201cI wasn\u2019t nervous at all,\u201d Khalifa confidently states when facing the arduous task of following up his 2009 classic. \u201cIt was something that I felt I could challenge myself to do. And I would also know if it was it or wasn\u2019t it. There were a couple of times during the process where I would get to maybe I\u2019m done, maybe I figured it out, and I did, but the fans would always let me know what direction to shift it. When I finally got to the end of it, I was 100% confident. So, it wasn\u2019t scary. It was fun trying to figure it out.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"embed-youtube\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Wiz Khalifa, Ty Dolla $ign - Billionaires [Official Music Video]\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BGm-FRRoRCY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tWiz Khalifa, the spry MC who emerged as the cornerstone of stoner rap in the early 2010s, has transcended past being a caliber MC from the Blog Era. He has become a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/hot-100\/\">Billboard Hot 100<\/a> contender, courtesy of his rap bona fides. His journey from songs such as \u201cBlack &amp; Yellow,\u201d \u201cWe Dem Boyz\u201d and \u201cWork Hard, Play Hard\u201d to the melancholic anthem \u201cSee You Again\u201d placed him in the venerable territory, hitting Diamond status and accruing 12 weeks at No. 1 on the Hot 100, is a testament to his evolution. This growth, from his stoner rap roots to becoming a Hot 100 contender, is something that his fans can take pride in. Despite these milestones, Khalifa\u2019s love for hip-hop runs deep in his blood, as proven by his latest freestyles over J. Cole\u2019s \u201cClouds\u201d and Kendrick Lamar\u2019s \u201cSquabble Up.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t\u201cI did it strategically,\u201d says Khalifa, revealing a key aspect of his creative process. \u201cI started working on the album and removed myself from social media for a bit. It was about four months, and I didn\u2019t scroll or digest anything. It was on purpose because I had to find myself and figure out what I was going to do regardless of what was going on around me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tWatch Khalifa\u2019s full <em>Billboard News In Conversation<\/em> interview above, during which he spoke about his love for Snoop Dogg, linking up with J. Cole and more.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/rb-hip-hop\/wiz-khalifa-kush-orange-juice-2-snoop-dogg-1235957865\/\">Aller \u00e0 la source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Wiz Khalifa\u2018s seminal mixtape Kush and Orange Juice dropped in 2009, the Pittsburgh staple brought a new sound and lifestyle that forever shifted the hip-hop landscape. \u201cThe mode I was in \u2014 tapped in with the fans, being on the road, buying Jordans, wearing Chucks, wearing camo shorts every day,\u201d recalls Khalifa a decade-and-a-half [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-154367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musique","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154367\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}