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Y'all give it up for the one, the only,
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Looking ill as always.
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Hey, Whiz, go ahead. Have a seat, man. I
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got I got a uh I got a uh a mic for you,
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too. We didn't really plan nothing out.
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Yeah. Yeah. Whiz just said he'll come
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and I was like, "All right." All right,
0:30
Whiz. So, we got him.
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You said you was going to bring
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Trying to beat me up last time.
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Well, we do that, man.
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my little brother. You're still my
0:39
little brother. That's true. Because,
0:42
you know, Wes has been in physical
0:43
fitness for a long time now. And this
0:46
really shifted his mindset and,
0:49
you know, showed us how you could do
0:50
that before your very eyes. You know how
0:52
hard it is to shift your mindset
0:54
at any stage of your life. So, I want to
0:56
say salute to you, Whiz Khalifa.
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Thank you. I appreciate that. Whiz means
1:01
No, thank you, man. We We were talking
1:04
He had the first time. What was one of
1:05
the first time you saw him perform?
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The first time I saw him perform live
1:12
Minnesota at a at a venue called Sounds
1:15
Set a Festival. and Tracy G and I was
1:18
standing on stage just by the side and
1:22
we them boys dropped and I felt like for
1:26
the first time crowd surfing because the
1:29
crowd was moving me to the crowd and I'm
1:32
standing on the side and me and Tracy
1:34
two females going hold up we them boys
1:38
we was trying to mosh pit baby
1:40
trying to mosh pit it was so I just felt
1:43
like maybe you standing on stage that
1:46
day with 50,000 people and what was
1:49
going through your mind watching all of
1:52
those people connect with something that
1:54
Anytime I'm on stage, um I just think
1:57
about how I felt in the crowd watching
2:01
on stage and I was always inspired and
2:04
just it really pushed me to a point
2:07
where I would focus and like manifest
2:10
things and just I would take it home. If
2:12
I look if I looked at somebody with a
2:13
good performance, I'd be like, "Yo,
2:15
that's how I want to do it." So, when
2:17
I'm on stage, I'm like, there's somebody
2:19
out there who's watching me, they're
2:21
watching my every move. And they're not
2:23
just like singing the words, but they
2:25
feel what I'm doing on every stage. They
2:27
could feel my my smile. They could feel,
2:30
you know, when I stick my chest out or
2:33
they could feel every little moment, you
2:34
know? So, I'm really tapped in and just
2:36
paying attention to the to the emotions
2:38
of the crowd as well as just really
2:41
trying to have fun up there. Like, I
2:43
feel like I kind of catch the Holy Ghost
2:46
It was spiritual. It was I was like,
2:48
Tracy, we we got to go up there.
2:50
Spiritual and contagious. Cuz we caught
2:53
Yeah. No, that's what happens. I mean,
2:55
it's the best part because you can be be
2:58
a fan or maybe know like one or two
3:00
songs, but when you go to a show, that's
3:03
when you really become a fan. you might
3:04
hear a song you never heard before and
3:06
be like, "Yo, I'mma go back, listen to
3:08
that song, and then just listen to his
3:10
whole catalog after that." So, it's a
3:12
real good opportunity to make new fans.
3:14
What I walked away with because I mean,
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I've been blessed, thank you, God, to be
3:18
in this industry for so long. I've seen
3:21
Run DMC, I've seen Jay, I've seen Nas,
3:23
I've seen Big, I've seen so many
3:26
artists. Tracy and I, I walked away, I
3:28
was like, "Yo, he's a rock star." like
3:31
you you connected that day and I was
3:35
anything that happens for you the way
3:37
God blesses you from this moment on it's
3:40
welld deserved like you put in the work
3:42
and and we watched it and I think that's
3:45
why whether you have music out or not
3:47
even watching your journey fitness
3:49
everything you're doing you just have
3:51
the people support like you have that
3:53
with you so blessings you know how I
3:55
feel about you so blessings always for
3:58
realiz Khalifa man right Yeah, man.
4:02
Beautiful cologne. Beautiful cologne.
4:07
The chiefy we wearing the chiefy wee.
4:11
It's a very special place.
4:13
All right. Where's I I I saw um just all
4:17
the promotions around Moses Black,
4:21
And this huge project that he's doing
4:23
with the likes. Omar eps is probably in
4:26
my opinion one of the greatest actors
4:29
big to come out of our culture 100%
4:32
right and I'll I'll debate that with
4:34
anybody 50 Cent obviously has become a a
4:39
huge mo he's a part of this movie as
4:41
well your acting in this movie and your
4:44
what's the the character you're playing
4:47
right and 2 three is based on what talk
4:51
about with 23's character like building
4:53
this character is based on from a modern
4:55
day into a medieval day.
4:58
Yeah. So, the movie is based off of uh
5:01
Omar's character and um he's more of
5:04
like a a leader in his neighborhood and
5:08
he went to jail and he came home and
5:10
he's starting to have these flashbacks
5:12
and these visions of some biblical
5:14
stuff. And it it's a story that relates
5:17
to him called Moses the Black where a
5:19
man was a thief and he stopped the way
5:22
that he was living and he got his people
5:24
around him to join him and stop doing
5:26
the way he was living. But in that
5:28
process a lot of stuff happened. So it
5:30
translates in current time in the
5:33
streets in Chicago and that's where 23
5:35
plays. I didn't really have the same
5:37
revelation that Omar did. I'm still on
5:40
my you know I'm still outside. Yeah.
5:45
What do you think about how we've all
5:47
experienced you finding your voice in
5:49
music? What is it like for you to find
5:51
your voice as an actor, especially with
5:55
It's really fun because um it's all
5:57
storytelling and that's what music is as
6:00
well. Um I' I've be able to tell my
6:03
story, been able to tell the story of my
6:05
city, been able to tell other people's
6:07
story and help them write their stories.
6:10
And that's the same thing through acting
6:11
is um whatever the main story is of the
6:15
movie, but also the character. You get
6:17
to, you know, really dive in and just
6:20
figure out layers of life that kind of
6:22
matter that other people skip over and
6:25
it just, you know, it just makes life
6:26
more poetic and beautiful. Mr. Man, did
6:30
do did you and 50 50 being such a su
6:33
successful in production now. Did he did
6:35
he offer you any insight on gems on
6:38
because you're not just an actor on the
6:40
Right. Yeah. Yeah. Absolutely. I'm like
6:42
um it's it's a lot of stuff that happens
6:44
behind the scenes that I'm still
6:46
Cuz I don't take credit for [Â __Â ] And he
6:48
was like, "Bro, you got to stop that."
6:49
Like I I put my name on everything. Like
6:52
50's like, "Nah, dog. Like if I put $5
6:55
on that [Â __Â ] it's 50 Cent production."
7:02
so he definitely told me to start taking
7:03
more credit for [Â __Â ] And um also
7:07
um he's he was just telling me how to
7:10
leverage being an artist and acting. He
7:12
was like don't ever let the acting step
7:15
on your artistry cuz the artistry pushes
7:17
you acting. So he was like I'll do
7:19
movies. He was telling me his his um his
7:21
set schedule. He was like, "I won't go
7:23
past a certain amount of time because I
7:26
have to do shows and still be 50 Cent."
7:28
And um that was important to me because
7:30
people will try to talk you out of it.
7:32
They'll be like, "Hey, cut your hair and
7:33
remove your tattoos." It's like, "No,
7:35
bro. I still got to be me."
7:37
You know what I'm saying? And coming
7:39
from him, he was like, "That's more
7:40
profitable in this day and age."
7:42
Yep. As you can see, he's living proof
7:44
Yeah, for sure. Then then I then I then
7:46
this next question cuz I was thinking
7:49
2006 show improve came out and hip-hop a
7:52
lot of artists have a hard time
7:54
adjusting to the times.
7:56
It's been a minute came out your single
7:59
and every time I hear you rap, I still
8:02
feel like I'm hearing a new song.
8:04
I'm hearing a new whiz. Yeah.
8:07
Do you even think about how the public
8:09
will receive a song anymore?
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I don't cuz I know if I [Â __Â ] with it,
8:17
Yeah. Cuz the energy that I put into
8:19
making these songs. Um I I listen to it
8:22
with a different ear than just somebody
8:24
who's creating it. So sometimes you
8:27
could get like demo itis or you can
8:28
really like love your own stuff, but I'm
8:31
I critique my stuff really, you know,
8:33
from a from an outsers's point of view.
8:35
And I'm glad that that hit you like
8:37
that, man, because I'm having so much
8:38
fun and this is a new new era for me and
8:41
I got a whole new era of fans and just a
8:43
new motivation to do this. So, I'm glad
8:45
it comes off like that.
8:46
It comes off like that. Especially what
8:48
I think is a line you say,
8:50
"I've been selling packs since you
8:52
[Â __Â ] was using flipones." Yeah.
8:54
Yeah. I had a hard time saying [Â __Â ] I
8:56
don't really say that. That was a long
8:59
time you've been selling packs.
9:00
Yeah, I know. It surprised me cuz we got
9:03
to like date ourselves sometimes. Like
9:05
it's like dog. Like that's really
9:08
You know what I mean? Like I think I was
9:10
talking with somebody about my ringtone
9:11
when I used to sell weed in high school.
9:13
It was uh Every day I'm hustling
9:15
and like every time I hear that song I
9:17
just think about hitting licks. Like it
9:19
just gives me that flashback.
9:20
Okay. You still get like triggered.
9:23
I just want to go bust a pack down.
9:27
Before you cut out, I want to ask you a
9:30
question about taking credit
9:32
because I think a lot of people have a
9:34
hard time, they'll do for a lot of
9:36
people, but have a hard time receiving
9:38
things. They have a hard time asking for
9:41
And I think it's interesting that you
9:43
said you have a hard time
9:44
taking credit when you work so hard.
9:47
Um, how you think you're going to work
9:49
on that in the future? Because I can see
9:51
you producing and executive producing. I
9:54
watched your doc, you know, all of those
9:56
how do you think you'll eventually get
9:59
It's just honestly to me I think it's a
10:01
fear. Um I think I could get more done
10:05
behind the scenes than if you know that
10:07
I did it. You know what I mean? And a
10:09
lot of stuff I'm just trying. So if it's
10:12
trash and I put my name on it.
10:17
Who did this [Â __Â ]
10:18
I don't want to claim the good stuff.
10:21
But no, it's true. It's a fear and it's
10:22
just like, you know, I'm just testing it
10:24
out. But I think just letting that go,
10:27
and this is to answer your question,
10:28
just letting that go will let everybody
10:30
see my good sides, my flaws, not just my
10:33
perfections, but they'll see everything,
10:34
which I let them see anyway. But this is
10:36
another way to let them in.
10:38
Hey, man. Give it up for Where's
10:41
Hold up. Wait, hold up. Where's Hold up.
10:44
This is some Is Gina Views and DJ Head
10:46
here? Are they here?
10:52
Come on here. Come up here, man. I want
10:53
I want to bring Hold up, man. I want to
10:55
bring our family up here. Head. DJ Head,
10:59
come on. DJ Head with the Sirius XM
11:02
Would you Who'd you come with?
11:04
Gina, come stop playing. Gina, that's
11:06
not not here. Gina, people watching.
11:09
Where she at? Is she over there?
11:10
Maybe she went had a drink.
11:12
Gina, come on. Gina, stop. Not in front
11:13
of people. I'm embarrassed right now.
11:18
There she comes. All right.
11:21
J1. Okay. This what we want to do.
11:23
citizens. Hey, Gina, what's up? Gina
11:25
Views is up in the building.
11:27
Okay. Yo. Okay. Uh Tracy Heather, come
11:31
here. This is something really special.
11:32
Chrissy, jump in it, too. You might as
11:34
well. J1, come here. Whiz has no idea
11:37
that this is taking place. Nope.
11:39
And man, we really love you. Is I I
11:42
consider myself your big brother.
11:44
Okay. And you've done nothing but
11:47
contribute contribute contribute to this
11:50
culture, our community, and the person
11:52
you've been. You've been a solid dude
11:53
through it all. You've been a great
11:55
example. You've been 100 and
11:57
transparent. J1, what do we have for him
12:01
So, on behalf of Pandora, we want to
12:03
present you with this billionaires
12:08
8 billion streams of Pandora. 8 billion
12:12
streams. A billion. A billion. A
12:19
And it's black and yellow. That's tough.
12:24
How does that feel, man? You going to
12:26
take credit for that?
12:27
I mean, I can't not. It's got my name on
12:31
Congratulations, man. Congrats.
12:33
Congratulations, man. Give it up for
