"Call Waiting" offers us Wiz Khalifa the singer, where he coos about marijuana like it’s his most faithful companion, and "Lit" where he and Ty Dolla $ign volley back and forth over who rolls and smokes the most.īut this is all to the detriment of promising a more private work, since that’s basically just "Work Hard, Play Hard" with a different SKU. And of course the pot anthems are present. The only track with hit potential, though, is "Bake Sale" with Travis Scott, which sounds more like a Travis Scott record than a Wiz Khalifa one. "iSay" is another one, because Juicy J always delivers, even over rumbling keys.
"City View" dabbles with an '80s-skewed beat compliments of a production from Metro Boomin and Lex Luger. The Rico Love-assisted "Celebrate" is a mellow ode to the good life of sex and blowing checks. That doesn’t mean the album is without bangers. Like he says on the Metro Boomin-produced opener "BTS": "humble beginnings, rich ass endings," but he keeps regurgitating that sentiment through the duration of 13 songs. He alters and repurposes that come-up tale throughout most of the album, punctuating it with an ellipsis and "but I’m rich now" tacked on for good measure.
So instead of living through the struggle like some of his previous works suggest, this project reflects on escaping it: The track "Cowboy" verbalizes those earliest days of cutting corners in PA, set to Jim Jonsin and his production duo FNZ’s soothing beat. Wiz is on a whole other plane now, thanks to perhaps the biggest hit of his career (" See You Again"), a song that wasn’t even on his album. But "digging deep" isn't really in Wiz's repertoire, and apart from some faintly nostalgic bars about his come-up here and there, listeners panning for introspection will mostly come up empty. He’s also a father, which presents another opportunity to dig deeper. After all, Wiz’s relationship with pot is a very personal thing (to him) and so is his need for success. His sixth studio album, Khalifa, would suggest he’s splitting the difference-creating an album that is more personal (hence its partially eponymous title).
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