Along the way there were revered mixtapes, sports anthems, a friendship with West Coast legend Snoop Dogg, the proliferation of his crew referencing Taylor Gang or Die T-shirts, and a friendship with the late actor Paul Walker that inspired the massive hit 'See You Again' with Charlie Puth. After his parents divorced when he was three, he lived in various places and military bases around the world.
His first attempt at committing lyrics to paper was around age nine, and at 12 he was already recording and producing his own records in his father's Oklahoma studio. Settling in Pittsburgh during his high school years, Khalifa laid down the groundwork for a solo career and kept busy recording music in a local studio, I. He stood out among the studio's regulars, prompting the I.
Labs' staff to offer him free beats and recording time, plus bringing him to the attention of Benjy Grinberg, a former executive assistant to L. Reid at Arista Records who had started up a new independent label, Rostrum Records. Signed to Rostrum, Khalifa built a buzz in Pittsburgh with a few singles, but he began to draw ears nationally during his senior year in high school when his first mixtape, Prince of the City: Welcome to Pistolvania, dropped in early With the release of his independent full-length debut, Show and Prove, later that year, major publications featured profiles on the young rapper.
Unable to come to an agreement on his debut album for the label, the rapper announced he was leaving Warner in and returning to Rostrum for the album Deal or No Deal. As the NFL team progressed toward the playoffs, Khalifa's track became their unofficial anthem, and when the Green Bay Packers emerged as the team's opponent for the Super Bowl, Lil Wayne responded with the answer song 'Green and Yellow. Billboard chart a month later.
Also arriving that same year was a feature film with Snoop Dogg, Mac and Devin Go to High School, along with its accompanying soundtrack. Clean copies saw the abbreviation standing for 'One Night in First Class. Shortly afterward, he announced details of a fifth studio album, entitled Blacc Hollywood, which was released in August of The mixtape 28 Grams -- designed to act as a primer for the album -- almost saw a delay when Khalifa was arrested for marijuana possession the day before its release that May.
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