Here Is a Good Wiz Khalifa Song
Unless you’re a teenager with four pairs of weed socks hiding your bowl from your mom in the trunk of your car, it’s hard to get too excited about Wiz Khalifa’s music. After a quietly influential mixtape career (the stoned numbness developed on his tapes with Curren$y has been the lingua franca of rap for a half-decade now) and a legitimately great breakout smash (“Black and Yellow”), Wiz has settled into a comfortable career as a major label pop-rapper whose primary motivation seems to be doing whatever he needs to stay relevant and popular. There’s no shame in this, of course—it’s his bank account, not mine—but as a passive listener of his music he’s not exactly someone whose new music you’re dropping everything to check out.
There were signs of resuscitation on “We Dem Boyz”—not a huge hit by his standards but easily his best song in years when it was released at the beginning of 2014—but the current era of Wiz’s career has mostly been marked by him paying younger, hotter rappers for their buzz in a way that didn’t…