![]() Records, a deal which produced a single “Say Yeah,” that hit No. This paved the way for him to sign with Warner Bros. This is an artist, after all, who took the fast track to stardom.īorn Cameron Jibril Thomaz in 1987, the Pittsburgh-based rapper released his first CD, “Show and Prove,” in 2006 on the indie label Rostrum Records. If “Blacc Hollywood” is as good as Khalifa thinks it is, it figures to be one of the biggest hip-hop albums of 2014. That’s what I was able to do on ‘Blacc Hollywood.'” “Like they were key moments and key expressions that I wanted to capture and make the biggest songs out of that. ![]() “I just to capture these individual moments that I planned out in my head,” he says. You can see it through the artwork, you can see it in the visuals and the videos and things like that. I’m really passionate about it, and you can just feel the passion through the music. “The thing about ‘Blacc Hollywood’ is everything I’m talking about has been very important to me right now. “I think the unique thing about all of my other projects were the mind states that I was in at that time and what I was trying to get out to the world, and just how important that message really was to me at that time,” Khalifa says. Khalifa didn’t specify how “Blacc Hollywood” compares to his other albums musically or lyrically, however he described the overall theme as being “just about the youth and about strength in numbers.” But he’s confident fans will recognize that how inspired he was. “I was able to fully paint a vision and put all of the pieces together instead of just putting out something for the sake of putting it out, which I never really like to do anyway,” he says. “I was able to work more hands-on with this one, sort of the way I am with my mixtapes, where we strive for the best and we really don’t settle or accept anything other than the best,” Khalifa says. ![]() Khalifa feels “Blacc Hollywood” is his best work yet. Meanwhile, “Blacc Hollywood,” the studio album Khalifa originally talked of releasing before the end of 2013, but was put on the shelf - a move that opened a window to release “28 Grams” - is now set for release on Aug. In May he released his latest in a long line of mixtapes, “28 Grams,” which was far more substantial than the usual such project, checking in with 28 tracks. Khalifa has seemed inspired over the last year and a half. ![]()
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