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For the latest edition of "Album Reviews in Dope Places", Nathan Slavik reviews Wiz Khalifa's new 28 Grams mixtape in a Rite Aid parking lot with a bag of Doritos, an Arizona Ice Tea and some smoke; is there any better environment to listen to Wiz?
That was a rhetorical question. No, no there's not.
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- www.djbooth.net
2014-05-29
★★★★★
After an arrest in Texas for marijuana possession, a viral jail selfie that had the internet talking and a performance at Soundset, Wiz Khalifa has taken the opportunity to harness the whirlwind buzz by dropping his anticipated mixtape packed full of 28 tracks designed to break necks. After starting off the DJ Drama hosted project appropriately with the notorious Wiz laugh, the Taylor Gang founder emerges with a Trap Wiz alter-ego, showcasing a harder, auto-tune-saturated, southern-influenced...
- exclaim.ca
2014-05-30
★★★★★
Wiz Khalifa and Curren$y's collaborative project Live in Concert (not an actual live album) was supposed to come out last summer as a free mixtape but it wound up being delayed. Following a lawsuit against Mac Miller for an unapproved Lord Finesse sample, rappers became more conscious of what they were sampling on mixtapes...
- pitchfork.com
2013-04-30
★★★★★
Roll yourself a blunt and pour yourself a glass of OJ; Wiz Khalifa has unleashed his latest collection of high-rolling, kush-smoking bangers upon the listening populace. The follow-up to the Pittsburgh-repping rap heavyweight's blockbuster Rostrum/Atlantic debut, 2011's Rolling Papers, O.N.I.F.C. (Only N**ga in First Class) comes heralded by "The Bluff," "Remember You," "It's Nothin" and smash-hit lead single "Work Hard, Play Hard."
O.N.I.F.C...
- www.djbooth.net
2013-04-02
★★★★★
In 2010, Wiz Khalifa dropped his Kush & Orange Juice mixtape, 20 tracks of breezy near-cloud-rap that meshed perfectly with the then-22-year-old's zero-expletives-given persona. In 2011, he made his major-label debut with the pop-hop sparkle and chart-mounting singles of Rolling Papers . Here, Wiz jumps from style to style indiscriminately, going for atmosphere that would have fit in just fine on the former project ("Paperbond", "Bluffin'") and radio-bait more appropriate for the latter ("Let...
- consequenceofsound.net
2012-12-19
★★★★★
Wiz Khalifa O.N.I.F.C.By Peter MarrackIt was the Greeks that said musicians make music, not "just" men. Wiz Khalifa argues on O.N.I.F.C. that he's both. Although Khalifa dropped two albums through Rostrum in 2006 and 2009, respectively, his signing to Atlantic in 2010 thrust him into the mass market, after which Kanye West proclaimed him "the only label rapper he respects...
- exclaim.ca
2012-12-18
★★★★★
Success at the register as it may have been, Rolling Papers feels even more out of place in Wiz Khalifa's ever-expansive discography after just one year than it did when it was new. Khalifa has always been a good if not great hook man, dating back to at least 2007, but Rolling Papers wagered that handling his debut with experienced pop/R&B producers would be able to emphasize this...
- www.popmatters.com
2012-12-14
★★★★★
Wiz Khalifa smokes weed by the acre, but his career thus far has been driven by his own shrewd vision for himself. He is not a rapper's rapper, but he helped push rap into its current fixation with doing drugs instead of selling them and has rightfully reaped the rewards of an entire genre following his lead. He also became a pop star with ease in 2010, sliding into the studio with pop titans like Stargate and Benny Blanco and emerging with a No...
- pitchfork.com
2013-04-01
★★★★★
Cameron Jibril Thomaz b/k/a Wiz Khalifa has certainly made a big impression in a short amount of time. "O.N.I.F.C." (an acronym for "Only Nigga In First Class") is his third album since 2011 if you're including his collaboration with Snoop Dogg, and if you're counting mixtapes he's been even busier than that...
- rapreviews.com
2012-12-11
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