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A background of military family did not deter Wiz Khalifa from making music. Traveling across three different countries to finally settle down in Pittsburgh, Jibril Thomaz tried his luck at music. Wiz Khalifa songs were not destined to be named that way, as the artist first used stage name as Wisdom Khalifa.

The first release was a mixtape called “Prince of theCity”, after success of this album Wiz released many more record breaking music to the industry. Giving out top music albums like Rolling Papers where he was on top of the chartbusters at #2 among Billboard 200. The music went to sell out at 197,000 records in its first year itself. Even the football team of 2011, the Green Bay Packers sang to the tune of “Black and Yellow.” Although 23 year old, this Pennsylvanian rapper has stunned the country with his songs. There have been more than 10 remixes of the “Black and Yellow” song that had been on pop #3 in Billboard’s hot charts. Among the Wiz Khalifa songs, this one has been downloaded from the library of iTunes about two million times.

The artist has experienced struggle with drugs and had his name put out high into public conscious. The music industry hardly accepts artists in such a short period. But the Wiz Khalifa songs indicate that global platform is ready to experiment with different cross over and mainstream hip hop and rap music. You can look at the latest song, “No Sleep” featuring Wiz Khalifa.

Even the well performed singles at different live performances were loved by the fans. In 2010 this star has been named as the MTV’s top hottest breakthrough MC of that year. Follow ups on twitter and the social network will easily give a hint at the popularity of Wiz Khalifa songs. Especially the street album released by the artist, titled as “Kush and Orange Juice”.