His Drake-ishly light voice is as sugary and (as originoo gun clappa Common might say, in between skipping through meadows and reciting love poems to a cherry blossom) “Sweet”. There’s something distinctly bubble-gummy about him. Wiz is a pop star, though, whether he likes it or not. “I’ll pop up and make five million dollars” he quips, when asked if he’s “pop rap” by his interviewer. He distances himself a little from his extremely wimpy Rolling Papers album, which was successfully aimed at teenage girls and made almost everybody else (including long-time fans) puke into their Rizlas. Taylor Allderdice is such a popular mixtape, in fact, that Dat Piff was momentarily nuked by it upon its release, prompting a thousand suburban Brick Squad devotees to attempt suicide.
Of course, Wiz has the advantage of actually being rich – his 2010 single ‘Black and Yellow’ shot him into the musical fuckoffosphere, helping to turn him into a bona fide rap pop star, complete with ridiculous blonde-streaked haircut and celebrity girlfriend (model Amber Rose, who contributes an inane hook or two to this mixtape). Wiz’s good mate (and much better lyricist) Curren$y is a man who has 1000 ways to say “I’m stoned and rich”. Unfortunately he doesn’t have an interesting way of saying these boring things, either. He shares this in common with approximately 95% of rappers, many of who are equally as infatuated with weed and money. Wiz, in fact, doesn’t really have anything interesting to say. If anyone was ever unsure of this fact (they weren’t), then 17 tracks of Wiz endlessly, monotonously going on about smoking weed and making money should put all speculation to rest. Because all Wiz really wants to do, as it turns out, is smoke loads of weed and make loads of money.
This lack of ambition (and lack of manners), this fundamental ‘give a shit’-ness, is of course what constitutes Wiz’s dull-as-chips ice-cool. I’m bitterly disappointed to report that Wiz at no point shits himself, masturbates or mounts a German Shepard on Taylor Allderdice, but then he’s not all that ambitious. “Taylor Ideology, homie” he whispers, and the engineer is almost moved to tears by the Wizdom. Wiz grabs the engineer’s wrist, and shakes his head, sagely. The engineer turns to him, his eyebrows raised quizzically, his hand reaching for the mouse to cut this piece of flatulence out. You can imagine him listening back to this in the studio. Perhaps Wiz is saying that, in a Godless universe, there is no real reason to restrain your desires and instincts? After all, there’s one snippet on Taylor Allderdice where Wiz lets out a big belch in the middle of an answer before carrying on. The ‘Taylor Ideology’, as it turns out, basically means ‘doing what you want to do’. Khalifa takes a deep breath – not largely composed of oxygen, one assumes – and explains. In one of the short snippets of interview footage that serve as fluffer material inbetween tracks here, Wiz is asked to explain the ‘Taylor Ideology’ (Taylor Gang is his group/clothing line/’ideology’). The funniest thing he says on Taylor Allderdice is entirely unintentionally funny – is entirely serious, in fact. You may have to select a menu option or click a button.Though, as a bona fide stoner bonehead, Pittsburgh native Wiz Khalifa often giggles to himself as if he’s just watched Harold and Kumar mistaking a dog poo for a Hershey bar, he’s rarely intentionally funny. Follow the instructions for disabling the ad blocker on the site you’re viewing.You may have more than one ad-blocker installed. You’ll usually find this icon in the upper right-hand corner of your screen. Click the icon of the ad-blocker extension installed on your browser.When it turns gray, click the refresh icon that has appeared next to it or click the button below to continue.Click on the large blue power icon at the top.Click the UBlock Origin icon in the browser extension area in the upper right-hand corner.It will turn gray and the text above will go from “ON” to “ OFF”. Click on the “ Ad-Blocking” button at the bottom.Click the Ghostery icon in the browser extension area in the upper right-hand corner.Switch off the toggle to turn it from “ Enabled on this site” to “ Disabled on this site”.Click the AdBlocker Ultimate icon in the browser extension area in the upper right-hand corner.“ Block ads on – This website” switch off the toggle to turn it from blue to gray.