

The marriage, though, wasn’t a good one, and he eventually parted ways with the label-which, ironically, is when his fledgling hip-hop career really started to take off. Still, Khalifa started writing rhymes as a pre-teen and managed to score a record deal with Warner Music in 2007, releasing his first single, the Eurotrance-tinged “Say Yeah,” soon after. Born Cameron Thomaz, the 23-year-old rapper hails from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania-a city not exactly known as a hotbed ofhip-hop wonderfulness.

Aside from the fact that he likes to smoke lots of weed, there’s not much about Wiz Khalifa that is patterned or predictable.
