Wiz Khalifa enjoyed a very successful 2015, despite not having an album in stores thanks to “See You Again,” his Paul Walker tribute/Furious 7 theme song collaboration with newly minted hook maestro Charlie Puth. The song became the first Hip Hop cut to rack up a billion views on YouTube, and enjoyed a ridiculous run of 12 non-consecutive weeks atop the Billboard Hot 100.
To capitalize on that momentum, Wiz entered 2016 in album mode, and after releasing just one single–“Bake Sale” featuring Travi$ Scott–the Taylor Gang general has liberated his fourth LP, the vaguely self-titled KHALIFA, which you can stream below and purchase here on iTunes. Wiz hooked up with Scott, Rico Love, Ty Dolla $ign, Juicy J and more for his fourth release on Atlantic Records, and went the mixtape route as far as production goes, opting to work with guys like Juicy, ID Labs and Metro Boomin instead of others he’s experimented with sonically on past albums. There’s a good chance this isn’t Wiz’s only album of 2016, as he’s continued to tease a sequel to his major label debut Rolling Papers, Rolling Papers 2: The Weed Album, which could be released as early as later this year.
