For 19-year-old Wiz Khalifa, conquering the world is easy … but winning over Pittsburgh is hard
Wiz Khalifa stands alone.
Swathed in a baggy T-shirt, he’s utterly alone onstage at Mr. Small’s Theatre. His lanky frame sways to the track as he works the packed house, and the mic:
Who’s the kid spittin’ flames, changing the game? His name is Wiz Khalifa, man … I got that Pittsburgh sound, I’m gonna hold this whole Pittsburgh down.
Many see that lone figure as either a mascot or messiah. Many are looking to him to put Pittsburgh’s hip-hop scene on the map. “If Wiz blows up, we all gonna blow up,” is how local emcee and promoter Basick Sickness sums it up.
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