Khalifa stated to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette that, “I learned a lot during my time there and matured as an artist during the process.

Records, he left the label in July 2009 after numerous delays in releasing his planned debut album for the label, First Flight. He released his debut album, Deal or No Deal, in November of 2009, it reached #1 on the iTunes hip hop chart, and then reached the top ten on iTunes’ overall album chart the week it was released. Since then he has released a further six mixtapes and a collaboration mixtape titled How Fly with friend Curren$y.

In 2005 he released his first official mixtape, Prince of the City: Welcome to Pistolvania, and later in 2006 he released his first full length street album entitled Show and Prove. His nickname growing up was “Wizard” which was shortened to Wiz when Khalifa was fifteen. According to the Black and Yellow Songfacts, his stage name is derived from khalifa, an Arabic word meaning “successor”, and wisdom. Cameron Jibril Thomaz (born Septemin Minot, North Dakota), better known by his stage name Wiz Khalifa, is an American rapper based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, signed to Rostrum Records.

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