Wiz Khalifa: I'm Blessed to Be a Healer

This week, the one and only Wiz Khalifa brings the chill - and a smile that could light up the world. The multi-platinum rapper, father, and certified smooth operator sits down with Bunnie to talk growing up in a military family, dad life, and his deeper purpose: spreading joy. He opens up about how his parents’ divorce shaped him, and how it influences the way he co-parents today. Wiz shares his approach to staying calm, and how he finds healing through music, hot yoga, MMA, and morning routines. He also talks about the release of Kush & Orange Juice 2, the long-awaited follow-up to the mixtape that defined an era. Plus: his favorite stoner snacks, his dream strip club, and why he never gets tired of performing his hits like "Black and Yellow". Wiz Khalifa: Website https://wizkhalifa.com/ Watch Full Episodes & More: www.dumbblondeunrated.com

Speaker names marked ? are inferred from speaking time and the show’s known hosts — they are not voice-verified.

• 0:00Bunnie XO?

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• 0:28Speaker 01

  Bunny XO.

• 0:28Bunnie XO?

  She was a Vegas bunny.

• 0:29Speaker 01

  Bunny XO.

• 0:30Bunnie XO?

  Bunny XO. She changed my life.

• 0:32Speaker 01

  Dumb Blonde Podcast and Bunny XO. Kelly rolls like Bunny XO. Bunny XO.

• 0:38Bunnie XO?

  Is this thing on? What's up babies? Today we have on the couch Wiz Khalifa.

• 0:45Speaker 02

  Hey, what's up?

• 0:46Bunnie XO?

  How you doing?

• 0:47Speaker 02

  I'm chilling.

• 0:48Bunnie XO?

  Dude, I'm so happy you're here.

• 0:50Speaker 02

  Happy to be here. Thanks for having me.

• 0:51Bunnie XO?

  You are just like the smoothest cat, always and forever. Every time I see you, you have a smile on your face. You're just a chill vibe. You remind me so much of my dad, because I used to always say my dad was like the coolest cat. And then I found out that you were born September 8th. My dad was September 4th.

• 1:07Speaker 02

  Oh yeah, that makes perfect sense.

• 1:08Bunnie XO?

  Yeah, so you guys have just that like, super chill, super cool vibe.

• 1:12Speaker 02

  Yeah, thank you.

• 1:13Bunnie XO?

  Yeah, of course. If I could compare you to anybody, I'm sure you get this a lot, it's, I swear, you and Snoop Dogg are like the same human, just different font.

• 1:21Speaker 02

  Exactly.

• 1:22Bunnie XO?

  Literally. Was he an inspiration for you growing up?

• 1:24Speaker 02

  Huge inspiration for me growing up, especially in my teen years. Like just being like a taller and skinny dude, it was like, you know, I've had to find my swag and then just looking at Snoop, that was like, the tallest, coolest, skinniest dude ever. So it was like, you know what I mean? I definitely modeled myself, just my whole, you know, approach after, you know, Snoop's rules.

• 1:48Bunnie XO?

  Yeah.

• 1:48Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 1:49Bunnie XO?

  Absolutely. I miss pimp Snoop.

• 1:51Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 1:52Bunnie XO?

  Can we bring him back?

• 1:53Speaker 02

  There's a lot of people who don't even know he was a pimp.

• 1:55Bunnie XO?

  Oh, I do. I listen, I grew up in that lifestyle in Vegas, so I loved pimp Snoop. I'm like, bring him back. Remember when he used to hang out with Bishop Don Juan all the time and like, that whole era that he went through?

• 2:06Speaker 02

  Exactly. Yeah, he raised us. He raised us right.

• 2:09Bunnie XO?

  He did raise us right. Um, if, so, you know how him and Martha Stewart have that TV show? If they were to replace Snoop with you, who would you bring on as your Martha?

• 2:19Speaker 02

  Who would be my Martha?

• 2:21Bunnie XO?

  Yeah.

• 2:21Speaker 02

  I think like, uh, Chelsea Handler.

• 2:24Bunnie XO?

  Oh, yeah.

• 2:24Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 2:25Bunnie XO?

  She's fucking hilarious, dude.

• 2:27Speaker 02

  Funny as hell, yo.

• 2:28Bunnie XO?

  We love Chelsea in this house.

• 2:29Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 2:30Bunnie XO?

  She actually gave, is one of the first people who gave us like our first break.

• 2:34Speaker 02

  Uh huh.

• 2:35Bunnie XO?

  As far as like reality TV.

• 2:37Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 2:37Bunnie XO?

  She believed in our family and like shot. I know. She's a fucking, she's so dope.

• 2:41Speaker 02

  I didn't even know that. She just a G to me as well.

• 2:44Bunnie XO?

  She is.

• 2:44Speaker 02

  Yeah, so I, that would be like my Martha for sure.

• 2:47Bunnie XO?

  Yeah, dude, I think we need to, we need to do that.

• 2:49Speaker 02

  We could.

• 2:50Bunnie XO?

  We need to get Wiz and Chelsea Handler in a fucking TV show together. That would be so fire.

• 2:55Speaker 02

  Yeah, that would be awesome.

• 2:56Bunnie XO?

  I know that you're stoned all the time and you're not smoking today on my podcast. Do you feel out of your element a little bit?

• 3:01Speaker 02

  No, I'm good. I got high before I came in.

• 3:03Bunnie XO?

  Alright, good.

• 3:03Speaker 02

  It's all good. I'm not tripping.

• 3:05Bunnie XO?

  What are some of your favorite stoner foods?

• 3:08Speaker 02

  Favorite stoner foods, I would have to go with Funyuns as far as chips.

• 3:13Bunnie XO?

  Yeah.

• 3:13Speaker 02

  Um, I like to eat a lot of fruit.

• 3:16Bunnie XO?

  Yeah.

• 3:17Speaker 02

  I like to eat like pineapple and grapes and I just like get a big ass bowl of fruit, just mix it all together.

• 3:23Bunnie XO?

  I love, it reminds me of that TikTok. I like a lot of fresh fruit.

• 3:26Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 3:27Bunnie XO?

  From the Step Brothers? Is that from Step Brothers? I like a lot of fresh fruit.

• 3:31Speaker 02

  Um, cereal anytime of the day.

• 3:34Bunnie XO?

  What's your favorite cereal?

• 3:35Speaker 02

  Uh, Apple Jacks.

• 3:37Bunnie XO?

  Really? That's different. I, I normally hear like Lucky Charms or Captain Crunch.

• 3:41Speaker 02

  Okay, for real? I, I usually hear Cinnamon Toast Crunch.

• 3:44Bunnie XO?

  I do love a good Cinnamon Toast Crunch or Honey Gramps.

• 3:46Speaker 02

  Yeah, Honey Gramps is good.

• 3:48Bunnie XO?

  Don't fuck around.

• 3:48Speaker 02

  Honey Nut Cheerios.

• 3:50Bunnie XO?

  Delish.

• 3:50Speaker 02

  Yeah, don't sleep, sleep on them either.

• 3:52Bunnie XO?

  Dude, I love me some fucking Cheerios.

• 3:54Speaker 02

  Apple Jacks are good because they're like flavored and they're sweet and the consistency, they don't get all soggy very fast. I like Apple Jacks.

• 4:03Bunnie XO?

  Have you ever thought about doing like reality TV? I think you are literally made for it.

• 4:07Speaker 02

  I did. Thank you so much. I used to watch so much reality TV when I was a kid, like Real World and like all of that stuff.

• 4:15Bunnie XO?

  I miss the OG Real World.

• 4:16Speaker 02

  Me too. And I used to like, that was my thing. I wanted to be like a personality.

• 4:21Bunnie XO?

  Yeah.

• 4:21Speaker 02

  And, yeah, so as I got older, I started to make my own little serieses on YouTube. They're called Day to Days. But they're like, you know, they're not TV ready because there's a lot of weed on there.

• 4:33Bunnie XO?

  Right.

• 4:34Speaker 02

  But yeah, if I ever got the opportunity to do something like that, like a show like my family or my life or just my personality, I would love that. I think that would be hella fun.

• 4:44Bunnie XO?

  I think you have enough star power now to make that happen.

• 4:46Speaker 02

  Yeah, I'm a super fun dude too. Like I, I try anything. It don't matter what it is.

• 4:51Bunnie XO?

  I think people would just want to see you like raise your kids. Like I would probably like the dynamic between you and your son.

• 4:57Speaker 02

  Even, even if I got to do like, stuff with other people's kids as well too. Like, you know what I'm saying?

• 5:03Bunnie XO?

  Yeah.

• 5:04Speaker 02

  I want to do like a weird summer camp type thing.

• 5:07Bunnie XO?

  Oh, that would be so sweet.

• 5:09Speaker 02

  Yeah, where we like play games and we boxing and we working out and we having fun and we being creative. Yeah, I'll be tight.

• 5:18Bunnie XO?

  I love that. If anybody's listening that can make that happen, you guys need to reach out to his team and make that happen.

• 5:22Speaker 02

  Yeah, where's, where's the summer camp?

• 5:24Bunnie XO?

  Have you ever seen that TV show, um, Drunk History?

• 5:27Speaker 02

  I have.

• 5:28Bunnie XO?

  Okay, so say Netflix came to you and they gave you a show called High History.

• 5:33Speaker 02

  Uh huh.

• 5:34Bunnie XO?

  What would your first historical moment be, um, that you would relive, that you'd get stoned and just relive?

• 5:41Speaker 02

  Um, I would want to get stoned and relive. Hmm. This all good. I mean, history is like pretty dark.

• 5:53Bunnie XO?

  Yeah, it is. It is actually.

• 5:55Speaker 02

  I don't want to, I don't want to go through that.

• 5:58Bunnie XO?

  He's like, no dark shit.

• 5:59Speaker 02

  Yeah, no dark shit. I probably want to get stoned and go to like a Muhammad Ali fight.

• 6:05Bunnie XO?

  That'd be dope. That would be iconic. Dude, that would be so cool.

• 6:10Speaker 02

  Yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 6:11Bunnie XO?

  What a moment in time.

• 6:13Speaker 02

  Uh huh, for sure.

• 6:14Bunnie XO?

  I wish boxing was like it was back in the day. With like Mike Tyson, Sugar Ray Leonard. I was a hu- my dad was a huge boxing fan growing up. So like I got to watch all that growing up. And I just feel like boxing's cool now, but it's not like it was back in the day.

• 6:30Speaker 02

  Absolutely. Yeah, the sport of it has changed and just like how people en- enjoy it has changed. But back in the day, yeah, it was awesome. It was exciting.

• 6:40Bunnie XO?

  Yeah.

• 6:41Speaker 02

  You had like really, really good fighters and. Multiple really good fighters too.

• 6:46Bunnie XO?

  So many.

• 6:47Speaker 02

  Yeah, a lot of them.

• 6:48Bunnie XO?

  Mike Tyson used to hang out in the strip club that I worked at all the time.

• 6:51Speaker 02

  Uh huh.

• 6:52Bunnie XO?

  And he was the coolest dude. He used to give me money because I never bothered him.

• 6:57Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 6:58Bunnie XO?

  He'd be like, I'd walk by and he would just hand me like, like a thousand dollars and just like, thank you for leaving me alone.

• 7:03Speaker 02

  Yeah, he just respected that.

• 7:04Bunnie XO?

  Yeah, no, he was just so, because everybody was always on him and always wanted his attention and he noticed that I never like just, you know, he was already getting bombarded, but he was just the sweetest dude.

• 7:13Speaker 02

  That's nice, that's what's.

• 7:14Bunnie XO?

  That's why it's crazy that.

• 7:15Speaker 02

  I love Mike now too. He's so cool, like.

• 7:17Bunnie XO?

  He's amazing.

• 7:18Speaker 02

  He's just super chill. He be smoking weed and he just in his own world. He's a good dude, man.

• 7:23Bunnie XO?

  Anybody that can raise pigeons the way he does and love them.

• 7:26Speaker 02

  Right.

• 7:26Bunnie XO?

  Because honestly, like pigeons are like a forgotful, uh, uh, like a forgotten like bird. Because they used to do so much, like they used to fucking send messages during the war. And like, you know, like they were very useful and then now they're like known as like, you know.

• 7:40Speaker 02

  Dirty birds.

• 7:41Bunnie XO?

  Dirty birds. And then, you know, there's Mike over there just raising pigeons.

• 7:45Speaker 02

  Loving on that dirty bird.

• 7:47Bunnie XO?

  Loving the shit out of a dirty bird. So I learned some cool facts about you and your childhood that I actually had never known about you. Can we go on this journey?

• 7:57Speaker 02

  Yeah, let's do it.

• 7:58Bunnie XO?

  So you were a military kid?

• 8:00Speaker 02

  Yeah, yup.

• 8:00Bunnie XO?

  Take me on that journey because it says that you were like, you lived in Germany, Japan and the UK growing up.

• 8:06Speaker 02

  Yeah, I was born in North Dakota, so my parents were cold as hell when they had me.

• 8:12Bunnie XO?

  Yeah, North Dakota is like, it's crazy out there how cold it is.

• 8:15Speaker 02

  Brutal. Like, I went back for a few shows and shit and, I don't know, we might have been there in like June, but it still felt like it was like December, you know, like it never gets warm there.

• 8:27Bunnie XO?

  Yeah, no, it's crazy. We've been there on a few shows too and I'm like, what the fuck is there to do out here?

• 8:31Speaker 02

  Nothing.

• 8:31Bunnie XO?

  Besides have kids.

• 8:32Speaker 02

  Have babies, that's it.

• 8:33Bunnie XO?

  Literally, yeah.

• 8:33Speaker 02

  And be in the military, I guess.

• 8:35Bunnie XO?

  Yeah.

• 8:36Speaker 02

  But, um, so my parents, they, my mom is from Pittsburgh and my dad is from New York.

• 8:41Bunnie XO?

  Mm hmm.

• 8:41Speaker 02

  So they met in basic training, which was away from both of those places. So when they had me and my older sibling, my older sibling was born on Guam. And I was born in North Dakota, which is like two totally different things. And then for the earlier part of my life, yeah, I moved around a lot. Um, I did live in, um, in Europe for a while. I lived in Japan for a while. I lived in a lot of southern states. And my mom being from Pittsburgh, that's how I ended up going back there. And that's where a lot of my roots are at, my real family. And that's why I spent the majority of my time like going to school and stuff like that. But it was really cool, like experiencing, living all over in different countries and different states and things like that.

• 9:22Bunnie XO?

  Absolutely, like that had to have like shaped a little bit of, well, actually a lot of like how you look at life.

• 9:29Speaker 02

  Absolutely, it definitely exposed me to a lot of different cultures and a lot of different ways of life.

• 9:34Bunnie XO?

  Yeah.

• 9:35Speaker 02

  And I got to experience it young on a personal level because I was meeting a lot of kids and just, you know, mingling with them. And now as an adult, I'm really being able to go back and dive into these cultures and experience them as, you know, a grown man. It's just, it really like broadened my mind and just opened me up to a lot of different things. That if I didn't have that, I wouldn't have been, you know, where I'm at.

• 9:58Bunnie XO?

  I thought that was such a cool fact about you because I didn't know that and I was like, that's actually really cool that you're like so cultured.

• 10:04Speaker 02

  Yeah, it's super cool and like all the base kids around the world, they feel like a connection with me. Because like they're like, oh, Wes is one of us.

• 10:13Bunnie XO?

  Yeah.

• 10:13Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 10:14Bunnie XO?

  Because moving around a lot as a child has to be hard, you know, like because you kind of don't have a sense of feeling like belonging anywhere permanently.

• 10:22Speaker 02

  It's, it's that and then there's like a lot of anxiety like from always being the new kid. Because when you're, when you're younger, the concept of making friends, you want to just have friends forever.

• 10:34Bunnie XO?

  Right.

• 10:35Speaker 02

  But you have to like make friends and then leave them. So that'd be the hard part is like, oh, I've known you for like two, three years and now I'm never going to see you for the rest of my life.

• 10:44Bunnie XO?

  Oh, are there any friends that you have kept in contact with that you met?

• 10:48Speaker 02

  I do, I do. I have a couple of friends, my boy Tyrese from, uh, from Oklahoma. My partner Zach, he came to see me a couple of times.

• 10:56Bunnie XO?

  Oh.

• 10:56Speaker 02

  Um, my partner Wesley, he live in North Carolina. I haven't seen him in years, but I still remember that fool.

• 11:02Bunnie XO?

  Yeah.

• 11:02Speaker 02

  And there's, there's a lot of, there's like girls that I used to date back in the day who'd be popping up and shit like that.

• 11:07Bunnie XO?

  I'm sure they do. They're like, hey Wes.

• 11:09Speaker 02

  Yeah, exactly. I'm like, yeah, you ain't getting.

• 11:13Speaker 02

  Them days is over.

• 11:14Bunnie XO?

  No, I get that. I think it's a testament of who somebody is, though, to be able to maintain relationships from childhood, because I have friends from fucking second grade still, you know? So it's like, it just shows that you care and that you are able to keep those relationships going.

• 11:28Speaker 02

  Yeah, absolutely. Even like my friends from Pittsburgh, a lot of them are from middle school and high school, but we just got together for Will's bachelor party and we still kick it just on the same level, just talking shit, having a great time. And I really value, like you said, those relationships. It means a lot to me.

• 11:44Bunnie XO?

  Is it because people, they know you from before all of this, you know? And they keep you grounded.

• 11:50Speaker 02

  Yeah, when you do it the right way, they seen you on your way up. They know that it didn't just happen overnight. Like, some people, they might look at you and it's like a magic trick. But like you said, they know you, like, we were in class together, we rode the bus together, we went to school dances together. You know, those relationships are really valuable.

• 12:09Bunnie XO?

  I love that. Yeah, every time I go back to Vegas, my girls make sure to humble me. Every time, they're like, but you are, we knew you before you were Bunny. You know, like, calm down.

• 12:19Speaker 02

  Yeah, you need that sometimes.

• 12:21Bunnie XO?

  So I read also that your parents divorced at three. Where did dad go and were you raised majorly, of the majority of time by your mom?

• 12:30Speaker 02

  It was a even split. So my dad remarried and he's still married to my stepmom to this day. So we're still a family. And then my mother, she went back to Pittsburgh. So my dad and stepmom were still in the military and my mother was in Pittsburgh. So I would live with my mom for two years and then I would go live with my dad and stepmom for two years.

• 12:53Bunnie XO?

  Wow, that's a different agreement. Normally, it's like every other weekend.

• 12:58Speaker 02

  Yeah, no, they hated each other.

• 12:59Bunnie XO?

  Oh, shit. Okay, gotcha.

• 13:01Speaker 02

  They didn't get along at all. And it was the 90s and there was really no concept of like how to like navigate through that. They didn't have as much talk about that back then as they do now. So they handled it the best way that they seen fit. And that was that.

• 13:19Bunnie XO?

  Do you think that that plays into your role with how you co-parent with your baby mamas now? Because now you have two, right? You've got Bash and then you've got the little girl now.

• 13:28Speaker 02

  Yeah, my girl Kaden.

• 13:29Bunnie XO?

  Yeah. So do you think that seeing how your parents didn't get along back then was kind of like? You were like, I'm not gonna be like that.

• 13:36Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 13:37Bunnie XO?

  That was a driving force.

• 13:38Speaker 02

  Absolutely.

• 13:38Bunnie XO?

  Making sure you had good relationships with the mother of your children.

• 13:41Speaker 02

  Yeah, I think it like subconsciously played a role because uh, to me, that was normal when I was a kid, like spending two years with one parent and two years with another. But having kids, I could never be away from my son for no two years. Like, that's insane. So if I gotta get along with his mom, if I gotta freaking kiss her feet, I'm doing whatever I gotta do to make sure that we're all on the same page. So that's not the agreement. And like I said, my parents did the best that they could. And I don't fault them for that at all. But I do know the difference between um, seeing your parents function and not seeing them function.

• 14:26Speaker 02

  And I would much rather, you know, my kids see, see me and their parents function.

• 14:31Bunnie XO?

  Absolutely. I'm an eighties baby myself and I just feel like parents of that era, they were not ready to cope with their trauma.

• 14:39Speaker 02

  Right.

• 14:39Bunnie XO?

  They didn't, they were set in their fucking ways.

• 14:41Speaker 02

  Oh, yeah.

• 14:41Bunnie XO?

  You were not gonna tell them how they are gonna raise their kids.

• 14:44Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 14:44Bunnie XO?

  And like, they were just like, it was just, I don't know, I feel like we're such a generation of kids that are healing what our parents wouldn't.

• 14:50Speaker 02

  Yeah, absolutely.

• 14:51Bunnie XO?

  If that makes sense.

• 14:52Speaker 02

  I think even just as a, yeah, I totally agree with that. And I think as adults, our parents went through a lot as well. They had trauma,

• 15:01Bunnie XO?

  Yes.

• 15:01Speaker 02

  you know, before, but they were going through a lot as adults. And I think we're blessed because late twenties, early thirties, late thirties looks way different now than it did back in the day.

• 15:13Bunnie XO?

  Dude, yeah, I'm forty five and I look at pictures of women that were forty five back in the day and they look like the friggin' Golden Girls.

• 15:20Speaker 02

  Yeah, exactly. Nobody would even know you were forty five.

• 15:23Bunnie XO?

  Yeah.

• 15:23Speaker 02

  If you didn't say it. So it's like, and even saying forty five isn't an older age, it just looks different now.

• 15:30Bunnie XO?

  Right, yeah.

• 15:31Speaker 02

  And we're in a, and we're in an era where we're taking full advantage of that and where we, we understand what kind of gifts we have based off of what we went through and what we were raised with.

• 15:42Bunnie XO?

  Yes, absolutely.

• 15:43Speaker 02

  And um. Yeah, I mean, if people are lucky enough to still have their parents around, a lot of the times your parents learn more as they get older, too.

• 15:53Bunnie XO?

  They become way cooler.

• 15:54Speaker 02

  Super cool.

• 15:55Bunnie XO?

  They're like, why couldn't you have been like this fucking thirty years ago?

• 15:58Speaker 02

  Yeah, exactly. There'd be stuff like my son does. I'm like, so you're not gonna whoop his ass and kick him down the steps and run him over with the car? Because that's what you did to me.

• 16:11Bunnie XO?

  That is hilarious. No, I totally get that. So I also read that you started writing lyrics and recording music at age nine or ten. Like, were you just musical from the gate? Like, have you always had that sense of like, just rhythm and soul?

• 16:27Speaker 02

  I think, yeah. Also, uh, actually, like, my parents played a lot of music in the house. Just like getting ready or cleaning up or driving. So it was always around me and it was something that made me feel good. But I got some of my best memories from music or where I was at or what I was doing. So that kind of translated into my love for music. And then my cousins, they were, they were rapping and doing shit just because they were older than me. So that's when I figured out that I could actually make it. And I was like, oh, okay, this isn't that difficult. It's like when you get an instrument and you start playing. It was the same thing for me. I was just kind of fucking around, like, writing raps here and there.

• 17:12Speaker 02

  And then people just started telling me how good I was. So I just practiced and kept going and going and going. And my mind is like, I got a really big imagination, so I would see stuff that people didn't necessarily see as like, doable. I would see it as like, okay, we could make an album. We could, you know, make merch. We could put on a show. We could, you know what I mean? So I just started like, developing into this over time, but it was all based off of. Enjoying music and loving how it made me feel like I remember watching music videos. And just being blown away or like saving up all my money to go buy. You know Bone Thugs and Harmony tape or something like, you know what I mean?

• 17:57Speaker 02

  It's so, it was so valuable to me. It wasn't like just music. You know, so like that's, that's what started me uh creating and doing what I'm doing.

• 18:06Bunnie XO?

  Music was the soundtrack to your life.

• 18:08Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 18:08Bunnie XO?

  I feel like it would, our parents, actually that was one of the really cool things that they did for us is I grew up in a very musical household too and like. You know, I had so many influences. What were some of your influences growing up that inspired you to rap? But also just even that weren't in the rap genre.

• 18:24Speaker 02

  Yeah, uh my dad listened to everything. He listened to Journey. He listened to Bob Marley. He would listen to uh Whitney Houston.

• 18:33Bunnie XO?

  I love Whitney, yep.

• 18:34Speaker 02

  My dad had like a huge record collection. So we would just sit down and listen to funk records. Everything and my mom was more like the hip hop, like she was, she's current.

• 18:44Bunnie XO?

  Mom's the G.

• 18:44Speaker 02

  Oh yeah, my mom's a G. She listened to Too Short.

• 18:48Bunnie XO?

  Oh, I love it. I love it. Okay, so mom's with the shit.

• 18:51Speaker 02

  Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. My mom smoked weed and everything.

• 18:55Bunnie XO?

  I love mom.

• 18:55Speaker 02

  That's who I got smoking weed from for sure.

• 18:57Bunnie XO?

  Oh.

• 18:58Speaker 02

  Yeah, my mom is a G. And um so yeah, it was like the combination like we, I had, I had everything. And then we grew up in a really good era of music too.

• 19:07Bunnie XO?

  Mm hmm.

• 19:07Speaker 02

  Where it was diverse. There was really good R and B along with really good rap music.

• 19:12Bunnie XO?

  Bring it back. Nineties R and B. Can we bring that back, please?

• 19:16Speaker 02

  Nah, for sure.

• 19:17Bunnie XO?

  That is like a moment in time that unless you lived it, you do not know what the fuck you missed.

• 19:21Speaker 02

  Nah, for real.

• 19:22Bunnie XO?

  Like it ninety, I love ninety, I play ninety's R and B for my cows.

• 19:26Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 19:26Bunnie XO?

  He loves Keith Sweat.

• 19:28Speaker 02

  Who doesn't love Keith Sweat? That shit makes you feel good in here like, it's not just mu, not just hearing it. But um yeah, so all that influence, but. Especially like from rap music, Bone Thugs-N-Harmony was a huge influence to me.

• 19:42Bunnie XO?

  Yeah.

• 19:43Speaker 02

  Growing up in Pittsburgh, we're in the Midwest, so we were close to Ohio. But just that sound and like, it just resonated with me. And then the look, they had the braids and the sunglasses. And like, they were just hard to me. Like, I love Bone.

• 19:56Bunnie XO?

  I was a Bone girl too.

• 19:57Speaker 02

  Yeah, for sure.

• 19:58Bunnie XO?

  When I first got with Jay, he's a 36 Mafia dude.

• 20:00Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 20:01Bunnie XO?

  So we literally had Bone Thug and 36 Mafia wars in the house. Of course, he won because he's daddy, so.

• 20:05Speaker 02

  Yeah, yeah, yeah, no, for sure, for sure.

• 20:09Bunnie XO?

  But no, I'm a Bone Thugs girl through and through. Love them. They're actually coming on the podcast. I'm really excited about it. I'm gonna like, that's probably gonna be a fangirl moment for me.

• 20:16Speaker 02

  You got to, yo, it's Bone.

• 20:18Bunnie XO?

  Yeah, for sure. So where do you think that like your smoothness came from? Do you think it came from your mom?

• 20:24Speaker 02

  My smoothness come from my dad.

• 20:26Bunnie XO?

  Really?

• 20:27Speaker 02

  For sure.

• 20:27Bunnie XO?

  Do tell.

• 20:28Speaker 02

  He's just a smooth dude, yo. Like, he's real mild-tempered, mild-mannered.

• 20:34Bunnie XO?

  Yeah.

• 20:35Speaker 02

  Just everybody loves him, everybody's best friend. He don't raise his voice. He's, you know, he's just a cool dude. He's a really, really cool dude. And he just been a cool dude. Like, he taught me how to be cool, for sure.

• 20:49Bunnie XO?

  I love, is dad still around?

• 20:51Speaker 02

  Yeah, yeah.

• 20:51Bunnie XO?

  Good, I love that.

• 20:53Speaker 02

  Yep, I spent a lot of time with my dad, especially like having my daughter. My dad comes out to the house a lot and just kicks it. And he doesn't really do too much, like, he used to party and turn up and do all that shit. But now he be like in my backyard taking pictures of birds and stuff, yo.

• 21:11Bunnie XO?

  Isn't it crazy how life just like calms you the fuck down?

• 21:15Speaker 02

  And I'm like, he's happy, you know? I don't try to really take him out of his element. I used to, I used to be like, daddy, come on, man, let's like go get some jet skis or some. He's like, nah, I just wanna, you know, connect.

• 21:26Bunnie XO?

  Yeah.

• 21:27Speaker 02

  I feel you.

• 21:28Bunnie XO?

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• 22:30Speaker 03

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• 23:00Bunnie XO?

  So your name was Khalifa. Um, one came, one part of it came from an uncle, another part of it came from a Muslim grandfather?

• 23:08Speaker 02

  Yeah, well, the grandfather is his dad, so it was both of them.

• 23:12Bunnie XO?

  Okay, gotcha.

• 23:13Speaker 02

  Yeah, so I was kinda, it's my mom's little brother, but it's my mom's father as well.

• 23:18Bunnie XO?

  Mm-hmm.

• 23:19Speaker 02

  So while my mom would be out doing whatever she needed to do, whether it was work or just, you know, partying, whatever she was doing, I would hang out with my uncles and be with, uh, at my granddad's house. And my granddad is like, well, he was, he passed away, but he's straight Muslim, like.

• 23:37Speaker 02

  Pray five times a day, be in the mosque, you know, seven days a week.

• 23:41Bunnie XO?

  No.

• 23:42Speaker 02

  You know, helping the brothers out at jail.

• 23:44Bunnie XO?

  Yeah.

• 23:44Speaker 02

  Like, everybody knew my granddad because of what he did for the community. So, um, yeah, that was like a real powerful moment for me just being a kid. And wanting a name that was like, wasn't my name, but I would carry as my name.

• 23:59Bunnie XO?

  Yeah, absolutely.

• 24:00Speaker 02

  And, um, yeah, it came together. It was, it was wisdom Khalifa at first.

• 24:04Bunnie XO?

  Mm-hmm.

• 24:04Speaker 02

  But, um, my dad being cool as hell, he took the dumb off and was just calling me Wiz.

• 24:10Bunnie XO?

  Yeah.

• 24:10Speaker 02

  He was like, I don't like the wisdom. I don't like that. He was like, just Wiz.

• 24:14Bunnie XO?

  That's so cool, though. And I love that you had a grandfather that introduced spirituality into your life.

• 24:19Speaker 02

  Yeah, absolutely.

• 24:19Bunnie XO?

  Do you hold any lessons from him that he taught you?

• 24:23Speaker 02

  The majority of it is just like the strength and like family and in yourself, your daily routine.

• 24:30Bunnie XO?

  Mm-hmm.

• 24:30Speaker 02

  Um, my granddad was a wild dude as well back in the day before he, you know, took on his religion.

• 24:36Bunnie XO?

  Wow.

• 24:36Speaker 02

  And he had been to jail a lot of times. He had been on drugs and he completely changed his life around and, you know, helped kids and helped, you know, other people in the same situation that he was in.

• 24:47Bunnie XO?

  Yeah.

• 24:47Speaker 02

  Get out of those situations or at least navigate through them. And that's what I learned from my granddad is just to really be a leader. And he was real stern, too. Like, he wasn't, he wasn't no punk.

• 24:58Bunnie XO?

  Yeah, he was gangster, too.

• 25:00Speaker 02

  Yeah, he was super gangster. He was really upfront. Everybody respected him, too.

• 25:04Bunnie XO?

  Oh.

• 25:04Speaker 02

  So, you know, just having that as like a backbone, you know, that, that was, that's good. Yeah, that's great for a young man. Yeah, yeah.

• 25:12Bunnie XO?

  That's so cool to be able to, you know, look back on that with just fond eyes. So, take me on this come up, okay? You dropped your first mixtape at sixteen, Prince of the City, Welcome to Pistlovania.

• 25:23Speaker 02

  Mm-hmm.

• 25:23Bunnie XO?

  Take me on that entire journey of when you dropped that first mixtape, going all the way to... Getting signed with Warner in 2009.

• 25:33Speaker 02

  Okay, so I dropped my first mixtape. I think I was like 16 years old in high school. So I'm selling the mixtape in school, like physically pressing them up and selling it. And I had a.

• 25:45Bunnie XO?

  Kids these days will never understand.

• 25:47Speaker 02

  Never.

• 25:47Bunnie XO?

  The hustle.

• 25:48Speaker 02

  They don't know about burning those CDs. They they won't have to burn a CD for what?

• 25:52Bunnie XO?

  They go on TikTok.

• 25:53Speaker 02

  There's no CDs to burn anyway.

• 25:55Bunnie XO?

  I know. I know. They're taking, they took albums away from us. Now they're taking CDs away from us. It's crazy.

• 26:01Speaker 02

  It's just all in the air.

• 26:02Bunnie XO?

  Yeah.

• 26:03Speaker 02

  So I'm selling my CD. I'm going to different stores and I was a really hu- a real hustler to the point where I would show up and drop off 10, 20, 50 CDs and go collect the money as well the next week. And people see me around the city and they really respected what I was doing and the people who I was working with at the time as well. And it just kept building up, building up, building up till I was about 19. And then I got a record deal with Warner Brothers and but it was for a single. It wasn't for an album. And the single did pretty well. It was called Say Yeah. And while I was on Warner, I learned how to do radio and do drops and meet DJs and

• 26:44Speaker 02

  go to, you know, car shows and just really promote myself. So I, so from early stages, I got the street hustle. And then I learned the business hustle and the creative side of it as well. I'm always working on that. I lost my record deal at Warner Brothers. They didn't want to do my album because they just couldn't see the vision.

• 27:06Bunnie XO?

  Did you lose it or did you walk away? Because I think I had read that you had walked away from it.

• 27:11Speaker 02

  They had the option to do the album and they didn't take the option.

• 27:16Bunnie XO?

  Gotcha, okay.

• 27:17Speaker 02

  So we had the option to leave or stay and there was no reason to stay because they weren't going to work on my project.

• 27:23Bunnie XO?

  Right.

• 27:23Speaker 02

  So we did leave, but they didn't want anything to do with me. They had already just chalked it up. The money that they spent, they were like, it's cool. It's whatever. You can go back to Pittsburgh. So I did go back to Pittsburgh.

• 27:35Bunnie XO?

  Right.

• 27:36Speaker 02

  And that's when the uh, the internet started to change, like YouTube. Twitter, those were the main vehicles for me like.

• 27:45Bunnie XO?

  Right.

• 27:45Speaker 02

  Youtube was brand new because I graduated in oh six and Youtube was like kinda still, you know, like turning around.

• 27:53Bunnie XO?

  Mm hmm.

• 27:54Speaker 02

  But Twitter was brand new and I was like, okay, cool. I could do something off of Twitter.

• 27:58Bunnie XO?

  Yeah.

• 27:58Speaker 02

  And so I started just being on social media and just being consistent, making Youtube videos and making mixtapes that were directed towards, um, you know, the audience that I had and that I was building and that I knew that I had. And that just took me to a point where I was bigger and better on my own than any, you know, label or anything could market for me.

• 28:21Bunnie XO?

  Absolutely.

• 28:21Speaker 02

  Yeah, so that's when I started to like really travel and tour and then I got my deal with Atlantic through, through that time.

• 28:29Bunnie XO?

  So you left Warner in two thousand nine, but then you blew up in two thousand ten, correct, with um, Black and Yellow off of Twitter?

• 28:38Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 28:38Bunnie XO?

  Right?

• 28:39Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 28:39Bunnie XO?

  That's crazy.

• 28:40Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 28:40Bunnie XO?

  Not many people can say they blew up off of Twitter.

• 28:43Speaker 02

  Yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 28:44Bunnie XO?

  Because that's how fucking scary, first of all, it's scary as hell. I get scared going over there. Twitter's crazy.

• 28:49Speaker 02

  It was different back in the day.

• 28:50Bunnie XO?

  Right, right, right.

• 28:51Speaker 02

  It wasn't how it is now.

• 28:53Bunnie XO?

  Yeah, for sure, but it's so cool that that is part of your story that, you know, you used a platform that not, some, most people get like famous off of like Youtube from back in the day or something like that, but you got to utilize Twitter the way that you did.

• 29:06Speaker 02

  Yeah, for sure. Uh, Twitter was like a, like a subculture back then. So you had the mainstream, but people were low key more tapped into Swi- Twitter than anything else.

• 29:16Bunnie XO?

  Right.

• 29:17Speaker 02

  They felt like that was more real life and it was cooler.

• 29:19Bunnie XO?

  Mm hmm.

• 29:20Speaker 02

  And we had that edge where I could just keep supplying, you know, those same fans and it became more popular than the mainstream stuff. And I didn't really see that happening, but that was the goal because we just felt like we were so cool. Like we was cooler than everybody. So I was like, you might as well watch us. And that's what really took us to the top for sure.

• 29:41Bunnie XO?

  What did that feel like though? Like for, because this was before you even had like a number one on the radio and you're just literally going viral on Twitter. What, what were you feeling? What was Wiz in that moment feeling?

• 29:52Speaker 02

  I was super confident, really cocky. Very aware of myself.

• 29:58Bunnie XO?

  We love a king who can own it.

• 30:01Speaker 02

  Oh, yeah. Oh, I was owning it. Yeah, man, like, I knew what I was dealing with. And, like you said, I had trended on Twitter a couple of times, whether it was just me coming up with a topic and having everybody on Twitter talking about it. Or whatever it was, I knew that I could control the internet the way that I did. And when I dropped certain tapes like Cushion Orange Jews that shut sites completely down.

• 30:27Bunnie XO?

  Yeah.

• 30:28Speaker 02

  You couldn't even go on a site. I'm like, oh, yeah, I'm that dude.

• 30:31Bunnie XO?

  Yeah.

• 30:32Speaker 02

  Like, clearly.

• 30:33Bunnie XO?

  How can you not? Yeah, how can you not?

• 30:35Speaker 02

  Y'all let me know.

• 30:35Bunnie XO?

  Yeah, for sure. Do you ever get tired of singing Black and Yellow? Jay and I literally said this at Stagecoach, because he was like, yeah, Wiz is coming out to sing Black and Yellow. And we both started laughing. We were like, poor Wiz. He's probably so fucking tired of singing this song.

• 30:48Speaker 02

  Oh, I never get tired of it.

• 30:49Bunnie XO?

  Oh, really?

• 30:50Speaker 02

  I love that song.

• 30:51Bunnie XO?

  That is so cool. I mean, it's a vibe.

• 30:53Speaker 02

  It's a vibe. It represents a great time in life.

• 30:56Bunnie XO?

  It's a happy song.

• 30:57Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 30:58Bunnie XO?

  Anytime Black and Yellow comes on, if you're not smiling and dancing and having some sort of a moment with that song, then you're just dead inside.

• 31:06Speaker 02

  And I can perform that song all over the world. It doesn't matter what language they speak. You could say Black and Yellow.

• 31:11Bunnie XO?

  Yeah.

• 31:12Speaker 02

  So I'm good with that.

• 31:13Bunnie XO?

  Yeah, I could see them in, like, China and Japan singing Black.

• 31:16Speaker 02

  That's what I'm saying. Yeah, getting it cracking out there.

• 31:19Bunnie XO?

  I didn't, listen, they're like, they're crazy when it comes to, like, they're fanatical.

• 31:23Speaker 02

  They are. I've been there. Like, I was in Korea, and they were singing Young, Wild and Free in the airport, just like, right in front of me.

• 31:30Bunnie XO?

  Oh.

• 31:31Speaker 02

  This is awesome.

• 31:32Bunnie XO?

  That is amazing. That's a moment in time. You've evolved from black and yellow to, like, boss, entrepreneur, martial artist. What version of you are we just starting to see now?

• 31:45Speaker 02

  You're just starting to see...

• 31:50Speaker 02

  I think the more mature me.

• 31:53Bunnie XO?

  Yeah.

• 31:53Speaker 02

  Yeah, I've always been ahead of my time. Just as far as my thought process. But now, my actions and the way that I treat myself. It represents all of that, too. Yeah, so that's a lot of things that people don't see me doing. But the result of it is just how I am now, or how I'm able to operate and move. Which I'm really, really proud of and grateful for.

• 32:20Bunnie XO?

  I feel like with age, it slows us down. You know, like how your dad's watching birds and stuff like that. It just, there's something, how old are you now?

• 32:27Speaker 02

  I'm thirty seven, I'll be thirty eight this year.

• 32:29Bunnie XO?

  Yeah, so you're thirty seven, thirty eight. Do you feel like you're gonna start slowing down a lot? Or do you still have that drive in you?

• 32:34Speaker 02

  I feel like I've already slowed down a lot. And I think I just changed things that are important to me. Or just certain things that used to turn me on. They really don't do it for me no more.

• 32:47Bunnie XO?

  Yeah.

• 32:47Speaker 02

  And I like that feeling, cuz I'm like, yeah, I'm growing out of stuff.

• 32:50Bunnie XO?

  It's growth, yeah.

• 32:50Speaker 02

  And I'm a different person, I'm not who I was. And I like that cuz some people get stuck and they're just that same person over and over. And then you just become like this novelty. And it's like, I don't wanna be, you know, a character. Like, I'm a, I'm a real person.

• 33:08Bunnie XO?

  Right.

• 33:09Speaker 02

  I might have a very large smile and a great, you know, personality that attracts people. But that's not my goal in life, is to just give that and give that and give that.

• 33:21Bunnie XO?

  Right.

• 33:22Speaker 02

  Like, you can love me for that, I'm cool with that. Like, that's, that's straight, you see what everybody else sees. But is, the things that are deeper are way more important to me now.

• 33:32Bunnie XO?

  Absolutely.

• 33:33Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 33:33Bunnie XO?

  I love that.

• 33:34Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 33:35Bunnie XO?

  So, two thousand eleven, you dropped Rolling Papers and became pretty much like a household name.

• 33:40Speaker 02

  Mm-hmm.

• 33:40Bunnie XO?

  When you look back at the two thousand eleven Rolling Papers self, what's something you love about him? And what's something you've completely outgrown?

• 33:48Speaker 02

  I love the hustle, the drive, the motivation, the self-awareness, the self-branding. Um.

• 34:00Speaker 02

  And something that I outgrown is the lack of sleep.

• 34:04Bunnie XO?

  Right.

• 34:05Speaker 02

  Yeah, I didn't.

• 34:06Bunnie XO?

  We need our sleep, yes.

• 34:07Speaker 02

  I need my sleep, yo. I'm going to bed.

• 34:10Bunnie XO?

  Yeah.

• 34:10Speaker 02

  But I didn't care about sleep back then. I would sleep on the couch like forty-five minutes and get right back up and get to it.

• 34:16Bunnie XO?

  I don't think I could do that anymore.

• 34:18Speaker 02

  It hurts.

• 34:18Bunnie XO?

  I saw, I literally, that is exactly what it is. I saw some girl on TikTok was talking about she was coming out of work at like six AM.

• 34:26Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 34:26Bunnie XO?

  And I used to do that coming out of the strip club. I could never. I would literally probably have a panic attack if I saw the sunrise.

• 34:32Speaker 02

  Oh, yeah, it's painful.

• 34:33Bunnie XO?

  Yeah, I can't do that at all. Do you feel like artists are healers?

• 34:40Speaker 02

  I don't feel like all artists are healers, no. Cause some people are projecting their bullshit onto the world.

• 34:46Bunnie XO?

  Wow.

• 34:47Speaker 02

  Yeah, and some artists are so much artists that they're not even freaking human.

• 34:54Bunnie XO?

  Yeah.

• 34:55Speaker 02

  And that's the thing about art, you know? Some people like value that and live for their art more than actual life itself. But I think the people who focus on being great people are also, you know, great artists as well.

• 35:13Bunnie XO?

  Yeah.

• 35:14Speaker 02

  And they're not, I don't think one is better. I think actually the chaos gets celebrated more than actually the peace.

• 35:20Bunnie XO?

  Well, that's because that's what the earth is operating on.

• 35:23Speaker 02

  Right, right. Right. But I think peace is the goal.

• 35:26Bunnie XO?

  Absolutely.

• 35:27Speaker 02

  So regardless of what people are into, we should, we should try to reach that.

• 35:32Bunnie XO?

  Yeah, we need to figure it out. We need to fucking analyze ourselves as a whole right now and figure out how to get back to that. Yeah.

• 35:39Speaker 02

  Yeah, cause there's a lot of dark ass art, you know?

• 35:42Bunnie XO?

  There is. I consider you a healer, though.

• 35:45Speaker 02

  For sure, one hundred percent.

• 35:46Bunnie XO?

  You're a good vibe and you're like a happy vibe, you know? What do you think that like your music does for people as far as healing?

• 35:54Speaker 02

  I've, I've been blessed to be able and be, have been told to just change people's lives. And just make the best memories for them. Like some people have met their husband or wife at my concert. Or, you know, I see people making out in the crowd and crying and a lot of people made life decisions based off of, you know, what they were doing at the time. And sometimes my, like you said, soundtrack to your life, the music got them through that and helped them understand or helped them pivot or helped them. Cope or whatever it was and you know, I got a lot of weed smoking and riding and just

• 36:34Speaker 02

  partying feel good stuff, but also have freaking See You Again, which is like, you know, one of those songs that help people get through a lot of stuff.

• 36:43Bunnie XO?

  Yeah.

• 36:44Speaker 02

  And it's

• 36:45Bunnie XO?

  That's your save me, pretty much.

• 36:46Speaker 02

  Thank you.

• 36:47Bunnie XO?

  Like my husband save me, like that's that song that

• 36:49Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 36:50Bunnie XO?

  People will play at a wedding, funeral, a frickin' bar mitzvah, like everywhere.

• 36:54Speaker 02

  For

• 36:55Bunnie XO?

  Graduations.

• 36:56Speaker 02

  Or it's never gonna get old.

• 36:58Bunnie XO?

  Mm hmm.

• 36:59Speaker 02

  Like, and as an artist, we're blessed to have those types of songs.

• 37:02Bunnie XO?

  Yeah.

• 37:03Speaker 02

  Cause we don't try, you don't think that it's gonna go that far or do that. But then when it actually does on that scale, you're like, wow, okay, cool. This is what it's all about. Fuck everything else.

• 37:14Bunnie XO?

  I think it does show that people are leaning towards looking for peace too in music. Cause songs like that, like See You Again, you know, that brings people peace.

• 37:23Speaker 02

  Right.

• 37:23Bunnie XO?

  You know, for the whole time that that song's playing, it's making them feel a certain type of way.

• 37:27Speaker 02

  Yep. I think that's the goal with music in general too, is to make people feel something. And the more you learn about how in control you are, the more sensitive you are with that message too.

• 37:40Bunnie XO?

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• 39:50Bunnie XO?

  You strike me as a really deep person.

• 39:52Speaker 02

  For sure.

• 39:53Bunnie XO?

  Do you... What do you think that your soul's assignment was for coming to Earth?

• 40:00Speaker 02

  My soul's assignment for coming to Earth is to literally make everybody else feel better. Because I feel so good.

• 40:07Bunnie XO?

  Right.

• 40:08Speaker 02

  I'm so blessed to just wake up and smile, like I have to make somebody else smile.

• 40:13Bunnie XO?

  Yeah. Are you always in a good mood, or do you have some down days too?

• 40:16Speaker 02

  I never really have down days. I have moments that frustrate me, and that's what it's about too, is like, not avoiding chaotic situations, but navigating through them.

• 40:31Bunnie XO?

  Right, facing them head-on.

• 40:32Speaker 02

  Right.

• 40:33Bunnie XO?

  You gotta go through it to get to it.

• 40:34Speaker 02

  You gotta go through it to get to it, so that defines who you are as well. Like, you can't just go around the bullshit. Sometimes you gotta go through the bullshit. That shows how tough you are.

• 40:43Bunnie XO?

  Absolutely.

• 40:44Speaker 02

  And those are the times where I really just try to center myself and just try to think about what the real end goal is. And it's never to be pissed, or never to be upset. So it's easy for me to let that go, because I know, like, in the end, I'm not even trying to be mad. So how do we get to where... We all cool.

• 41:04Bunnie XO?

  Yeah.

• 41:04Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 41:05Bunnie XO?

  When you are in those moments that you're like flustered or upset, what is something that you do that maybe somebody listening to this podcast could be like, oh, you know what, Wiz does that, I'm gonna try it.

• 41:14Speaker 02

  Breathe.

• 41:14Bunnie XO?

  Yeah, I'm telling you.

• 41:16Speaker 02

  Take a deep breath.

• 41:17Bunnie XO?

  Have you ever done like meditation or like box breathing?

• 41:20Speaker 02

  Yeah, yeah, I do hot yoga, so that's like a lot of,

• 41:22Bunnie XO?

  Do you really?

• 41:23Speaker 02

  I do that three times a week.

• 41:24Bunnie XO?

  I love that. I could not picture your tall ass in a yoga pose.

• 41:27Speaker 02

  Me, tall as hell for an hour and a half sweating in the front of the room with everybody else.

• 41:34Bunnie XO?

  Are you limber as hell?

• 41:35Speaker 02

  With my hair up in a bun, yeah.

• 41:36Bunnie XO?

  I love that, dude. We need a frickin' reality show.

• 41:40Speaker 02

  Yeah, yeah.

• 41:40Bunnie XO?

  Please, we, this is fucking gold. It's like content gold.

• 41:45Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 41:45Bunnie XO?

  You in a fucking hot yoga class would be phenomenal to just watch. I would tune in for sure.

• 41:50Speaker 02

  I know a lot of ladies who love watching it too.

• 41:52Bunnie XO?

  Yeah.

• 41:54Bunnie XO?

  I love it, I love it. So let's talk about the 15 year anniversary Cushion OG 2 that you just dropped. I mean, it was so good the first time. You were like, let's fucking circle back.

• 42:04Speaker 02

  Yeah, yeah. It was a classic, um, like a defining moment in my career. Definitely, um, got my identity off of the first Cushion Orange Juice. And a lot of people just had great memories of just smoking out, chilling with the homies, having a great summer, hooking up, whatever it is, getting fresh, traveling. That's what the first Cushion Orange Juice was really about. And I wanted to return that feeling for people who were there and then people who need that now. And I worked on the album for a whole year. And it was just like coincidental that it looped all the way around to the exact same time that I dropped the first one.

• 42:43Bunnie XO?

  Yeah.

• 42:44Speaker 02

  And we were ready to drop the second one. And, um, yeah, the reception's been really good. All the fans love it. They're telling me that it's as good as and maybe even better than the first one. I haven't heard one. Bad reaction from it at all. Everybody gets it and um.

• 43:01Bunnie XO?

  Is that a, is that a fear that you have ever? Like whenever you drop an album, do you ever get that thought in your mind of like, what if this doesn't resonate with the masses?

• 43:09Speaker 02

  I've had that before. Yeah, there was a couple albums that I dropped where I wasn't completely confident. Yeah, for sure. Cause I didn't know, there was some experimental stuff. I was like, are people gonna really fuck with this? Are they gonna accept it from me? Did I do what I was supposed to do? Like, should I have done something else? Like, I've had those thoughts before for albums.

• 43:32Bunnie XO?

  I feel like as an artist though, like uh, each album that you drop is a testament to where you're at in your life at that moment, you know? So I feel like if they all sounded the same, then that would show that you're not showing any growth and people would probably get bored.

• 43:47Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 43:48Bunnie XO?

  You know, because it's the same thing over and over again.

• 43:49Speaker 02

  Absolutely. It's scary like reinventing.

• 43:52Bunnie XO?

  Right.

• 43:53Speaker 02

  And you know, and like, you gotta be ready to lose some people to gain some people as well. So it's like you said, it's just a lesson in all of that.

• 44:02Bunnie XO?

  I feel like you've been able to maintain who you are though.

• 44:05Speaker 02

  Absolutely.

• 44:06Bunnie XO?

  Over the years. I don't feel like you've changed too much. You've just always been whiz.

• 44:09Speaker 02

  Yeah, I've always been whiz. I never really changed. Um, I got, I'm really multifaceted. And I think that's a strength. That's something that plays to my uh, strong side because I could do, I can mix genres.

• 44:23Bunnie XO?

  Right.

• 44:24Speaker 02

  And a lot of artists aren't really able to do that. They can just stay in one lane or you expect one thing from them.

• 44:30Bunnie XO?

  Right.

• 44:31Speaker 02

  But you can expect a plethora of stuff from me and it's still gonna be whiz. Yeah.

• 44:37Bunnie XO?

  What do you feel like one of your most slept on tracks is? Like if there was one track that could have got a lot more attention, what would it have been for you?

• 44:45Speaker 02

  Uh, one of my most slept on tracks that should have got more attention. I have a lot of plaques, so I can't really say that. Everything that I put out, it usually goes like gold or platinum.

• 44:58Bunnie XO?

  Yeah.

• 44:59Speaker 02

  Um.

• 45:00Bunnie XO?

  You don't have to pick one if you don't want to.

• 45:04Speaker 02

  And then this, the stuff like I did, I did an album, it was called Multiverse. It was a, it was a really good album, but I didn't, I didn't go big with this album. It was, it was for a small, small audience. And I think later on down the line, people will appreciate that for what it, for what it was.

• 45:26Bunnie XO?

  Right.

• 45:27Speaker 02

  Yeah, I don't think it was slept on. I think it's just gonna take a while to get appreciated.

• 45:31Bunnie XO?

  I mean, look at the Google, Google Dolls right now. Their, their song Iris literally has come back.

• 45:36Speaker 02

  Right.

• 45:36Bunnie XO?

  And it was made freaking 20 years ago.

• 45:38Speaker 02

  Right.

• 45:39Bunnie XO?

  That album could do the same thing.

• 45:40Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 45:41Bunnie XO?

  Like, that's what's cool about music is it's timeless.

• 45:43Speaker 02

  It's timeless. And we listen to records, right? So there's artists who drop albums that you're like, hold on, I didn't even know this motherfucker put that shit out.

• 45:51Bunnie XO?

  Right, right.

• 45:51Speaker 02

  But you're still gonna grab it, put it on and listen to it because you enjoy that artist. So it doesn't matter if it got really hyped up or not.

• 45:58Bunnie XO?

  Mm-hmm.

• 45:59Speaker 02

  It can still, like you said, enter your world.

• 46:01Bunnie XO?

  Yeah, I feel like albums catch fire so much later on now too, because things are like always coming back into style.

• 46:08Speaker 02

  Mm-hmm.

• 46:09Bunnie XO?

  So it's like, all it takes is one video going viral now with it. And literally people are like, it's a whole new set of eyes.

• 46:15Speaker 02

  Yeah, yeah, it creates a narrative that people just wanna be a part of.

• 46:18Bunnie XO?

  Absolutely. Have you ever done a feature with somebody or featured on something and then like regretted it later?

• 46:27Speaker 02

  Nah, I'm al- I'm always happy about my features.

• 46:31Bunnie XO?

  Oh, good.

• 46:32Speaker 02

  Yeah, yeah, I've, I've been blessed to be a part of some really cool ass songs. Uh, Payphone with Maroon 5, that was one that I've never even seen having in a year. Like shit like that, like, or the Miley Cyrus song, 23.

• 46:46Bunnie XO?

  I mean, doing a song with Miley in general is just fucking, that's top tier.

• 46:51Speaker 02

  I just did a song with Good Charlotte too, before I, before I came out here.

• 46:54Bunnie XO?

  That's amazing. Is it rock?

• 46:56Speaker 02

  Yeah, yeah.

• 46:57Bunnie XO?

  I love Good Charlotte. I'm a west coast girl, so I fucking love Good Charlotte.

• 47:00Speaker 02

  Charlotte is the shit.

• 47:01Bunnie XO?

  Yeah, they're amazing.

• 47:03Speaker 02

  Yeah, yeah.

• 47:04Bunnie XO?

  All right, let's switch gears. Let's talk about being a dad. Because you have Bash and then you also have your daughter now. What would you say is the difference in between raising boys and girls? Have you noticed anything yet? Cause I know she's, she's fresh, right?

• 47:18Speaker 02

  She's ten months.

• 47:19Bunnie XO?

  Ten months. So I mean, you've got a long ways to go. Being a girl dad, but just in this short time, do you notice a difference?

• 47:26Speaker 02

  Not yet. Yeah, not yet. Because she's so fresh and then my son is twelve, so it's like so much.

• 47:34Bunnie XO?

  It's a lifetime of difference.

• 47:35Speaker 02

  Experience. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So I think, you know, in the next few years, especially as her personality starts to come in.

• 47:43Speaker 02

  Yeah, I'm gonna start to see the real girl dad-ness start to happen.

• 47:47Bunnie XO?

  Are you excited about it?

• 47:48Speaker 02

  I'm super excited. I mean, I'll be like shopping for her and buying her outfits. I'll be picking out her outfits and like, we'll do like three a day. So I'm like, let me get one at least.

• 48:00Bunnie XO?

  She gets three outfits a day?

• 48:02Speaker 02

  Yeah, hell yeah.

• 48:03Bunnie XO?

  Oh my gosh, I love that.

• 48:04Speaker 02

  Yeah, yeah. She's like our little baby doll.

• 48:06Bunnie XO?

  I bet she's fly as hell though.

• 48:08Speaker 02

  Super fly. She got chrome hearts and all that.

• 48:10Bunnie XO?

  Oh my, dude, I, hello, I've been trying to get chrome hearts forever. Look at her.

• 48:15Speaker 02

  She got a little baby chrome.

• 48:16Bunnie XO?

  I love that. That's so cool. What's something that Bash has said to you that's made you like question your whole personality?

• 48:26Speaker 02

  As far as like giving it to him?

• 48:27Bunnie XO?

  Has, no, no, has he ever like checked you like dad, that's not cool?

• 48:32Bunnie XO?

  Just made you question like, what the fuck, you know?

• 48:35Speaker 02

  He's quick, like he, he's all day with it. So like, sometimes he'll just be like, your teeth look like you ate a piece of cheese or something. I'd be like, damn, bro.

• 48:49Speaker 02

  Like he likes to, he likes to rip on people. So like, he just goes all day, like.

• 48:54Bunnie XO?

  That is hilarious. Has he, does he have your musical inclination?

• 48:59Speaker 02

  Yeah, he does. He does. He listens to a lot of different types of music. I test him out on new music. So I'll be like, I put on some shit that I know is brand new. I'll be like, you like this? He'll be like, ah, it's cool. Blah, blah. I'll be like, play me what you like. And he'll, he like, he likes old school rap. He likes newer rap. He likes rock and roll. He played me some crazy shit the other day from some band that I never heard before. And then he's got MF Doom on his, on his, uh, his phone. On his uh, his display for his phone, I'm like, alright, cool. So he's developing like,

• 49:30Bunnie XO?

  Yeah.

• 49:31Speaker 02

  He's very eclectic already.

• 49:33Bunnie XO?

  I love that, but that's just a testament to, you know, you and Amber, obviously showing him pretty good music.

• 49:39Speaker 02

  Uh huh.

• 49:40Bunnie XO?

  Um, what's something you're teaching him that no one ever taught you?

• 49:45Speaker 02

  Hmm. My parents did a good job raising me, so I wouldn't say that's something that nobody ever taught me.

• 49:51Bunnie XO?

  Mm hmm.

• 49:53Speaker 02

  But the biggest lesson right now is I teach him to respect himself and to respect others so that they can respect him.

• 50:03Bunnie XO?

  Absolutely.

• 50:04Speaker 02

  Cause they not gonna respect you if you don't respect yourself.

• 50:07Bunnie XO?

  Mm hmm.

• 50:08Speaker 02

  So I'll be like, the things that you do, they have to be a representation of who you are and what you want people to say about you. And we would have those conversations over and over. I'm like, of course you're gonna slip up and you're gonna make mistakes. But the, the main thing is to be respectful to yourself and other people. And that's how you demand respect yourself.

• 50:30Bunnie XO?

  Yeah. No, that's amazing. I feel like this generation is lacking respect too. Like kids nowadays, they're just like, they're fucking wild.

• 50:39Speaker 02

  Yeah, yeah.

• 50:39Bunnie XO?

  And the respect factor is not there. So the fact that you're teaching bash that is amazing.

• 50:44Speaker 02

  Absolutely.

• 50:45Bunnie XO?

  How are you and Amber getting along these days? You guys still getting along pretty well?

• 50:49Speaker 02

  Yeah, we're super good.

• 50:50Bunnie XO?

  I love Amber because, you know, I'm sure you hear this all the time, but you know, I grew up in Vegas. I grew up in the whole scene of like dancing and working girls and stuff like that. So, you know, for her to be this outspoken role model, outspoken role model for us, we, I've just always respected her.

• 51:05Speaker 02

  Yeah, absolutely.

• 51:06Bunnie XO?

  Always been who she is.

• 51:08Speaker 02

  Yeah, she's a great chick. She's a great mom. She's a great friend. Yeah, that's, that's like my partner for real. Like you don't get too many partners in life. And, and Amy is too. That's Cadence's mom. We're really great partners and we've been together longer than me and Amber were together. But me and Amber's relationship is lifelong.

• 51:30Bunnie XO?

  Right.

• 51:31Speaker 02

  We ain't in a relationship, but we together though.

• 51:34Bunnie XO?

  Do you, do you believe in soulmates? Cause soulmates don't always have to be romantic either. Like you guys can be friends.

• 51:41Speaker 02

  About soulmates because to me, like a soulmate, you might not necessarily even have kids with that person. Or, you know, this, this person might help you build your empire or. But me and Amber like, we're stronger than a lot of people because we have difficult conversations. We navigate through that shit.

• 52:03Bunnie XO?

  Yes.

• 52:03Speaker 02

  And that's what makes us so, so strong is we don't argue every time we disagree.

• 52:08Bunnie XO?

  Right.

• 52:09Speaker 02

  We're allowed to disagree, but we're still gonna get through it together because she's not throwing low blows. I'm not being disrespectful. We don't have any underlying freaking animosity towards each other. And that makes the situation way more positive than anything. It doesn't get negative. You know, we might get a little heated sometimes when we talk because we're both passionate and we both have our own opinion. But the heatedness, I might be stressed out from, from my job. So she might be like, okay, what's wrong for real? Like, don't just, don't just be upset. Tell me what's going on and then we'll talk about this. Or if she's in a situation, I'm like, you don't have to,

• 52:53Speaker 02

  I'm not checking you at all. You don't have to check in with me. You know what I'm saying? I respect your life. I want you to have all the space in the world. Please have space. I respect your space. I validate your space and all that. I would never wanna get in the way of that. Only time we have to come together is when we make decisions. So like, let's make this work.

• 53:16Bunnie XO?

  Yeah.

• 53:16Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 53:17Bunnie XO?

  I always say, uh, um, come, uh, what is it? Communication is key. Comprehension is vital.

• 53:23Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 53:23Bunnie XO?

  So if you, if you're talking to somebody all day long and they're not hearing you, it's not gonna get anywhere. And I love that you guys have that communication. Do you also have that with, um, Cadence's mom?

• 53:33Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 53:33Bunnie XO?

  What was her name? I've met her before, right?

• 53:35Speaker 02

  Yeah, yep.

• 53:35Bunnie XO?

  Yes, I met her at.

• 53:36Speaker 02

  Yeah, you met her at a stagecoach.

• 53:38Bunnie XO?

  Yep. Okay, yeah. She's beautiful.

• 53:39Speaker 02

  Thank you.

• 53:40Bunnie XO?

  Gorgeous.

• 53:41Speaker 02

  Yeah, she's a great girl as well. She's like, uh, like I said, and that's my partner too. We do everything. She, she makes sure I eat.

• 53:49Bunnie XO?

  Aww.

• 53:52Bunnie XO?

  That means a lot to a man, especially these days, you know?

• 53:55Speaker 02

  Yeah, hell yeah. It's a, it's a lot. She holds it down like, for sure, in ways that other women would never even be capable of. And she does it like happily too, you know?

• 54:07Bunnie XO?

  When you say that, can you give us an example of something that like, most women wouldn't be able to deal with?

• 54:11Speaker 02

  Just my schedule in general. I wake up at 5:30 and I'm up all day. I got the gym. I got meetings, Zoom calls. I got merch samples coming to the house. I got.

• 54:25Speaker 02

  You know, uh, fire pit being built. I got, I got three dogs.

• 54:30Bunnie XO?

  That's that Aries moon. You have an Aries moon.

• 54:31Speaker 02

  Yeah, I do.

• 54:32Bunnie XO?

  I checked it. Cause I have an Aries moon. My husband has an Aries moon.

• 54:35Speaker 02

  Oh, yeah.

• 54:35Bunnie XO?

  There's always some shit going on. Like, we've always got a project.

• 54:38Speaker 02

  Always. A project on top of a project.

• 54:41Bunnie XO?

  Right.

• 54:42Speaker 02

  And, and we gonna have some fun, too.

• 54:43Bunnie XO?

  Right.

• 54:44Speaker 02

  Yeah. So you gotta be ready to party as well. You gotta do all that and party.

• 54:50Bunnie XO?

  It's like, we have to make sure we have fun time. I love that that seems like you just wanna always make sure that you have fun. And whatever it is that you're doing. And I think that's a really sweet quality to have because a lot of people don't stop to enjoy life.

• 55:03Speaker 02

  Right.

• 55:03Bunnie XO?

  They get so carried away with just the grind.

• 55:06Speaker 02

  Right, right.

• 55:07Bunnie XO?

  You're like, no, we're gonna have fucking fun.

• 55:08Speaker 02

  We gonna have some fun. We gonna make some memories. And that's where the inspiration comes from.

• 55:12Bunnie XO?

  Yeah.

• 55:13Speaker 02

  You gotta like, you gotta actually do shit and live. And then if you're, life is just beautiful. It's poetic. So you, you just, you just grab those feelings and then you just put them into whatever your project is at the time.

• 55:25Bunnie XO?

  Yes, sir.

• 55:26Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 55:27Bunnie XO?

  Can you take me on a journey of you doing, um, MMA and fitness?

• 55:32Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 55:32Bunnie XO?

  When, how did you get into this? Cause I think that's amazing.

• 55:36Speaker 02

  Thank you.

• 55:37Bunnie XO?

  It's, it's very taxing on the body to be doing stuff like that. So.

• 55:40Speaker 02

  Yeah, yeah. I trained pretty hard, too. I, I got into it, um, my big homies, they were doing jujitsu at the time. And they were like, hey, you need to come to the gym and we're gonna rough you up and all of this stuff. So as soon as I got to the gym, they instantly were like, you need to lift weights. Like, you're way too small. You gotta eat and you gotta lift weights. You could, you could actually do something if you, you know what I mean, took it seriously.

• 56:07Bunnie XO?

  Right.

• 56:07Speaker 02

  So I got on like a regimen where I was, you know, doing a certain amount of calories and making sure I started sleeping. And then I just liked how my body felt and like what it did to me mentally as well. And the martial arts part of it just kind of turned into its own little thing. Cause. I was naturally a little bit gifted at it, but just being the type of person where I want to do something over and over and over and try to perfect it. That's the perfect sport for that, because you just get better every day. So each and every day you learning new techniques or just fine tuning or practicing or drilling or should there's always something to do.

• 56:48Speaker 02

  So it's like that forever project for me. Like that's how I feel like martial arts is is just something that I could practice for the rest of my life and it is good for my body and it's good for me mentally. It's a skill that I that I could use if I needed to.

• 57:04Bunnie XO?

  Hopefully not though.

• 57:05Speaker 02

  Nah, I don't find I don't see, but being a dad though, you gotta be ready for that shit too, because it's like, look, I'm not calling security. I'm gonna beat your dad up.

• 57:14Bunnie XO?

  Yeah, yeah, absolutely, right. Would you ever fight in the ring professionally? Would you ever, if they offered it to you, because I think I had read also that you said you wanted to be a wrestler for a day.

• 57:24Speaker 02

  I did.

• 57:25Bunnie XO?

  Would you still do that?

• 57:26Speaker 02

  I would more do some wrestling shit than than fighting, because wrestling is like entertainment, is acting. Actually getting in the ring and doing, that's not what I trained for.

• 57:36Bunnie XO?

  Right.

• 57:37Speaker 02

  But I'm trained good enough to do some shit. I'm always ready.

• 57:42Bunnie XO?

  Right.

• 57:42Speaker 02

  And anybody who's ever seen me um do what I do, they they know what level I perform on. So the whole getting in the ring is more for entertainment, like it makes everybody money and it's like, I'm not really into all that.

• 57:58Bunnie XO?

  With like a bag though.

• 58:00Speaker 02

  What's the bag though?

• 58:01Bunnie XO?

  I mean, we name your price.

• 58:03Speaker 02

  It would have to be like fifty million.

• 58:05Bunnie XO?

  And then you would get in the ring.

• 58:06Speaker 02

  Yeah, it would be like Floyd Mayweather prices.

• 58:08Bunnie XO?

  I mean, you know, they might do it.

• 58:10Speaker 02

  I need fifty M's for my first fight, guaranteed, because it's gonna like, it's gonna pull a big crowd.

• 58:16Bunnie XO?

  Yeah.

• 58:17Speaker 02

  And I'm gonna knock somebody out, cold.

• 58:22Bunnie XO?

  What's your move? What is your move? Like, if you had a move in the ring?

• 58:25Speaker 02

  Well, if I did boxing, it would probably be like an overhand right.

• 58:30Bunnie XO?

  Yeah.

• 58:31Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 58:31Bunnie XO?

  Yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 58:32Speaker 02

  That's, that's, that's, that's pretty much night-night. Or my, or my, or my lead left hook.

• 58:37Bunnie XO?

  Ooh, southpaw.

• 58:38Speaker 02

  Yeah, no, well, the lead left is, is orthodox, but it's just coming from the left. So I'm either hit you in the face or a nice little lead left body shot.

• 58:46Bunnie XO?

  Gotcha.

• 58:47Speaker 02

  But if we doing Muay Thai, there's nobody seeing me in Muay Thai. Like, boxing is different because you only got hands.

• 58:55Bunnie XO?

  Right.

• 58:55Speaker 02

  But if I get to use my feet and my, and my, and my elbows and my knees? Yeah, it's, oh, there's nobody seeing me in that shit.

• 59:02Bunnie XO?

  You're knocking somebody out.

• 59:03Speaker 02

  Yeah, and I'm tall as hell, too, so you're not even getting close to me. Yeah, just one, one round kick.

• 59:09Bunnie XO?

  Yeah.

• 59:10Speaker 02

  The hardest kick is probably like the, the spinning back kick.

• 59:13Bunnie XO?

  Yeah.

• 59:14Speaker 02

  So like,

• 59:14Bunnie XO?

  Yeah.

• 59:15Speaker 02

  if we really...

• 59:16Bunnie XO?

  You'd knock somebody's head off.

• 59:18Speaker 02

  Yeah, or like break some ribs or like puncture some lungs or something like that. Yeah, nice spinning back kick.

• 59:24Bunnie XO?

  I like it, now we're talking.

• 59:26Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 59:26Bunnie XO?

  We gotta make this happen, too.

• 59:27Speaker 02

  Yeah, I like elbows, too, because it's like...

• 59:29Bunnie XO?

  Let me just manage you, I'm just kidding.

• 59:31Speaker 02

  Yeah, because with elbow, like, when you boxing, you got like the, the gloves are protecting them.

• 59:37Bunnie XO?

  Right.

• 59:37Speaker 02

  But if we do MMA and I elbow you in your forehead and I split your forehead open and you're bleeding, it's gonna be hard for you to fight me for the rest of the fight.

• 59:45Bunnie XO?

  Or break a nose.

• 59:46Speaker 02

  Or if I knee you and break your rib in the first round, you're not really gonna wanna keep...

• 59:51Bunnie XO?

  Was, I feel like you're ready for this. I feel like you're...

• 59:55Speaker 02

  I don't wanna hurt anybody, I don't like hurting people.

• 59:57Bunnie XO?

  I feel like you would rock the shit out of somebody though.

• 1:00:00Speaker 02

  But they gotta pay me 50 M's if you wanna see some blood.

• 1:00:03Bunnie XO?

  All right, well, whoever's listening, let's make that fucking happen, because I'm, I'm tuning in, I wanna see somebody get their ass whooped. What is something embarrassing you do alone that no one knows about until now?

• 1:00:15Speaker 02

  Something embarrassing that I do alone?

• 1:00:19Speaker 02

  That no one knows about. I cry a lot.

• 1:00:22Bunnie XO?

  Really?

• 1:00:22Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 1:00:23Bunnie XO?

  You're emotional.

• 1:00:24Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 1:00:24Bunnie XO?

  That's sweet, though.

• 1:00:26Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 1:00:26Bunnie XO?

  I don't think that's embarrassing.

• 1:00:28Speaker 02

  It is to me, cuz I'll be wa- I was watching like, what's that, Encanto? What's that Disney movie?

• 1:00:35Bunnie XO?

  I'm not sure.

• 1:00:36Speaker 02

  It's the one with the Spanish girl and her family. What's that movie called? Man, I was crying at that shit the other day.

• 1:00:43Bunnie XO?

  Aww.

• 1:00:44Speaker 02

  You cried too? I'm crying just thinking about it. It was so sweet.

• 1:00:49Bunnie XO?

  I'm not watching it now.

• 1:00:49Speaker 02

  It was the sweetest freaking movie ever. It's so sweet.

• 1:00:52Bunnie XO?

  It's sweet, it's not sad?

• 1:00:54Speaker 02

  No, it's just sweet. It's like the sweetest thing. I mean, of course, it's like sad, it hits you, but it's like...

• 1:00:59Bunnie XO?

  Yeah.

• 1:01:00Speaker 02

  It's so sweet. It was like, I was like, aw, man, here, here we go.

• 1:01:03Bunnie XO?

  I don't think that's a weakness, though. I think that a man that can, you know, show emotion, that's awesome. That just means that you're in tune with it.

• 1:01:10Speaker 02

  Yeah, for sure. I, I think I'm very in tune with it.

• 1:01:14Bunnie XO?

  He said I'm very in tune with it. So, let's say some aliens came down to Earth and you're the spokesman for Earth.

• 1:01:20Speaker 02

  Mm-hmm.

• 1:01:20Bunnie XO?

  What would you, what's the first thing that you would show aliens and prove to them like that we're actually like cool people down here?

• 1:01:26Speaker 02

  I would definitely smoke weed with them.

• 1:01:28Bunnie XO?

  Yeah. You don't think they're not already smoking weed?

• 1:01:32Speaker 02

  I think they're like past smoking weed. We might, this might be like really prehistoric to them. They're like, we gotta, we gotta, we gotta bring them back to the origin, right? So, I would, cuz they're, they're aliens, like, everything is fast to them. It's just like, let's slow it down a little bit.

• 1:01:48Bunnie XO?

  Yeah.

• 1:01:48Speaker 02

  I would smoke some weed with them and I would probably play them like a Parliament Funkadelic record.

• 1:01:55Bunnie XO?

  Oh, there we go.

• 1:01:56Speaker 02

  Yeah, I would put on some, some Earth music.

• 1:01:59Bunnie XO?

  Yeah.

• 1:01:59Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 1:02:00Bunnie XO?

  Would you only smoke weed with them or would you drop acid with them?

• 1:02:04Speaker 02

  I don't really do too much acid.

• 1:02:06Bunnie XO?

  I can't either.

• 1:02:07Speaker 02

  Okay, yeah, yeah. So, I would rather just smoke the weed.

• 1:02:09Bunnie XO?

  Okay.

• 1:02:10Speaker 02

  Yeah. Smoke weed, listen to records, watch a movie, go for a ride, get burgers.

• 1:02:16Bunnie XO?

  Aww. Any particular burger?

• 1:02:19Speaker 02

  Um... Where, where are the aliens landing? Are they landing here?

• 1:02:24Bunnie XO?

  They'll, not here. Nashville sucks. Let's take them to LA.

• 1:02:27Speaker 02

  To LA?

• 1:02:28Bunnie XO?

  At least there's probably more to do.

• 1:02:29Speaker 02

  So we go to like Astro Burger or something like that in Hollywood? Cause we get to, we get to cruise through Hollywood in the low rider, smoke weed and then go get burgers.

• 1:02:38Bunnie XO?

  Have you ever dropped acid before? Have you ever done psychedelics?

• 1:02:41Speaker 02

  Yeah, I did.

• 1:02:41Bunnie XO?

  You don't like them?

• 1:02:43Speaker 02

  I think I did too much.

• 1:02:44Bunnie XO?

  Yeah.

• 1:02:44Speaker 02

  I did, I did acid with Diplo.

• 1:02:47Bunnie XO?

  Oh, I would never do acid with Diplo.

• 1:02:49Speaker 02

  It sounds like a good idea, right?

• 1:02:50Bunnie XO?

  I, no. Nope. Doesn't sound good to me.

• 1:02:54Speaker 02

  I'm like, it's Diplo. Like, this is gonna be awesome.

• 1:02:57Bunnie XO?

  I feel like he's on a permanent acid trip.

• 1:02:59Speaker 02

  He is.

• 1:03:03Speaker 02

  He's walking acid.

• 1:03:05Bunnie XO?

  Yeah. So how did that go?

• 1:03:07Speaker 02

  It was, it was, it was interesting.

• 1:03:11Speaker 02

  It was, um, it was, it was intense. That's what it was. It was super duper intense and it wasn't like a bad trip or anything.

• 1:03:22Bunnie XO?

  Right.

• 1:03:23Speaker 02

  But I could definitely feel it. And I would like go places and be like, hold on, I need a little second to myself. And then I would just be randomly somewhere else. It's like, it's like, it was like a movie. It was like, I would blink and then I would wake up in another room.

• 1:03:39Bunnie XO?

  Oh, no.

• 1:03:39Speaker 02

  And I would blink and I would wake up in another room.

• 1:03:41Bunnie XO?

  I would have anxiety.

• 1:03:42Speaker 02

  It was crazy. And I thought I was Aladdin on a magic carpet for a minute.

• 1:03:46Bunnie XO?

  I thought I was Michael Jackson when I did mushrooms.

• 1:03:48Speaker 02

  Okay, cool. Yeah.

• 1:03:49Bunnie XO?

  I get it. I feel that.

• 1:03:50Speaker 02

  Yeah, I definitely for sure thought I was like sailing over the city on a magic carpet. Yeah.

• 1:03:57Bunnie XO?

  Uh, so that was your first and only time doing?

• 1:04:00Speaker 02

  Only time.

• 1:04:00Bunnie XO?

  Okay. He's like, yeah, I've never, yeah.

• 1:04:03Speaker 02

  I turned into Aladdin. I'm cool.

• 1:04:06Bunnie XO?

  All right. Final question. Build your dreams strip club. Name, theme, signature drink and house rules.

• 1:04:13Speaker 02

  Name? Nipolopolis.

• 1:04:22Bunnie XO?

  The other one was, hold on, I'm still hung up on Nipopolis and how fast you thought of that. You've thought of this before, Wiz. The late, um, oops, hold on, sorry. It was, build your dreams, strip club, name, what's the theme? What's your signature drink? And what's the house rules?

• 1:04:41Speaker 02

  Okay, um, the, the theme is eighties baddies.

• 1:04:48Bunnie XO?

  Yes, video vixen.

• 1:04:50Speaker 02

  Yeah, those are my favorite chicks.

• 1:04:52Bunnie XO?

  Oh, me too.

• 1:04:53Speaker 02

  They're so good, like, nice bodies, like, perfect boobs, cute little butt.

• 1:04:59Bunnie XO?

  Yep.

• 1:04:59Speaker 02

  Little bush, you know?

• 1:05:01Bunnie XO?

  Are you into bush?

• 1:05:02Speaker 02

  I like the little eighties bush.

• 1:05:03Bunnie XO?

  We like the bush.

• 1:05:04Speaker 02

  Well, we might have a bush floor. Yeah, there'd be a floor for bush.

• 1:05:10Bunnie XO?

  Not the bush floor, shit's hairy upstairs.

• 1:05:13Speaker 02

  It's hairy, it's hairy. And then downstairs, Nipopolis is regular. The signature drink will be the Napoleon dynamite.

• 1:05:25Bunnie XO?

  I'm crying.

• 1:05:27Speaker 02

  What's the last one?

• 1:05:28Bunnie XO?

  The, I'm sorry, I'm still just hung up on what you're saying here. I'm sorry, I can't get over the bush floor. Signature drink and what are the house rules?

• 1:05:37Speaker 02

  House rules. We gotta respect the ladies. That's the number one rule.

• 1:05:45Bunnie XO?

  Yes.

• 1:05:46Speaker 02

  Tip well. And...

• 1:05:49Bunnie XO?

  Leave room for the Holy Spirit.

• 1:05:51Speaker 02

  Leave room for the Holy Spirit.

• 1:05:52Bunnie XO?

  I like that.

• 1:05:53Speaker 02

  All right, cool.

• 1:05:53Bunnie XO?

  I like it.

• 1:05:54Speaker 02

  I love that. Welcome to Nipopolis.

• 1:05:59Bunnie XO?

  Wiz, thank you so much for coming on the podcast, babe.

• 1:06:02Speaker 02

  I'm happy to be here, thank you.

• 1:06:04Bunnie XO?

  I appreciate you so much. Come back anytime.

• 1:06:07Speaker 02

  I will.

• 1:06:07Bunnie XO?

  All right, and thank you guys for tuning into another episode of Dumb Blonde. I will see you guys next week, bye.

• 1:06:16Bunnie XO?

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