Wiz Khalifa Had This to Say About Amber Rose

(Originally aired: 7/7/25) 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: YouTube https://www.youtube.com/@Dumbblondepod

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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• 1:06Bunnie XO?

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

• 1:12Speaker 01

  Hey, what's up?

• 1:13Bunnie XO?

  How you doing?

• 1:14Speaker 01

  I'm chilling.

• 1:15Bunnie XO?

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

• 1:17Speaker 01

  Happy to be here. Thanks for having me.

• 1:19Bunnie 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.

• 1:34Speaker 01

  Oh, yeah. That makes perfect sense.

• 1:36Bunnie XO?

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

• 1:40Speaker 01

  Yeah, thank you.

• 1:40Bunnie XO?

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

• 1:48Speaker 01

  Exactly.

• 1:49Bunnie XO?

  Literally. Was he an inspiration for you growing up?

• 1:51Speaker 01

  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 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.

• 2:15Bunnie XO?

  Yeah.

• 2:15Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 2:16Bunnie XO?

  Absolutely. I miss pimp Snoop.

• 2:18Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 2:19Bunnie XO?

  Can we bring him back?

• 2:20Speaker 01

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

• 2:22Bunnie 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?

• 2:34Speaker 01

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

• 2:37Bunnie 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?

• 2:47Speaker 01

  Who would be my Martha?

• 2:48Bunnie XO?

  Yeah.

• 2:49Speaker 01

  I think like, uh, Chelsea Handler.

• 2:51Bunnie XO?

  Oh, yeah.

• 2:52Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 2:52Bunnie XO?

  She's fucking hilarious, dude.

• 2:54Speaker 01

  Funny as hell, yo.

• 2:55Bunnie XO?

  We love Chelsea in this house. She actually gave, is one of the first people who gave us like our first break.

• 3:02Speaker 01

  Uh huh.

• 3:02Bunnie XO?

  As far as like reality TV.

• 3:04Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 3:04Bunnie XO?

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

• 3:08Speaker 01

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

• 3:11Bunnie XO?

  She is.

• 3:11Speaker 01

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

• 3:14Bunnie XO?

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

• 3:16Speaker 01

  We could.

• 3:17Bunnie XO?

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

• 3:22Speaker 01

  That would be awesome.

• 3:23Bunnie 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?

• 3:28Speaker 01

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

• 3:30Bunnie XO?

  All right, good.

• 3:31Speaker 01

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

• 3:32Bunnie XO?

  What are some of your favorite stoner foods?

• 3:35Speaker 01

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

• 3:40Bunnie XO?

  Yeah.

• 3:41Speaker 01

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

• 3:50Bunnie XO?

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

• 3:53Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 3:54Bunnie XO?

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

• 3:59Speaker 01

  Cereal anytime of the day.

• 4:01Bunnie XO?

  What's your favorite cereal?

• 4:03Speaker 01

  Uh, Apple Jacks.

• 4:04Bunnie XO?

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

• 4:08Speaker 01

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

• 4:11Bunnie XO?

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

• 4:13Speaker 01

  Yeah, Honey Gramps is good.

• 4:15Bunnie XO?

  Don't fuck around.

• 4:16Speaker 01

  Honey Nut Cheerios.

• 4:17Bunnie XO?

  Delish.

• 4:18Speaker 01

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

• 4:20Bunnie XO?

  Dude, I love me some fucking Cheerios, dude.

• 4:22Speaker 01

  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.

• 4:30Bunnie XO?

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

• 4:34Speaker 01

  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.

• 4:42Bunnie XO?

  I miss the OG Real World.

• 4:43Speaker 01

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

• 4:48Bunnie XO?

  Yeah.

• 4:49Speaker 01

  And, yeah, so as I got older, I started to make my own little series 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.

• 5:00Bunnie XO?

  Right.

• 5:01Speaker 01

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

• 5:11Bunnie XO?

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

• 5:13Speaker 01

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

• 5:19Bunnie 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.

• 5:24Speaker 01

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

• 5:30Bunnie XO?

  Yeah.

• 5:32Speaker 01

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

• 5:34Bunnie XO?

  Oh, that would be so sweet.

• 5:36Speaker 01

  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.

• 5:45Bunnie 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.

• 5:50Speaker 01

  Yeah, Wes's, Wes's summer camp.

• 5:51Bunnie XO?

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

• 5:55Speaker 01

  I have.

• 5:55Bunnie XO?

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

• 6:00Speaker 01

  Uh huh.

• 6:01Bunnie XO?

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

• 6:09Speaker 01

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

• 6:20Bunnie XO?

  Yeah, it is. It is, actually.

• 6:22Speaker 01

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

• 6:25Bunnie XO?

  He's like, no dark shit.

• 6:27Speaker 01

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

• 6:32Bunnie XO?

  That'd be dope. That would be iconic.

• 6:34Speaker 01

  Yeah, yeah.

• 6:35Bunnie XO?

  Dude, that would be so cool.

• 6:37Speaker 01

  Yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 6:38Bunnie XO?

  What a moment in time.

• 6:40Speaker 01

  Uh huh, for sure.

• 6:41Bunnie XO?

  I wish boxing was like it was back in the day. Like Mike Tyson, Sugar Ray Leonard. I was a huge, 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.

• 6:57Speaker 01

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

• 7:07Bunnie XO?

  Yeah.

• 7:08Speaker 01

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

• 7:13Bunnie XO?

  So many.

• 7:14Speaker 01

  Yeah, a lot of them.

• 7:16Bunnie XO?

  Mike Tyson used to hang out in the strip club that I worked at all the time. And he was the coolest dude. He used to give me money because I never bothered him.

• 7:24Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 7:25Bunnie XO?

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

• 7:30Speaker 01

  Yeah, he just respected that.

• 7:31Bunnie XO?

  Yeah. No, he was just so, cause 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.

• 7:40Speaker 01

  That's nice. That's what's.

• 7:41Bunnie XO?

  That's why it's crazy that.

• 7:42Speaker 01

  I love Mike now too. He's so cool. Like.

• 7:44Bunnie XO?

  He's amazing.

• 7:45Speaker 01

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

• 7:50Bunnie XO?

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

• 7:53Speaker 01

  Right.

• 7:53Bunnie 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.

• 8:08Speaker 01

  Dirty birds.

• 8:08Bunnie XO?

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

• 8:12Speaker 01

  Loving on that dirty bird.

• 8:14Bunnie 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?

• 8:24Speaker 01

  Yeah, let's do it.

• 8:25Bunnie XO?

  So you were a military kid?

• 8:27Speaker 01

  Yeah, yep.

• 8:27Bunnie XO?

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

• 8:33Speaker 01

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

• 8:39Bunnie XO?

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

• 8:43Speaker 01

  Yeah, 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. It never gets warm there.

• 8:54Bunnie 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?

• 8:58Speaker 01

  Nothing.

• 8:58Bunnie XO?

  Besides have kids.

• 8:59Speaker 01

  Have babies.

• 9:00Bunnie XO?

  Literally, yeah.

• 9:01Speaker 01

  And be in the military, I guess.

• 9:02Bunnie XO?

  Yeah.

• 9:03Speaker 01

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

• 9:43Speaker 01

  But it was really cool, like experiencing, living all over in different countries and different states and things like that.

• 9:49Bunnie XO?

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

• 9:56Speaker 01

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

• 10:01Bunnie XO?

  Yeah.

• 10:02Speaker 01

  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 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.

• 10:25Bunnie 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.

• 10:31Speaker 01

  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, Wiz is one of us.

• 10:40Bunnie XO?

  Yeah.

• 10:40Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 10:41Bunnie 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.

• 10:49Speaker 01

  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 wanna just have friends forever.

• 11:02Bunnie XO?

  Right.

• 11:02Speaker 01

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

• 11:11Bunnie XO?

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

• 11:15Speaker 01

  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.

• 11:23Bunnie XO?

  Oh.

• 11:24Speaker 01

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

• 11:29Bunnie XO?

  Yeah.

• 11:29Speaker 01

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

• 11:34Bunnie XO?

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

• 11:36Speaker 01

  Yeah, exactly. I'm like, yeah, you ain't getting, them days is over.

• 11:41Bunnie XO?

  No, I get that. I think it's a testament of who somebody is though, to be able to maintain relationships from childhood. Cause 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.

• 11:55Speaker 01

  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.

• 12:11Bunnie XO?

  Is it because people, it's they know you from before all of this, you know?

• 12:16Speaker 01

  And then when you.

• 12:16Bunnie XO?

  And they keep you grounded.

• 12:17Speaker 01

  Yeah, when you do it the right way, they seen you on your way up.

• 12:20Bunnie XO?

  Mm-hmm.

• 12:20Speaker 01

  They know that it didn't just happen overnight. Like some people, they might look at you and it's like a magic trick.

• 12:26Bunnie XO?

  Right.

• 12:27Speaker 01

  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.

• 12:37Bunnie XO?

  I love that. Yeah, every time I go back to Vegas, my girls make sure to humble me.

• 12:41Speaker 01

  Mm-hmm.

• 12:41Bunnie XO?

  Every time I'm, they're like, but you are, we knew you before you were Bunny. You know, like calm down.

• 12:46Speaker 01

  Yeah, you need that sometimes.

• 12:48Bunnie 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?

• 12:58Speaker 01

  It was a even split.

• 12:59Bunnie XO?

  Okay.

• 13:00Speaker 01

  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.

• 13:21Bunnie XO?

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

• 13:25Speaker 01

  Yeah, no, they hated each other.

• 13:27Bunnie XO?

  Oh, shit. Okay, gotcha.

• 13:29Speaker 01

  They didn't get along at all. And it was the nineties. 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.

• 13:41Bunnie XO?

  Right.

• 13:41Speaker 01

  So they handled it the best way that they seen fit. And that was that.

• 13:46Bunnie 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.

• 13:55Speaker 01

  Yeah, my girl Cadence.

• 13:56Bunnie 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.

• 14:03Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 14:04Bunnie XO?

  And that was a driving force in making sure you had good relationships with the mother of your children?

• 14:09Speaker 01

  Yeah, I think it like subconsciously played a role because 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

• 14:49Speaker 01

  seeing your parents function and not seeing them function. And I would much rather, you know, my kids see me and their parents function.

• 14:58Bunnie 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. They didn't, they were set in their fucking ways. You were not gonna tell them how they are gonna raise their kids. 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.

• 15:18Speaker 01

  Yeah, absolutely. 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, 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.

• 15:40Bunnie 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 frigging Golden Girls.

• 15:47Speaker 01

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

• 15:57Bunnie XO?

  Right, yeah.

• 15:58Speaker 01

  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.

• 16:09Bunnie XO?

  Yes, absolutely.

• 16:12Speaker 01

  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.

• 16:20Bunnie XO?

  They become way cooler.

• 16:21Speaker 01

  Super cool.

• 16:22Bunnie XO?

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

• 16:25Speaker 01

  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? Cause that's what you did to me.

• 16:38Bunnie 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?

• 16:54Speaker 01

  Hmm, 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.

• 17:39Speaker 01

  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 can make an album. We could, you know, make merch. We could

• 18:01Bunnie XO?

  Yeah.

• 18:02Speaker 01

  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?

• 18:23Bunnie XO?

  Yes, we love them.

• 18:24Speaker 01

  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 creating and doing what I'm doing.

• 18:33Bunnie XO?

  Music was the soundtrack to your life.

• 18:35Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 18:36Bunnie XO?

  I feel like 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?

• 18:51Speaker 01

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

• 19:00Bunnie XO?

  I love Whitney, yep.

• 19:01Speaker 01

  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.

• 19:11Bunnie XO?

  Mom's the G.

• 19:12Speaker 01

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

• 19:15Bunnie XO?

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

• 19:19Speaker 01

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

• 19:22Bunnie XO?

  I love mom.

• 19:22Speaker 01

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

• 19:25Bunnie XO?

  Oh.

• 19:25Speaker 01

  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.

• 19:34Bunnie XO?

  Mm-hmm.

• 19:34Speaker 01

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

• 19:39Bunnie XO?

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

• 19:43Speaker 01

  Yeah, for sure.

• 19:44Bunnie XO?

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

• 19:48Speaker 01

  Nah, for real.

• 19:49Bunnie XO?

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

• 19:53Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 19:53Bunnie XO?

  He loves Keith Sweat.

• 19:54Speaker 01

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

• 20:09Bunnie XO?

  Yeah.

• 20:10Speaker 01

  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.

• 20:23Bunnie XO?

  I was a Bone girl too.

• 20:24Speaker 01

  Yeah, for sure.

• 20:25Bunnie XO?

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

• 20:27Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 20:28Bunnie XO?

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

• 20:33Speaker 01

  Yeah, yeah, yeah, nah, for sure, for sure.

• 20:36Bunnie 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 be like, that's probably gonna be a fangirl moment for me.

• 20:44Speaker 01

  You got to, yo, it's Bone.

• 20:45Bunnie XO?

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

• 20:52Speaker 01

  My smoothness come from my dad.

• 20:53Bunnie XO?

  Really?

• 20:54Speaker 01

  For sure.

• 20:54Bunnie XO?

  Do tell.

• 20:55Speaker 01

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

• 21:01Bunnie XO?

  Yeah.

• 21:02Speaker 01

  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.

• 21:16Bunnie XO?

  I love, is dad still around?

• 21:18Speaker 01

  Yeah, yeah.

• 21:18Bunnie XO?

  Good, I love that.

• 21:20Speaker 01

  Yep, I spent a lot of time with my dad, especially like having my daughter.

• 21:25Speaker 01

  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'd be like in my backyard taking pictures of birds and stuff, yo.

• 21:38Bunnie XO?

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

• 21:42Speaker 01

  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 something. He's like, nah, I just wanna, you know, connect.

• 21:53Bunnie XO?

  Yeah. I feel that too. I sit outside with my cows all the frickin' time. So your name was Khalifa. One came, one part of it came from an uncle, another part of it came from a Muslim grandfather?

• 22:06Speaker 01

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

• 22:10Bunnie XO?

  Okay, gotcha.

• 22:11Speaker 01

  Yeah, so I was kinda, it's my mom's little brother, but it's my mom's father as well. 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 at my granddad's house. And my granddad is like, well, he was, he passed away, but he's straight Muslim, like. Pray five times a day, be in the mosque, you know, seven days a week.

• 22:39Bunnie XO?

  No.

• 22:40Speaker 01

  You know, helping the brothers out at jail.

• 22:42Bunnie XO?

  Yeah.

• 22:42Speaker 01

  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.

• 22:57Bunnie XO?

  Yeah, absolutely.

• 22:58Speaker 01

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

• 23:02Bunnie XO?

  Mm-hmm.

• 23:03Speaker 01

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

• 23:08Bunnie XO?

  Yeah.

• 23:09Speaker 01

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

• 23:12Bunnie XO?

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

• 23:17Speaker 01

  Yeah, absolutely.

• 23:18Bunnie XO?

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

• 23:22Speaker 01

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

• 23:28Bunnie XO?

  Mm-hmm.

• 23:29Speaker 01

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

• 23:34Bunnie XO?

  Wow.

• 23:34Speaker 01

  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.

• 23:45Bunnie XO?

  Yeah.

• 23:45Speaker 01

  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.

• 23:57Bunnie XO?

  Yeah, he was gangster, too.

• 23:58Speaker 01

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

• 24:02Bunnie XO?

  Oh.

• 24:03Speaker 01

  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.

• 24:10Bunnie 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.

• 24:21Speaker 01

  Mm-hmm.

• 24:22Bunnie XO?

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

• 24:31Speaker 01

  Okay, so I dropped my first mixtape. I think I was like sixteen 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.

• 24:43Bunnie XO?

  Kids these days will never understand.

• 24:45Speaker 01

  Never.

• 24:46Bunnie XO?

  The hustle.

• 24:46Speaker 01

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

• 24:50Bunnie XO?

  They go on TikTok.

• 24:51Speaker 01

  There's no CDs to burn anyway.

• 24:53Bunnie 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.

• 24:59Speaker 01

  It's just all in the air.

• 25:00Bunnie XO?

  Yeah.

• 25:01Speaker 01

  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 ten, twenty, fifty 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 nineteen. 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

• 25:43Speaker 01

  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.

• 26:04Bunnie XO?

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

• 26:09Speaker 01

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

• 26:14Bunnie XO?

  Gotcha, okay.

• 26:15Speaker 01

  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.

• 26:21Bunnie XO?

  Right.

• 26:21Speaker 01

  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.

• 26:34Bunnie XO?

  Right.

• 26:34Speaker 01

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

• 26:43Bunnie XO?

  Right.

• 26:43Speaker 01

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

• 26:51Bunnie XO?

  Mm hmm.

• 26:52Speaker 01

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

• 26:56Bunnie XO?

  Yeah.

• 26:57Speaker 01

  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.

• 27:19Bunnie XO?

  Absolutely.

• 27:20Speaker 01

  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.

• 27:27Bunnie 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?

• 27:36Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 27:36Bunnie XO?

  Right?

• 27:37Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 27:37Bunnie XO?

  That's crazy.

• 27:38Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 27:38Bunnie XO?

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

• 27:41Speaker 01

  Yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 27:42Bunnie XO?

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

• 27:47Speaker 01

  It was different back in the day.

• 27:48Bunnie XO?

  Right, right, right.

• 27:49Speaker 01

  It wasn't how it is now.

• 27:51Bunnie 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.

• 28:04Speaker 01

  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.

• 28:14Bunnie XO?

  Right.

• 28:15Speaker 01

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

• 28:17Bunnie XO?

  Mm hmm.

• 28:18Speaker 01

  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.

• 28:40Bunnie 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?

• 28:50Speaker 01

  I was super confident, really cocky, um, very aware of myself.

• 28:56Bunnie XO?

  We love a, a, a king who can own it.

• 28:58Speaker 01

  Oh, yeah. Oh, I was owning it. Yeah, man, like I knew what I was dealing with and like you said, I had 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 cushioned orange juice that shut sites completely down.

• 29:25Bunnie XO?

  Yeah.

• 29:26Speaker 01

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

• 29:29Bunnie XO?

  Yeah.

• 29:30Speaker 01

  Like clearly.

• 29:31Bunnie XO?

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

• 29:33Speaker 01

  Y'all let me know.

• 29:34Bunnie 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're like, poor Wiz. He's probably so fucking tired of singing this song.

• 29:46Speaker 01

  Oh, I never get tired of it.

• 29:47Bunnie XO?

  Oh, really?

• 29:49Speaker 01

  I love that song.

• 29:49Bunnie XO?

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

• 29:51Speaker 01

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

• 29:54Bunnie XO?

  It's a happy song.

• 29:56Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 29:56Bunnie XO?

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

• 30:03Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 30:03Bunnie XO?

  You're just dead inside.

• 30:04Speaker 01

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

• 30:10Bunnie XO?

  Yeah.

• 30:10Speaker 01

  So I'm good with that.

• 30:11Bunnie XO?

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

• 30:14Speaker 01

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

• 30:17Bunnie XO?

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

• 30:21Speaker 01

  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.

• 30:28Bunnie XO?

  Oh.

• 30:29Speaker 01

  This is awesome.

• 30:30Bunnie XO?

  That is amazing. That's a moment in time.

• 30:33Speaker 01

  Mm hmm.

• 30:34Bunnie XO?

  You've evolved from Black and Yellow to like boss, entrepreneur, martial artist.

• 30:39Speaker 01

  Mm hmm.

• 30:39Bunnie XO?

  What version of you are we just starting to see now?

• 30:43Speaker 01

  You're just starting to see.

• 30:48Speaker 01

  I think the the more mature me.

• 30:51Bunnie XO?

  Yeah.

• 30:51Speaker 01

  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 it'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.

• 31:18Bunnie XO?

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• 33:21Bunnie 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?

• 33:28Speaker 01

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

• 33:30Bunnie 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?

• 33:36Speaker 01

  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. And I like that feeling, cuz I'm like, yeah, I'm growing out of stuff. 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. I might have a very large smile and a great, you know, personality that attracts people.

• 34:16Speaker 01

  But that's not my goal in life is to just give that and give that and give that.

• 34:22Bunnie XO?

  Right.

• 34:23Speaker 01

  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.

• 34:33Bunnie XO?

  Absolutely. I love that. So, two thousand eleven, you dropped Rolling Papers and became pretty much like a household name. 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?

• 34:49Speaker 01

  I love the hustle, the drive, the motivation, the self-awareness, the self-branding. Um, and something that I outgrown is the lack of sleep.

• 35:06Bunnie XO?

  Right.

• 35:06Speaker 01

  Yeah, I didn't sleep.

• 35:07Bunnie XO?

  We need our sleep, yes.

• 35:08Speaker 01

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

• 35:17Bunnie XO?

  I don't think I could do that anymore.

• 35:19Speaker 01

  It hurts.

• 35:20Bunnie XO?

  I, 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. 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.

• 35:33Speaker 01

  Oh, yeah, it's painful.

• 35:34Bunnie XO?

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

• 35:41Speaker 01

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

• 35:47Bunnie XO?

  Wow.

• 35:48Speaker 01

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

• 35:55Bunnie XO?

  Yeah.

• 35:56Speaker 01

  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.

• 36:15Bunnie XO?

  Yeah.

• 36:15Speaker 01

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

• 36:21Bunnie XO?

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

• 36:24Speaker 01

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

• 36:28Bunnie XO?

  Absolutely.

• 36:28Speaker 01

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

• 36:33Bunnie 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.

• 36:40Speaker 01

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

• 36:43Bunnie XO?

  There is. I consider you a healer though.

• 36:46Speaker 01

  For sure, one hundred percent.

• 36:47Bunnie 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?

• 36:55Speaker 01

  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 partying feel good stuff, but I also have freaking See You Again, which is like.

• 37:41Speaker 01

  You know, one of those songs that help people get through a lot of stuff.

• 37:45Bunnie XO?

  Yeah.

• 37:45Speaker 01

  And it's.

• 37:46Bunnie XO?

  That's your save me, pretty much.

• 37:48Speaker 01

  Thank you.

• 37:48Bunnie XO?

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

• 37:51Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 37:51Bunnie XO?

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

• 37:56Speaker 01

  For.

• 37:56Bunnie XO?

  Yeah, graduations.

• 37:58Speaker 01

  It's never gonna get old.

• 37:59Bunnie XO?

  Mm-hmm.

• 38:00Speaker 01

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

• 38:04Bunnie XO?

  Yeah.

• 38:04Speaker 01

  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.

• 38:15Bunnie 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.

• 38:24Speaker 01

  Right.

• 38:25Bunnie XO?

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

• 38:28Speaker 01

  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.

• 38:41Bunnie XO?

  Yeah, absolutely. You strike me as a really deep person.

• 38:45Speaker 01

  For sure.

• 38:45Bunnie XO?

  Do you, what do you think that your soul's assignment was for coming to earth?

• 38:52Speaker 01

  My soul's assignment for coming to earth is to literally make everybody else feel better.

• 38:58Bunnie XO?

  Hmm.

• 38:59Speaker 01

  Because I feel so good.

• 39:00Bunnie XO?

  Right.

• 39:00Speaker 01

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

• 39:05Bunnie XO?

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

• 39:09Speaker 01

  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.

• 39:23Bunnie XO?

  Right, facing them head on.

• 39:25Speaker 01

  Right.

• 39:25Bunnie XO?

  You gotta go through it to get to it.

• 39:27Speaker 01

  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.

• 39:36Bunnie XO?

  Absolutely.

• 39:36Speaker 01

  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. Cause I know like in the end, I'm not even trying to be mad. So how do we get to where? We all cool.

• 39:56Bunnie XO?

  Yeah.

• 39:57Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 39:57Bunnie 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.

• 40:06Speaker 01

  Breathe.

• 40:07Bunnie XO?

  Yeah, I'm telling you.

• 40:08Speaker 01

  Take a deep breath.

• 40:09Bunnie XO?

  Have you ever done like meditation or like box breathing?

• 40:12Speaker 01

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

• 40:15Bunnie XO?

  Do you really?

• 40:15Speaker 01

  I do that three times a week.

• 40:16Bunnie XO?

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

• 40:20Speaker 01

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

• 40:26Bunnie XO?

  Are you limber as hell?

• 40:27Speaker 01

  With my hair up in a bun, yeah.

• 40:29Bunnie XO?

  I love that, dude. We need a frickin' reality show. Please, we, this is fucking gold. It's like content gold.

• 40:37Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 40:37Bunnie XO?

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

• 40:42Speaker 01

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

• 40:44Bunnie XO?

  Yeah.

• 40:47Bunnie 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.

• 40:56Speaker 01

  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.

• 41:35Bunnie XO?

  Yeah.

• 41:36Speaker 01

  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.

• 41:54Bunnie 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?

• 42:02Speaker 01

  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.

• 42:24Bunnie 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.

• 42:40Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 42:40Bunnie XO?

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

• 42:42Speaker 01

  Absolutely. It's scary like reinventing.

• 42:45Bunnie XO?

  Right.

• 42:45Speaker 01

  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.

• 42:54Bunnie XO?

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

• 42:58Speaker 01

  Absolutely.

• 42:58Bunnie XO?

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

• 43:01Speaker 01

  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.

• 43:16Bunnie XO?

  Right.

• 43:16Speaker 01

  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.

• 43:23Bunnie XO?

  Right.

• 43:23Speaker 01

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

• 43:29Bunnie 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?

• 43:37Speaker 01

  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.

• 43:50Bunnie XO?

  Yeah.

• 43:51Speaker 01

  Um.

• 43:53Bunnie XO?

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

• 43:56Speaker 01

  And then 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.

• 44:19Bunnie XO?

  Right.

• 44:19Speaker 01

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

• 44:23Bunnie XO?

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

• 44:28Speaker 01

  Right.

• 44:28Bunnie XO?

  And it was made freaking 20 years ago.

• 44:31Speaker 01

  Right.

• 44:31Bunnie XO?

  That album could do the same thing.

• 44:33Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 44:33Bunnie XO?

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

• 44:35Speaker 01

  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.

• 44:44Bunnie XO?

  Right, right.

• 44:44Speaker 01

  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.

• 44:51Bunnie XO?

  Mm-hmm.

• 44:51Speaker 01

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

• 44:54Bunnie XO?

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

• 45:01Speaker 01

  Mm-hmm.

• 45:01Bunnie 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.

• 45:07Speaker 01

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

• 45:11Bunnie XO?

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

• 45:19Speaker 01

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

• 45:24Bunnie XO?

  Oh, good.

• 45:24Speaker 01

  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 happen in, yeah. Like shit like that, like, or the Miley Cyrus song, 23.

• 45:38Bunnie XO?

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

• 45:43Speaker 01

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

• 45:47Bunnie XO?

  That's amazing. Is it rock?

• 45:49Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 45:49Bunnie XO?

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

• 45:53Speaker 01

  Charlotte is the shit.

• 45:54Bunnie XO?

  Yeah, they're amazing.

• 45:55Speaker 01

  Yeah, yeah.

• 45:56Bunnie 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? When raising boys and girls, have you noticed anything yet? Cause I know she's, she's fresh, right?

• 46:10Speaker 01

  Yeah, yeah, yeah. She's ten months.

• 46:11Bunnie XO?

  Ten months, so I mean, you've got a long ways to go.

• 46:14Speaker 01

  Right.

• 46:14Bunnie XO?

  Being a girl dad, but just in this short time, do you notice a difference?

• 46:19Speaker 01

  Not yet.

• 46:20Bunnie XO?

  Yeah.

• 46:20Speaker 01

  Yeah, not yet.

• 46:21Bunnie XO?

  Yeah.

• 46:21Speaker 01

  Because she's so fresh and then my son is twelve, so it's like so much.

• 46:26Bunnie XO?

  It's a lifetime of difference.

• 46:27Speaker 01

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

• 46:34Bunnie XO?

  Yeah.

• 46:35Speaker 01

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

• 46:39Bunnie XO?

  Are you excited about it?

• 46:40Speaker 01

  I'm super excited. I mean, I'll be like shopping for her and buying her outfits.

• 46:45Bunnie XO?

  Aww.

• 46:46Speaker 01

  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.

• 46:53Bunnie XO?

  She gets three outfits a day?

• 46:54Speaker 01

  Yeah, hell yeah.

• 46:55Bunnie XO?

  Oh my gosh, I love that.

• 46:57Speaker 01

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

• 46:59Bunnie XO?

  I bet she's fly as hell though.

• 47:00Speaker 01

  Super fly. She got Chrome Hearts and all that.

• 47:02Bunnie XO?

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

• 47:07Speaker 01

  She got a little baby Chrome.

• 47:08Bunnie XO?

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

• 47:18Speaker 01

  As far as like giving it to him?

• 47:20Bunnie XO?

  Has, no, no, has he ever like checked you like dad, that's not cool or like been like, you know, like just made you question like what the fuck, you know?

• 47:28Speaker 01

  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.

• 47:42Speaker 01

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

• 47:47Bunnie XO?

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

• 47:51Speaker 01

  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 likes, 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, uh, on his, uh, his phone. On his uh, his display for his phone, I'm like, alright, cool. So he's developing like,

• 48:23Bunnie XO?

  Yeah.

• 48:23Speaker 01

  He's very eclectic already.

• 48:25Bunnie XO?

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

• 48:31Speaker 01

  Uh huh.

• 48:32Bunnie XO?

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

• 48:38Speaker 01

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

• 48:44Bunnie XO?

  Mm-hmm.

• 48:45Speaker 01

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

• 48:56Bunnie XO?

  Absolutely.

• 48:57Speaker 01

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

• 49:00Bunnie XO?

  Mm-hmm.

• 49:00Speaker 01

  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.

• 49:22Bunnie 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.

• 49:31Speaker 01

  Yeah, yeah.

• 49:32Bunnie XO?

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

• 49:37Speaker 01

  Absolutely.

• 49:38Bunnie XO?

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• 51:15Bunnie XO?

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

• 51:19Speaker 01

  Yeah, hell yeah, we're super good.

• 51:20Bunnie 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.

• 51:35Speaker 01

  Yeah, absolutely.

• 51:36Bunnie XO?

  She's just always been who she is.

• 51:38Speaker 01

  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 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.

• 52:00Bunnie XO?

  Right.

• 52:01Speaker 01

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

• 52:04Bunnie XO?

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

• 52:10Speaker 01

  I don't know 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.

• 52:30Bunnie XO?

  Mm-hmm.

• 52:31Speaker 01

  We navigate through that shit.

• 52:32Bunnie XO?

  Yes.

• 52:33Speaker 01

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

• 52:38Bunnie XO?

  Right.

• 52:39Speaker 01

  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,

• 53:23Speaker 01

  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 want to 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.

• 53:46Bunnie XO?

  Yeah. I always say,

• 53:50Bunnie XO?

  what is it? Communication is key. Comprehension is vital. So if you, if you're talking to somebody all day long and they're not hearing you, it's not going to get anywhere. And I love that you guys have that communication. Do you also have that with Cadence's mom? I've met her before, right? Yes, I've met her.

• 54:06Speaker 01

  At a stagecoach.

• 54:08Bunnie XO?

  She's beautiful.

• 54:09Speaker 01

  Thank you.

• 54:10Bunnie XO?

  Gorgeous.

• 54:11Speaker 01

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

• 54:21Bunnie XO?

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

• 54:25Speaker 01

  Yeah, hell yeah. 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?

• 54:37Bunnie XO?

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

• 54:41Speaker 01

  Just my schedule in general. I wake up at 5:30 and I'm up all day. I got the gym. I got meetings and Zoom calls. I got merch samples coming to the house. I got, you know, a fire pit being built. I got, I got three dogs.

• 54:59Bunnie XO?

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

• 55:01Speaker 01

  Yeah, I do.

• 55:02Bunnie XO?

  I checked it. Cause I have an Aries moon. My husband has an Aries moon. And there's always some shit going on. Like, we've always got a project.

• 55:08Speaker 01

  Always. A project on top of a project.

• 55:11Bunnie XO?

  Right.

• 55:11Speaker 01

  And, and we gonna have some fun too.

• 55:13Bunnie XO?

  Right.

• 55:14Speaker 01

  So you gotta be ready to party. As well.

• 55:16Bunnie XO?

  I love that.

• 55:17Speaker 01

  Do all that and party.

• 55:20Bunnie XO?

  It's like, we have to make sure we have fun time. I love that. That seems like you just want to 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.

• 55:33Speaker 01

  Right.

• 55:33Bunnie XO?

  They get so carried away with just the grind.

• 55:36Speaker 01

  Right, right.

• 55:37Bunnie XO?

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

• 55:38Speaker 01

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

• 55:42Bunnie XO?

  Yeah.

• 55:43Speaker 01

  You gotta like, you gotta actually do shit and live and then if your 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.

• 55:55Bunnie XO?

  Yes, sir.

• 55:56Speaker 01

  Yep.

• 55:56Bunnie XO?

  Can you take me on the journey of you doing MMA and fitness?

• 56:02Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 56:02Bunnie XO?

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

• 56:06Speaker 01

  Thank you.

• 56:06Bunnie XO?

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

• 56:10Speaker 01

  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're 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, I mean, took it seriously. 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.

• 56:50Speaker 01

  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. Cause you just get better every day. So each and every day you learning new techniques or just fine tuning or practicing or drilling or there's always something to do. So it's like that forever project for me. Like that's how I feel like martial arts is. It's 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.

• 57:33Bunnie XO?

  Hopefully not though.

• 57:35Speaker 01

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

• 57:44Bunnie XO?

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

• 57:54Speaker 01

  I did.

• 57:54Bunnie XO?

  Would you still do that?

• 57:56Speaker 01

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

• 58:06Bunnie XO?

  Right.

• 58:06Speaker 01

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

• 58:12Bunnie XO?

  Right.

• 58:12Speaker 01

  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.

• 58:27Bunnie XO?

  What if they came to you with like a bag though?

• 58:29Speaker 01

  What's the bag though?

• 58:30Bunnie XO?

  I mean, name your price.

• 58:32Speaker 01

  It would have to be like 50 million.

• 58:35Bunnie XO?

  And then you would get in the ring?

• 58:36Speaker 01

  Yeah, it would be like Floyd Mayweather prices.

• 58:38Bunnie XO?

  I mean, you know, they might do it.

• 58:40Speaker 01

  I need 50 M's for my first fight, guaranteed. Cause it's gonna like, it's gonna pull a big crowd.

• 58:46Bunnie XO?

  Yeah.

• 58:47Speaker 01

  And I'm gonna knock somebody out, cold.

• 58:52Bunnie XO?

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

• 58:55Speaker 01

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

• 59:00Bunnie XO?

  Yeah.

• 59:01Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 59:01Bunnie XO?

  Yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 59:02Speaker 01

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

• 59:06Bunnie XO?

  Ooh, southpaw.

• 59:08Speaker 01

  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.

• 59:16Bunnie XO?

  Gotcha.

• 59:17Speaker 01

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

• 59:25Bunnie XO?

  Right.

• 59:25Speaker 01

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

• 59:31Bunnie XO?

  You're knocking somebody out.

• 59:33Speaker 01

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

• 59:39Bunnie XO?

  Yeah.

• 59:40Speaker 01

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

• 59:43Bunnie XO?

  Yeah.

• 59:43Speaker 01

  So like,

• 59:44Bunnie XO?

  Yeah.

• 59:45Speaker 01

  If we really.

• 59:46Bunnie XO?

  You'd knock somebody's head off.

• 59:48Speaker 01

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

• 59:54Bunnie XO?

  I like it. Now we're talking. We gotta make this happen too.

• 59:57Speaker 01

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

• 59:59Bunnie XO?

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

• 1:00:01Speaker 01

  Yeah, cuz when you boxing, you got like the gloves are protecting them.

• 1:00:07Bunnie XO?

  Right.

• 1:00:07Speaker 01

  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.

• 1:00:15Bunnie XO?

  Or break a nose.

• 1:00:16Speaker 01

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

• 1:00:21Bunnie XO?

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

• 1:00:24Speaker 01

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

• 1:00:27Bunnie XO?

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

• 1:00:30Speaker 01

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

• 1:00:33Bunnie XO?

  Alright, well whoever's listening, let's make that fucking happen cuz 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?

• 1:00:44Speaker 01

  Something embarrassing that I do alone that no one knows about. I cry a lot.

• 1:00:52Bunnie XO?

  Really?

• 1:00:52Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 1:00:53Bunnie XO?

  You're emotional. That's sweet though. I don't think that's embarrassing.

• 1:00:58Speaker 01

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

• 1:01:05Bunnie XO?

  I'm not sure.

• 1:01:06Speaker 01

  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. You cried too? I'm crying just thinking about it. It was so sweet. It was the sweetest freaking movie ever. It's so sweet.

• 1:01:22Bunnie XO?

  It's sweet, it's not sad?

• 1:01:24Speaker 01

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

• 1:01:33Bunnie 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.

• 1:01:40Speaker 01

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

• 1:01:44Bunnie 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. 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?

• 1:01:56Speaker 01

  I would definitely smoke weed with them.

• 1:01:58Bunnie XO?

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

• 1:02:02Speaker 01

  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 aliens, like everything is fast to them. It's just like, let's slow it down a little bit.

• 1:02:17Bunnie XO?

  Yeah.

• 1:02:18Speaker 01

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

• 1:02:25Bunnie XO?

  Oh, there we go.

• 1:02:26Speaker 01

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

• 1:02:28Bunnie XO?

  Yeah.

• 1:02:29Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 1:02:30Bunnie XO?

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

• 1:02:34Speaker 01

  I don't really do too much acid.

• 1:02:36Bunnie XO?

  I can't either.

• 1:02:36Speaker 01

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

• 1:02:39Bunnie XO?

  Okay.

• 1:02:40Speaker 01

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

• 1:02:46Bunnie XO?

  Aww, any particular burger?

• 1:02:49Speaker 01

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

• 1:02:54Bunnie XO?

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

• 1:02:57Speaker 01

  To LA?

• 1:02:58Bunnie XO?

  At least there's probably more to do.

• 1:02:59Speaker 01

  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 go get burgers.

• 1:03:08Bunnie XO?

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

• 1:03:11Speaker 01

  Yeah, I did.

• 1:03:11Bunnie XO?

  You don't like them?

• 1:03:12Speaker 01

  I think I did too much.

• 1:03:14Bunnie XO?

  Yeah.

• 1:03:14Speaker 01

  I did, I did acid with Diplo.

• 1:03:16Bunnie XO?

  Oh, I would never do acid with Diplo.

• 1:03:19Speaker 01

  It sounds like a good idea, right?

• 1:03:20Bunnie XO?

  I, no, no, doesn't sound good to me.

• 1:03:24Speaker 01

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

• 1:03:27Bunnie XO?

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

• 1:03:29Speaker 01

  He is.

• 1:03:33Speaker 01

  He's walking acid.

• 1:03:34Bunnie XO?

  Yeah. So how did that go?

• 1:03:37Speaker 01

  It was, it was, it was interesting.

• 1:03:41Speaker 01

  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.

• 1:03:51Bunnie XO?

  Right.

• 1:03:53Speaker 01

  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.

• 1:04:09Bunnie XO?

  Oh, no.

• 1:04:09Speaker 01

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

• 1:04:11Bunnie XO?

  I would have anxiety.

• 1:04:12Speaker 01

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

• 1:04:16Bunnie XO?

  I thought I was Michael Jackson when I did mushrooms.

• 1:04:18Speaker 01

  Okay, cool. Yeah.

• 1:04:19Bunnie XO?

  I get it. I feel that.

• 1:04:20Speaker 01

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

• 1:04:27Bunnie XO?

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

• 1:04:29Speaker 01

  Only time.

• 1:04:30Bunnie XO?

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

• 1:04:32Speaker 01

  I turned into Aladdin. I'm cool.

• 1:04:36Bunnie XO?

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

• 1:04:42Speaker 01

  Name, Nippleopolis.

• 1:04:51Bunnie 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 dream strip club. Name, what's the theme, what's your signature drink, and what's the house rules?"

• 1:05:10Speaker 01

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

• 1:05:17Bunnie XO?

  Yes, video vixen.

• 1:05:20Speaker 01

  Yeah, those are my favorite chicks. They're so good, like, nice bodies, like, perfect boobs, cute little butt, little bush, you know?

• 1:05:31Bunnie XO?

  Are you into bush?

• 1:05:32Speaker 01

  I like the little eighties bush.

• 1:05:33Bunnie XO?

  We like the bush.

• 1:05:34Speaker 01

  Well, wouldn't I have a bush floor? Yeah, it'd be a floor for bush.

• 1:05:40Bunnie XO?

  Not the bush floor, shit's hairy upstairs.

• 1:05:42Speaker 01

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

• 1:05:55Bunnie XO?

  I'm crying.

• 1:05:56Speaker 01

  And what's the last one?

• 1:05:57Bunnie XO?

  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. Um, signature drink and what are the house rules?

• 1:06:07Speaker 01

  House rules. Um, oh, we gotta respect the ladies. That's the number one rule.

• 1:06:15Bunnie XO?

  Yes.

• 1:06:15Speaker 01

  Um, tip well, and...

• 1:06:19Bunnie XO?

  Leave room for the Holy Spirit.

• 1:06:20Speaker 01

  Leave room for the Holy Spirit.

• 1:06:22Bunnie XO?

  I like that.

• 1:06:23Speaker 01

  All right, cool. I love that. Welcome to Nipopolis.

• 1:06:29Bunnie XO?

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

• 1:06:32Speaker 01

  I'm happy to be here. Thank you.

• 1:06:34Bunnie XO?

  I appreciate you so much. Come back anytime.

• 1:06:36Speaker 01

  I will.

• 1:06:37Bunnie XO?

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

• 1:06:46Bunnie XO?

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