Pod Insights Dumb Blonde Wiz Khalifa: I'm Blessed to Be a Healer About this episode 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".
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0:28 Speaker 01 Bunny XO.
0:28 Bunnie XO? She was a Vegas bunny.
0:29 Speaker 01 Bunny XO.
0:30 Bunnie XO? Bunny XO. She changed my life.
0:32 Speaker 01 Dumb Blonde Podcast and Bunny XO. Kelly rolls like Bunny XO. Bunny XO.
0:38 Bunnie XO? Is this thing on? What's up babies? Today we have on the couch Wiz Khalifa.
0:45 Speaker 02 Hey, what's up?
0:46 Bunnie XO? How you doing?
0:47 Speaker 02 I'm chilling.
0:48 Bunnie XO? Dude, I'm so happy you're here.
0:50 Speaker 02 Happy to be here. Thanks for having me.
0:51 Bunnie 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.
1:07 Speaker 02 Oh yeah, that makes perfect sense.
1:08 Bunnie XO? Yeah, so you guys have just that like, super chill, super cool vibe.
1:12 Speaker 02 Yeah, thank you.
1:13 Bunnie 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.
1:21 Speaker 02 Exactly.
1:22 Bunnie XO? Literally. Was he an inspiration for you growing up?
1:24 Speaker 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.
1:48 Bunnie XO? Yeah.
1:48 Speaker 02 Yeah.
1:49 Bunnie XO? Absolutely. I miss pimp Snoop.
1:51 Speaker 02 Yeah.
1:52 Bunnie XO? Can we bring him back?
1:53 Speaker 02 There's a lot of people who don't even know he was a pimp.
1:55 Bunnie 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?
2:06 Speaker 02 Exactly. Yeah, he raised us. He raised us right.
2:09 Bunnie 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?
2:19 Speaker 02 Who would be my Martha?
2:21 Bunnie XO? Yeah.
2:21 Speaker 02 I think like, uh, Chelsea Handler.
2:24 Bunnie XO? Oh, yeah.
2:24 Speaker 02 Yeah.
2:25 Bunnie XO? She's fucking hilarious, dude.
2:27 Speaker 02 Funny as hell, yo.
2:28 Bunnie XO? We love Chelsea in this house.
2:29 Speaker 02 Yeah.
2:30 Bunnie XO? She actually gave, is one of the first people who gave us like our first break.
2:34 Speaker 02 Uh huh.
2:35 Bunnie XO? As far as like reality TV.
2:37 Speaker 02 Yeah.
2:37 Bunnie XO? She believed in our family and like shot. I know. She's a fucking, she's so dope.
2:41 Speaker 02 I didn't even know that. She just a G to me as well.
2:44 Bunnie XO? She is.
2:44 Speaker 02 Yeah, so I, that would be like my Martha for sure.
2:47 Bunnie XO? Yeah, dude, I think we need to, we need to do that.
2:49 Speaker 02 We could.
2:50 Bunnie XO? We need to get Wiz and Chelsea Handler in a fucking TV show together. That would be so fire.
2:55 Speaker 02 Yeah, that would be awesome.
2:56 Bunnie 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?
3:01 Speaker 02 No, I'm good. I got high before I came in.
3:03 Bunnie XO? Alright, good.
3:03 Speaker 02 It's all good. I'm not tripping.
3:05 Bunnie XO? What are some of your favorite stoner foods?
3:08 Speaker 02 Favorite stoner foods, I would have to go with Funyuns as far as chips.
3:13 Bunnie XO? Yeah.
3:13 Speaker 02 Um, I like to eat a lot of fruit.
3:16 Bunnie XO? Yeah.
3:17 Speaker 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.
3:23 Bunnie XO? I love, it reminds me of that TikTok. I like a lot of fresh fruit.
3:26 Speaker 02 Yeah.
3:27 Bunnie XO? From the Step Brothers? Is that from Step Brothers? I like a lot of fresh fruit.
3:31 Speaker 02 Um, cereal anytime of the day.
3:34 Bunnie XO? What's your favorite cereal?
3:35 Speaker 02 Uh, Apple Jacks.
3:37 Bunnie XO? Really? That's different. I, I normally hear like Lucky Charms or Captain Crunch.
3:41 Speaker 02 Okay, for real? I, I usually hear Cinnamon Toast Crunch.
3:44 Bunnie XO? I do love a good Cinnamon Toast Crunch or Honey Gramps.
3:46 Speaker 02 Yeah, Honey Gramps is good.
3:48 Bunnie XO? Don't fuck around.
3:48 Speaker 02 Honey Nut Cheerios.
3:50 Bunnie XO? Delish.
3:50 Speaker 02 Yeah, don't sleep, sleep on them either.
3:52 Bunnie XO? Dude, I love me some fucking Cheerios.
3:54 Speaker 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.
4:03 Bunnie XO? Have you ever thought about doing like reality TV? I think you are literally made for it.
4:07 Speaker 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.
4:15 Bunnie XO? I miss the OG Real World.
4:16 Speaker 02 Me too. And I used to like, that was my thing. I wanted to be like a personality.
4:21 Bunnie XO? Yeah.
4:21 Speaker 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.
4:33 Bunnie XO? Right.
4:34 Speaker 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.
4:44 Bunnie XO? I think you have enough star power now to make that happen.
4:46 Speaker 02 Yeah, I'm a super fun dude too. Like I, I try anything. It don't matter what it is.
4:51 Bunnie 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.
4:57 Speaker 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?
5:03 Bunnie XO? Yeah.
5:04 Speaker 02 I want to do like a weird summer camp type thing.
5:07 Bunnie XO? Oh, that would be so sweet.
5:09 Speaker 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.
5:18 Bunnie 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.
5:22 Speaker 02 Yeah, where's, where's the summer camp?
5:24 Bunnie XO? Have you ever seen that TV show, um, Drunk History?
5:27 Speaker 02 I have.
5:28 Bunnie XO? Okay, so say Netflix came to you and they gave you a show called High History.
5:33 Speaker 02 Uh huh.
5:34 Bunnie XO? What would your first historical moment be, um, that you would relive, that you'd get stoned and just relive?
5:41 Speaker 02 Um, I would want to get stoned and relive. Hmm. This all good. I mean, history is like pretty dark.
5:53 Bunnie XO? Yeah, it is. It is actually.
5:55 Speaker 02 I don't want to, I don't want to go through that.
5:58 Bunnie XO? He's like, no dark shit.
5:59 Speaker 02 Yeah, no dark shit. I probably want to get stoned and go to like a Muhammad Ali fight.
6:05 Bunnie XO? That'd be dope. That would be iconic. Dude, that would be so cool.
6:10 Speaker 02 Yeah, yeah, yeah.
6:11 Bunnie XO? What a moment in time.
6:13 Speaker 02 Uh huh, for sure.
6:14 Bunnie 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.
6:30 Speaker 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.
6:40 Bunnie XO? Yeah.
6:41 Speaker 02 You had like really, really good fighters and. Multiple really good fighters too.
6:46 Bunnie XO? So many.
6:47 Speaker 02 Yeah, a lot of them.
6:48 Bunnie XO? Mike Tyson used to hang out in the strip club that I worked at all the time.
6:51 Speaker 02 Uh huh.
6:52 Bunnie XO? And he was the coolest dude. He used to give me money because I never bothered him.
6:57 Speaker 02 Yeah.
6:58 Bunnie 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.
7:03 Speaker 02 Yeah, he just respected that.
7:04 Bunnie 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.
7:13 Speaker 02 That's nice, that's what's.
7:14 Bunnie XO? That's why it's crazy that.
7:15 Speaker 02 I love Mike now too. He's so cool, like.
7:17 Bunnie XO? He's amazing.
7:18 Speaker 02 He's just super chill. He be smoking weed and he just in his own world. He's a good dude, man.
7:23 Bunnie XO? Anybody that can raise pigeons the way he does and love them.
7:26 Speaker 02 Right.
7:26 Bunnie 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.
7:40 Speaker 02 Dirty birds.
7:41 Bunnie XO? Dirty birds. And then, you know, there's Mike over there just raising pigeons.
7:45 Speaker 02 Loving on that dirty bird.
7:47 Bunnie 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?
7:57 Speaker 02 Yeah, let's do it.
7:58 Bunnie XO? So you were a military kid?
8:00 Speaker 02 Yeah, yup.
8:00 Bunnie XO? Take me on that journey because it says that you were like, you lived in Germany, Japan and the UK growing up.
8:06 Speaker 02 Yeah, I was born in North Dakota, so my parents were cold as hell when they had me.
8:12 Bunnie XO? Yeah, North Dakota is like, it's crazy out there how cold it is.
8:15 Speaker 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.
8:27 Bunnie 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?
8:31 Speaker 02 Nothing.
8:31 Bunnie XO? Besides have kids.
8:32 Speaker 02 Have babies, that's it.
8:33 Bunnie XO? Literally, yeah.
8:33 Speaker 02 And be in the military, I guess.
8:35 Bunnie XO? Yeah.
8:36 Speaker 02 But, um, so my parents, they, my mom is from Pittsburgh and my dad is from New York.
8:41 Bunnie XO? Mm hmm.
8:41 Speaker 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.
9:22 Bunnie XO? Absolutely, like that had to have like shaped a little bit of, well, actually a lot of like how you look at life.
9:29 Speaker 02 Absolutely, it definitely exposed me to a lot of different cultures and a lot of different ways of life.
9:34 Bunnie XO? Yeah.
9:35 Speaker 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.
9:58 Bunnie 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.
10:04 Speaker 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.
10:13 Bunnie XO? Yeah.
10:13 Speaker 02 Yeah.
10:14 Bunnie 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.
10:22 Speaker 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.
10:34 Bunnie XO? Right.
10:35 Speaker 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.
10:44 Bunnie XO? Oh, are there any friends that you have kept in contact with that you met?
10:48 Speaker 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.
10:56 Bunnie XO? Oh.
10:56 Speaker 02 Um, my partner Wesley, he live in North Carolina. I haven't seen him in years, but I still remember that fool.
11:02 Bunnie XO? Yeah.
11:02 Speaker 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.
11:07 Bunnie XO? I'm sure they do. They're like, hey Wes.
11:09 Speaker 02 Yeah, exactly. I'm like, yeah, you ain't getting.
11:13 Speaker 02 Them days is over.
11:14 Bunnie 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.
11:28 Speaker 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.
11:44 Bunnie XO? Is it because people, they know you from before all of this, you know? And they keep you grounded.
11:50 Speaker 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.
12:09 Bunnie 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.
12:19 Speaker 02 Yeah, you need that sometimes.
12:21 Bunnie 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?
12:30 Speaker 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.
12:53 Bunnie XO? Wow, that's a different agreement. Normally, it's like every other weekend.
12:58 Speaker 02 Yeah, no, they hated each other.
12:59 Bunnie XO? Oh, shit. Okay, gotcha.
13:01 Speaker 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.
13:19 Bunnie 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.
13:28 Speaker 02 Yeah, my girl Kaden.
13:29 Bunnie 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.
13:36 Speaker 02 Yeah.
13:37 Bunnie XO? That was a driving force.
13:38 Speaker 02 Absolutely.
13:38 Bunnie XO? Making sure you had good relationships with the mother of your children.
13:41 Speaker 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.
14:26 Speaker 02 And I would much rather, you know, my kids see, see me and their parents function.
14:31 Bunnie 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.
14:39 Speaker 02 Right.
14:39 Bunnie XO? They didn't, they were set in their fucking ways.
14:41 Speaker 02 Oh, yeah.
14:41 Bunnie XO? You were not gonna tell them how they are gonna raise their kids.
14:44 Speaker 02 Yeah.
14:44 Bunnie 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.
14:50 Speaker 02 Yeah, absolutely.
14:51 Bunnie XO? If that makes sense.
14:52 Speaker 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,
15:01 Bunnie XO? Yes.
15:01 Speaker 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.
15:13 Bunnie 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.
15:20 Speaker 02 Yeah, exactly. Nobody would even know you were forty five.
15:23 Bunnie XO? Yeah.
15:23 Speaker 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.
15:30 Bunnie XO? Right, yeah.
15:31 Speaker 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.
15:42 Bunnie XO? Yes, absolutely.
15:43 Speaker 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.
15:53 Bunnie XO? They become way cooler.
15:54 Speaker 02 Super cool.
15:55 Bunnie XO? They're like, why couldn't you have been like this fucking thirty years ago?
15:58 Speaker 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.
16:11 Bunnie 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?
16:27 Speaker 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.
17:12 Speaker 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?
17:57 Speaker 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.
18:06 Bunnie XO? Music was the soundtrack to your life.
18:08 Speaker 02 Yeah.
18:08 Bunnie 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.
18:24 Speaker 02 Yeah, uh my dad listened to everything. He listened to Journey. He listened to Bob Marley. He would listen to uh Whitney Houston.
18:33 Bunnie XO? I love Whitney, yep.
18:34 Speaker 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.
18:44 Bunnie XO? Mom's the G.
18:44 Speaker 02 Oh yeah, my mom's a G. She listened to Too Short.
18:48 Bunnie XO? Oh, I love it. I love it. Okay, so mom's with the shit.
18:51 Speaker 02 Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. My mom smoked weed and everything.
18:55 Bunnie XO? I love mom.
18:55 Speaker 02 That's who I got smoking weed from for sure.
18:57 Bunnie XO? Oh.
18:58 Speaker 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.
19:07 Bunnie XO? Mm hmm.
19:07 Speaker 02 Where it was diverse. There was really good R and B along with really good rap music.
19:12 Bunnie XO? Bring it back. Nineties R and B. Can we bring that back, please?
19:16 Speaker 02 Nah, for sure.
19:17 Bunnie XO? That is like a moment in time that unless you lived it, you do not know what the fuck you missed.
19:21 Speaker 02 Nah, for real.
19:22 Bunnie XO? Like it ninety, I love ninety, I play ninety's R and B for my cows.
19:26 Speaker 02 Yeah.
19:26 Bunnie XO? He loves Keith Sweat.
19:28 Speaker 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.
19:42 Bunnie XO? Yeah.
19:43 Speaker 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.
19:56 Bunnie XO? I was a Bone girl too.
19:57 Speaker 02 Yeah, for sure.
19:58 Bunnie XO? When I first got with Jay, he's a 36 Mafia dude.
20:00 Speaker 02 Yeah.
20:01 Bunnie XO? So we literally had Bone Thug and 36 Mafia wars in the house. Of course, he won because he's daddy, so.
20:05 Speaker 02 Yeah, yeah, yeah, no, for sure, for sure.
20:09 Bunnie 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.
20:16 Speaker 02 You got to, yo, it's Bone.
20:18 Bunnie XO? Yeah, for sure. So where do you think that like your smoothness came from? Do you think it came from your mom?
20:24 Speaker 02 My smoothness come from my dad.
20:26 Bunnie XO? Really?
20:27 Speaker 02 For sure.
20:27 Bunnie XO? Do tell.
20:28 Speaker 02 He's just a smooth dude, yo. Like, he's real mild-tempered, mild-mannered.
20:34 Bunnie XO? Yeah.
20:35 Speaker 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.
20:49 Bunnie XO? I love, is dad still around?
20:51 Speaker 02 Yeah, yeah.
20:51 Bunnie XO? Good, I love that.
20:53 Speaker 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.
21:11 Bunnie XO? Isn't it crazy how life just like calms you the fuck down?
21:15 Speaker 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.
21:26 Bunnie XO? Yeah.
21:27 Speaker 02 I feel you.
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23:00 Bunnie 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?
23:08 Speaker 02 Yeah, well, the grandfather is his dad, so it was both of them.
23:12 Bunnie XO? Okay, gotcha.
23:13 Speaker 02 Yeah, so I was kinda, it's my mom's little brother, but it's my mom's father as well.
23:18 Bunnie XO? Mm-hmm.
23:19 Speaker 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.
23:37 Speaker 02 Pray five times a day, be in the mosque, you know, seven days a week.
23:41 Bunnie XO? No.
23:42 Speaker 02 You know, helping the brothers out at jail.
23:44 Bunnie XO? Yeah.
23:44 Speaker 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.
23:59 Bunnie XO? Yeah, absolutely.
24:00 Speaker 02 And, um, yeah, it came together. It was, it was wisdom Khalifa at first.
24:04 Bunnie XO? Mm-hmm.
24:04 Speaker 02 But, um, my dad being cool as hell, he took the dumb off and was just calling me Wiz.
24:10 Bunnie XO? Yeah.
24:10 Speaker 02 He was like, I don't like the wisdom. I don't like that. He was like, just Wiz.
24:14 Bunnie XO? That's so cool, though. And I love that you had a grandfather that introduced spirituality into your life.
24:19 Speaker 02 Yeah, absolutely.
24:19 Bunnie XO? Do you hold any lessons from him that he taught you?
24:23 Speaker 02 The majority of it is just like the strength and like family and in yourself, your daily routine.
24:30 Bunnie XO? Mm-hmm.
24:30 Speaker 02 Um, my granddad was a wild dude as well back in the day before he, you know, took on his religion.
24:36 Bunnie XO? Wow.
24:36 Speaker 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.
24:47 Bunnie XO? Yeah.
24:47 Speaker 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.
24:58 Bunnie XO? Yeah, he was gangster, too.
25:00 Speaker 02 Yeah, he was super gangster. He was really upfront. Everybody respected him, too.
25:04 Bunnie XO? Oh.
25:04 Speaker 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.
25:12 Bunnie 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.
25:23 Speaker 02 Mm-hmm.
25:23 Bunnie 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.
25:33 Speaker 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.
25:45 Bunnie XO? Kids these days will never understand.
25:47 Speaker 02 Never.
25:47 Bunnie XO? The hustle.
25:48 Speaker 02 They don't know about burning those CDs. They they won't have to burn a CD for what?
25:52 Bunnie XO? They go on TikTok.
25:53 Speaker 02 There's no CDs to burn anyway.
25:55 Bunnie 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.
26:01 Speaker 02 It's just all in the air.
26:02 Bunnie XO? Yeah.
26:03 Speaker 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
26:44 Speaker 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.
27:06 Bunnie XO? Did you lose it or did you walk away? Because I think I had read that you had walked away from it.
27:11 Speaker 02 They had the option to do the album and they didn't take the option.
27:16 Bunnie XO? Gotcha, okay.
27:17 Speaker 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.
27:23 Bunnie XO? Right.
27:23 Speaker 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.
27:35 Bunnie XO? Right.
27:36 Speaker 02 And that's when the uh, the internet started to change, like YouTube. Twitter, those were the main vehicles for me like.
27:45 Bunnie XO? Right.
27:45 Speaker 02 Youtube was brand new because I graduated in oh six and Youtube was like kinda still, you know, like turning around.
27:53 Bunnie XO? Mm hmm.
27:54 Speaker 02 But Twitter was brand new and I was like, okay, cool. I could do something off of Twitter.
27:58 Bunnie XO? Yeah.
27:58 Speaker 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.
28:21 Bunnie XO? Absolutely.
28:21 Speaker 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.
28:29 Bunnie 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?
28:38 Speaker 02 Yeah.
28:38 Bunnie XO? Right?
28:39 Speaker 02 Yeah.
28:39 Bunnie XO? That's crazy.
28:40 Speaker 02 Yeah.
28:40 Bunnie XO? Not many people can say they blew up off of Twitter.
28:43 Speaker 02 Yeah, yeah, yeah.
28:44 Bunnie XO? Because that's how fucking scary, first of all, it's scary as hell. I get scared going over there. Twitter's crazy.
28:49 Speaker 02 It was different back in the day.
28:50 Bunnie XO? Right, right, right.
28:51 Speaker 02 It wasn't how it is now.
28:53 Bunnie 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.
29:06 Speaker 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.
29:16 Bunnie XO? Right.
29:17 Speaker 02 They felt like that was more real life and it was cooler.
29:19 Bunnie XO? Mm hmm.
29:20 Speaker 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.
29:41 Bunnie 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?
29:52 Speaker 02 I was super confident, really cocky. Very aware of myself.
29:58 Bunnie XO? We love a king who can own it.
30:01 Speaker 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.
30:27 Bunnie XO? Yeah.
30:28 Speaker 02 You couldn't even go on a site. I'm like, oh, yeah, I'm that dude.
30:31 Bunnie XO? Yeah.
30:32 Speaker 02 Like, clearly.
30:33 Bunnie XO? How can you not? Yeah, how can you not?
30:35 Speaker 02 Y'all let me know.
30:35 Bunnie 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.
30:48 Speaker 02 Oh, I never get tired of it.
30:49 Bunnie XO? Oh, really?
30:50 Speaker 02 I love that song.
30:51 Bunnie XO? That is so cool. I mean, it's a vibe.
30:53 Speaker 02 It's a vibe. It represents a great time in life.
30:56 Bunnie XO? It's a happy song.
30:57 Speaker 02 Yeah.
30:58 Bunnie 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.
31:06 Speaker 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.
31:11 Bunnie XO? Yeah.
31:12 Speaker 02 So I'm good with that.
31:13 Bunnie XO? Yeah, I could see them in, like, China and Japan singing Black.
31:16 Speaker 02 That's what I'm saying. Yeah, getting it cracking out there.
31:19 Bunnie XO? I didn't, listen, they're like, they're crazy when it comes to, like, they're fanatical.
31:23 Speaker 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.
31:30 Bunnie XO? Oh.
31:31 Speaker 02 This is awesome.
31:32 Bunnie 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?
31:45 Speaker 02 You're just starting to see...
31:50 Speaker 02 I think the more mature me.
31:53 Bunnie XO? Yeah.
31:53 Speaker 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.
32:20 Bunnie 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?
32:27 Speaker 02 I'm thirty seven, I'll be thirty eight this year.
32:29 Bunnie 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?
32:34 Speaker 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.
32:47 Bunnie XO? Yeah.
32:47 Speaker 02 And I like that feeling, cuz I'm like, yeah, I'm growing out of stuff.
32:50 Bunnie XO? It's growth, yeah.
32:50 Speaker 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.
33:08 Bunnie XO? Right.
33:09 Speaker 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.
33:21 Bunnie XO? Right.
33:22 Speaker 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.
33:32 Bunnie XO? Absolutely.
33:33 Speaker 02 Yeah.
33:33 Bunnie XO? I love that.
33:34 Speaker 02 Yeah.
33:35 Bunnie XO? So, two thousand eleven, you dropped Rolling Papers and became pretty much like a household name.
33:40 Speaker 02 Mm-hmm.
33:40 Bunnie 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?
33:48 Speaker 02 I love the hustle, the drive, the motivation, the self-awareness, the self-branding. Um.
34:00 Speaker 02 And something that I outgrown is the lack of sleep.
34:04 Bunnie XO? Right.
34:05 Speaker 02 Yeah, I didn't.
34:06 Bunnie XO? We need our sleep, yes.
34:07 Speaker 02 I need my sleep, yo. I'm going to bed.
34:10 Bunnie XO? Yeah.
34:10 Speaker 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.
34:16 Bunnie XO? I don't think I could do that anymore.
34:18 Speaker 02 It hurts.
34:18 Bunnie 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.
34:26 Speaker 02 Yeah.
34:26 Bunnie 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.
34:32 Speaker 02 Oh, yeah, it's painful.
34:33 Bunnie XO? Yeah, I can't do that at all. Do you feel like artists are healers?
34:40 Speaker 02 I don't feel like all artists are healers, no. Cause some people are projecting their bullshit onto the world.
34:46 Bunnie XO? Wow.
34:47 Speaker 02 Yeah, and some artists are so much artists that they're not even freaking human.
34:54 Bunnie XO? Yeah.
34:55 Speaker 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.
35:13 Bunnie XO? Yeah.
35:14 Speaker 02 And they're not, I don't think one is better. I think actually the chaos gets celebrated more than actually the peace.
35:20 Bunnie XO? Well, that's because that's what the earth is operating on.
35:23 Speaker 02 Right, right. Right. But I think peace is the goal.
35:26 Bunnie XO? Absolutely.
35:27 Speaker 02 So regardless of what people are into, we should, we should try to reach that.
35:32 Bunnie 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.
35:39 Speaker 02 Yeah, cause there's a lot of dark ass art, you know?
35:42 Bunnie XO? There is. I consider you a healer, though.
35:45 Speaker 02 For sure, one hundred percent.
35:46 Bunnie 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?
35:54 Speaker 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
36:34 Speaker 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.
36:43 Bunnie XO? Yeah.
36:44 Speaker 02 And it's
36:45 Bunnie XO? That's your save me, pretty much.
36:46 Speaker 02 Thank you.
36:47 Bunnie XO? Like my husband save me, like that's that song that
36:49 Speaker 02 Yeah.
36:50 Bunnie XO? People will play at a wedding, funeral, a frickin' bar mitzvah, like everywhere.
36:54 Speaker 02 For
36:55 Bunnie XO? Graduations.
36:56 Speaker 02 Or it's never gonna get old.
36:58 Bunnie XO? Mm hmm.
36:59 Speaker 02 Like, and as an artist, we're blessed to have those types of songs.
37:02 Bunnie XO? Yeah.
37:03 Speaker 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.
37:14 Bunnie 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.
37:23 Speaker 02 Right.
37:23 Bunnie XO? You know, for the whole time that that song's playing, it's making them feel a certain type of way.
37:27 Speaker 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.
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39:50 Bunnie XO? You strike me as a really deep person.
39:52 Speaker 02 For sure.
39:53 Bunnie XO? Do you... What do you think that your soul's assignment was for coming to Earth?
40:00 Speaker 02 My soul's assignment for coming to Earth is to literally make everybody else feel better. Because I feel so good.
40:07 Bunnie XO? Right.
40:08 Speaker 02 I'm so blessed to just wake up and smile, like I have to make somebody else smile.
40:13 Bunnie XO? Yeah. Are you always in a good mood, or do you have some down days too?
40:16 Speaker 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.
40:31 Bunnie XO? Right, facing them head-on.
40:32 Speaker 02 Right.
40:33 Bunnie XO? You gotta go through it to get to it.
40:34 Speaker 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.
40:43 Bunnie XO? Absolutely.
40:44 Speaker 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.
41:04 Bunnie XO? Yeah.
41:04 Speaker 02 Yeah.
41:05 Bunnie 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.
41:14 Speaker 02 Breathe.
41:14 Bunnie XO? Yeah, I'm telling you.
41:16 Speaker 02 Take a deep breath.
41:17 Bunnie XO? Have you ever done like meditation or like box breathing?
41:20 Speaker 02 Yeah, yeah, I do hot yoga, so that's like a lot of,
41:22 Bunnie XO? Do you really?
41:23 Speaker 02 I do that three times a week.
41:24 Bunnie XO? I love that. I could not picture your tall ass in a yoga pose.
41:27 Speaker 02 Me, tall as hell for an hour and a half sweating in the front of the room with everybody else.
41:34 Bunnie XO? Are you limber as hell?
41:35 Speaker 02 With my hair up in a bun, yeah.
41:36 Bunnie XO? I love that, dude. We need a frickin' reality show.
41:40 Speaker 02 Yeah, yeah.
41:40 Bunnie XO? Please, we, this is fucking gold. It's like content gold.
41:45 Speaker 02 Yeah.
41:45 Bunnie XO? You in a fucking hot yoga class would be phenomenal to just watch. I would tune in for sure.
41:50 Speaker 02 I know a lot of ladies who love watching it too.
41:52 Bunnie XO? Yeah.
41:54 Bunnie 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.
42:04 Speaker 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.
42:43 Bunnie XO? Yeah.
42:44 Speaker 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.
43:01 Bunnie 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?
43:09 Speaker 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.
43:32 Bunnie 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.
43:47 Speaker 02 Yeah.
43:48 Bunnie XO? You know, because it's the same thing over and over again.
43:49 Speaker 02 Absolutely. It's scary like reinventing.
43:52 Bunnie XO? Right.
43:53 Speaker 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.
44:02 Bunnie XO? I feel like you've been able to maintain who you are though.
44:05 Speaker 02 Absolutely.
44:06 Bunnie XO? Over the years. I don't feel like you've changed too much. You've just always been whiz.
44:09 Speaker 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.
44:23 Bunnie XO? Right.
44:24 Speaker 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.
44:30 Bunnie XO? Right.
44:31 Speaker 02 But you can expect a plethora of stuff from me and it's still gonna be whiz. Yeah.
44:37 Bunnie 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?
44:45 Speaker 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.
44:58 Bunnie XO? Yeah.
44:59 Speaker 02 Um.
45:00 Bunnie XO? You don't have to pick one if you don't want to.
45:04 Speaker 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.
45:26 Bunnie XO? Right.
45:27 Speaker 02 Yeah, I don't think it was slept on. I think it's just gonna take a while to get appreciated.
45:31 Bunnie XO? I mean, look at the Google, Google Dolls right now. Their, their song Iris literally has come back.
45:36 Speaker 02 Right.
45:36 Bunnie XO? And it was made freaking 20 years ago.
45:38 Speaker 02 Right.
45:39 Bunnie XO? That album could do the same thing.
45:40 Speaker 02 Yeah.
45:41 Bunnie XO? Like, that's what's cool about music is it's timeless.
45:43 Speaker 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.
45:51 Bunnie XO? Right, right.
45:51 Speaker 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.
45:58 Bunnie XO? Mm-hmm.
45:59 Speaker 02 It can still, like you said, enter your world.
46:01 Bunnie XO? Yeah, I feel like albums catch fire so much later on now too, because things are like always coming back into style.
46:08 Speaker 02 Mm-hmm.
46:09 Bunnie 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.
46:15 Speaker 02 Yeah, yeah, it creates a narrative that people just wanna be a part of.
46:18 Bunnie XO? Absolutely. Have you ever done a feature with somebody or featured on something and then like regretted it later?
46:27 Speaker 02 Nah, I'm al- I'm always happy about my features.
46:31 Bunnie XO? Oh, good.
46:32 Speaker 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.
46:46 Bunnie XO? I mean, doing a song with Miley in general is just fucking, that's top tier.
46:51 Speaker 02 I just did a song with Good Charlotte too, before I, before I came out here.
46:54 Bunnie XO? That's amazing. Is it rock?
46:56 Speaker 02 Yeah, yeah.
46:57 Bunnie XO? I love Good Charlotte. I'm a west coast girl, so I fucking love Good Charlotte.
47:00 Speaker 02 Charlotte is the shit.
47:01 Bunnie XO? Yeah, they're amazing.
47:03 Speaker 02 Yeah, yeah.
47:04 Bunnie 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?
47:18 Speaker 02 She's ten months.
47:19 Bunnie 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?
47:26 Speaker 02 Not yet. Yeah, not yet. Because she's so fresh and then my son is twelve, so it's like so much.
47:34 Bunnie XO? It's a lifetime of difference.
47:35 Speaker 02 Experience. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So I think, you know, in the next few years, especially as her personality starts to come in.
47:43 Speaker 02 Yeah, I'm gonna start to see the real girl dad-ness start to happen.
47:47 Bunnie XO? Are you excited about it?
47:48 Speaker 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.
48:00 Bunnie XO? She gets three outfits a day?
48:02 Speaker 02 Yeah, hell yeah.
48:03 Bunnie XO? Oh my gosh, I love that.
48:04 Speaker 02 Yeah, yeah. She's like our little baby doll.
48:06 Bunnie XO? I bet she's fly as hell though.
48:08 Speaker 02 Super fly. She got chrome hearts and all that.
48:10 Bunnie XO? Oh my, dude, I, hello, I've been trying to get chrome hearts forever. Look at her.
48:15 Speaker 02 She got a little baby chrome.
48:16 Bunnie 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?
48:26 Speaker 02 As far as like giving it to him?
48:27 Bunnie XO? Has, no, no, has he ever like checked you like dad, that's not cool?
48:32 Bunnie XO? Just made you question like, what the fuck, you know?
48:35 Speaker 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.
48:49 Speaker 02 Like he likes to, he likes to rip on people. So like, he just goes all day, like.
48:54 Bunnie XO? That is hilarious. Has he, does he have your musical inclination?
48:59 Speaker 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,
49:30 Bunnie XO? Yeah.
49:31 Speaker 02 He's very eclectic already.
49:33 Bunnie XO? I love that, but that's just a testament to, you know, you and Amber, obviously showing him pretty good music.
49:39 Speaker 02 Uh huh.
49:40 Bunnie XO? Um, what's something you're teaching him that no one ever taught you?
49:45 Speaker 02 Hmm. My parents did a good job raising me, so I wouldn't say that's something that nobody ever taught me.
49:51 Bunnie XO? Mm hmm.
49:53 Speaker 02 But the biggest lesson right now is I teach him to respect himself and to respect others so that they can respect him.
50:03 Bunnie XO? Absolutely.
50:04 Speaker 02 Cause they not gonna respect you if you don't respect yourself.
50:07 Bunnie XO? Mm hmm.
50:08 Speaker 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.
50:30 Bunnie 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.
50:39 Speaker 02 Yeah, yeah.
50:39 Bunnie XO? And the respect factor is not there. So the fact that you're teaching bash that is amazing.
50:44 Speaker 02 Absolutely.
50:45 Bunnie XO? How are you and Amber getting along these days? You guys still getting along pretty well?
50:49 Speaker 02 Yeah, we're super good.
50:50 Bunnie 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.
51:05 Speaker 02 Yeah, absolutely.
51:06 Bunnie XO? Always been who she is.
51:08 Speaker 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.
51:30 Bunnie XO? Right.
51:31 Speaker 02 We ain't in a relationship, but we together though.
51:34 Bunnie XO? Do you, do you believe in soulmates? Cause soulmates don't always have to be romantic either. Like you guys can be friends.
51:41 Speaker 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.
52:03 Bunnie XO? Yes.
52:03 Speaker 02 And that's what makes us so, so strong is we don't argue every time we disagree.
52:08 Bunnie XO? Right.
52:09 Speaker 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,
52:53 Speaker 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.
53:16 Bunnie XO? Yeah.
53:16 Speaker 02 Yeah.
53:17 Bunnie XO? I always say, uh, um, come, uh, what is it? Communication is key. Comprehension is vital.
53:23 Speaker 02 Yeah.
53:23 Bunnie 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?
53:33 Speaker 02 Yeah.
53:33 Bunnie XO? What was her name? I've met her before, right?
53:35 Speaker 02 Yeah, yep.
53:35 Bunnie XO? Yes, I met her at.
53:36 Speaker 02 Yeah, you met her at a stagecoach.
53:38 Bunnie XO? Yep. Okay, yeah. She's beautiful.
53:39 Speaker 02 Thank you.
53:40 Bunnie XO? Gorgeous.
53:41 Speaker 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.
53:49 Bunnie XO? Aww.
53:52 Bunnie XO? That means a lot to a man, especially these days, you know?
53:55 Speaker 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?
54:07 Bunnie XO? When you say that, can you give us an example of something that like, most women wouldn't be able to deal with?
54:11 Speaker 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.
54:25 Speaker 02 You know, uh, fire pit being built. I got, I got three dogs.
54:30 Bunnie XO? That's that Aries moon. You have an Aries moon.
54:31 Speaker 02 Yeah, I do.
54:32 Bunnie XO? I checked it. Cause I have an Aries moon. My husband has an Aries moon.
54:35 Speaker 02 Oh, yeah.
54:35 Bunnie XO? There's always some shit going on. Like, we've always got a project.
54:38 Speaker 02 Always. A project on top of a project.
54:41 Bunnie XO? Right.
54:42 Speaker 02 And, and we gonna have some fun, too.
54:43 Bunnie XO? Right.
54:44 Speaker 02 Yeah. So you gotta be ready to party as well. You gotta do all that and party.
54:50 Bunnie 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.
55:03 Speaker 02 Right.
55:03 Bunnie XO? They get so carried away with just the grind.
55:06 Speaker 02 Right, right.
55:07 Bunnie XO? You're like, no, we're gonna have fucking fun.
55:08 Speaker 02 We gonna have some fun. We gonna make some memories. And that's where the inspiration comes from.
55:12 Bunnie XO? Yeah.
55:13 Speaker 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.
55:25 Bunnie XO? Yes, sir.
55:26 Speaker 02 Yeah.
55:27 Bunnie XO? Can you take me on a journey of you doing, um, MMA and fitness?
55:32 Speaker 02 Yeah.
55:32 Bunnie XO? When, how did you get into this? Cause I think that's amazing.
55:36 Speaker 02 Thank you.
55:37 Bunnie XO? It's, it's very taxing on the body to be doing stuff like that. So.
55:40 Speaker 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.
56:07 Bunnie XO? Right.
56:07 Speaker 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.
56:48 Speaker 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.
57:04 Bunnie XO? Hopefully not though.
57:05 Speaker 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.
57:14 Bunnie 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.
57:24 Speaker 02 I did.
57:25 Bunnie XO? Would you still do that?
57:26 Speaker 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.
57:36 Bunnie XO? Right.
57:37 Speaker 02 But I'm trained good enough to do some shit. I'm always ready.
57:42 Bunnie XO? Right.
57:42 Speaker 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.
57:58 Bunnie XO? With like a bag though.
58:00 Speaker 02 What's the bag though?
58:01 Bunnie XO? I mean, we name your price.
58:03 Speaker 02 It would have to be like fifty million.
58:05 Bunnie XO? And then you would get in the ring.
58:06 Speaker 02 Yeah, it would be like Floyd Mayweather prices.
58:08 Bunnie XO? I mean, you know, they might do it.
58:10 Speaker 02 I need fifty M's for my first fight, guaranteed, because it's gonna like, it's gonna pull a big crowd.
58:16 Bunnie XO? Yeah.
58:17 Speaker 02 And I'm gonna knock somebody out, cold.
58:22 Bunnie XO? What's your move? What is your move? Like, if you had a move in the ring?
58:25 Speaker 02 Well, if I did boxing, it would probably be like an overhand right.
58:30 Bunnie XO? Yeah.
58:31 Speaker 02 Yeah.
58:31 Bunnie XO? Yeah, yeah, yeah.
58:32 Speaker 02 That's, that's, that's, that's pretty much night-night. Or my, or my, or my lead left hook.
58:37 Bunnie XO? Ooh, southpaw.
58:38 Speaker 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.
58:46 Bunnie XO? Gotcha.
58:47 Speaker 02 But if we doing Muay Thai, there's nobody seeing me in Muay Thai. Like, boxing is different because you only got hands.
58:55 Bunnie XO? Right.
58:55 Speaker 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.
59:02 Bunnie XO? You're knocking somebody out.
59:03 Speaker 02 Yeah, and I'm tall as hell, too, so you're not even getting close to me. Yeah, just one, one round kick.
59:09 Bunnie XO? Yeah.
59:10 Speaker 02 The hardest kick is probably like the, the spinning back kick.
59:13 Bunnie XO? Yeah.
59:14 Speaker 02 So like,
59:14 Bunnie XO? Yeah.
59:15 Speaker 02 if we really...
59:16 Bunnie XO? You'd knock somebody's head off.
59:18 Speaker 02 Yeah, or like break some ribs or like puncture some lungs or something like that. Yeah, nice spinning back kick.
59:24 Bunnie XO? I like it, now we're talking.
59:26 Speaker 02 Yeah.
59:26 Bunnie XO? We gotta make this happen, too.
59:27 Speaker 02 Yeah, I like elbows, too, because it's like...
59:29 Bunnie XO? Let me just manage you, I'm just kidding.
59:31 Speaker 02 Yeah, because with elbow, like, when you boxing, you got like the, the gloves are protecting them.
59:37 Bunnie XO? Right.
59:37 Speaker 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.
59:45 Bunnie XO? Or break a nose.
59:46 Speaker 02 Or if I knee you and break your rib in the first round, you're not really gonna wanna keep...
59:51 Bunnie XO? Was, I feel like you're ready for this. I feel like you're...
59:55 Speaker 02 I don't wanna hurt anybody, I don't like hurting people.
59:57 Bunnie XO? I feel like you would rock the shit out of somebody though.
1:00:00 Speaker 02 But they gotta pay me 50 M's if you wanna see some blood.
1:00:03 Bunnie 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?
1:00:15 Speaker 02 Something embarrassing that I do alone?
1:00:19 Speaker 02 That no one knows about. I cry a lot.
1:00:22 Bunnie XO? Really?
1:00:22 Speaker 02 Yeah.
1:00:23 Bunnie XO? You're emotional.
1:00:24 Speaker 02 Yeah.
1:00:24 Bunnie XO? That's sweet, though.
1:00:26 Speaker 02 Yeah.
1:00:26 Bunnie XO? I don't think that's embarrassing.
1:00:28 Speaker 02 It is to me, cuz I'll be wa- I was watching like, what's that, Encanto? What's that Disney movie?
1:00:35 Bunnie XO? I'm not sure.
1:00:36 Speaker 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.
1:00:43 Bunnie XO? Aww.
1:00:44 Speaker 02 You cried too? I'm crying just thinking about it. It was so sweet.
1:00:49 Bunnie XO? I'm not watching it now.
1:00:49 Speaker 02 It was the sweetest freaking movie ever. It's so sweet.
1:00:52 Bunnie XO? It's sweet, it's not sad?
1:00:54 Speaker 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...
1:00:59 Bunnie XO? Yeah.
1:01:00 Speaker 02 It's so sweet. It was like, I was like, aw, man, here, here we go.
1:01:03 Bunnie 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.
1:01:10 Speaker 02 Yeah, for sure. I, I think I'm very in tune with it.
1:01:14 Bunnie 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.
1:01:20 Speaker 02 Mm-hmm.
1:01:20 Bunnie 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?
1:01:26 Speaker 02 I would definitely smoke weed with them.
1:01:28 Bunnie XO? Yeah. You don't think they're not already smoking weed?
1:01:32 Speaker 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.
1:01:48 Bunnie XO? Yeah.
1:01:48 Speaker 02 I would smoke some weed with them and I would probably play them like a Parliament Funkadelic record.
1:01:55 Bunnie XO? Oh, there we go.
1:01:56 Speaker 02 Yeah, I would put on some, some Earth music.
1:01:59 Bunnie XO? Yeah.
1:01:59 Speaker 02 Yeah.
1:02:00 Bunnie XO? Would you only smoke weed with them or would you drop acid with them?
1:02:04 Speaker 02 I don't really do too much acid.
1:02:06 Bunnie XO? I can't either.
1:02:07 Speaker 02 Okay, yeah, yeah. So, I would rather just smoke the weed.
1:02:09 Bunnie XO? Okay.
1:02:10 Speaker 02 Yeah. Smoke weed, listen to records, watch a movie, go for a ride, get burgers.
1:02:16 Bunnie XO? Aww. Any particular burger?
1:02:19 Speaker 02 Um... Where, where are the aliens landing? Are they landing here?
1:02:24 Bunnie XO? They'll, not here. Nashville sucks. Let's take them to LA.
1:02:27 Speaker 02 To LA?
1:02:28 Bunnie XO? At least there's probably more to do.
1:02:29 Speaker 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.
1:02:38 Bunnie XO? Have you ever dropped acid before? Have you ever done psychedelics?
1:02:41 Speaker 02 Yeah, I did.
1:02:41 Bunnie XO? You don't like them?
1:02:43 Speaker 02 I think I did too much.
1:02:44 Bunnie XO? Yeah.
1:02:44 Speaker 02 I did, I did acid with Diplo.
1:02:47 Bunnie XO? Oh, I would never do acid with Diplo.
1:02:49 Speaker 02 It sounds like a good idea, right?
1:02:50 Bunnie XO? I, no. Nope. Doesn't sound good to me.
1:02:54 Speaker 02 I'm like, it's Diplo. Like, this is gonna be awesome.
1:02:57 Bunnie XO? I feel like he's on a permanent acid trip.
1:02:59 Speaker 02 He is.
1:03:03 Speaker 02 He's walking acid.
1:03:05 Bunnie XO? Yeah. So how did that go?
1:03:07 Speaker 02 It was, it was, it was interesting.
1:03:11 Speaker 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.
1:03:22 Bunnie XO? Right.
1:03:23 Speaker 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.
1:03:39 Bunnie XO? Oh, no.
1:03:39 Speaker 02 And I would blink and I would wake up in another room.
1:03:41 Bunnie XO? I would have anxiety.
1:03:42 Speaker 02 It was crazy. And I thought I was Aladdin on a magic carpet for a minute.
1:03:46 Bunnie XO? I thought I was Michael Jackson when I did mushrooms.
1:03:48 Speaker 02 Okay, cool. Yeah.
1:03:49 Bunnie XO? I get it. I feel that.
1:03:50 Speaker 02 Yeah, I definitely for sure thought I was like sailing over the city on a magic carpet. Yeah.
1:03:57 Bunnie XO? Uh, so that was your first and only time doing?
1:04:00 Speaker 02 Only time.
1:04:00 Bunnie XO? Okay. He's like, yeah, I've never, yeah.
1:04:03 Speaker 02 I turned into Aladdin. I'm cool.
1:04:06 Bunnie XO? All right. Final question. Build your dreams strip club. Name, theme, signature drink and house rules.
1:04:13 Speaker 02 Name? Nipolopolis.
1:04:22 Bunnie 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?
1:04:41 Speaker 02 Okay, um, the, the theme is eighties baddies.
1:04:48 Bunnie XO? Yes, video vixen.
1:04:50 Speaker 02 Yeah, those are my favorite chicks.
1:04:52 Bunnie XO? Oh, me too.
1:04:53 Speaker 02 They're so good, like, nice bodies, like, perfect boobs, cute little butt.
1:04:59 Bunnie XO? Yep.
1:04:59 Speaker 02 Little bush, you know?
1:05:01 Bunnie XO? Are you into bush?
1:05:02 Speaker 02 I like the little eighties bush.
1:05:03 Bunnie XO? We like the bush.
1:05:04 Speaker 02 Well, we might have a bush floor. Yeah, there'd be a floor for bush.
1:05:10 Bunnie XO? Not the bush floor, shit's hairy upstairs.
1:05:13 Speaker 02 It's hairy, it's hairy. And then downstairs, Nipopolis is regular. The signature drink will be the Napoleon dynamite.
1:05:25 Bunnie XO? I'm crying.
1:05:27 Speaker 02 What's the last one?
1:05:28 Bunnie 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?
1:05:37 Speaker 02 House rules. We gotta respect the ladies. That's the number one rule.
1:05:45 Bunnie XO? Yes.
1:05:46 Speaker 02 Tip well. And...
1:05:49 Bunnie XO? Leave room for the Holy Spirit.
1:05:51 Speaker 02 Leave room for the Holy Spirit.
1:05:52 Bunnie XO? I like that.
1:05:53 Speaker 02 All right, cool.
1:05:53 Bunnie XO? I like it.
1:05:54 Speaker 02 I love that. Welcome to Nipopolis.
1:05:59 Bunnie XO? Wiz, thank you so much for coming on the podcast, babe.
1:06:02 Speaker 02 I'm happy to be here, thank you.
1:06:04 Bunnie XO? I appreciate you so much. Come back anytime.
1:06:07 Speaker 02 I will.
1:06:07 Bunnie XO? All right, and thank you guys for tuning into another episode of Dumb Blonde. I will see you guys next week, bye.
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