The song topped the Billboard Hot 100 and the title is a reference to City Of Pittsburgh's colors. The singer's breakthrough came with "Black And Yellow", which was released through Atlantic Records. He also collaborated with different singers on the songs "Diva", "Walking On A Dream", "If I Were A Boy", "Best I Ever Had" and "Luchini AKA This Is It". The following releases from Khalifa included "Teach You To Fly", a single, and "How Fly", a mix-tape. The first single to be released was "Say Yeah", and it was number 25 on the Rhythmic Top 40 chart and number 40 on the Hot Rap Tracks chart.
This led the release of another two mix-tapes, "Grow Season", in July 2007 and "Prince Of The City 2", in November, the same year. Shortly after, Khalifa signed a recording contract with Warner Bros Records. This was the mean to assure the release of his debut album "Show And Prove", the following year.Īlso in 2006, he was named "an artist to watch" by Rolling Stone magazine. Khalifa has been active in the music industry since 2005, when he released "Prince Of The City: Welcome To Pistolvania", the first mix-tape. Important artists who inspired him include The Notorious B.I.G, Jimi Hendrix, Camp Lo and Bone Thugs n Harmony. His stage name comes from the Arabian word "Khalifa", meaning "successor", while Wiz is a diminutive with which he was called throughout his childhood. He lived in Germany, Japan and Great Britain before establishing in the United States. He was born on September 8th, 1987 in Minot, North Dakota. Wiz Khalifa, on the real name Cameron Jibril Thomaz, is a famous rapper and songwriter from the United States of America.