Sharing photos of himself rolling a dubious-looking dooby with Cara Delevingne, cuddling Kate Moss and doing the thumbs up with noted sleazy fashion photographerTerry Richardson in the past week, it looks as if Wiz Khalifa is becoming a bit of a darling of the fashion world.
So, for those of you who somehow managed to repress all knowledge of his so-annoying-that-it’s-catchy biggest hit Black And Yellow, here’s some stuff to say about the rapper and singer turned model-hanger-on-er when he crops up in conversation.
1. He’s married to Kanye West’s ex.
Remember Amber Rose? Well, she used to date Kanye West. A dancer in rap videos, she was the +2 to Kanye’s Taylor Swift-bashing attendance at the MTV VMAs in 2009 (the +1 was a bottle of neat Hennessey Kanye swigged from). After breaking Kanye’s heart (it’s widely recognised that Kanye’s album My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy was written about her), she moved on to Wiz. They now have a child, Sebastian Taylor Thomaz (their z, not ours) and are married! Maybe that explains why Wiz wants in on the fashion game, just to show leather drop-crotch trouser-obsessed Kanye a thing or two?
2. He smokes a hulleva lot of weed.
Maybe he’s generous, maybe he has to pay mules to get his weed smuggled across borders, or maybe he just really wants to take advantage of his right to totally legal medical marijuana… either way he manages to spend $10,000 (£7,000) on cannabis a month. Or, he gets stoned enough on a 10-bag to convince himself that he can get away with bragging about such a high intake of, um… highs. Anything that helps him sell his own brand of rolling papers, right?
3. He has a load of tattoos.
Including ‘Baby Boy’ in cursive italics just above his crotch, ‘412’ across his chest, just in case he forgets the beginning of his phone number, ‘blessed’ on his left hand, and a half-naked woman who looks suspiciously similar to Tyra Banks on his left arm.
4. He’s team Miley
Having worked with Miley Cyrus on two tracks – 23 by the preposterously-named Mike WiLL Made-It, and will.i.am’s *Feelin’ Myelf *– he considers himself a good mate of the star. His opinion on that twerking incident of hers? ‘Young, wild and free. You gotta let people do what they wanna do.’
**5. He doesn’t even like fashion anyway **
Ahead of his stint at Paris Fashion Week, he tweeted, ‘I am NOT a model. I never wanted to be one. I just look funny. All models are either unbelievably gorgeous or wild funny lookin. Im the other one. Actually, I think Im gorgeous :)’
So what's he doing there? ‘Got invited to a couple events by brands that I fucc wit which I’ll probably go to some day.’
And what's he making of it? ‘I dnt really get he hype around fashion week and rappers. I always just wanted to look like a piece of shit while everyone else looked cool. But yea…Smoke weed. Get tatted.’
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This article originally appeared on The Debrief.