Wiz Khalifa on ‘Kush & Orange Juice 2,’ Friendship With Snoop Dogg | Billboard News in Conversation
Written by djfrosty on April 29, 2025
Wiz Khalifa just dropped Kush & Orange Juice 2 on April 18, and the rapper shares why he chose to make a follow-up album to the original Kush & Orange Juice. He discusses performing at Coachella, working with J. Cole and Gunna, what fans can expect from his tour, his thoughts on being compared to Snoop Dogg, not realizing Blacc Hollywood went No. 1, his role in the legalization of marijuana in New York and more!
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Carl Lamarre:
Yo, yo. What’s going on y’all? I am Billboard deputy director of R&B/hip-hop, Mr. Carl Lamarre. Today for Billboard In Conversation, we got the man, the myth, the legend — Mr. Kush & OJ, Wiz Khalifa.
Wiz Khalifa:
What’s up, brother?
Khalifa, man, you know, we’re gonna talk everything from the new album, Kush & OJ, the world tour, if you still got that gym regimen going, still f–king up them weights.
Mhm.
Say less we might my do a bet, a little weight competition.
Push ups. Do functional push-ups.
I would say you lost me to functional push-ups. I don’t know what the s–t is. What’s a functional push-up?
It’s like a three way, like you do scap, you do scap half, and then you do scap full.
You see you throwing words out there I never heard of before, bro.
Like, we gonna stick to this.
It’s some ROTP s–t you hit me with right there, but no real talk. Man, congratulations. This is the 15th anniversary of Kush & Orange Juice, man. Tell me some of your fondest memories making that classic.
Really just like the mode that I was in, like tapped in with the fans being on the road, buying Jordans, wearing chucks, wearing camo shorts every day, literally, like smoking kush and drinking orange juice and just, you know, putting the world onto a whole lifestyle that we were living.
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