Wiz Khalifa was surrounded by puppies when he pulled up to the Buzzfeed offices earlier this week. The Taylor Gang honcho is on the road in support of his Kush + Orange Juice 2 sequel album, which arrived on Friday (April 18).
Khalifa was feeling the puppy love during his interview with Buzzfeed Celeb as he was peppered with questions about his career while the dogs nibbled on his Nike laces and icy chain.
While pups around him pissed, pooped and even threw up, Wiz remained cool and calm as usual with his laid-back personality throughout the interview. Khalifa has been around dogs for much of his career, as fans might recall his pit bull named Star, his French bulldog Vincent, or Max B, the mini English bulldog.
The Pittsburgh native has worked with many of the rap dignitaries he’s crossed paths with, but one person he’s still looking to check off his bucket list is Dr. Dre. “I want to work with Dr. Dre. It would be fun to get some Dre beats,” he said. “That’s probably like one of my biggest people that I want to work with.”
Wiz also admitted to looking back at previous time periods during his decorated career as inspiration, fueling him today.
“I’m my current muse,” he said. “I put in so much work in the game. I just look at my old stuff as inspiration. It just inspires me to see myself in different eras I might have forgotten what mindframe I was in when I was doing certain stuff… I got these things on YouTube they’re called DayToday‘s, but just seeing how creative that process was, it still inspires me to do new stuff in a new way.”
Kush & Orange Juice was released in 2010 and went on to be one of the mixtapes that defined the Blog Era of music. Fifteen years later, Khalifa is back with the sequel.
Watch the full interview below.
