10 Years Later, Wiz Khalifa's "Kush & OJ" Is A Certified Classic
By: Omar Cook
Nostalgic and iconic are two appropriate words to describe Wiz Khalifa’s Kush & OJ mixtape, which debuted 10 years ago on April 14, 2010. That’s right, a whole decade ago. Crazy! If you’re an avid hip hop fan, you very well know the significance of this project.
At a time when digital mixtape culture was reaching new heights with sites like datpiff and livemixtapes.com pumping out all of the latest music, Kush & OJ blew up to millions of downloads to kick off the new decade. At this time WIz had already dropped some classic mixtapes with Flight School, How Fly, and Burn After Rolling, but you could argue that this was his most complete project. This project embodies the phrase “No Skips” as you could run through this tape from start to finish and it would be virtually impossible to choose a favorite song.
The tracklist was crazy, featuring songs like “Mesmorized”, “Up”, “The Statement”, “Spotlight”, “The Kid Frankie”, “Never Been”, “In The Cut”, “Still Blazin”, and “Glass House”. It’s no secret that Wiz has tailored most of his music content to the weed smokers, but even if you don’t indulge, it’s hard to deny the musical production of this project and not enjoy it. For those of us that were in high school, college, early 20s, this projects brings back great memories of a simpler time.
This was Wiz in his prime, the Wiz we hope to hear anytime he drops a new project. He dropped some dope projects soon after with Cabin Fever, Taylor Allderdice, and Cabin Fever 2, but neither of those will match the presence of Kush & OJ. 10 years later, this is still one of the hottest mixtapes to drop. Thank you Wiz for the memories. Listen to the mixtape below!
Wiz Khalifa - Waken Baken
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