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Wiz Khalifa

One of hip hop's new breed of rap stars, Wiz Khalifa's gangsta rhymes and relentless beats come with a rock star strut and a body covered in tattoos. Born Cameron Jibril Thomaz in Minot (North Dakota), on September 8, 1987, he was nicknamed "Young Wiz" by his grandfather (shortened from wisdom) and took his second name from the Arabic word for successor, before being discovered as a 16-year-old performing on a mixtape with a gang of new Pittsburgh artists. Taken under the wing of Rostrum Records boss Benjy Grinberg, his own mixtapes Show and Prove (2006) and Kush and Orange Juice...