Rolling Papers (Wiz Khalifa album)
Studios
- Downtown Recording Studios
- Lotzah Matzah Studios
- Roc The Mic Studios, New York City
- I. D. Labs Studio, Pittsburgh
- The Treehouse, Los Angeles
- Circle House Recording Studios, Miami
Rolling Papers is the third studio album by American rapper Wiz Khalifa. It was released on March 29, 2011 in the U.S., in Germany it has been available since May 13 of the same year.
Background
After Wiz Khalifa was released in November 2009, his second studio album, Deal or No Deal, just like his debut album, Show and Prove, in which independent record label Rostrum Records, was released in April 2010 mixtape Kush & Orange Juice. This was a great success for Khalifa and regarded as one of the " best hip -hop mixtapes of the year". Due to his success, he attracted the interest of greater major labels such as Maybach Music Group on itself, also the musician Drake offered him to go with him on tour. Having rejected both offers, he was on 30 July 2010 that he had signed a recording contract with the label Atlantic Records. In addition, he would start to record his third studio album.
Title list
Publication and Promotion
Just before the release of the album was released on 18 February 2011 the mixtape Cabin Fever, which served the promotion of the album, appearing in March. Rolling Papers is the first album by Wiz Khalifa, which was released by a major label.
On 26 January 2011, the rapper 's name and the date of publication announced. He also revealed that the title of his CD has three different meanings.
- " The album's title is appropriate. It's called Rolling Papers ( dt, " cigarette papers " ), like the papers that you roll, and those who I roll, and the ones we smoke. But [ the meaning ] is also lower. I thought [ that name ], before I even began recording the album and had an Idea of this. It 's not just about marijuana. It is slightly larger. My career hebte from really when I started to smoke paper. "
- " The second reason I called it Rolling Papers is that I did when I left Warner Bros., I was more or less my cigarette papers. I got my contract, curled cursed and smoked color. And I got the opportunity to go, to leave, to do my own thing and to capitalize. So this is another pair of papers that I really needed in my life. "
- " The third reason [ for the name ], is that I had given up a long time ago to write [ texts ]. I stopped to write it down or enter it in my BlackBerry or iPhone. I wrote down notes, but I wrote no right verses, so it was like a goodbye to paper. The paper also has been rolled out. Everything was very natural. The first thought that came into my head was the one how I really feel. It feels as if this is now my most natural sound. Then I put on the album most value. I was very focused. I was really attuned to this stuff, as I worked on it, and I used no paper, except the cigarette paper. "
Singles
So far, four songs from the album were officially released as a single. The first, Black and Yellow, on 14 September 2010. Five months after the publication, in February 2011, the song reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100 in June 2011, the song about the colors of the flag of the hometown rapper, Pittsburgh was in the U.S. awarded triple platinum for 3,000,000 records sold.
On 3 February 2011 the second single released from the album, Roll Up. This rose to rank 13 in the U.S. and was also certified platinum.
On 8 March 2011 the song was released as the second Race promo records and was ranked 66 in the USA.
The song On My Level, on which also participates Too Short, was released on May 28 as the first promo records. It reached # 52 in the U.S. and was later released as the third single again, then placed himself but only ranked 78th She was certified in November 2011 in the U.S. with gold.
On March 22, they released No Sleep as the third promo records. After the song is placed in the U.S. at number six, they released it on August 9, 2011 as the fourth and final single from the album again. It is also certified platinum.
The song When I'm Gone also reached a chart position, although it was not released as a promo - recording, or single.
Commercial success
Singles
The first single immediately reached rank one in the U.S. and was previously also the only one who could also place in Germany in the charts.
Album
The album debuted at number one after the release of two on the Billboard 200, while it sold in the first week around 197,000 - times. In the American charts in the Top R & B / Hip- Hop Albums and Top Rap Albums, it reached number one. In the second week, the album dropped to fifth place, as only 59,300 CDs were sold. Thus were sold in the U.S. within two weeks approximately 257,000 records. In the third and fourth week you put down another 37,000 or 34,000 CDs, so the album now has seen a sales figure of 328,000 units in the United States. On June 21, 2011 Wiz Khalifa was awarded in the U.S. for the album a gold record for selling 500,000 units. In November 2011, it was able to record only 609,000 units sold in the United States.
Awards for music sales
Golden Record
- USA
Reception
The album was only average criteria. It reached only 59 %, which were based on 24 reviews. Brandon Soderberg of Spin magazine for example, wrote that the album includes the insistent one - note approach to the numerous mixtapes, which paved the way for his considerable follow-up album. The daily Boston Globe said that the album would be as safe as possible and with one exception representing a collection of radio - accessible single. Claimed Brad Wete of Entertainment Weekly that the album was too limited lyrically to be exhilarating. It just go to women, cannabis and money. Nevertheless, it aglow with the passion of an outsider and the wickedness of a winner.