Wiz Khalifa Speaks on Motivation Behind Being an Independent Artist

I know that Wiz Khalifa has his own label (Taylor Gang), but i didn't know he was fully independent. I look at him as one of those rappers that have a label, which is under a label, under another label. In his latest interview with VLad TV, he spoke on what made him choose the independent route after he got dropped by Warner Bros in 2009. 




“When I had lost my deal, left my deal that’s when I took things back into my hands and I kinda showed everybody like ‘Yo, that’s the way to do it. There were definitely artists pioneering it, doing stuff like that before that I looked at. Like Young Jeezy was one of the real pioneers for like the mixtape game in my eyes. I looked at him. A lot of independent artists like Wu-Tang and like freakin’ Three 6 Mafia. And just everybody who was like self-sufficient. It was like these are the artists that I look up to. So, I might as well do it just like them. You know, Dipset as well. It was like I might as well just do it like the people that I look up to. And it worked out for me.”




His third major label album, Blacc Hollywood is set to be released next week Tuesday; August 19.