{"id":1792,"date":"2011-04-08T10:10:23","date_gmt":"2011-04-08T18:10:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/?p=1792"},"modified":"2011-04-08T10:10:23","modified_gmt":"2011-04-08T18:10:23","slug":"wiz-khalifa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wiz-khalifa\/","title":{"rendered":"Wiz Khalifa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/wiz.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1793\" title=\"wiz\" src=\"http:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/wiz-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/wiz-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/wiz-342x227.jpg 342w, https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/wiz.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>While Pittsburgher&#8217;s often like to claim Wiz is from their city, he&#8217;s  technically not a native although he has spent most of his life in the  area. He was born to two military serving parents who divorced when Wiz  was three years old. His parents military careers&#8217; forced him to move  around the world, having spent time in England, Japan and Germany before  settling in Pittsburgh.<\/p>\n<p>His music career started at a young age, and he was able to release his  first mixtape, Prince of the City: Welcome to Pistolvania, around the  time of his graduation from Allderdice high school. Subsequently, he  released Shove and Prove, his first album, the following year. For this,  music magazine Rolling Stone named him as an artist to watch in 2006.<\/p>\n<p>Since then, Khalifa has been scorching the rap scene with albums. He&#8217;s  worked with Snoop, Method Man and Wu-Tang, among other big names \u00a0in the rap scene. At the young age of 24, he is sure to experience more success.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While Pittsburgher&#8217;s often like to claim Wiz is from their city, he&#8217;s technically not a native although he has spent most of his life in the area. He was born to two military serving parents&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1793,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,14],"tags":[983,982,985,984,981],"class_list":["post-1792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","category-featured-news","tag-pistolvania","tag-prince-of-the-city","tag-snoop","tag-snoop-doggy-dog","tag-wiz-khalifa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1792"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1792\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1796,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1792\/revisions\/1796"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}