(It’s worth noting that some of his biggest tracks were produced by Stargate, benny blanco, and the Bruno Mars team The Smeezingtons-pop producers, not rap ones.) After reaching a pop peak with his 2015 Charlie Puth collaboration, “See You Again,” Khalifa scaled things back, releasing a sequel to Rolling Papers and a breezy collaboration with New Orleans rapper Curren$y ( 2009), followed by The Saga of Wiz Khalifa in 2020. Searching for the thrill of it, thrill of it Say that its love, but to me its looking counterfeit, I get done with one. From the beginning, Khalifa seemed indifferent to genre, mixing hip-hop with hints of club music and the anthemic quality of great pop-a flexibility that made him as likely to show up on a Maroon 5 track as a Chief Keef one. The song uses a prominent sample of Empire of the Sun's 2008 single 'Walking on a Dream'. ' The Thrill ' is a song by American rapper Wiz Khalifa and Australian electronic music duo Empire of the Sun. For the Nero song, see Between II Worlds. He started releasing mixtapes around 2005, racking up an increasingly high-profile set of features before breaking through with 2011’s Rolling Papers. This article is about the Wiz Khalifa and Empire of the Sun song.

Or, as he put it on “Black and Yellow,” “Get fly and take trips and that’s that-real rap.”Ī military kid, Khalifa (born Cameron Thomaz in 1987) spent most of his childhood bouncing around before settling in Pittsburgh. From the beginning, there was something low-key and effortless about him, a joie de vivre that made his music-“No Sleep,” “Work Hard, Play Hard,” “Mezmorized”-feel like a party.

'The Thrill' Searching for the thrill of it, thrill of it, Say that it's love, but to me it's looking counterfeit, I get done with one and move on to another b**** Yea college educated, she graduated Any bill she can't front, her parents paid it The show was far, you the only one with a car And your girlfriends, bein that she's a big fan, of course she made it Most girls wanna hide the fact that the thrill they chase it But you, tonight you wanna get drunk and f*** someone famous So I just name a time and a place and your game for it Value player, hotel room, meet you there [ I'm stoned This is what, mix tape number 6? 7? I don't know, but um, good weeds still in the building Your b**** still hittin me on whatever I use on the computer these days Everything's going how it's supposed to be Yes, Taylor Gang over everything.Some rappers want to take over the world Wiz Khalifa just wants to meet girls, get money, and smoke as much weed as his constitution will allow.

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