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Wiz Khalifa | The Rewind

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00:00 None of my tattoos have any connection

00:02 to my martial arts or physical journey.

00:03 Just because I tattoo, all of the fun spots,

00:06 the only places that I have left are my ass cheeks.

00:09 So whenever I decide to do that,

00:12 then we'll get some martial arts tattoos.

00:15 But until then, we just chillin'.

00:16 [laughs]

00:18 Yo, what up, it's your boy Wiz Khalifa.

00:19 Men's Health has asked me to look back at my journey

00:22 to see how far I've come with my own health,

00:24 wellness, and some of the other fly stuff I've done.

00:29 This is the Rewind.

00:30 [upbeat music]

00:32 In this picture, I was actually in Japan.

00:43 I think I was probably about 12 years old,

00:46 maybe 11 or 12 years old.

00:47 As you can see, I have a little chain here

00:50 and I was on my way to thinking I was super duper cool.

00:53 Yeah, it was all about that chain right there,

00:55 just trying to show everybody I was on.

00:58 You have your own brand of marijuana.

01:01 Is weed an important part of your well-being?

01:04 Explain.

01:05 Ha ha, yeah, I would say weed is an important part

01:07 of my well-being because it helps me out mentally.

01:10 There's been places I've been able to go when I smoke weed

01:13 that I know for sure I wouldn't have been able to go there

01:16 unless I was stoned off of marijuana.

01:19 And I'm very thankful for the plant.

01:20 I'm thankful for its medicinal benefits.

01:24 I'm thankful for its social benefits.

01:26 And I love how it makes me feel.

01:28 And this picture right here,

01:31 me on stage with George Clinton.

01:33 Not only was it like a starstruck moment,

01:35 but it was a learning moment as well

01:37 of how to keep the show going on

01:39 when you're [beep] 80 years old.

01:41 This man's 80 years old, still controlling the band,

01:43 singing, performing like a real G

01:46 and not taking his craft for granted.

01:49 And in this picture, I'm just a young G,

01:53 soaking up some game.

01:54 The song "Ink" my whole body was inspired

01:57 by just the lifestyle and the mindset

01:59 of like me just getting tattooed everywhere.

02:02 We were going pretty crazy at that time,

02:04 just getting blasted everywhere.

02:05 And it wasn't like now where you get like face tats

02:08 or we would get little face tats,

02:09 but it was more kind of just big chest pieces,

02:12 big back pieces, sleeved out,

02:15 just covering every inch of your body with ink.

02:18 What's the most challenging move

02:20 you still want to master on your skateboard?

02:22 I'm done trying to challenge,

02:24 I mean, trying to master moves on my skateboard.

02:26 I'm 36 years old.

02:28 I don't have any business, you know,

02:29 flipping it, twirling it, hitting it off my shins,

02:33 going down steps.

02:34 I'm not doing none of that [beep]

02:35 I'm just cruising.

02:37 Do I play any other sports?

02:38 My main thing is mixed martial arts.

02:40 That's a sport.

02:41 So, you know, wrestling, jiu-jitsu, taekwondo, muay thai.

02:46 Those are the sports that I'm into now.

02:48 None of my tattoos have any connection

02:50 to my martial arts or physical journey.

02:52 I got aliens and weed, bone thugs and harmony

02:56 and pit bulls and all types of [beep]

02:58 The only places that I have left are like my ass cheeks.

03:01 So like, whenever I decide to do that,

03:04 then we'll get some martial arts tattoos.

03:07 But until then, we just chilling.

03:09 My friendships in the music industry,

03:12 they're super cool because everybody

03:13 that I work with closely, I genuinely like.

03:16 I think the best part about it is the stuff that we create,

03:19 we really believe in before it turns

03:22 into this massive interpretation by the world.

03:25 And it's just super cool to just love what we do,

03:28 be there when the magic is created

03:30 and see how it works on people.

03:32 I'm a real big fan of all of the people

03:34 that I work closely with.

03:35 So it's good to, you know, make our own moments together.

03:39 What music do I listen to when I'm training?

03:41 It depends.

03:42 I go through different waves and stages.

03:44 Sometimes I might listen to some old school hip hop

03:46 if I'm trying to get inspired.

03:48 Sometimes I'll listen to country music

03:50 when I'm trying to hear something

03:51 that I never heard before and just be inspired.

03:53 Sometimes I'll listen to jazz

03:55 if I don't really want to hear any words.

03:57 You know, it's just cool to just hear music sometimes.

04:00 Yeah, I like to switch it up,

04:01 just depending on the type of mood I'm in.

04:03 What did your diet look like

04:04 at the beginning of your career?

04:07 I really just started out eating whatever I wanted to.

04:09 My family is Muslim, so I never really ate pork.

04:12 A lot of Caribbean food, a lot of late night Chinese food,

04:16 and Papa John's, it wasn't that good at all the time.

04:19 The diet pretty much stays the same.

04:23 I have a chef come with me so I can get some balanced meals.

04:26 It's really difficult to eat balanced meals on the road.

04:28 My chef is cooking, you know, a lot of chicken,

04:31 a lot of rice, a lot of vegetables.

04:32 Real ass meals though, too.

04:34 I like pasta, I love steak and potatoes.

04:37 It depends on where we're at, too.

04:38 A lot of times the chef has to go shopping.

04:41 We might be in Austin, Texas,

04:42 and the damn stove blows up 'cause of the heat.

04:45 So, gotta make do with what we have,

04:47 but it works out how it's supposed to.

04:49 This looks like one of my earlier shows

04:52 based off of the black and yellow chains.

04:53 I had just got those, and those was what I wrote

04:56 the song "Black and Yellow" about, those chains in my car.

04:59 The majority of my health journey

05:01 started later on in my career.

05:05 I started touring when I was 19.

05:08 So you got about 10 years of me, you know,

05:10 kinda just wildin' out, kinda just building a brand,

05:13 just doing what it really, really takes

05:15 to be a successful businessman.

05:18 Like, you gotta put it all on the line.

05:19 I don't really regret anything, either.

05:21 It was a fun time, and it was a time to learn

05:24 where not to go back to, you know, as far as habits.

05:29 I stay motivated to work out,

05:32 really just by watching things that remind me to work out.

05:35 Instagram is really cool.

05:36 Sometimes I'll just be scrolling,

05:38 and there'll be a video of somebody boxing,

05:40 or there'll be a video of somebody lifting,

05:42 or there'll be some advice on there

05:43 about form or something like that,

05:45 and that kinda gets me in the mood.

05:46 I'll be like, "Hey, need to go ahead and do my thing."

05:49 What did your workout routine look like in 2011?

05:53 What does it look like now?

05:55 In 2011, the workout routine was non-existent.

05:59 I wasn't even interested in weights, or fitness,

06:03 or physical activity, or anything.

06:05 Now, I'm in the gym six days a week.

06:08 So yeah, now I'm in the gym very consistently,

06:11 and that's part of my everyday routine.

06:14 It's not just something that I pick up and put down.

06:17 How has martial arts training changed your life?

06:21 Martial arts training changed my life.

06:23 It helped me a lot physically.

06:24 It gave me another purpose.

06:27 I wouldn't say in life, but just creatively,

06:30 you know, for the past five or six years.

06:33 If I hadn't, you know, gone into it on my own,

06:36 if I would've just watched

06:37 freakin' Bruce Lee movies all my life,

06:39 I would've never known how cool it is

06:40 to actually be a martial artist myself.

06:43 The main thing about staying healthy on tour

06:47 and on the road is just keeping a good routine.

06:50 And my coach kinda explained it to me,

06:52 where it's like training before tour is like off-season.

06:55 So you can lift heavy, you can do, you know,

06:58 a little bit more, but while you're on tour,

07:00 it's just the season.

07:01 So you're just maintaining.

07:02 And I'm pretty excited 'cause that shirt,

07:05 it wasn't that small when I left for tour,

07:07 but clearly my chest and back got big as hell

07:10 to the point that when I lifted my arms up,

07:13 my damn shirt was coming up.

07:14 So that's pretty cool, I love that.

07:16 What did your pre-performance ritual look like

07:18 at this moment in time?

07:20 Probably just, you know, rolled up like 20 joints,

07:23 played some, either some Rick James or some Willie Hutch.

07:26 This was probably a Willie Hutch day, judging by the smile.

07:30 I'm never really nervous before a show.

07:32 People always ask me how I go from just chillin'

07:35 to being a monster out there,

07:36 but I don't really know.

07:37 Like, I just kinda just kick it.

07:39 I like to be relaxed.

07:40 And then when I go on stage, that's when I do my thing.

07:43 The music game is such a competition-driven thing.

07:46 Everybody wants to be number one.

07:48 Nobody wants to be number three.

07:51 So you get caught up in competing a lot of the times,

07:55 but my thing is just to create and to exist.

07:58 This is when we were promoting Young, Wild & Free.

08:02 When we first did Mac & Devin Go To High School,

08:05 we were kinda just putting the world onto, you know,

08:07 our way of life.

08:09 Everybody had already seen Snoop in the gangster persona.

08:13 They had never seen him with a young hippie

08:16 and somebody who was like, you know,

08:18 just cool to the younger people

08:20 and cool to different crowds, but he also existed there.

08:23 I think that's always been the good thing about Snoop,

08:25 is he can transcend through every crowd.

08:29 Supporting my mental health at such a young age

08:31 really wasn't even a priority.

08:33 It was more about just having fun,

08:35 building the business, expressing myself,

08:38 and just getting to the next level in my career.

08:41 The older that I got, the more I realized

08:44 how much it's important to kinda slow down

08:46 and just rebuild those things

08:48 that make life's experiences what they are.

08:52 My most powerful way to take care of my mental health

08:55 when I need a break is chilling with my son.

08:57 So if I'm not in a place where I feel like

09:00 things are lining up,

09:01 I can always go and kick it with him,

09:03 even if it's for 20 minutes or 30 minutes

09:06 and we can laugh or I can, you know,

09:08 take him out and entertain him,

09:10 do something that he's completely into

09:12 that's not even, you know, something that I'm trying to do

09:15 and it's not anything that I have to force

09:18 or put aside feelings for.

09:21 It's something that I really, really enjoy.

09:23 The next milestone I wanna reach,

09:25 I just really wanna keep evolving.

09:28 That's my main goal, just keep evolving with style,

09:31 with music, with production, with presentation.

09:35 That's what I look most forward to

09:37 and that's what really keeps me motivated as well,

09:39 is kind of being the role of the subject and the object,

09:44 where I'm myself but I'm looking at myself too,

09:47 how somebody else would

09:48 and the things that I see for myself are pretty awesome.

09:51 Yo, what up, it's your boy Wiz Khalifa

09:53 and I'm kicking it with men's health.

09:54 This is my interview and this is my time.

09:57 Hope you guys love it.

09:58 (upbeat music)

10:01 (upbeat music)

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