Rolling Papers Tracklist
Rolling Papers is the major label debut album by Wiz Khalifa, released on March 11, 2011, by Atlantic Records and Rostrum Records. The album debuted at No. 2 on the Billboard 200, as it sold 197,000 on it’s first week of release. This album has a more pop-rap oriented sound, as many critics have complimented it’s hooks. The project features pioneer of the West Coast sound Too $hort, Taylor Gang affiliate Chevy Woods and friend Curren$y. Concerning the album’s production, it features Rostrum Records in-house production team ID Labs, StarGate, Jim Jonsin and more.
In 2012, before the release of his mixtape Taylor Allderdice, Wiz Khalifa wrote a letter to his fans apologizing for the lack of creativity in the album’s content.
In 2015, he tweeted the sequel of this album, titled Rolling Papers 2: The Weed Album.
“Rolling Papers” Q&A
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What has the artist said about the album ?
According to Songfacts, Wiz explained the origin of the name during an UStream session:
It’s called Rolling Papers, like the papers that you roll, the papers that I roll, the papers that we smoke. But it’s deeper than that too. I thought of this before I even started recording the album and before it was a full idea. It’s not just about the weed thing. It’s bigger than that. My career really took off when I started smoking papers.
The second reason I called it Rolling Papers is when I left Warner Bros, I sort of got my ‘rolling papers. I got my contract, f—ing rolled up and smoked. And I was able to walk and I was able to leave and I was able to do my thing and I was able to capitalize off that. The third reason why I named it Rolling Papers is I quit writing a long time ago. I stopped physically writing it down or putting it in my BlackBerry or iPhone. I write notes down, but I don’t write whole verses, so it was like saying goodbye to the paper. The paper’s rolling out too.
