Sean Fennessey

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Beat Jack: Wiz Khalifa in the House

Posted 01/09/2008 at 4:54 PM | Comment?

Wiz Khalifa: "Say Yeah"
from his forthcoming untitled debut

Alice Deejay: "Better Off Alone"
from Better Off Alone

VIBE, like most magazines it seems, likes Wiz Khalifa probably more than we should. It's as though we see something pure, something hungry, something unfettered in his from-Pittsburgh-and-fine-with-it story. He's already been featured left, right and center, despite just one impressive independent album and three decent mixtapes to his name. Yet we've all been eagerly awaiting his major label debut sometime later this year on Warner Bros. And then, um, this leaked today.

Lifting Alice Deejay's WKTU all-day, Z100 all-night trance hit "Better Off Alone," Wiz has arrived at his first major label rite of passage: the club song with the groan-worthy sample. "Better Off Alone" has been kicking around for almost a decade and it hasn't lost any of its gloopy luster yet. Which is not to say I like it -- it is so embedded in my DNA I find it hard to articulate anything about it other than: It's probably the most Long Island song ever produced; it reeks of hairspray, Honda Civics and Bud Light. And yet, with the chunky 808s tossed underneath on "Say Yeah" I can at least tolerate it. Wiz, welcome to the bigs.

Tags: Alice Deejay, Wiz Khalifa

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