Wiz Khalifa

Yeah.

getting signed with warner in 2009 okay so i dropped my first mixtape um i think i was like 16 years old in high school so i'm selling the mixtape in school like physically pressing them up and selling it and i had a kids these days will never understand never they don't even know they don't know about burning those cds they they won't have to burn a cd for what they go on tiktok

There's no CDs to burn anyway.

I know.

It's crazy.

It's just all in the air.

So I'm selling my CD.

I'm going to different stores.

And I was a really a real hustler to the point where I would show up and drop off 10, 20, 50 CDs and go collect the money as well the next week.

And

People see me around the city and they really respected what I was doing and the people who I was working with at the time as well.

And it just kept building up, building up, building up till I was about 19.

And then I got a record deal with Warner Brothers, but it was for a single.

It wasn't for an album.

And the single did pretty well.

It was called Say Yeah.

And while I was on Warner, I learned how to do radio and do drops and meet DJs and go to car shows and just really promote myself.

So from early stages, I got the street hustle.

And then I learned the business hustle and the creative side of it as well.

I'm always working on that.