Wiz Khalifa has smoked cannabis all around the world and has openly preached about his love of marijuana. The name of his debut album, Rolling Papers, is proof enough alone of how much the Pittsburgh lyricist loves his weed. However, he’s also had his fair share of legal drama over the years as a result of his smoking habits.
Sitting down with HipHopDX for his Still Rolling Papers documentary, Wiz and his team reflected back to one of those instances, where the Taylor Gang head and his crew got arrested for toking too openly at East Carolina University in Greenville, North Carolina.
“You could tell we was just targeted because of how it went down,” said Light, a member of Wiz’s merch team. “They really, really don’t get probably no action down there. They got a young kid in their city on a college campus that smokes weed. So it’s just like, it’s their time to shine.”
“I remember getting on stage,” Wiz recalled. “I’m just rapping. I’m rapping. I’m doing my thing. I look over, I see some cops at the side of the stage.”
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Chevy Woods added that the cops were lurking around them while they were wrapping up their performance and towards the end of the show began pulling members of Wiz’s team off the stage, starting with his manager Will Dzombak.
“I finished the song and I go outside,” Wiz continued. “I’m trying to run, I’m trying to dip. I see the bus, they already by the bus, they got n-ggas lined up outside the bus. I’m like damn.”
They searched the bus. We standing outside. Kids start coming out of their shows. So they started seeing that. They’re like, ‘yo, get the fuck off of Wiz man, blah, blah, blah.’ They tell us, ‘We’re going to put you in the car for your safety.’ I was like, that don’t sound right.”
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He continued, “They locked all ten of us up. They charge us with three felonies, said that we were kidnapping, said that we were using the bus for housing to sell weed state-to-state.”
Wiz and his detained crew members had their bail set at $3 million.
At first Wiz thought about calling Diddy after they had recently partied together, but Wiz said his merch handler, Motor, realized there was $100,000 worth of merch money stashed on the bus, which was just enough to free Wiz and his manager, Will. From there, the pair hired a lawyer who was able to get the charges dismissed.
Smoking papers is such a crucial part of the Taylor Gang brand but we spoke to Wiz after the release of the documentary and he revealed the last time he smoked a blunt.
For more of Wiz’ come up story, the making of his debut album and the creation of Taylor Gang, watch the fullStill Rolling Papers documentary below.
