Thursday, August 4, 2011

Wiz Khalifa gears up for hometown finish to tour

“I never stop grinding,” Wiz Khalifa said Tuesday afternoon, a few hours before his gig in Indianapolis.
The Pittsburgh rapper seems to have been on the road almost constantly since spring 2010. On Saturday, he wraps up the 40-plus city “Rolling Papers” U.S. tour with a hometown show at the Trib Amphitheater.
“It’s always fun to play in front of the home crowd,” he said.
The shows that stuck out for him on this tour were a June date in San Francisco that sold out the 8,500-capacity Bill Graham Civic Auditorium, and a July 24 show that drew 15,000 fans to the Merriweather Post Pavilion in Columbia, Md., where Mac Miller, Big K.R.I.T and Curren$y were surprise guests.
Before that, he did a European run, where he said, in terms of the crowd reaction, “it was pretty much exactly the same, which was crazy, because a lot of those countries don’t speak English.”

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