Wiz Khalifa: "Black and Yellow"

I’ve said this before, and I’ll say it again: Wiz Khalifa is a better version of Kid Cudi, just like Pittsburgh is a better version of Cleveland. Mostly because I’m pretty proud of myself for that analogy. Though I guess a more accurate description, if you’re into that sort of thing, is that Wiz Khalifa is like the lovechild of Curren$y and Kid Cudi. He’s like Cudi without all the annoying conceptual stuff and the MGMT collabs. He’s like Cudi if Cudi started putting out actual bangers, which…well, that’s why we’re excited about Wiz Khalifa, right?

“Black and Yellow” is like Khalifa’s “Jenny From the Block,” maybe: a song about making it big and repping your hometown. Lyrically, it’s what you might expect: “I’m sippin clicquot and rocking yellow diamonds / so many rocks up in my watch I can’t tell what the time is,” for example, could be a line in a thousand other songs. Really, all Khalifa talks about is his car, girls, diamonds, and haters. And Pittsburgh.

But the hook is just so damn catchy. And Khalifa’s sing-rap delivery is the stuff of earworm legend. I don’t think I’ve had a song stuck in my head for this long since Gucci dropped “Lemonade.” Maybe my brain just really likes the color yellow?