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Riff: Wiz Khalifa – “Work Hard, Play Hard”

Dec 3, 2012

If I’m in the club, I get a hundred stacks/I’m always rolling up so I get love for that/Them niggas stole my swag, but I don’t want it back

from Work Hard, Play Hard lyrics by Wiz Khalifa

Wiz Khalifa‘sĀ obsession with money is obvious. The irony, however, is that from one song to the next his lyrics are slowly losing value. Sure, most mainstream MCs rap about money, but the good ones provide a fantastical escape. Khalifa’s pen is running out of ink, and the disconnect is palpable.

Riff by Jeff Min

Jeff Min is a Chicago-based writer at SONGLYRICS. His work has appeared in the Chicago Sun-Times, Hi-Fructose, Wax Poetics, SLAM, and HOOP.

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