He’s 38. He smokes weed every day. He tours, he trains Muay Thai and jiu-jitsu, he keeps putting out music. Khalifa Kush, his strain and brand, turned 10 this year. He has more kids.
By every outside measure, life got bigger, and he waves most of that off. “I’m pretty much still the same,” he assures. “Just 10 years later, for real.” The only thing he’ll cop to is the obvious one: “Just more kids.”
The change that matters isn’t visible at first. He didn’t become somebody else. He just got sharper about the life he already had. The button clicked, and he listened.
The Life He Built
The clearest change is what he gave up. Wiz stopped drinking a while back because the math stopped working. “With alcohol, even if it’s an hour or two the next day, me personally, it’ll set me back, and I really don’t have time in my routine for something to set me back like that,” he says. Weed never sends that bill.
He can smoke all day and still wake up on time. The way he frames it, that gap makes the whole decision easier. “I can smoke as much weed as I want to, and it’s not going to affect my schedule.” A night out does the opposite.
“One night of partying and drinking and staying up late, it doesn’t put me in the best place for the next day, and I don’t like how that feels.”
So he cut the one thing that cost him mornings and kept the one that doesn’t: “I’ve been able to do without that and just smoke pot, wake up and have consecutive productive days, not just be disciplined during the week and then on the weekend feel like shit.” Measured against that, cutting out drinking wasn’t a hard call. “It’s not worth it.”
The Highs & The Lows
His argument for legalization is one sentence long. Why legalize weed? “Because it’s awesome.” He won’t dress it up, and doesn’t think he has to.
When pressed for more, he just pushes it down to the calendar. “I just think in time it’ll happen.” The politics, on their own, never seemed to move him much. “It’s just fluctuating, and I honestly never really cared,” he confesses, then adds the caveat that comes with being in the industry.
“But being that I’m in the business, I have to monitor that and look at where it’s at. So the more it fluctuates in our favor, the better.” For now, he’ll take the progress. “But being that it is as accepted as it is, I’m really happy. We’ve come a long way, and we got some more way to go.”
He still knows the old slander by heart and recites it without heat.
“That it makes you lazy, that you can’t be successful if you smoke,” he says, the two charges he’s spent 15 years quietly disproving by showing up.
Converting anyone was never the plan. “It’s more of a ‘lead by example’ thing,” he adds, and anyone who wants the lesson can come get it.
“When it comes to the education part, you could tap in if you want to, or if you don’t, if it’s not for you, then cool.”
He smokes where he wants, legal or not, and the asterisk doesn’t move him. Reminded that he’s lit up in places that would have jailed him for it, he flipped the question back. “What do you think? Did I do it anyway before?”
The law is a fact to manage, not a permission slip. “It’s not legal everywhere, but I don’t not smoke, so it doesn’t really matter,” he says.
The Unfiltered Version
Lately, he’s been living on Twitch, and the draw has nothing to do with the tech. “I like the quality of Twitch. I like the community,” he shares. What he’s chasing is a room with no middleman, where people get him with the polish off.
“Anything that I have a platform where I can speak and people can tap in and get an unfiltered version of me, that’s what I gravitate towards,” he says, and to his ear, the format is the high end of the form.
“Live streaming in general is the top of the top form of entertainment that you can do.”
The rules about what he can and can’t say there don’t register, because he never organized his life around that sort of rule in the first place. “If you’re going to restrict me, you’re going to restrict me. If not, cool.” The real measure is the connection: “I look at the connection with my community, and that’s the most important thing.”
The refusal to perform doesn’t stop when the stream ends. Ask how he gets in the zone before a show and there’s no green room ritual to report. “Open my eyes,” he says. “I open my eyes, and I get started.” The pre-stage routine other artists swear by was never his. “No, I’m not like that, bro.”
He has been thinking about how to reach people since he was a kid, moving from school to school. He had plenty of teachers, and a few stayed with him. What stuck wasn’t one lesson so much as the method: how the good ones got through to a kid who kept changing addresses.
“It just made me look at how to reach people the correct way,” he shares. “Everybody’s different, so you can’t expect everybody to listen the same.” So he took what worked on him and turned it back out on everyone else.
