Wiz Khalifa on Balancing the Rapper Lifestyle | Joe Rogan

They get mad. Yeah, yup. At the top, man, there's no one who's like you that doesn't work hard. Right. So that's the myth, right? That's the thing too. It's like maintaining. I mean, it's like, again, the wrong word for it. Right. Passion hard, whatever it is. Right, right, right, right. I mean, you know... Dedicated to your craft. ...maintaining it is, there's an art to that, right? Because you work so freaking hard to get to where you're at. And then you get there and it's like, oh fuck, what do I do? There's no rest. There's no rest. And everything that was acceptable before becomes unacceptable because now you're up here. You know what I mean? So it's like, yeah, you have to pick your shots. And like, you know what I'm saying? You can't really like just go crazy like you did back in the day. So there's an art to it. You know what I mean? And that's how you really maintain and stay in that spot and even level up. So do you consciously think, okay, balance out enjoyment with things that I have to do to stay disciplined? 100%. Yeah. 100%. That's a very smart way of looking at it. Yeah, yep. 100%. Like those, there has to be a balance of each because it's like, all right, now I'm at this new level. Like whether I want to behave like this or not, I put myself here. I worked hard. Now I'm with these elite motherfuckers. So this is how I have to act because I'm not down here anymore. I worked from here to get here. So what happens? You balance, you put things into place, you do a little bit of this and a little bit of that instead of a lot of that. You know what I mean? And you just pick your shots. And it's like, you're going to get everything in the end. This is how it's just planned and how it's supposed to be. But you just piece it together just a little bit differently. I just turned 31. Well, damn, I'm about to be 32. As young to a lot of people, that's old to some people as well. But for me, it's like, it's a whole new mind state. You know what I mean? And I feel like through my 20s, I was actually like a fucking teenager and now I'm an adult. So now I look at things a little bit differently. It's like, yo, I was really a kid. This is how you behave as an adult for the rest of your life. It still involves a whole bunch of partying and having fun. But the business gets handled and things get approached totally differently. That's a balanced way of looking at it, man. I love it. Enjoy it. That's the other thing, too. People have to understand to be someone like you, to be a very successful rapper and to not expect you to live the way you talk about all the time. It's so ridiculous. Like you don't think he wants a party? He's talking about partying all the time. I think he wants to party. I think he likes partying. This is just an act. Yeah, yeah. It's weird, right? It's crazy as fuck because people, they want you to be you. They want me to be myself. Right. They want to party. They want to take shots. They want to smoke weed. They want to stay up all night. Yeah. Why is that bad? It's not. So many people want to do it. But it gives this image in some people's minds of frivolous life, frivolous thinking, partying. What are you doing? Drinking and smoking. What are you enjoying yourself? And then they come around and do the same thing because they want it. It's like I have a weird place in life where I think I'm the key to a lot of shit because it's like if you want to enjoy yourself, I'm a guy. You know what I mean? It's like, oh man, I'm just fucking going to live through Wiz. When Wiz shows up, he's going to light the joint. It's going to be amazing. If you want to fucking be professional, like especially in what I do because there's a whole lot of rappers who aren't business, you know what I mean? They're not thinking like that. So for those guys, I'm their guy. Like they look at me like Wiz has his shit together. Like he really handles his business. He talks to people. He shows up. He does this. He does that. So to be the party guy and the business guy, it's like amazing. You know what I mean? It's a it's a lane that I kind of carve for myself, but it's me in real life. So it's like that's the only thing I have to do is really just completely be myself. Just be 100 fucking show up, do my business thing, tell people to do the right thing and fucking light the joint. You know what I mean? That's it. That's a crazy business, sir. I'm good. I'm straight like that. That's amazing. Yeah. People listen to this about like, wow. You could be yourself for a living for a show, bro. Is blessing.