DJ Drama Is ‘Digging’ ‘Sucker Free Summit’ Nominee Wiz Khalifa
‘It’s regularly good to see someone put a city on the map, ‘ Drama says of Pittsburgh MC’s Mixtape of the Year assignment for Kush & OJ.
By Jayson Rodriguez

DJ Drama
Photo: MTV News
Wiz Khalifa’s been effervescent in the subterraneous for a little time right away, but the Pittsburgh local pennyless out this year with his stellar mixtape Kush & OJ. The pick up warranted him supporters as different as Miami swat star Rick Ross and Atlanta mixtape kingpin DJ Drama, not to discuss a new assignment for Mixtape of the Year at the “Sucker Free Summit.” His associate nominees embody Gucci Mane, Lil Wayne, Fabolous, Jadakiss and Immature Jeezy; winners will be voiced Sunday at noon on ET on MTV2.
As Wiz enjoys his standing as a taking flight immature spitter, Drama continues to hold up the pretender, job him a uninformed further to the hip-hop landscape.
“I’m digging Wiz . I’m digging what he’s you do, generally entrance from a place similar to Pittsburgh, ” Drama told MTV News . “If you go to Pittsburgh — I’ve outlayed a lot of time there — for the final year or dual, the initial name that’s entrance up in Pittsburgh is Gucci Mane . It’s not indispensably which[ Wiz] is a product of his sourroundings, but it’s regularly good to see someone put a city on the map[ similar to Wiz has] .”
Back in Apr, Wiz’s constant supporters, the Taylor Gang, bombarded Twitter on Kush & OJ’s recover and done the fasten a trending subject underneath the hashtag #KushandOrangeJuice.”
These days, the “This Plane” MC seems to be racking up nominations: He’s now a top-five contender in the competition for “Hottest Breakthrough MC of 2010, ” additionally to be voiced Sunday . And Wiz isn’t vouchsafing all of the accolades delayed him down . He’s in the college of music operative on his major-label entrance, which he hopes will mangle him in to the mainstream and assistance take his woozy rhymes up the charts.
“Just staying in the college of music, regularly operative, regularly putting out mixtapes, element for people to attend to, capitalizing off of whatever I do, ” Khalifa told MTV News progressing this year . “If something does well, you got to keep going after which . You can’t get gentle after which and think that’s it . So only all the time operative and reinventing myself, creation intelligent moves — and carrying good fans.”
“Sucker Free Summit” Mixtape of the Year Nominees:
Wiz Khalifa – Kush & OJ
Lil Wayne – No Ceilings
Fabolous – There Is No Competition 2
Jadakiss – The Champ Is Here 3
Young Jeezy – Trap or Die 2
Gucci Mane – The Burrprint: The Movie 3-D
Tune in to MTV2’s “Sucker Free Summit” on Sunday at noon to find out who wins!
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