Amber Rose Forgives Kanye West and Wiz Khalifa During Los Angeles SlutWalk

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Over the weekend, Amber Rose held her first SlutWalk in Los Angeles, and during her speech about why she organized the event, she broke down in tears recalling how Kanye West and Wiz Khalifa both slut-shamed her.

Rose’s very public relationship with West was brought back into the public eye earlier this year after he mentioned how he had had to take “30 showers” before starting his relationship with his now-wife. Those comments came after Rose and West’s sister-in-law got into a Twitter argument involving the subject of whores.

“She’s just soaking in the moment,” West said of Rose. “If Kim had dated me when I wanted, there would be no Amber Rose.” It was after making that comment that he mentioned the 30 showers.

“Unfortunately, I was extremely slut-shamed,” Rose said during her speech at the SlutWalk event. “I was called ‘nothing but a stripper.’ [He said] why would he ever be interested in me, I’m just a bald-head stripper from Philly. I was a gold digger; apparently he had to take 30 showers after being with me. That’s what he said. I guess that just washed all my sexy bald-headedness off of his ass.”

Regarding Rose’s estranged husband, Khalifa also had some shady comments about her once they broke up. But he didn’t air his dirty laundry during an interview; he did it with a song. In Juicy J’s “For Everybody,” Khalifa rapped, “Man, I fell in love with a stripper/Funny thing is I fell back out of love quicker.”

Now, this is the same stripper who gave him a son and who was good enough for him to marry.

“In the midst of being hurt—if anyone had been going through a separation, or have ever been divorced, you know there’s a lot of feelings involved and it’s a very difficult time—he went on to make a song saying that he ‘fell in love with a stripper, but fell out of love quicker.’ As you can imagine, him being the love of my life, regardless if we’re going through a separation or not, that was extremely hurtful,” Rose recalled.

Whether or not you like Rose, it’s always interesting how some men take a breakup. They can go from loving on a woman, regardless of her past, to calling her every name in the book when they break up. Talk about sour grapes. And this was one of the points at the core of Rose’s event.

Rose recounted how she was slut-shamed at the early age of 14 by classmates. And to those not in the know, by the time she was 15, she was already being exploited as an underage stripper.

Since being in the public eye, Rose has been called every name under the sun. The fact that she hasn’t let that deter her should be commended. But Rose isn’t any different from everyday women.

God forbid a woman wears a short skirt or revealing clothing—she’s called a slut.

Don’t let a woman have a sex-positive attitude—she’s called a whore.

At the end of her speech, Rose forgave West for his comments. And she revealed that she had already forgiven Khalifa after he apologized to her. Although he probably should have never talked sideways about his son’s mother and estranged wife, Khalifa definitely showed a sign of maturity in realizing that his comments not only hurt but were unnecessary.

Rose advised everyone attending the walk to be the bigger person and forgive those who have talked dirty about them. And as she walked off the stage, you could tell that a weight had been lifted off her shoulders.

10 Things You Didn’t Know About Wiz Khalifa

Happy birthday to weed-loving emcee Wiz Khalifa, who turns 24 years old today! Born Cameron Jibril Thomaz, Khalifa earned a boatload of accolades even before he released his debut album, including being named one of Rolling Stone’s Artists to Watch, one of XXL’s Top Ten Freshmen, and Source magazine’s Rookie of the Year. When he finally released ‘Rolling Papers,’ it shot to No. 2 and went gold. But how much do you really know about the Pittsburgh rapper? Here are 10 facts about Wiz Khalifa you may not have known.

10. Wiz knew as a kid he wanted to cover his body in tattoos.

His mom took him to get his first tattoo at age 16, but even prior to that he had an artistic vision for his skin. “Even before I got my first tattoo — since I was young — knew that I wanted to be covered. I just plotted out what I felt and put it on my body to sort of tell my story,” he told Interview. “I still leave little places and spaces to add stuff. I want to be getting tattoos forever. I don't want to run out of space while I'm young. I just really want my tattoos to be meaningful.”

9. He doesn’t regret his Eurodance single.Khalifa's only single for Warner Bros. was 'Say Yeah,' a song that sampled the recognizable synth part from the Alice Deejay song 'Better Off Alone.' Though the song is a far cry from his current, laid-back style, Khalifa has no regrets about it. “I love that song,” he said. “It was a great idea that we had, and we executed it right, and people received it well, so for people to relate that to me, that's cool, I like that. I pride myself on not playin' myself. Anything I do, I don't regret it, I don't look back at it like, 'I shouldn't have done that' … It's all a learning experience, and I'm just moving forward.”

8. He was born in North Dakota.

He's known as Pittsburgh's biggest hip-hop export, but Wiz was actually born in North Dakota to a father who served in the military. He moved to Germany, England and Japan before settling in the Steel City. He says the experiences overseas helped broaden his horizons and made him more of an extrovert, since he always had to make new friends after every move.


7. If you’re a Wiz Khalifa fan, you’re part of Taylor Gang.

“Taylor Gang or die” is the motto of Wiz's crew Taylor Gang, which, depending on which story you believe, was either named after Khalifa's Taylor Allderdice High School or the Chuck Taylor shoes he wears. “Taylor Gang is the movement, it's the lifestyle,” he said. “It's me and my crew, but it's the fans who support me as well. We all rep Taylor Gang together.”

6. Khalifa willingly left Warner Bros.

Most artists would kill to get a record deal, but Khalifa was happy to walk away from his when he couldn't see eye to eye with Warner Bros. after 'Say Yeah.' He never put out a full album with the label and went the indie route for another year, turning down an offer to join Rick Ross' Maybach Music Group, before Atlantic signed him in the summer of 2010. 'Rolling Papers' became his major-label debut in March 2011 and reached No. 2, behind onlyBritney Spears' 'Femme Fatale.'

5. Girlfriend Amber Rose has met his mom.

He introduced them in January at a Pittsburgh Steelers game. “They actually really, really dig each other,” Wiz said. “Amber is a sweetheart, and my mom, everybody who meets her loves her anyway. So it was really tight.” That’s a good thing, because if Amber is really going to be having his babies at some point, we’re glad that the future grandmother approves!

4. His parents supported his pot habit.

Wiz started smoking at a young age and still remembers his first time. “I got really stoned. I thought I was asleep but I was awake. I was a little bit younger than I should've been,” he said. “My dad didn't like it. My mom didn't care. After a while, they saw it wasn't affecting anything. I was still productive.” He added with a laugh, “My mom smoked weed, so she just wanted in.”

3. Wiz is a nerd – in the movies, at least.

Wiz and Snoop Dogg seem like a natural fit for a stoner movie, so it makes perfect sense to see them filming ‘High School.’ Khalifa told Billboard. “It's a great buddy film. It's just about – Snoop's the cool guy in school and I'm kind of the nerd.” It's hard to imagine such a cool guy as the nerd, but we'll wait and see. He added that he and Snoop want to release a soundtrack: “We've got 10 songs already and we're using all 10 of them… We're just doing things that people aren't doing these days.”

2. He took a risk by turning down a chance to tour with Drake.

Drake made a personal appeal last fall for Khalifa to join him on tour, but Wiz, who hadn't yet released 'Rolling Papers,' politely declined. He wanted to perform for his own fans, even if the crowds were much smaller. “No disrespect to cuz or anybody else who might wanna see me do some more collaborative things,” Wiz told XXL, “but to keep buildin’ and keep my brand as strong as what it is, I gotta keep focusin’ on what it is.” Noting that Drake made $10 million in the previous year, Wiz added, “Maybe when I make $10 million, then we can tour. “

1. Khalifa actually wrote ‘Black and Yellow’ with the intention of having it become the Pittsburgh Steelers’ theme song.

When Steeler fans embraced ‘Black and Yellow’ as the team advanced to the Super Bowl in February, it was no accident – Wiz planned it that way. He told MTV when the song was released that he hoped it would become an anthem for the club. Several months later, he found himself performing the song prior to the AFC Championship Game, and the track reached No. 1 during Super Bowl week.

Why Wiz Khalifa won the Golden Globes’ red carpet

Forget Cate Blanchett’s pale pink fringed Givenchy, or J.Law’s red-hot Dior sheath. The best look atSunday’s Golden Globes came from none other than Wiz Khalifa, the dreadlocked, tattoo-covered rapper nominated for his song “See You Again,” from “Furious 7.”

In a sea of bland black suits-and-ties, Khalifa stood out in his shrunken Thom Browne tux (think Pee-wee proportions), snazzy French cuffs and rakishly knotted, silver-print tie. My husband called him: “the George Clooney of hip-hop.”

And indeed, Clooney is one of the few male stars who can wear a tux with the nonchalance and ease that Khalifa wore his own more fashion-forward duds. He didn’t walk the red carpet; he rolled onto it like it was his 1,000th Golden Globes — even though it was his first.Modal Trigger



Even his red-carpet interview — usually a bastion of awkwardness and empty patter — was natural and charming, matched only by an adorable lightsaber wielding 9-year-old, “Room” star Jacob Tremblay, and the delightful Irish brogue of “Brooklyn” ingénue Saoirse Ronan

But Khalifa’s look was also adventurous and unique. He took the standard suit-and-tie and deconstructed it to fit his personality. His round sunglasses added mystery, while his editor-approved Gucci loafers (worn without socks) established his fashion bona fides. And, he did all this while still respecting the formality of the event, unlike Kanye’s tired jacket-sans-shirt shtick.

Sure, a lot of celebs dressed well Sunday night. Ryan Gosling looked dapper in a white jacket, while David Oyelowo’s purple three-piece had a lot of pizzazz. And, when it came to suits, “Transparent” creator Jill Soloway’s powder pink power tux was hard to beat. But, Khalifa had something that’s increasingly rare on the red carpet these days, and that’s genuine style, which is why I’d rather see his exuberant tuxedo mashup than a dozen floaty ball gowns any day.

Wiz Khalifa Biography

With a series of hits that bundled gangster rhymes, weed talk, pop hooks, and slick production, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania rapper Wiz Khalifa went from breakthrough single ("Black and Yellow") to feature film star (Mac and Devin Go to High School) in the short span of two years. Along the way there were revered mixtapes, sports anthems, a friendship with West Coast legend Snoop Dogg, and the proliferation of his crew referencing Taylor Gang or Die T-shirts.

A military brat, Khalifa, whose real name is Cameron Thomaz, was born in 1987 in Minot, North Dakota. After his parents divorced when he was three, he lived in various places and military bases around the world. His first attempt at committing lyrics to paper was around age nine, and at 12 he was already recording and producing his own records in his father's Oklahoma studio. Settling in Pittsburgh during his high school years, Khalifa laid down the groundwork for a solo career and kept busy recording music in a local studio, I.D. Labs. He stood out among the studio's regulars, prompting the I.D. Labs' staff to offer him free beats and recording time, plus bringing him to the attention of Benjy Grinberg, a former executive assistant to L.A. Reid at Arista Records who had started up a new independent label, Rostrum Records. Signed to Rostrum, Khalifa built a buzz in Pittsburgh with a few singles, but he began to draw ears nationally during his senior year in high school when his first mixtape, Prince of the City: Welcome to Pistolvania, dropped in early 2006. With the release of his independent full-length debut, Show and Prove, later that year, major publications, including Vibe, XXL, and Rolling Stone, featured profiles on the young rapper.

In summer 2007, Khalifa and Rostrum hopped on board with Warner and he cut his first major-label single, "Young'n on His Grind." The follow-up, "Say Yeah," climbed into the Top 20 of Billboard's Hot Rap Tracks that same year, but the relationship between Warner Bros. and Khalifa was taking a turn for the worse. Unable to come to an agreement on his debut album for the label, the rapper announced he was leaving Warner in 2009 and returning to Rostrum for the album Deal or No Deal.

The next year began with Khalifa appearing on the cover of XXL as one of the magazine’s Top Ten Freshmen, while The Source named him Rookie of the Year. In April his Kush & Orange Juice mixtape had received enough press that Atlantic took notice, signing the artist that same month, and in September, his first single for the label, the Pittsburgh Steelers tribute and Stargate production "Black and Yellow," appeared. As the NFL team progressed toward the playoffs, Khalifa's track became their unofficial anthem, and when the Green Bay Packers emerged as the team's opponent for the Super Bowl, Lil Wayne responded with the answer song "Green and Yellow." Khalifa's song topped the charts in February of 2011, while his debut Atlantic set, Rolling Papers, debuted at number two on the U.S. Billboard 200 chart a month later. Also arriving that same year was a feature film with Snoop Dogg, Mac and Devin Go to High School, along with its accompanying soundtrack.

Two mixtapes, Taylor Allderdice and Still Blazin', landed in 2012, and in early December his fourth album, O.N.I.F.C., was released, featuring a return appearance by production team Stargate, this time working with Benny Blanco on the album's first single, "Work Hard, Play Hard." Khalifa explained in interviews that the acronym title O.N.I.F.C. stood for "Only Nigga in First Class," inspired by by the album H.N.I.C. by Prodigy of Mobb Deep. Clean copies saw the abbreviation standing for "One Night in First Class." In April 2013, he released his collaboration EP Live in Concert with Curren$y, which featured seven new songs. Shortly afterward, he announced details of a fifth studio album, entitled Blacc Hollywood, which was released in August of 2014. The mixtape 28 Gramms -- designed to act as a primer for the album -- almost saw a delay when Khalifa was arrested for marijuana possession the day before its release that May. However, he was freed within a matter of hours and the mixtape's online stream went ahead as planned. During 2015, his contribution to the soundtrack for Furious 7 became one of the biggest hits of the year; a tribute to the actor Paul Walker, "See You Again," reigned at number one for more than ten weeks (although not consecutively). ~ Cyril Cordor, Rovi

Some things about Wiz Khalifa

It’s hard not to love an original: the first of many to follow. This notion lends attribution to the world’s adoration with Wiz Khalifa. Born Cameron Jibril Thomaz, Wiz Khalifa is more than a mere M.C. He is a movement and maverick. Four years ago, he simultaneously gave blue collar Americans, as well as his native town of Pittsburgh, a Hip-Hop champion with his #1 mega-hit “Black & Yellow,” a nod to his city’s colors. When rap marketing was primarily focused on street and nightclub promotions, an unsigned yet clairvoyant Wiz decided to share his sinsemilla-scented indie music with an overlooked demo of suburban and collegiate youth. Rap touring mined newer soil and conceived was the soundtrack for a new generation of free-spirited young hippies––fans as well as up-and-coming MCs. “No matter what changes, you’re always gonna want that original feeling,” says Wiz. “Nothing really comes in the way of that. You can’t really fight it.”

“NO MATTER WHAT CHANGES, YOU’RE ALWAYS GONNA WANT THAT ORIGINAL FEELING,” SAYS WIZ. “NOTHING REALLY COMES IN THE WAY OF THAT. YOU CAN’T REALLY FIGHT IT.”

Over the last five years, many rappers have latched onto the Wiz Khalifa wave, but while they’ve mostly kept their head above water, Khalifa has soared on both indie and major plains. Before signing his second deal with Atlantic in 2010, Wiz had already amassed a respectable following, fortune and awareness. He was selling out his own 20-city tours, including the Deal Or No Deal tour and Khalifa was being crowned “Rookie of the Year” by top media brands, including The Source Magazine, XXL Magazine, BET and MTV. His mixtapes penetrated the culture not only musically, but also digitally, with 2010’s free download Kush and Orange Juice hashtag becoming #1 on Twitter and was #1 trend search on Google. In 2010, when the reincarnation of Snoop Dogg declined an offer to join the tour of a heralded rookie named Drake, the decision made as much sense as it did dollars. Instead, the PA product took his new Atlantic deal and the triple platinum Stargate produced “Black & Yellow” smash and commenced his own 50-city run entitled the Waken Baken Tour.

Wiz’s Rostrum/Atlantic Records debut Rolling Papers and follow-up ONIF both burned their way into the cultural conscience from atop the Billboard charts, reaching 197,000 and 148,000 in the first weeks, as well as producing street and commercial hits, including “On My Level” feat. Too Short and “Work Hard, Play Hard.” Each year that followed his debut release, Khalifa would appear on Forbes lists and in Grammy Award categories. Solo artist success allowed the lanky MC to spread his label owner wings. In 2011, he tapped Juicy J from the Academy Award winning legendary rap group Three Six Mafia, to be co-CEO of his Taylor Gang Records. The imprint would introduce audiences to new acts including Chevy Woods and Ty Dollar $ign. Though King Khalifa quickly became a pop darling, the music industry wasn’t alone in recognizing his enterprising mind and market magnetism, which is why the Taylor Gang boss’s recent collaboration with Converse’s Chuck Taylor line is symbiotic perfection (it’s hard not to love an original). “When I find that the other ways I express myself are as interesting as my music it opens up doors and makes things more interesting for me.”

“WHEN I FIND THAT THE OTHER WAYS I EXPRESS MYSELF ARE AS INTERESTING AS MY MUSIC IT OPENS UP DOORS AND MAKES THINGS MORE INTERESTING FOR ME.”

Wiz Khalifa is very much a brand. Within each relevant brand exists a community (or few), and within each community is a lifestyle. This lifestyle is what Wiz aims to articulate on his upcoming fourth studio album Blacc Hollywood. The 26-year-old millionaire has reaped gold and platinum fruit by being relentless and individualistic. As illustrated on the ONIFC cover, Wiz is inspired by rock star greatness. Khalifa says that the era that exhaled such ethos the most was the 1980’s, when leather-tight geniuses like Eddie Murphy and Ozzie Osbourne reigned supreme. Clarifying the misspelling of “Blacc,” Khalifa says: “It’s not a color, it’s a mind frame of early 80’s Rock & Roll when nobody gave a fuck and everybody was a star and everybody had a limo. The music was so good and there were so many stars born from that attitude that I just wanted to channel that and represent it with the album.”

“[BLACC HOLLYWOOD IS] NOT A COLOR, IT’S A MIND FRAME OF EARLY 80’S ROCK & ROLL WHEN NOBODY GAVE A FUCK AND EVERYBODY WAS A STAR AND EVERYBODY HAD A LIMO."

Every Wiz album must possess the production of the Taylor general’s go-to maestros Jim Jonsin and Stargate. While the track “Drop It Down On It” deliciously invites, premium seduction occurs when Jonsin teams up with decorated scribe Rico Love (Usher, Nelly, T.I.) and allows Khalifa to release the songbird within. Of course there’s a ton of exotic smoke in Blacc Hollywood, demonstrated in tracks “So High” and “KK” featuring Juicy J and Project Pat, and a succession of movies made with white women and white liquor, displayed in the track “Raw.” There are even epic DJ Mustard-produced after parties co-hosted by Snoop and Ty Dollar $ign, shown in the track “You And Your Friends”; and Blacc Hollywood’s grandest fiesta is shaping up to be the Dr. Luke turn-up “Staying Out All Night.” But none of this should be a surprise. The Blacc Hollywood extravaganza began months ago as its lead single “We Dem Boyz,” produced by Detail (Lil Wayne, Beyoncé), snatched the summer anthem of 2014 crown before the season began. Temperatures only got hotter when the remix dropped with the sizzling East/South/West lineup of Nas, Rick Ross and Schoolboy Q.

This is what Wiz Khalifa does: Create moments. This is who Wiz Khalifa is: The rock star with the sexiest wife and the luxurious life who works as hard as he plays, doing it all in jumbotron-sized peacock fashion.

“I’M A FULL-TIME HUSBAND AND FULL-TIME DAD BUT I LOVE TO HAVE FUN. THIS IS PURE SUPER STARDOM. CONSTANT PROGRESSION. I HAVE A GOOD TIME LIVING IT BUT I’M GONNA HAVE WAY MORE FUN RAPPING ABOUT IT.”