This being your 3rd album, did you approach Blacc Hollywood much differently than the first two?

Wiz Khalifa: I wouldn’t say I approached it much differently, but I definitely had a different approach. I wanted to make really big standout records and something that was a complete structural body of work. I didn’t want it to be too long or have a situation where you had to come from too weird of a place to understand it.

What happened to the track with Adele?

WK: Sometimes stuff gets left on the floor and sometimes stuff gets brought along for the final. That was just one of those things that didn’t make it.

Talk to me about Trap Wiz. How’s he different from regular Wiz?

WK: Trap Wiz is always turnt up. Regular Wiz is doing the business thing, the dad thing, and Trap Wiz is like – you know, he’s a trap dad as well.

You did a lot of reminiscing on this album, like the “House On The Hills” track with Curren$y for example. Do you feel underappreciated at times?

WK: I do feel underappreciated a lot of the time, but that doesn’t really affect my work. I mean, I definitely appreciate you right now [laughs] for really tapping into what the album’s about and what I was speaking on. But you know, there’s a lot that goes over people’s heads sometimes and it gets frustrating to the point where I wish they’d see it.

With each project it seems like you do something different and strive to set a new trend. Is that the case?

WK: Yeah, it’s definitely a conscious thing and something that I feel like I do with each project. I’m so inspired by other music and the things around me that I always want to shock other people’s ears the same way my ears get shocked. It comes with a lot of scrutiny and different things because people want what they want from their favorite artists, but [making music] is all about freeing yourself and having fun.