{"id":35353,"date":"2025-06-10T22:11:49","date_gmt":"2025-06-10T22:11:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/10\/wiz-khalifa-tears-up-during-tiny-desk-performance-watch\/"},"modified":"2025-06-10T22:11:49","modified_gmt":"2025-06-10T22:11:49","slug":"wiz-khalifa-tears-up-during-tiny-desk-performance-watch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/10\/wiz-khalifa-tears-up-during-tiny-desk-performance-watch\/","title":{"rendered":"Wiz Khalifa Tears Up During Tiny Desk Performance: Watch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>The rap star was celebrating the sequel to his seminal mixtape, <em>Kush &amp; Orange Juice<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n\t\t<!-- do not apply CSS styles to this element! --><\/p>\n<div class=\"pmc-paywall\">\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/wiz-khalifa\/\" id=\"auto-tag_wiz-khalifa\" data-tag=\"wiz-khalifa\">Wiz Khalifa<\/a> couldn\u2019t hold back his tears when he saw some of his family in the crowd during his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/npr-tiny-desk\/\" id=\"auto-tag_npr-tiny-desk\" data-tag=\"npr-tiny-desk\">NPR Tiny Desk<\/a> performance. On Tuesday, the rap king visited the NPR offices for a 20-minute performance, featuring classics and new songs, backed by a band.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tWearing a Snoop Dogg-referencing shirt, Khalifa opened the performance with a jazzy rendition of \u201cRed Eye,\u201d driven by a groovy bass and a full live band. He continued with \u201cMezmorized\u201d and \u201cThe Kid Frankie,\u201d before a rock-tipped take of \u201cNever Been.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Wiz Khalifa: Tiny Desk Concert\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/grWRQ0cONXA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tFollowing the rap star\u2019s performance of \u201cUp\u201d from 2010\u2019s <em>Kush &amp; Orange Juice<\/em>, he ended with \u201cCrime Bud and Women,\u201d which led to him tearing up as he looked into the crowd to see several friends and family members, including his father, according to NPR. \u201cY\u2019all made me cry!\u201d Khalifa said, wiping tears from his face. \u201cFuck, y\u2019all.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tThe new performance comes <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-features\/wiz-khalifa-interview-kush-orange-juice-1235321535\/\">two months after<\/a> he released his <em>Kush &amp; Orange Juice<\/em> mixtape sequel, <em>Kush &amp; Orange Juice<\/em> 2, which feature 23 songs, including \u201cHide It\u201d with Don Toliver, \u201cMy Influence\u201d with Juicy J, and \u201cTop Down\u201d with Ty Dolla $ign.<\/p>\n<section class=\"brands-most-popular \/\/ recirculation-modules trending-in-article lrv-u-margin-tb-2 lrv-u-border-a-2 u-box-shadow-5-5 lrv-u-padding-lr-1 a-span1 u-padding-b-1@tablet u-overflow-hidden\">\n<h2 id=\"section-heading\" class=\"c-heading larva  lrv-u-text-align-center u-border-color-black a-font-theme-primary-xxs lrv-u-color-black lrv-u-text-transform-uppercase u-letter-spacing-0063 lrv-u-padding-t-050 u-padding-b-0375@tablet lrv-u-padding-b-050@mobile-max lrv-u-border-b-2\">\n<p>\t\tTrending Stories<\/p>\n<\/h2>\n<\/section>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\t\u201cI see tons of maturity,\u201d Khalifa <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-features\/wiz-khalifa-interview-kush-orange-juice-1235321535\/\">told <em>Rolling Stone<\/em>, <\/a>comparing his two albums in April. \u201cI\u2019m less disrespectful towards women. I definitely talk way more about my kids, and just my description of a perfect day back then is totally different from my description of a perfect day now, but it\u2019s still cool.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\t\u201cAnd that\u2019s the thing that I love about it, I\u2019m able to speak on my reality, but still in a way that somebody who wants to be cool is going to look up to it,\u201d he added. \u201cIt\u2019s very positive. It is super duper positive. That\u2019s where I\u2019m at in my mind.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/wiz-khalifa-performance-tiny-desk-npr-1235361365\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The rap star was celebrating the sequel to his seminal mixtape, Kush &amp; Orange Juice Wiz Khalifa couldn\u2019t hold back his tears when he&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":35354,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pop","article","has-excerpt","has-avatar","has-author","has-date","has-comment-count","has-category-meta","has-read-more","thumbnail-"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35353\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}