Luke, meanwhile, casts a longer shadow than that of producers like street rap lane-pavers Young Chop and Metro Boomin. It’s easy to imagine another world in which Ke$ha sings one or two of these choruses (no offense to Ke$ha, or even to Wiz), including that of “Stayin Out All Night”. In the booth, Wiz jumps from rapping to singing and vice versa, looking to find new (for him) ways to stamp melodies and stoner mantras into our brains. Wiz and wife/model Amber Rose have a son now (Sebastian), and whereas parenthood tends to make artists more contemplative, Wiz, being Wiz, told the Detroit Free Press that it’s a reason to be a lovable goof even more of the time, “whether it be like singing all day or laughing and being silly and just joking and stuff like that.” More importantly, though, it’s a Wiz Khalifa album, the product of a lighthearted guy as likely to adopt a Jamaican accent on a weed song as he is to uncork a truly impressive flow. Above all, he remains in full control of his ability to make entire high schools chiller by extension - too chill, maybe, considering that he’s shown virtually no interest in ramping up his style.

Now 26 years old and on his fifth solo album, Blacc Hollywood, Wiz has developed a prodigious ear for melody, puts it to regular use, and continues to write songs that could be subtitled “Smoking with Wiz 101 - Swishers Strictly Prohibited”. Wiz Khalifa is not a risk taker, unless you count his insistence on carrying his own weed and all the resulting police hounding.

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