Shwayze Talks New Single with Wiz Khalifa, Who Obtained Out of Romania Simply In Time to Movie Video (Unique)

TooFab spoke with the “Corona and Lime” singer about partnering with Wiz Khalifa for his new single, “Smoke Too Quickly,” off his upcoming album, Shwaycation, and revealed the one situation Wiz had when it got here to capturing the music video.

“That is a type of collaborations that followers have actually be hitting me up about perpetually like, ‘Yo, you gotta do one thing with Wiz, like, ‘Oh my God.’ For me to offer that to them, initially simply feels unbelievable. Wiz, himself, is the person,” Shwayze stated earlier than revealing how the dream collab got here to be.

“I despatched him a few concepts. I did not hear something and was like, ‘Alright, I am not going to bug him, no matter, cool, like, man’s busy, I get it,'” Shwayze stated. “After which I despatched him the ‘Smoke Too Quickly’ concept once we dropped. And he did not reply. However like a day or two later, I simply had the verse, and I used to be like, ‘Ooh I like that.’ In order that was actually cool, and he is only a good man.”

The one dropped July 12, with its launch coinciding with a headline-making incident for Wiz, who bought arrested in Romania after he reportedly smoked weed onstage whereas performing on the Seashore Please! Pageant.

Good timing? Shwayze certain appears to suppose so, telling TooFab, “I suppose they let him out immediately, so we will all giggle about it, however good timing for the track for certain.”

And really good timing certainly, as his launch allowed Wiz to not solely return to the states for the start of his second youngster, a child woman named Kadence with girlfriend Aimee Aguilar on July 17, however to additionally shoot the visible for “Smoke Too Quickly,” which Shwayze stated they filmed on the nineteenth.

“We shot the video on Friday of final week, this final weekend, and he actually flew in and had his child after which left the hospital to return do the video with us, after which return and choose his child up,” Shwayze shared. “And I am like, ‘Yo, you are simply cool as s–t, bro.’ He is a cool dude. He confirmed up.”

“The followers have been loving it, the numbers have been going actually loopy and it has been actually optimistic reception, so all good issues man, I cant complain,” he added of the track itself.

That one conditional? If you have not guessed by now, it is that Wiz has to have the ability to smoke, regardless of the placement of the video shoot, and so Shwayze made certain the “Black and Yellow” rapper bought his want.

“One other humorous factor I like about Wiz, he is himself wherever he is at, and even for this example, once I booked the placement we have been capturing, it was a doughnut store and Wiz’s workforce was like, ‘Primary factor it’s important to find out about Wiz is he has to have a smoke regardless of the place it’s,'” Shwayze shared. “So we hit up the doughnut store like, ‘Yo, we will need to smoke in right here simply letting you guys know.’ They have been type of tripping, however anyway, it is hilarious I like that.”

Along with to the album, Shwayze can also be headed out on tour this fall. As for what he is wanting ahead to most, he advised TooFab he is simply excited to play all his new music for the followers.

“I bought a whole lot of bangers on this new one. I am a full, entertainer. I am not a type of artists like, ‘It’s important to hearken to my entire new album,’ and that is it, no, we’re nonetheless going to play outdated bangers,” he defined. “I believe that makes it cool, so I can play my entire catalog of a plethora of issues, [but] these new songs do really feel actually good.”

Whereas he would not like choosing favorites, if he did have to pick out the tracks he likes finest off his new album, Shwayze stated he has a number of, and so they change occasionally.

“For me, which is definitely an indication of the album, for me it is modified a number of occasions. However proper now, it is the subsequent single I’ve popping out referred to as ‘West Coast,'” Shwayze teased. “It is with this different band referred to as Frequent Kings and this Caribbean artist named Kes, and it is only a vibe, man. I like that proper now, however ‘Smoke Too Quickly,’ is a favourite of mine, and ‘Single for the Summer season’ actually is like my jam, I bump that s–t exhausting.”

Whereas his focus is on music in the mean time, the reggae artist has crossed over onto the display lately, touchdown roles on TV exhibits like Abbott Elementary and Lincoln Lawyer.

And although he could not say a lot about what he is engaged on subsequent, the appearing bug has positively bitten him, with Shwayze telling TooFab that it is rapidly grow to be his second love.

“I even have a undertaking that I’m creating proper now. That is all I can inform you, however I do have a undertaking proper now that I am actually stoked about and I completely love appearing. So far as genres, I am an open e-book,” he stated. “I believe that as a client of cinema, I believe that I lean in the direction of drama a bit. I like drama, I like a little bit of fantasy. I additionally need to play a detective; I need to play every kind of issues, actually. I like being on set, I like the inventive move on set since you’re actually on set with lots of of individuals all focusing in the direction of the identical purpose… so I identical to the power. “I am hoping to do much more, actively occurring auditions — preserve your fingers crossed!”

“Smoke Too Quickly” is out on all streaming platforms now.