[INDEPENDENT WIZDOM]  After a sold-out Roseland show on May 14, mixtape phenom Wiz Khalifa will be flowing his East Coast beats to the West Coast again in September. Khalifa will be headlining MFNW on Sept. 10 with Grieves and Animal Farm.

Khalifa’s music exhibits a worldly view beyond his 22 years. His sound relays his Pittsburgh roots by referencing influences like Jay Z and Wu-Tang Clan, but is also indicative of a childhood spent in Germany, England and Japan. His lyrics are charismatic—describing life as an endless celebration that, while sometimes hard to get paid in, is stocked with plenty of champagne and beautiful women.

Upon his 2006 full-length debut, Show and Prove, Khalifa received early praise from Rolling Stone and Vibe for refining a uniquely Pittsburgh sound. Khalifa signed with Warner Bros. in 2007 and released the single “Young’n on His Grind,” but left the label soon after to pursue his projects independently—promoting them largely online. Kush & Orange Juice was Khalifa’s second post-Warner Bros. release following 2009’s Deal or No Deal. The album was released as a free download and had the No. 1 spot on Twitter’s trending topics list and broke the top 10 search trends on Google the day it hit the Web.

You can see Wiz Khalifa, Grieves and Animal Farm Sept. 10 at the Roseland Theater.

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