Wiz Khalifa and The Great Gatsby

Wiz Khalifa and The Great Gatsby

Wiz Khalifa is a rapper whose from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He became as an popular rapper after his hit song "Black and Yellow". I chose Wiz Khalifa's song and The Great Gatsby because both Gatsby and Wiz has common life style which is live young, wild & free(I do whatever I want to do).

In The Great Gatsby, Gatsby is the main-character who has big house, loves to party, got lots of money, and also popular guy so always girls following around him and these stuff reminds me of Wiz Khalifa's song.

[Verse 1]

Soon as I hit the club, look at them hoes' face
Hit the pedal once make the floor shake
Suede inside, my engine roaring
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Got you n****s checking game, I’m balling out on every level
Hear them haters talk but there’s nothing you can tell 'em
Just made a million, got another million on my schedule

A song "Black and Yellow" tell us that when Wiz step in to the club every girls looking at him because everybody knows who he is, and when he hit the pedal once, his car engine (bigger engine = fast,$$$) is too big and loud it makes the floor shake. Also Gatsby's big hater Tom always tell people about how Gatsby is a bad guy and how he gets all that money illegally,but he can tell anything about it because Gatsby got everything and he's on another level so nobody listens to Tom. 

There was music from my neighbor's house...to know one from another (39-40)

Earlier I said Gatsby loves to party and drink. So he invites lots of people to his house every week and drink until they passed out. He does this every week because for him, this is what he loves to do and he doesn't really care about other people's view by opening this kind of party.

[Hook]

So what we get drunk?
So what we smoke weed?
We’re just having fun
We don’t care who sees
So what we go out?
That’s how its supposed to be

Living young and wild and free 

Just like Gatsby, another song from Wiz Khalifa call "Young, Wild& Free" shows how Wiz doesn't care about people who watches and say 'he's not a good guy to hang out' when he smokes and get drunk because he's just having fun with his friends just and he thinks that is the way living young and wild and free just like Gatsby does.

(They're such a beautiful shirts p.92)

This video shows one of the scenes from the Great Gatsby when Gatsby brought  Daisy and Nick to his house to show how much money he got, Tom showed his clothes to Daisy and she cried because those shirts were so beautiful, so he throw his nice shirts to down stair like it's nothing even though it's from England.

What I'm rocking, Armani, Gianni, Versace, huh
F*** around and I'll buy one of you broke n****s

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It's nothing, It's nothing
It's nothing, It's nothing
Stackin' cheese till my bread right
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Did it all on my own so, I'mma spend all my bread like...

Wiz Khalifa's new song "it's nothing" explains how much money he got by naming expensive clothes that he wears, and by saying he will buy those for the people who doesn't have money to afford expansive clothes. Furthermore, Wiz says it's nothing because for him its just one of a tool that makes him fancy and there's lots of stuff that will make him fancier like Gatsby's clothes from England. Lastly, like Gatsby spend his own money on Daisy to get an attention from her, WIz spends his money on whatever he wants because it makes him happy when he sees he spending money on anything that he couldn't thought before he got popular.